• Too Much.mp3
• Ricky's Ditch.mp3
• Mind Garden.mp3
By Bosco   © Greenpoint Music

Bosco - Vocals, Guitar
Eric Huble - Guitar
Eric Talbert - Drums
Fred Parcells - Trombone
Dave Sparks - Vocals, Washboard
Clyde ? - Bass

Produced by Mick Jones

I think we opened 4 or 5 nights for Big Audio Dynamite. Eric Hubel, Bosco, Mike D, I remember Sparks being there, playing tambourine. At the time I was in a few bands; Angat, The Rump Rollers, Fat Doggy, Chill Faction, and a musical called "Maybe He Was Right". The play was about a dead wedding. I was in the dead wedding band so my face was covered in white stage makeup. In order to make the gig I had to run out 5 minutes before the last curtain call and jump in a taxi to Irving Plaza. I would literally have to jump on stage for the opening downbeat - ghostly white-faced and all.

Mick Jones was paying us for being the opening band by covering the studio and producing the demo for us. This was of course a great honor and it was hoped that it might put BFL on the map. The studio was nice. It had a wall to wall couches hangout room with the wide screen TV where porno videos constantly played. We spent most of our time there till it was time to record. I had written out horn charts so there wasn't much to think about. I always felt out of place with that crowd because everyone was working so hard to be 'cool' all the time, except for Mick, he was cool. One late session after sitting around too long we recorded 'To Much' (I think it was that tune), anyway I was kinda annoyed having to do take after take so I decided to wake myself up and do an insane laugh during the intro. No one heard it because of the separation booth until we all went in to hear the playback. Mick said, "What is that?" Everyone looked around to see who the offender was. "It's me." I said. Mick cracked up saying, "That changes the whole character of the tune." I could see the tone change from bad to good. I guess that made me cool because it was a lot more fun hanging out for the rest of the sessions. By the way, cool Mick was so cool he never paid the studio so Bosco never got the master tapes. Luckily Bosco gave me his board tape. Oh yea, the other thing, Big Fat Love never became the next Big thing either, but they should have. Bosco was a genius. He was cool.

Some years later I was on a BFL gig that Bosco set up in some club on St Marks. For the most part it was the same cast of characters from the Mick sessions. Bosco was so nervous. Before the gig he kept telling me over and over, "You gotta do the laugh, You gotta do the laugh." Yea, yea man, no problem. It was a good gig. When we were about to do "To Much", Bosco comes over to me and says "Don't do the laugh, Don't do the laugh." Yea, yea man, no problem.

-- Fred Parcells