We went through a few names before settling on Officer Friendly. I really pushed for calling us the Squids for a while. Then I liked the Invertabrates because I thought our flyers could say "Those spineless wonders, the Invertabrates." Mike Triandafils really wanted us to be called the Bonedaddies for a while, too. Finally, I heard about an Officer Friendly (the name for cops who go to schools for PR) in south Florida who was arrested for child molestation, and thus was born Officer Friendly.

Officer Friendly also was briefly going to be called Enema 4.

Well, I'm glad to finally see Officer Friendly get some of the attention it deserves. The rest of the guys in the band are pretty modest but i'll say it loud...we fucking rocked!!!...and if we would have learned how to play our instruments we would have been that much better!!!I bought my guitar 3 weeks before Sam asked me to join. I think what probably held it all together was Steve's incredible charisma. When he was up there onstage screaming about his incredibly lousy sex life you could cut the tension with a knife. I remember we had a good run for awhile...played alot of parties and a bar or two and then the magic just died for me. I remember leaving the band after really screwing up the riff to Day Tripper at a party...it's a hard riff. I think that was the night someone peed on our drumset. Oh well... Hey did Steve really become a Born Again Minister?

No, Mike, I was granted an honorary Reverendship in the Church of SubGenius, though for my slogan: "Moses parted the Red Sea, Oppenheimer split the atom, but Bob cut the crap." Still writing away...including a book set in Gainesville and featuring, in altered versions, many of those who lived there and were part of the scene when I was there. The book is called GOD DRUG is out in August of 2004.