Christmas at Grey Gables and Baby Rhymetime was hanging in the balance. Brutal management decisions to forcefully sign up mothers with Starter Bear kits when they just want to boogie to our souped up version of Wheels on the Bus almost cost us our audience. Coupled to that the stock librarian and lead guitarist, Reggie ‘Dewey’ Watkins, was having a crisis of confidence.
We call ourselves Electric Babyland and today the children’s library was buzzing with Marshall amps and vintage Danelectro guitars. We built some Marshall stacks out of old cardboard boxes painted black with a tolex grill cloth and the familiar logo, ideal for ploughing into after a rousing version of The Grand Old Duke of York. Babies love to rock n’ roll, tottering until they fall over– it is only later in adolescence that they forget how to dance.
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