THE DERELICTS

The Derelicts formed in Seattle during the summer of 1987. i joined the band in November of 1988, replacing original bass player Joe Kilbourne. hopefully if any of my facts concerning the early days and formation of the band are incorrect i can get Joe and/or Tom Price to fill in the blanks here. AFAIK the beginning goes something like this... Neil Rogers(guitar) and Duane Bodenheimer(vocals) had played together in a band in Denver, where they both grew up, called Psychodrama. Neil moved to Seattle and met Joe Kilbourne and Tom Price cuz, you know, he was a Punk Rocker and started hanging around Fallout Records when he was still new in town. so Neil and Joe started playing some simple straight ahead punk stuff with Tom Price playing drums. soon after this got going, Duane was convinced to move to Seattle to sing for Neil's new band. after a while they started looking for a drummer as Tom is actually a guitar player and had more important things to do, like GAS HUFFER for instance. they found Ric Bilotti by placing a drummer wanted ad in the Rocket. or maybe they answered Ric's ad, i can't remember. anyway they started playing with Ric and things started to get a lot heavier and fas... more...