The Don of Lashomb

Occupation: Famous Author/Celebrity/Man-About-Town

What I Played in the Band: Rhythm Guitar/Harmonica

Future Plans (circa 1998) included: Faking my own death and then publishing my diary.

Important Items that Have Occurred in My Life since the Disbandment of Hogan's Goat: NONE

March 2002 comment about all of this business:

"Odds and ends...odds and ends...Lost time is not found again."

Musical Inspirations (while in Hogan's Goat)

• 1) Beatles
• 2) The Velvet Underground
• 3) The Chemical Brothers
• 4) The Clash
• 5) David Bowie
• 6) Lou Reed
• 7) John Lennon
• 8) Rolling Stones
• 9) R.E.M.
• 10) Sex Pistols

Favorite Albums (while part of HG)

• 1) Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
• 2) The Velvet Underground & Nico
• 3) The Clash - London Calling
• 4) Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• 5) Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
• 6) The Velvet Underground (self-titled third album)
• 7) Beatles - White Album
• 8) Beatles - Rubber Soul
• 9) The Clash (self-titled)
• 10) The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974

Things I Miss Most About Hogan's Goat

• 1) Rick's grotesque laughing. If I could only carry one memory of mine permanently with me throughout my life, it would be an image of that kid's mug fixed in an evil snear.
• 2) Those who politely pretended that our band wasn't insignificantly talented.
• 3) All squabbling over how much we each had to put in for a Mountain Goat pizza.
• 4) Ridiculous ideas about getting certain other people to be our vocalist. (I mean, can you actually imagine Jingles or Dom having been part of Hogan's Goat? It'd ruin the integrity of this website were profiles of anyone else to be up here. It just wouldn't seem right.)
• 5) The idea, after the junior prom, that the band would probably get back together at some point. A proper reunion never really happened, and now it seems impossible.
• 6) The idea that Mr. Roberts or Mr. Washington could somehow fanangle gigs for us or even professionally record us. It seemed like they were nearly for us what Dr. Dre was for Eminem: if only we could've given them a rough demo, I'm sure they would have put us on MTV, made action figures of us, sent us to the Grammys, hated us.
• 7) All the DXM parties we had after each practice session. I'm so glad we had DXM during high school so that all of us could hit rock bottom early in our lives--otherwise I'm sure all of our college careers wouldn't've gone as smoothly as they have.
• 8) The spontaneous farewell concert given on the roof of the school, Feb. '00.
• 9) The spector of Ron Wendt and Nick Arquette looming over us. It seemed like having such a strong opposition pushed us to the next level. We needed to be the best band in town. We outperformed Delusional...or Dysfunctional...or whatever Ron and Nick's band was called. I remember when we beat them at Battle of the Bands. Sammy Hagar judged Hogan's Goat to be 3 Tequilla Points better.
• 10) 3-hour practice sessions that consisted of 15 minutes of actual practice, 120 minutes of banging on our instruments so no one could hear anything, think about anything, tune any guitar, or concentrate enough to set up any equipment, and then 45 minutes of talking and lollygagging at the end.