The Genesis

After a few informal late-nite office jams, the long strage odyssey of the Raving Daves officially began with the following email sent to the entire PeopleSoft staff -- all 175 of them:

 

The 1992 Lineup

Baer Tierkel, guitar & vocals
Eric Tamm, drums & vocals
Glede Vaughn, bass
Elizabeth Frazey, vocals
Rich Julius, guitar & vocals
Mona Daggett, sound engineer
Robert Conroy, guitar & vocals
Maire Hanley, vocals
Leonard Rainow, keyboards (started at Gig #2)

Number of PeopleSoft Employees, December 1992: 198

The band got together and to our luck and our new fans' suprise, we actually got booked for 5 gigs this first year. Our real coming out was at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco ... who wudda thought! We named the band "PeopleNot!" As our music could be construed an affront to good taste, we wanted to plant in listeners' minds that we were not officially sanctioned by PeopleSoft. We were also taking a potshot at the standard at PeopleSoft to name everything Peoplexxxx.

The 1992 Gigs