KEN HARCK
Wild Blue grew out of a Chicago group called Jinx that toiled in the local club scene beginning in the late 1970’s. The core members of this band were Joe Zanona (keyboards), Terry Curtin (bass guitar), and Frank Barbalace (guitars). They had been looking for a female vocalist, and they found one in Renee Varo; Mike Neff was also added as the drummer.
Chrysalis Records caused unnecessary friction in the band, however, by flying Renee Varo and Joe Zanona over to London to record half of the No More Jinx album with other studio musicians. (They were also the only two bandmembers to make the front cover). About this time, Terry Curtin and Mike Neff quit; they were replaced by Mike Gorman (bass) and Ken Harck (drums), two members of a late 1970’s Chicago power-pop band called Off Broadway (Mike Neff had also been in that band).
(June 2012)
