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Original guitarist Phil Earhart remembers getting a call from organist Sharon Lane, who was likely the first female instrumentalist in the local rock scene.

Within a couple of years, only Pott Williams remained in the band. We had five people that just clicked. Ultimately, their calling card became lengthy medleys of Rascals tunes. He would try to keep the band in the kitchen during the breaks, and he would sell all the soldiers from Fort Campbell a bottle of booze from the trunk of his car for double the price. Hoffman recalls bringing in the song himself. Shields credits a guy named Mike Weesner with presenting it to the band. Yet it was perfect—a country song by a Nashville rock band.

Producer Hoffman supplied the finishing touch: a percussive effect created by rubbing two pieces of sandpaper together and running the sound through an echo chamber. Not only did it reinforce the rhythm, it gave the whole song an eerie undercurrent. The draft and the Vietnam war were daily terrors. The single picked up plenty of local airplay, and then suddenly it began gathering steam in other cities. According to Hoffman, it charted on a number of regional radio stations and was poised to go national.

And then, as quickly as it rose, the record nosedived. No one knows why. At least a couple of people involved with the band blame Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, who would, in , reach No.

It leaves you with the emptiest feeling. After Sam Robinson joined the band, they carried on for several years, touring heavily in the Northeast. They played backbreaking stints at the Jolly Roger in Virginia Beach, swapping sets with a beach music outfit. But the boot-camp regimen also tightened the Anglo-Saxons into a fierce combo. Whenever the Saxons returned home from being on tour, they packed the Hullabaloo Club, a spacious teen hangout located at Bell Grimes Lane and Dickerson Road.

But among all those bands, one still stands out. And they were as cool as their name: The Feminine Complex. The origins of the Feminine Complex were inauspicious enough. Drumming came naturally to Napier, and Williams had gotten interested in playing music after watching her boyfriend play bass in a local band.

Their basketball coach, Pam Hickman, came up with their original name: The Pivots. The girls dressed in matching pantsuits that day, a direct violation of school dress code; when they went back to class, they had to tuck their pants legs up under their skirts.

The show went well—despite one little incident that, almost 30 years later, Napier still recounts with chagrin. The Pivots had, in true local band fashion, worked up a whole set of cover tunes. The beat went on, though.

By spring, The Pivots were a working band: With Williams now on bass, they played their first paying gig backing up a contestant at the Davidson County Beauty Pageant.

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