I sustained broken ribs and collar bone, and a concussion. I was driving my sister to school, and was T-boned by a semi, smashing my side of the car into the middle of the car. You also had a major set-back that would have discouraged anyone else from pursuing music. Missparker: You were a music major in college, giving you an excellent and solid background. I knew that should be the name of my own Queer band. Back in the day, they carved in stone, “Girls Entrance” and “BOYS ENTRANCE.” I almost wrecked my car. Then, one day I drove down Belmont in Chicago and passed a school. I came back to Chicago with a new mission. He wrote odes to cocks, sucking, f*cking! He had opened new territory. But it was the utter shock I experienced at hearing baldly QUEER lyrics, not shielded behind neutral pronouns. I howled with laughter-which he took very well. He played me the demos and sang songs, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. But he had just recorded demos for a new band that he called Pansy Division.
Jon had been in a notable band called the Outnumbered. Jon moved to SF, and I thought it would be nice to reconnect. He started spinning New Wave dance music at The Bar, a local gay bar, and I was the DJ and music programmer at the Moonlighter.
Eventually we both worked at Discount Records as managers. Jon was the Program Director at WPGU, and they featured some of my songs on the station.Īt one point I fell out with my boyfriend, and Jon and I went to see Ultravox in concert. I was the first Out Gay musician he knew of. He first met me when I was dating another DJ at the college radio station, WPGU in Urbana, IL. While I was in SF, I looked up my old friend from college, Jon Ginoli. I left Silvestri, but when Casey called, I came running.
It happened twice to me while I was working at Silvestri-which is just bizarre-but Casey looked at me, and I at him, and we both thought, “Oh, it’s YOU!” We picked up our conversation where it had left off in another time. The moment we met, we looked at each other and KNEW we had known each other in earlier lifetimes. I was based in Chicago and flew to Merchandise Marts around the country to do display work and I met him in the San Francisco showroom. I had worked with him as a display artist in 1987 at Silvestri Importers. My dearly departed friend Casey Alexander was creating an AIDS benefit in City Hall in San Francisco and he needed help. Missparker: The very beginning of this journey started with an AIDS benefit in San Francisco circa 1991. Definitely take the time to experience Exit or Entrance because I guarantee you’ll find this classic collection of tracks to be satisfying, riveting, and deftly ageless. In the meantime, here’s a chance to become either acquainted for the first time or perhaps reacquainted with Tim Cain and Boys’ Entrance. But, that seems to be an all-too-common and sad theme for the artists I promote here on Rave and Roll. It’s no wonder that Boys’ Entrance has earned the accolades of the music industry, and very confusing (for me and for many others) as to why they haven’t earned the public recognition they deserve. Tim’s voice is a lush alto that draws the listener in and captivates the soul. The lyrics are relevant, the arrangements are gorgeous, and the music is just as fresh and engaging as if it was recorded last week. Listening to Exit or Entrance, it’s impossible to discern that these timeless tracks are three decades old.
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