In the Summer of 1980 Chuck, Carrie and Tim moved into a house on Branch Street.  Later Chuck moved into a house around the corner, and Marc and I moved into the Branch Street House. At this point, we got a manager, Lionel D. Lewis, and decided to try and play paying gigs.  We briefly named ourselves Slip-Stream. 

Lionel got us a gig playing in the San Luis Obispo Mission Plaza, and that night in the Dark Room. This was the gig where I had to start the intro to Josie 4 times, because my brain locked up, and I could not play it. However the gig that night at the Dark Room was great.

Chuck: ...12 retries on the intro to Josie when we played in the park down the street from the Dark Room. I believe that night was our first dark room gig. I knew we had made it when did the Dark Room.

Leslie: I remember wearing an all-yellow outfit which Marc told me never to wear again. I wore a purple belt with it, and I remember us telling the audience that we needed a new name, and someone yelled out, "The Purple Belts!". I also remember my family attended this show, and this was one of the first times we did the Time Warp. When it came to the part where I sing, "Well, I was walking down the street just having a think ..." and Chuck and Tim went "oooWEEEO-ooo" like the Beach Boys behind it (not in the original song), my sister and her friends died laughing. Marc was in this incarnation, as I recall - he's in the photos from this show.

Chuck: I'm glad Marc had the balls to tell you that! It was a bit, uh, excessive?

Pat: Hey, I liked the Yellow outfit, it was very early 80's!