Terminal Intensity

Terminal Intensity

Tentatively Terminal 1977-1978

Gulcher

***In the fall of 1972 my brother Daryl Frazier [a/k/a Billy Nightshade] started school at Bemidji State College in northern Minnesota. I was 11 years old and Daryl was 18. Every weekend he would come home and bring me amazing used records of rock and roll bands. His good friend Gary Zerott from BSC knew music inside out, and turned Daryl on to all kinds of brilliant artists! Kinks, Bowie, Alice Cooper, Stooges, MC5, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Slade, Deep Purple...the heavier the better. Back home our neighbors the Grossmans lived half a mile down the road, seven miles north of Pelican Rapids. Alan and Glen were very good friends of ours, as was the rest of their family. Alan was the first to purchase a reasonably-priced acoustic guitar, and I followed suit within a couple of months! I learned how to play guitar and Daryl learned bass guitar. Soon Daryl and I realized it was easier to write our own songs than figure out ones by the Stones or Kinks. We found the process of writing songs in our own haphazard way! Gradually the songs got better and we decided it was time to put a band together! At this point Alan Grossman had started playing drums and he was practicing nonstop. He was an amazing and natural drummer from the very start! His influences were Alan White, Simon Kirk and Charlie Watts. We talked Alan into joining and started a three piece band named Terminal Intensity! A little...