Many of the local performances helped to raise money for a wide variety of organizations, from fire departments to preschools and food coop's to nuclear freeze propositions. The Trinidad Town Hall was the home for numerous concerts. Airhead performed many times at the Fire Hall in Garberville and after it burned down played benefits to help build a new venue which became The Mateel Center. Airhead played at the first event to be called "Reggae On The River" along with The Itals, The Meditations, The Carribean Allstars and The Dreadbeats.
There was a cassette only release in the late 1970's "Airhead", a vinyl release in 1980 "How big I Heart" and a cassette only release in 1985 "Sail Away". Four of the songs on Sail Away began as a demo for Capital Records. While playing at a local club a person who worked at Capital Records in the recording studio side of the company wanted to shop the band to their A&R department. After a meeting at Capital Records in LA it was decided a better demo was needed before shopping the band to the A&R department. Living behind the Redwood Curtain far from big city studios made recording at the rehearsal space the best choice at the time. Working non stop for three months a demo of four songs was recorded on an Ampex one inch 8 track. To great disappointment the band's contact at Capital left the company to start their own business in the fashion industry prior to the demo being finished. This disappointment along with several of the band entering parenthood ultimately ended the full time occupation that was the band Airhead. In succeeding years there were other projects that included many of the same musicians. Some of those projects were Howard Huge, Timezone, and " Airhead: The Next Generation.
If you were a regular at shows or are hearing the music for the first time on this site we would love to hear your comments and stories! Humbee@JarvisLamoreux.com
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