Here’s a shot from within the Headquarters club in Pacific Beach, where many of us had the honor of playing. This is presumably during an Answers gig … What do you recall from the Headquarters? I remember the sound system was decent; I liked the pinball and video games out front; and I spent many evenings after shows at Sheldon’s restaurant next door, home of thick ‘n’ creamy shakes and individual loaves of bread.
I believe Leighton played his first rock-‘n’-roll gig with us there when Noise 292 opened for the Pandoras and the Answers in August 1983: electric violin on our cover of “Heroin.” I’ve always worried that he took the song too seriously!