About the Restless Child Band 1988 - Present
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About
About the Restless Child Band
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From Memory Only
I am all alone writing this from memory. This is not a blog or a post, this is suppose to be an About page of what I can
remember About being the front man for the Restless Child band in 1988 to the bands demise and break-up in late 1989.
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and Billy had been together in Mooresville Indiana for a couple of years. My understanding from the first day I met them was they hadn’t come up with a band name until they had found a singer. the
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Nathan asked, “What song do you want to use for auditioning?” I responded with “You know any Whitesnake, like ‘Still of the Night‘?” I had learned that song for auditions for one reason, and one reason only, “To knock the auditioning band off their feet.”
If you remember that song, David Coverdale comes out strong, and being a David Coverdale apprentice that I was, (he doesn’t even know I’m alive) I whaled out that song acapella, and BOOM, a band was born.
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I believe we jammed to a couple of other tunes by Whitesnake, and then the talks began on the future. Restless
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A Band-ly Direction
Our very first decision in the barn on Nathan’s parents property, where we did most of our rehearsing, was the direction we wanted to take as a band. Did we want to start out by doing covers in the bars for money, or keep our day jobs
(Chuck Franklin, Brayton Scott), or stay in High School (Nathan Yeary, Billy Sortore) and write and perform originals hoping we would get a record deal? Not in Indiana.
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Micheal Jackson that grew-up in Gary Indiana, left in the winter of 1968 and moved to California. And finally, Billy Bailey, or as the world knows him, W. Axl Rose. But Rose, born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and forgot all about Indiana and his terrible childhood. Child
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covering i.e (AC/DC, Motley Crue). No, we want to do the really hard tunes that nobody could cover like Queensryche, OMG, have you heard Queensryche lately? Skid Row with Sebastian Bach and early Metallica and so on and so on. about restless child 08
Gathering all Sticks
Like all bands put together, playing and rehearsing is one thing, IF that’s what you want to do for the rest of your life, but that wasn’t our goal. We were hungry for some action. We were Mtv’s Headbangers Ball junkies and were bound and determined to start out as
a cover band, then record, then be huge Rock stars, in that order.
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We rehearsed covers for 2 months, got an music booking agent, and boom, we were ready to go, except for one thing, we still didn’t have a name for the band.
The guys threw around a bunch of ideas, but if I remember right, Nathan wanted the name “Runaway” based off of the Jon Bon Jovi
song “Runaway”. We had a problem with using that name, but I will get to that later.
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Life without Binary
Imagine a world without computers, tablets, cell phones, Internet, and the World Wide Web. Aw, those were the days of going to a big yellow book called the Yellow Pages
to look for our booking agent. To learn cover songs we had to buy the cassette-tape, yeah a cassette-tape, the medium we used for our 12 song demo. The creation of CD’s, or Compact Disc was way out of our price range for an up and coming band that was self financed.
Restless
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know that his song “Turn the Page” would be outdated by the mid 1990’s, and replaced with a flat screen object you could hold in your hand and swipe with your finger to “Turn the Page”. about restless child 12
but we didn’t have to worry about that because we didn’t use the word “The” in front of “Runaway”and we were guys. About
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Life was a Rock n Roll….. Until
Our booking agent signed us up and we signed the booking agents contract for 10% of the earnings, and away we went being booked under the band name “Runaway”. We started out doing a couple of teaser shows locally in Indianapolis, Indiana, just to show the local crowd we could rock. I’ll never forget our first real live show at
the very popular Nite Club called the Enterprise on Indy’s east-side. Our opening cover song was “Still of the Night”.
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their clothes and dresses, and it took forever and a day for the color to return to their faces. I knew then that we had something special. about restless child 16
walk through with our lighting and sound crew, when we noticed these fliers on the tables. STOP THE PRESSES! The first thing we saw was our band name “Runaway”, but the group in the picture wasn’t us. Child
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“Runaway” booked by their agent, then which “Runaway” is really booked for this place? about restless child 18
“Runaway” band, and forgot he had done it, so the assistant manager booked us, thinking we were them, and, well, them were us. I think both bands split the show that night. Band
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The Train Slowed Down…….but Didn’t Stop
Like I said before, the name of the band, or lack of, brought us to a slowdown, and I would have to say a new direction. It was that moment that we decided to stop the covers, and touring, and really concentrate on originals that Nathan and
Billy had been working on since they were 15 years old. We had a blast on the road, but the future was at hand.
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and how they were going to name their band “Christmas”. About
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Can you imagine a band called Christmas releasing albums named “Shout at the Devil”, “Theatre of Pain”, “Girls, Girls, Girls”, and the infamous “Dr. Feelgood”? about restless child 22
Anyways, the name “Restless Child ” came to Nathan one day in early 1989 while we were rehearsing the originals. The vote came within seconds. That name fit us.
