ABSTRACT
The genesis of this rather horrible little video was when I innocently shaved one side of my head, in March or April of 1984. I was intending on leaving it that way-very punk, you know-but then I wandered through the leather store on Folsom Street that just happened to be the storefront for Drummer magazine, and John Embry (the publisher) saw me, and said, "Hey kid, ya wanna get the rest of that shaved on film?" Having heard the magic word-film-! batted my eyelashes at him and agreed. He grabbed Patrick Toner, who was tending the front counter, and we went upstairs and took some photos of Patrick shaving my head. The photos looked quite impressive-it isn't obvious that I was half-shaved to begin with, and one of the shots was used on the cover of the next issue of Drummer-and two months later, John Embry called me up again. "Hey kid"- always his term for me, and maybe for all his stable ofboys---"how's your hair?" He wanted to reenact the scene, on video.
