Billy Bizeau

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Van Nuys High School we filled with talent. Members of The Quick, Dickies, Translator and a slew of fantastic photographers emerged from the school.

While I was jamming with friends and a while away from Steve Hufsteter writing his pop gems.
There was future Quick member Billy Bizeau, orphaned and adopted living in the Sherman Oaks hills.
Taking his late mother’s inheritance purchasing a Teac 4 track and a slew of instruments and getting down to business.
I was and still am a fan of his teen tapes. Steve and I recall the epic Little Miss Misfit emerging and remembering decades later. These were not half baked ideas.

He was living the moment of Ram, The Slider, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and others.
He moved on to a 12 track studio (yes, a 12 track) where a prehistoric version of The Quick would make a unremarkable demo.

Billy asked Steve and myself to play on 3 songs, Steve handling guitar and Bass and myself on drums, with i believe Billy on piano. He was so ahead of us.

I held onto the songs all these years and for a few years I tried to dig them all up, and I have.
Home recordings are so much fun, and even by the time we recorded in the 12 track we were over a year away from Danny Wilde joining The Quick.
Super talented and so glad I know him to this day.
The modern wave of guitar pop band that I adore have to look back. He lived it.

 

 

 

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