KIND [Minneapolis, MN] Live 3-16-1990 w Laurie Wheeler Group

 I don't really have a picture of my little brother's first band in high school called KIND for this excellent live tape post (with his later band Laurie Wheeler Group studio demo on same tape he gave me) so will tell a story of our little scene in late 80's early 90's when it occurred.  You see, when the Dylan/Dead tour came to our local Metrodome for sold out nights it had been brewing for awhile.  The older generation at our first tier suburban Minneapolis, MN high school had most of the popular kids following the Grateful Dead on tours and formed the Gooney Birds band which had regular Sunday night gigs at the Cabooze bar during my college days we went weekly as my dorm roommate's brother Tom Warner (R.I.P.) was the keyboard player.  I spent my first two years of college at the U of MN-IT engineering school in the dorms on campus where we had other regular bands that played the West Bank within walking distance like the Widgets, Gear Daddies, Greasy Meal, etc..  When I moved home and began bicycling every day to the bus stop through deep snow and rain, my little brother now in high school and their generation was super hip to the Grateful Dead music scene and became my local band there--seeing them play their usual spot at the community center and once outside in our local walk-to park which was just like a Dead show.  My brother became my favorite bass player and I was listening to 'Back in the Days Of Soul' radio show on Sunday nights, bringing home a pile of quarter records from Cheapo records that I was lending to him as he learned bass.  He took my entire Brothers Johnson stash as he got excited about the slap bass technique and got a video by Louis Johnson after I slowly let him borrow my Red Hot Chili Peppers early albums and even asking him how Mike Watt played the bass in Firehose on 'From One Cums One' which he mastered and showed me.  This cassette shows off his slap technique while he played in the Laurie Wheeler Group.  He is quite amazing and I used to see him every Tuesday at West Bank's 400 Bar play with his Music Tech classmate's in Nasty Goat later on which featured an early band of Martin Dosh.   Kind was also a first band for John Herchert, an incredible guitarist who went on to play in Mango Jam and others.  Drummer was my bro's best friend Matt Novaches (sp??) and singer was Tommy also a close friend and since I had a car I would drive him to practices at Tommy's or over to Matt's house.  These songs permeate my being and are geat to hear again as a little birthday present to myself.  My bro is still playing the bass and now a dad to two beautiful daughters and a beautiful wife who is an endocrinologist.

https://bestfile.io/en/iIg7L5rSgJ4ovau/file

LEFT THE OLD POSTS IN PLACE WITH NEW LINKS REPEATED HERE:

Gooneybirds:  https://bestfile.io/en/b1bA9SU8aBVJ1LN/file

Mango Jam:  https://bestfile.io/en/EZZf7D4RlW2BEu4/file