pushing on
It began in north Dayton, a depressed but furtively creative corner of Ohio in the early 1980’s. Now, more than thirty years on since those first awkward musical steps in an empty, drafty, and surely haunted house on Marcella Avenue, the hot breath of 2016 is steaming at my neck — and has me feeling quite mortal. Pleasures Pale drummer Jeff Keating died near the end of 2013, his liver in full surrender. In August 2014, mainstay bassist Chris Green (Darke County, Myself a Livi
