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Avant Garde was very devoted to technical proficiency, rehearsing four or times a week for several hours at a time and shunning partying and drug-use, a policy which led to the ousting of party-goer Eric Ridel after a year.<ref name="riversedge" /> Said Fisher: | Avant Garde was very devoted to technical proficiency, rehearsing four or three times a week for several hours at a time and shunning partying and drug-use, a policy which led to the ousting of party-goer Eric Ridel after a year.<ref name="riversedge" /> Said Fisher: | ||
{{Quote|"We didn't really drink, smoke, or do most of the things that people usually associate with rock music. We were really focused on being musicians and the people that we saw drinking or getting high back then didn't seem to be as 'serious' as we wanted to be. One night, I'm hanging out with our friend Jim Emino and a couple of girls -- ooh! -- and I try Schnapps, pot and cigarettes all for the first time -- double ooh! Needless to say, I didn't score very well with the ladies, and when I went to Rivers' house the next day I got the third degree from Rivers, Eric and Leaves. They were all sitting around the Kitchen table -- we were practicing in Rivers' bedroom -- and saying, 'We heard what you were doing last night -- smoking pot -- and we need to know if you are going to want to do it again.' The underlying message being, 'We're not really into having a pot smoker in the band.'"|[[Justin Fisher]]|''[[Rivers' Edge]]''}} | {{Quote|"We didn't really drink, smoke, or do most of the things that people usually associate with rock music. We were really focused on being musicians and the people that we saw drinking or getting high back then didn't seem to be as 'serious' as we wanted to be. One night, I'm hanging out with our friend Jim Emino and a couple of girls -- ooh! -- and I try Schnapps, pot and cigarettes all for the first time -- double ooh! Needless to say, I didn't score very well with the ladies, and when I went to Rivers' house the next day I got the third degree from Rivers, Eric and Leaves. They were all sitting around the Kitchen table -- we were practicing in Rivers' bedroom -- and saying, 'We heard what you were doing last night -- smoking pot -- and we need to know if you are going to want to do it again.' The underlying message being, 'We're not really into having a pot smoker in the band.'"|[[Justin Fisher]]|''[[Rivers' Edge]]''}} | ||
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==Post-dissolution== | ==Post-dissolution== | ||
[[Justin Fisher]] would later perform in [[Shufflepuck]], [[Homie]], [[Nerf Herder]], and [[Psoma]]. [[Kevin Ridel]] would lead the bands [[Ridel High]] and [[AM Radio]]. Mutch still plays live in the Connecticut music community<ref>RakkitTV, [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0MJ40q-8TJPvqQAJ5m9KAA/search?query=bryn%20mutch ''Youtube'' search]</ref>. | [[Justin Fisher]] would later perform in [[Shufflepuck]], [[Homie]], [[Nerf Herder]], and [[Psoma]]. [[Kevin Ridel]] would lead the bands [[Ridel High]] and [[AM Radio]]. Mutch still plays live in the Connecticut music community<ref>RakkitTV, [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0MJ40q-8TJPvqQAJ5m9KAA/search?query=bryn%20mutch ''Youtube'' search]</ref>. | ||