Before there were "Mourning Dayze", there was a band called "The Coachmen". They included Roger Brown playing drums, Rick Pfiefer on guitar, a Guy (I can't remember his name) from California who drove one of those Studebaker Sporty cars I forget which model, and oh, by the way he played lead guitar and was big into serf music. I played bass. We got started in the upstairs location of the Wells Violin Shop on Main St. in 1965. Our first few dollars came from playing in front of the Wells House of Music on Center St., across from Gus's Pizza. The band began changing from an instrumental group in1966, The California guy was replaced by Doug Henry from the Milwaukee area playing lead guitar. We added Steve Elman from Oconto Falls to be the lead singer. Steve & Doug were students @ UW Whitewater. Not long afterwards, Steve took over the drum duties also. We were a busy band considering half the band being full time students. In 1968 we parted ways. I left the band and joined "The Opposition" which was a soul music band, and about a month later became "Tomorrows Opposition" an 8 piece band with trumpets, keybourds,male and female singers playing all kinds of Rock Music. Rick, Doug and Steve went on to become "The Mourning Dayze. All of that is waiting for another DAYZE story. Ralph

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