Eventually, they wanted to lay down some tracks at Jeree’s Recording Studio. Mark and Donnie began writing some songs in Donnie’s basement. Then again, Mark sees profundity in a good many things. Oddly enough, Mark’s first love (at the age of 15) was a huge fan of “The Rapper” and Mark thought that was somehow profound. Donnie met Mark Avsec, his future collaborator and partner, in “Wild Cherry” and the two of them began discussing plans for a recording project. In or around 1978, Donnie was asked to join “Wild Cherry” (“Play That Funky Music, White Boy”) in the group’s waning days. In 1970, as a member of the Jaggerz, Donnie earned a gold record for writing and singing the No. That wasn’t the first time or the last time that we played on a show where we weren’t appreciated that much.Donnie learned how to sing from his Mother and then from Tony Bennett and Marvin Gaye. So the good news was: It really was fine. And we got fairly high on the playlist on WLS. So when we heard the broadcast and heard the response and the applause after the songs, the whole place was applauding after “Leah,” and it sounded fine. What a shame.” But the house mics that were recording the actual audience response were way deeper into the crowd, away from the hardcore UFO fans, and more into the general-metal-slash-rock crowd. We thought, “We’re not going to make a very good impression on Chicago. Happily enough, it was being broadcast live. And now they have to suffer through a second non-UFO act - torture! They might have been camped out for two days to get tickets. They had already suffered through one band. Now, they despised the Romantics, because they didn’t have a heavy sound, and they were all dressed in matching leather, and their hair was perfect. At least we had a heavy sound, especially “Leah.” They tolerated us, but just barely. We got the impression we weren’t that welcome there. You could see their tolerance - or lack thereof - quite clearly. All we could see was the absolute most hardcore UFO fans in the building, sitting up front. The place was full, but all we could really see or hear was this black arena. At the time, our impression was, “These people hate us.” All we could see was the first 20 or 30 rows of UFO fans. Probably about halfway through the set, I could tell we weren’t very well liked. We weren’t really welcomed by the heavy metal fans. For me, the show was only memorable from the standpoint of what went on during the show. I think that’s the same thing that happened with Hall and Oates. Another heavy metal band, you’re tapping the same crowd. But if you put a couple different bands on the bill, that will bring in different people, and now you’ve sold out the whole arena. So that might not sell out the whole place. If they’re going to sell 10,000 seats, they don’t need any help selling to heavy metal fans. Hoenes: It was not a run-of-the-mill show.
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