VINCE'S BIO

It must have been 1981, when I was walking by an apartment complex near my parents old house. I was sixteen at the time. Just your typical white boy long-haired Led Zeppelin loving rocker kid. There were legions of us back then. That's why there was such a thing called the Kiss Army.
As I was walking along in the old 'hood, I happened upon an older cat with a beard setting up a beautiful Ludwig drumset out in the parking lot of the apartment complex, like he was letting it out for a little sun.

I remember going up to this guy and saying "Play Moby Dick" like that was some kind of test of his ability.

Boop bap bappitty boom boom bap tinga-tinga-ting crash!

Fuckin' great. No guitars, no bass, no band, just a guy and a drumset in the middle of a parking lot. Needless to say, I was impressed.
I eventually got to know Vince and his Dad ,Nick who worked there at the apartment complex as maintenance men. The two of them lived right above the maintenance storeroom where Charlie and I used to go set up our crappy little band equipment and play gawd-awful amateurish versions of Twist and Shout, Louie Louie and Wild Thing.

Even if we were horrible, we were very serious about making said noise, to the point that we literally cut a hole in Vince's bedroom floor, to gain access to the downstairs storeroom, day and night. Hence the Boage-Hole was born.

There were many jam-box recordings done in this little cave of ours and one of them still exists of Nick unplugging us and yelling at Vince that enough is enough.
"This damn racket has been goin on ALL day and ALL night.!!! Goddammit, 'Nuff Snuff!!"
On the recording someone has the audacity to say "rock-n-roll" and without missing a beat, Nick raises his voice and says
"Rock-n-roll!?!? I'll ROCK YER NUTS WITH MY FIST AND ROLL YOUR ASS OUT THE DOOR MISTER. GODAMMIT 'NUFF'S S'NUFF!!!!!"

I will always be grateful to Nick for putting up with us, while we learned our craft. Back then, Charlie and I were trying to keep The Boages alive. We had very little equipment and even less skill. We were serious underdogs compared to the other bands that Vince was in.

He was always being laughed at by his other bandmates for playing with the Boages. His answer to that was
"Hey, at least they got the balls to get up there in front of people and do it."

That's one thing we were never short of:

Balls.

Vince is an original member of the Psychoholics™ and has been in an out of the band a few times. He's the first drummer I ever worked with and one of the most easy going characters you could ever meet. Even though he's the oldest member, he has the enthusiasm of the same sixteen year old kid who walked up him back 1981. I have become quite jaded and cynical since then, but Vince still retains that youthful innocence and desire to keep rockin.

Which to my estimation is....priceless.

-Tim Mrak