My first band.  We started out as "Plate of Shrimp," a reference to the cult movie, Repo Man.  Nobody got the reference.  Our name was misspelled in ads.  We also were looking for something a little more dynamic and macho.  "The Stallones" fit the bill.  We were clear, though, that we had named ourselves after Frank and not Sylvester.  [Yeah, nobody got that one either. :-) ]

We played around the Washington, DC area in the late 80s and early 90's at clubs such as the Grog and Tankard, D.C. Space, The Safari Club, Back Alley Cafe, and the Fort Reno Park Concert Series.  The core group consisted of Ed Schuster on drums, guitar, and vocals; Dana Cann on guitar and vocals, and me on guitar, vocals, and drums.  Rob Bayne, Jeff Cross, Louis Harris, and Joe Marencic played bass.  Joe and Rob often sang too. We were heavily influenced by punk and New Wave.  Favorite bands at the time included The Replacements, The Ramones, The Undertones, Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Minor Threat and more.  (Yeah, kind of eclectic.)

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Ed went on to play in a Black Sabbath tribute band, Iron Man.  He has also been active in church music in the Richmond, VA area and more recently in Phoenix, AZ.  Dana became a short-story writer and published novelist.  Check out his first novel, The Ghosts of Bergen County    HERE .  Rob is out in the Bay Area doing solo work and playing with The Rob Bayne Band.  Joe has played with The Atomic Mosquitos, a neo Surf band.