Original Members:

Rob Mauhar, '68 Sax (First Band)
Jerry Bowen, '70 Guitar  (First Band)
Eric McKnight, '69 Drums (First Band)
Dugan Richardson?, '70 Guitar


 Eric MacKnight remembers the No-Counts

Somewhere in Gr. 8 or 9, maybe (around 1964), my first group formed—the ‘No-Counts’. We took the name from a Kingston Trio lyric (“Some people call me a no-count, others say I’m no good”), suggesting both that we would have liked to be seen as dangerous and scruffy (which we were not) and that we had a modest and ironic sense of our own talents. I didn’t own a drum kit, so I had to borrow a snare drum and cymbal from the school band room when we played. That’s right, no bass drum. No bass guitar, either, just two guitars and part of a drum set—though we did add a sax later on. These were the days of Silvertone guitars and amps from Sears. Jerry Bowen was the leader. Mike ______ (?) played bass lines on his six-string guitar, and later Rob Mauhar joined us on sax.

I bought a cheap Japanese drum set on installment—$10 a month—and slowly my equipment, and everyone else’s, got better.

The No-Counts didn’t last long. We only played the simplest songs, and mostly instrumentals. We didn’t have a bass player or keyboard, and we didn’t have much singing talent. I think Jerry Bowen must have moved. But it was a start. After the No-Counts came the Towne Criers, and they were a really talented group.


                    Dugan Richardson then.



                           Dugan Richardson Now.