The band
One of San Francisco
Bay Area’s most popular
bands of the 80s/90s
Mark Renner
Mike Freitas
Kenny Schick
Dave (Swampy) Ryle
Jim McKenzie
Chris Mondt
Les Harris
Michael Vondran
Jackie Watson
Christopher Sharron
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Andy Average (Roadie, Friend)
Bill Lackey (Mudboy)
Karen Howe (Graphic Artist, Photos & T’shirts)
Natalie Sibert Freitas (Manager)
Katie Norris (Photos & hand painted T’shirts)
Mark
Renner
Lead Singer | Bass player | percussion | french horn | chapman stick | songwriter | founder
What’s he doing now?
Mark is living happily in Bali with his wife Julia. Facebook
Mike
Freitas
drummer | singer | songwriter | founder
Mike continues to enjoy a life guided by music. He is an active recording and performing drummer / percussionist / programmer, including his current group 4Minus1 Trio.
In addition to drumming, Mike has engineered on albums for various artists including Bob Weir’s Ratdog, Mickey Hart, MIRV, Haunted by Waters, and many others. By day, Mike continues to work for a leading manufacturer of audio recording, mixing, and live sound equipment.
Kenny
Schick
Guitarist | singer | saxophone | percussion
What’s he doing now?
Kenny is professional Music Producer, Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Photographer/Videographer in Nashville TN & The Bay Area CA. He has run his own production company Basement3Productions with his wife Sabine, since 2008 b3pmusic.com
Kenny Schick writes, records, performs his own music kennyschick.com
He is also the other half of the duo ArtemesiaBlack with wife Sabine artemesiablack.com
Dave (Swampy)
Ryle
Saxophone | backup vocals | percussion
What’s he doing now?
Dave works full time and still plays saxophone sometimes with bands like Fungo Mungo ……
Jim
McKenzie
trumpet | backup vocals | percussion
What’s he doing now?
Jim is a music teacher.
Chris mondt
BONO-PHONE (TROMBONE)
What’s he doing now?
Something awesome while looking dapper!
LES HARRIS
ALTO SAXOPHONE | PERCUSSION | VOCALS
What’s he doing now?
To this day, Les still lives in the Bay Area and works in the tech industry. He went into musical semi-retirement a few years ago to raise a son, but is rumored to be plotting his return to the musical stage in the distant or not-too-distant future!
Photo credit below Michael Pegram
MICHAEL VONDRAN
PERCUSSION
What’s he doing now?
Mike retired from Apple and moved to British Columbia. He travels the world and is really into sports.
JACKIE WATSON
TRUMPET
What’s he doing now?
After his Dot 3 days Jackie Watson returned to the Coachella Valley and joined the Punk Jazz band “The Sort of Quartet “ This band along with others like “Kyuss”, “Fatso Jetson” and “Queens of Stone Age” were pioneers In the Desert Generator Rock scene. Watson contributed songs and played trumpet on TSOQ’s Planet Mamonn for SST. Later Jackie helped form a folk rock Duo called “Monkey Toast “, with long time friend Mathew Lowell. Jackie now works for Hemet Unified School District and plays and sings regularly at his church. He also is working on a new recording project with Desert drumming legend Alfredo Hernandez.
CHRISTOPHER SHARRON
Guitar
What’s he doing now?
Christopher is in the band Pigeon English and has a lot of birds. Hw lives with his also very talent wife Patricia.
Andy
Average
roadie
What’s he doing now?
Andy sadly passed away in 2020. He’s Dj’in and making people laugh somewhere in another dimension!
ABOUT ANDY
Andy Average lived a long time with wife Terri in New Orleans. Andy was the roadie for Dot 3 and essentially part of the band. He was considered the most eclectic lounge DJ ever in San Jose and spun bizarre records at almost every underground hangout for 20 years. Known as the Pope of San Jose, Andy was probably San Jose’s first true ‘alternative’ weirdo club DJ and his vinyl collection, which unfortunately was lost in Hurricane Katrina, was legendary. He was ‘alternative’ like… spaceage, bachelor pad tunes, 60s exotica, Martin Denny, Italian horror soundtracks, bagpipe covers of cracked rockabilly stuff. Lenny Dee, the Ramones, Tiny Tim, cowpunk stomps, lesbian vampire audiobooks or anything appealing to hula dancer, tiki bars or that crazed dud in the corner with the soft blue blazer, the maroon fez and the glass of Absinthe.
BILL LACKEY (MUDBOY)
SOUND MAN | RECORDING ENGINEER
What’s he doing now?
Bill works for AVID.
Karen howe
graphic design
What’s she doing now?
Karen is happily retired in Oregon.
ABOUT KAREN
Karen Howe was the Graphic Artist for Tower Records that’s how she met Mark Renner.
Photo credit left: Katie Norris
Natalie sibert freitas
manager
What’s she doing now?
Natalie sadly passed away in 2023.
ABOUT NATALIE
Music is literally in my blood from both sides of my parents. My maternal grandfather was even a French Horn player for the Chicago Symphony long, long ago. So, at around 18 I discovered incredible music via KFJC. Really wanted to get into recording production then, no classes for that so KFJC became my home and first radio DJ experience. Then! Began booking rock shows at SJSU for a year as Concert Chair for the ASPB. Booked Agent Orange and others. Then! Graduated and was miffed that the ASPB passed on RHCP. So, 1986 I went back and booked RHCP with Dot 3 opening at State myself. From there ended up managing Dot 3 for a few years. Great times and gigs. Also booked Marsugi’s in SJ for a short spell. Went on to attempt something similar at a club called SOHO in Campbell in a shopping mall. Ummm… Dot 3 was the band for opening night at that club. It sold out, of course. However, that show set the bar so high the owners expected the same turnout every night. Cut my hours so I skeedattled. After Dot 3 broke up I managed a few other bands, got fired from a couple music writing gigs over the years. Moved after marrying, gasp, Mike Freitas! Ended up Djing at a bowling alley. Best paying gig ever. Left that. Got a job at a commercial Americana radio station. Got fired from that. Finally volunteered and was a paid afternoon host at Sonoma County’s NPR radio station for quite a few years.
Photo credit right: Katie Norris
