New Math performing at the Orange Monkey in 1977. Robert Slide – bass, Gary Trainer – guitar, Paul Dodd – drums, Kevin Patrick – vocals, Dale Mincey – guitar
I moved back to Rochester In the mid seventies. Peggi and I had been going to school in Indiana and I was playing in a working country band there, real country, like Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. Country rock was getting big here at the time, a whole other animal. Bands like Old Salt were popular. I wasn’t buying it. I placed an ad on the bulletin board at Record Archive, then located next door to Village Green Bookstore on Monroe Avenue. I was looking for something different and I found it. Kevin and Gary called and we started a band. I lasted a few years and left after we released the first single, “Die Trying.” Howard Thompson produced it at PCI Studio.
DIE TRYING VIDEO BY NEW MATH
Paul Dodd cover art and label art for New Math Die Trying 45 released on Reliable Records. Photo by Robert Slide.
New Math “Die Trying” 45 on CBS Records in England
New Math 45 coverer Reliable Records issue of New Math’s “Die Trying.”
New Math 45 back cover Reliable Records issue of New Math’s “Die Trying.”
New Math band photo by Corrine Atias 1977Photo for New Math and John Mooney Blues Band at Electric Circus on Dewey Avenue in Rochester, New York 1977Dale Mincey of New Mat playing guitar on Dartmouth StreetTicket for New Math and the debut performance of Human Swithboard3 color silkscreen poster for New Math gig at R.I.T Grace Watson Hall on October 7, 1977Poster for New Math at Penny Arcade in Rochester, New York 03.30.1978. Poster shows Paul Dodd, Dale Mincey, Kevin Patrick, Robert Slide and Gary Trainer. New Math logo by Tim Dodd. Paul Dodd – drums, Gary Trainer – guitar, Kevin Patrick – vocals, Dale Mincey – guitar, Robert Slide – bass. Poster by Paul Dodd.
