A Short History
A Humble Beginning
But, alas, nothing ever remains the same or lasts forever.A time of great upheaval and catastrophie followed. Members came and went; first Walter departed. Then Bob Lilja was brought in only to have Dave go. Chris Merullo replaced him. Then, in succession, Chris then Bob were gone, but not until after a demo was made. Glen was next, but didn't fare well. Some time later a video was done with Bob and Brian Sears. More connections were promised with record companies, but once again, the infamous up-beat reared up its ugly head. Brian remained, but Bob didn't. For a time they searched for a drummer and a bass player untill they found two (their names being no longer remembered) and renamed the band for a short while to Brian Damage & The Scattered Brains. But these two aren't remembered for a reason. They weren't any good. So, then Tony Duarte joined them as drummer and Scott took up the bass. Music of the ancient '60's was played by the group, but Tony wanted the music of the patriarchs of Rock n' Roll from the '50's, so he was out. After this, with much persuasion, Bob returned. More demo tapes were made, more music was written, then, beyond belief George quit. They were sore distressed and didn't know what to do. They tried to replace him with Bob Lovell, but all failed, and The Missing Links were buried deep under the sands of time.
In the meantime, Dave and Scott resurfaced for awhile and along wih Mark Turcotte and Danny Liptack played as The Rivals. But unfortunately, their time was very short and before long they drifted apart.
The Middle Ages
The Modern World
And what do we call ourselves now? I was in a local pub one Saturday night with my beer buddy, Marty Howe, when he turned to me in a not so coherent state and said, "I feel like I'm getting a rusty tan..," to which I replied, "Wha..?" and he pointed to a metal art sun hanging over the bar and said, "...under the scrap iron sun!" There you have it. Now you know. Fitting... I believe... Scrap... Rusty... Anyway, George, Scott, Dave and new member Ray Brouillette are Scrap Iron Sun (and we still have our day jobs...occassionally).
FYI: Where Are They Now!George and Scott have started a new project called Scrap Iron Sun. They presently have a new CD called Getting A Rusty Tan. They also have a video on YouTube from the CD of an old Herman's Hermits song, "No Milk Today."
George is the owner of a very successful business in West Springfield, MA, Northeast Security Solutions and it's subsidiary Atwood Fire & Security.
Scott is in the midst of looking for a new career as a medical transcriptionist and is taking a certificate course through Penn Foster.
Dave, after a long lay off, is back to work through a private contractor at Hamilton Sundstrand.
Walter Tibbitts, so I've heard from a very reliable source, is now the Fire Chief of the Shutesbury, MA Fire Department. See that, he never should have quit the band!
Steve Link is now a Liuetenant in the West Springfield, MA Fire Department. Looks like a trend. Maybe we should have quit the band... Nah!
Chris Merullo, according to the phonebook any way, is living in Longmeadow, MA
Al Jenkins is currently working for Atlas Copco, a packaging company, in Westfield, MA (His tinitis is doing much better now that he doesn't have to listen to us.) Al also had a two week temp job with George once that lasted for a year.
Jed Terwilliger is working in Palmer, MA at Turley Publications.
As far as all the others are concerned, they still seem to be missing! (Any clue as to their whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.)
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