Echo Park began in the fall of 1979 when 3 musicians from Boone, North Carolina decided to take a different approach to playing in a rock band. Up until then, the three of them had played in bands collectively and separately that emphasized image, dress, promotion…everything but the music. In this new band the music would matter first and foremost. The three young men, Rusty Blanton (guitar), Kyle Graham (guitar), and Mark Williams (drums) needed a bass player to round out the ensemble. Bass players were few and far between and good bass players, especially in the mountains of northwest North Carolina were pretty much nonexistent. The guys knew of one person that was perfect for the band, only he had moved clear across the state back to his hometown of Murfreesboro. Rusty and Mark called their old acquaintance, known to most as Fish, and prevailed upon him to move back to the mountains, with no job or place to live, to play in a rock band. He jumped at the chance. The four of them rented a house in the town o