Cage

Together with Thom Wade (guitar and vocals) and Steve Rustad (vocals), Casey Cosby – by now playing the organ – formed a combo called Gentle Thursday; all three were members of the UCLA Glee Club.  After changing the band’s name to Cage, and wanting to move toward a harder sound, he chose Dora Wahl as the band’s drummer; she was a percussion major at Long Beach State. 

After changing the band’s name from Cage to Music Emporium, the last of the four joined up, guitarist Dave Padwin.  Padwin came from a completely different background and had been in a bar band in Chicago called the Prediktors.  When Casey Cosby met him, he was working at a store called the Guitar Center. 

(October 2013)