" MY POP'S GOLFING " . . .

Jeff Lucas

        After the demise of The Gravedigger V , The Morlocks decided to leave San Diego and move to San Francisco for a number of reasons. At the time most bands if they where going to relocate it was to L.A. We had played many times in L.A. and had alot of friends and support there, but I really didn't want to live there at the time. Also at the time Jeff our bass player had already split with our guitarists girlfriend up to San Francisco , which made matters ( how should I say this ) complicated. He phoned us and told the rest of the group that we need to relocate to S.F. , that it was paradise .
     Jeff was the oldest guy in the band , I think he was about 5 or 6 Years older than the rest of us. He and I where the primary song writers for the band and he also had alot more experience in life in general. With his outgoing personality , humor , and  talent , we really looked up to him and he was definitely one of the leaders early on in The Morlocks.



 So Ted , Markie , and I packed up our few belongings and decided to follow Jeff up to San Francisco and continue with The Morlocks. Jeff told us that he had hooked us all up with places to stay , etc . . . ( we had never been to San Francisco ) so we didn't have any friends up there at the time , or people that we knew.  So we said, "fuck it" and Ted went to go rent a van for us to move. After waiting for 3 hours Ted shows up with one of those huge 70's family station wagons , the kind with the fake wood paneling on the sides , totaly "Brady Bunch" looking thing. So we loaded up the equipment and a few meager belongings and got in. I had nothing to keep me in San Diego , and with the reality of The Morlocks breaking up I was ready to split. I mean the only thing I was leaving behind was a "heroin habit" and some Junkie friends. I would make some new ones later in San Francisco.
   Being young , dumb , and full of cum , we didn't realize that the station wagon only got about 12 miles to the gallon , and that San Francisco was that far from San Diego . So after 2 days we arrived in San Francisco. For some reason we ended up in the middle of the " Castro " during the " Gay Pride Parade". Don't ask me how , i wasn't driving and Ted was very adamant about nobody else driving because the car was under his name and he didn't want any problems. He told us this as he was driving and making lines of speed.

Ted Freidman

   We couldn't get a hold of Jeff for about 8 hours , no cell phones back then. When we finally hooked up with him we met him at a small one car garage that he was living in. So as i recall the question of " I got places for you guys to stay " didn't really come up. So after discussing all the great plans he had for the Morlocks , he told us he had to split and he would see us tomorrow.  Jeff was kind of an enigma wrapped up in a see-thru tortilla at the time.
   So we the three of us piled back into the car and tried to figure out what to do next. We drove around for about 20 min. then Ted said " fuck it " I'm going to call Ron Rimisite.
Ron was like our mentor and producer of the Gravedigger V.
No answer , but i remember Ted leaving a message , " Ron!!! help us, we're in San Francisco and surrounded by homos". What to do now? We had spent most of our money on the trip up. We where lucky though because the Week before my parents had given me 500 dollars in "Travelers Checks", which would feed us for the next couple of days. So we drove around S.F. for about an hour trying to "Brainstorm" hahahah. Well we ended up near the Sea Cliff area. We had decided to Not return the station wagon because now it was going to become our house for the next Two Weeks. I'm remember saying, "don't worry, they'll understand".
    Well to make a long story longer Markie went on a scouting expedition and found a super posh members only Country Club. We figured out what time the golf course had the fewest people playing , and that's when we would sneak into the locker rooms and take showers. The first time we did it , right in the middle of our grooming , two members came in and i suppose we didn't look like the most typical members. They demanded an explanation as to why we where there. To which Markie replied , " my pop's golfing " . . . and that worked for about 4 showers in 10 days . . .

Mark Mullen

         
By then we we're cold , broke , and wanted to go back home to San Diego. Little did we know that in 3 Weeks we would be playing in front of 50,000 people in Golden Gate Park , with the Jefferson Airplane , John Lee Hooker , etc . . .

                      **** Leighton Koizumi