A week or so ago, before yours truly knew his way around this blog well enough to know I had to issue permissions for people to post (duh!), Ned Berndt, drummer for Tracks, responded to my post about Stone Cross and Fox Chase. I wanted to thank Ned and post his comment for him...PHW

Hi Peter,

I tried to post the following on your blog but couldn't get it to work...possibly you could turn on the comments feature so we could use that.

Here's what I wanted to post:

One Dartmouth Weekend, probably Green Key 1969, Tracks was playing at Bones Gate and Fox Chase was playing at Tri Kap across the street on Fraternity Row. Ed Malhoit was always trying to loosen Tracks up, get us to be more like rock stars and less like college educated musicians.

Ed called me to tell me to check out Fox Chase. While we were unloading our equipment and setting up, I saw their white van across the street so I went over and introduced myself to the drummer, Steven. He had a big smile and was very friendly. We agreed to alternate set breaks so that we could check each others’ band out.

I can't recall which songs I actually heard later that evening but I remember Eddie playing a B3, Steven had an oversized (marching band) 26"bass drum and played a very funky rock groove. Fox Chase also had a flutist out front. I do not remember the guitarist(s) or the bass player. Mainly, what sticks out in my mind was Steven's personality, happy, open and all kinda "nice to meet you, I've heard of you guys, sure let’s alternate"...no wonder he went on to be so successful with Aerosmith...he was easy to like.

We later jammed with the flutist, I want to say his name was David...does anyone remember?