Professional Tax Attorney Services CLASS NCT \\USIC NORMAN L. SANDLES Attorney at Law • Masters Degree in Taxation • CPA Firm Experience • Guest on WNIC Radio Sunday Times Talk Show 358-5744 STUART ROGOFF play music." And play music they did! As the major bar and bat mitzvah-wedding band of the time, the group played performances at Oak Park High School, for friends' parties, for AZA and BBG group functions, at area high schools and opened for the Dave Clark Five, the Who, the Supremes and the Four Tops. On local television, the group appeared on Swingin' Time and on Club 1270. They were in demand at Windsor record hops and played in Hamilton, Leamington and Sarnia, Ont., as well. For four years the band enjoyed performing, but the reality of "education first, fun next," set in, accord- ing to Finn, and the band finally dissolved in 1969. Finn left for college and to- day teaches acting and theater courses at Southfield- Lathrup High School. Lewis left to pursue record produc- tion in London, England, was a producer in Nashville, Tenn., for five years and for the past ten years has resid- ed in California. Among his credits is production work on albums for rock star Dan Fogelberg. He says he is semi- retired from the music business, and devotes much of his time to managing his real estate investments. Nelson earned a computer science degree at the Univer- sity of Michigan and left the state for Charleston, S.C., where he worked as a solo musician. He "liked the weather and the people" and decided to stay. lbday, he owns a computer-related business. Hirshfield is in New York, a professor of computer science at Hamilton College. All have married. Lewis is the father of one, Nelson has four, Hirshfield has three children and Finn has a daughter. The four expressed mixed emotions about making music a career. Lewis, who played bass, became a session musician, but was lured by the console — a giant elec- tronic board used for mixing music and voice tracks. He hooked up with Pioneer Sound in Detroit, and pur- sued record producing as a career. "I've done pretty well;' he admits, "but I'm not (renowned record producer) Quincy Jones or anything." He said he thought about making music a career, but decided that performing was not his thing. "I bowed out of being a bass player and con- centrated on studio work. The console is my musical instru- ment!' Would he ever join a band again? "Absolutely not! There's way too much travel- ing involved. I didn't want to spend my life on the road." Nelson, who played lead guitar in the group, said he made music his career until he found there was less de- mand for musicians and more for computer programmers, so he switched his focus. But, ac- cording to Nelson, it really wasn't that much of a change. "Music and computers, they're both the same kind of game. Both involve fun and creativity. I haven't changed what I'm doing, I just chang- ed the medium." Nelson has no qualms about being involv- ed in a band again, if he could do it on weekends. Right now, he's just content to play piano at home. Hirshfield said at 16, mak- ing music a career sounded great, but "who knows what they want to do as a career at 16." The former rhythm guitarist still plays infre- quently and would join a band again but, "I don't know if I have the time and energy for it!' Finn said that he, too, thought about making music a career, but "at the back of our minds, realistically, we were going to college:' After the band split up, the former Shy Guys drummer formed a group with his brother, Brian, who played guitar. Finn played piano, and they added another guitarist and drum- mer. They played some jobs around town, but Finn ad- mits, he couldn't do it full time now. How the band got together was explained by Finn. Nelson was in another band that was not very successful. Finn had been a substitute drummer for that group and Nelson approached him about forming their own band. Hir- shfield was asked to join and then word went out that the group needed a bass player. Lewis, who had been in another band and had never played bass, auditioned anyway and got the job. "I became a pretty good bass player with The Shy Guys," he recalled. Prior to their break-up, the group added a keyboard player, Paul Zacks. It was a group effort that produced their hit record, We Gotta Go, and it was released on the Panik label. It can still be found at some record col- lector's shows. The "B" side was Lay It On the Line. A third song, Feel A Whole Lot Better, was never released. Part of the group's success was having their record played on local radio. 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