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And All is Well With You . . . May 23, 1992: Hezekia Storm and Mindpower, Good Tymes pub

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Twenty three years ago I started a blog, Art of BG Noise, to showcase the collection of local rock and punk flyers I'd amassed from my involvement in the local Crystal City music scene. That blog folded relatively quickly but I've decided to re-up the old posts, to document the ephemera produced by the small, unheralded, but vibrant community of underground musicians and fellow travelers. Their stories are important. They created the moments in which we once lived.  This was Art of BG Noise's first uploaded flyer, and now this blog's too, a nice hand-drawn invite to see Hezekia Storm (yes, the flyer is misspelled) open for Mindpower--or was it the other way around?--on Saturday  May 23, 1992 at Good Tymes Pub.  Hezekia Storm were a Lima, Ohio metal band (Michelle Lee on vocals and Richard "Storm" Spradlin on guitar). Mindpower was one of the many side projects of Scott Cramer who occupied a unique musical niche in the Crystal City in the late-'80s and earl