If we got together tomorrow, it would just work. "I mean, we had the same record collections, we liked the exact same kind of music - we could just play. "We could just play instantly," Peters adds. It was like, 'Well, Tom’s got his wish.' The next day, we sat Tom down and we said, 'Tom, you know, we talked to Dale Peters, another bass player, and you’re free to go.' He goes, 'Wow, thanks man, that’s a load off my mind.' Literally, the following night, Dale was in the slot and we never looked back." It was instantaneously an upgrade, which we never expected. Why don’t you come down tonight after the gig and we’ll play for a while?' And he did and it was magic. We have an unhappy bass player, who I think we’re going to have to replace. "I said, 'Well, there’s a situation here. I was thinking of going back to school,'" Fox recalls.
"I said, 'What are you doing? I know the band is not doing well.' He said, 'Yeah, we’ve kind of split up. Peters was drumming at the time, but he'd since picked up the bass - and Fox happened to know he was at loose ends with his own group, the Case of E.T. 'Tom, aren’t you somewhat equally responsible for the music we’re making? What do you want to do?' 'Well, I don’t know, but I can’t take this anymore.'"įortunately, Fox knew just who to call: Dale Peters, who had replaced him in a college band at Ohio State University a few years before. You know, it was like, he was, I thought, a very fine player. I don’t think I can play it anymore.' Joe and I were blindsided.
"He just spilled his guts," Fox tells UCR's Matt Wardlaw of a band meeting called after he and Joe Walsh realized Kriss "hadn’t said shit in six months." Fox remembers Kriss saying: "'I hate this band.