#AUSTIN RETINA FULL#
The music clearly was leaving metal behind and headed full speed toward hardcore punk and skate rock. This incarnation was called " Misc.", which happened to be scribbled on the first cassette tape they recorded on. They convinced Kelly Casper to join in on bass with Matt playing guitar and singing. In 1985, after the breakup of Oblivion, Hudgens and Morris decided that if they joined forces, they might be able to accomplish their own band, so they gave it a shot and set up shop in an old railroad boxcar that Morris' parents, Bill & Brenda, were using as a shed, located in a huge backyard away from the neighborhoods. The advent of hardcore punk acts such as Minor Threat and the Suicidal Tendencies, whose first album made a huge impression of the metal scene, caused the members of the band to splinter.
Heavy Metal's definition, however, was about to be shattered by a plethora of different influences. It was at this time Hudgens and Matt Morris met up with Kelly Casper, who was part of that scene at Redwood High School.Įven though the band was not from Los Angeles, the band managed to keep up with the underground scene in Los Angeles (150 miles from Visalia), which was what made them unique in their small-town local scene. The crew for that band also included Matt Morris and Jeff Beck. The history of Plaid Retina begins in 1984, in Visalia, a small city in California Central Valley, when drummer Don Hudgens joined metal band Oblivion, a high school band established by Travis, Jeff Gilley, "Bryan T" Thompson, Alarick Garcia and Mike Matthews.
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