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Damon Romero So
for some reason you decided to click on my bio. Well I hope the grimy
details of my musical life are up to your expectations. My name is Damon
Romero. My first name spelled backwards is "nomad". I came into this world
kicking and screaming and that's probably how I'll leave. At age eight
I learned how to play a very simplified guitar rendition of "jingle bells"
that I performed for my parents at Christmas. That was my first taste
of stage fright and to this day I still find playing in front of friends
and family much more nerve racking than playing to complete strangers.
My uncle Rudy Romero was a musician and had a taste of stardom as a teenager
with the band the Hard Times in the mid-sixties. He was my first musical
hero and I thought that he was in the Beatles and wrote "Casey Jones".
I grew up thinking that being a rock musician was a respectable career
choice.
Now you know all you need and more about my rock-n-roll pedigree. I left out many names to avoid embarrassing anybody (i.e., John Goodmanson and Slim Moon). I hope you found it somewhat useful, perhaps in that don't-let-this-happen-to-you sort of way. Adios. |
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When
I was 15 I traded my Supergoose BMX bicycle for an electric guitar that
has since been retired and a fender twin-reverb amplifier which I still
use today. I formed a band with some friends from high school and we
called ourselves Trauma Center. We barely knew how to play our instruments
so we called our music "experimental". We wanted to play gigs but didn't
know how so we would play our songs live over the telephone to the answering
machine of a club in Seattle called the Metropolis. They never replied.
Trauma Center broke up over musical differences. Actually our drummer
, Lisa, said she didn't want to be in an "art fag" band anymore. So
once again I got in on the ground floor of a new and exciting musical
project. This new band called NPO was with some friends who knew a little
bit about their instruments so we called our music "punk". We were old
enough to drive which enabled us to actually play gigs. Our two golden
moments were at the Gorilla Gardens in Seattle opening up for DRI and
7 Seconds. We broke up the band after a couple of years because we couldn't
think of what else to do.
I
moved to Olympia, WA in 1987 and immediately joined a band call Lush.
We weren't anything like that other band with the same name. We enjoyed
huge success with the keg party crowd and played with legendary bands
such as Helltrout, LandSat Blister, and Nirvana. We broke up violently
and publicly several times before calling it good. Treehouse was my
next band. We recorded several seven-inch singles for small labels and
released an album/CD on Hell Yeah records in 1992. We toured a couple
of times and had some great times before breaking up. Bass goddess Ronna
Era went on to form Starfish, now located in Austin, TX. I had a short
stint as lead singer in a band called Horny before moving to Seattle
with secret desires of joining Bell.