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Our first year in America, we did 250 shows in like 350 days, or something like that.

We played little bars in Kansas, little bars in Long Island. We played everywhere … I think here the kids wanted a bit more outrageous, a bit more rebellion against what was going on here. WM: OK, where did the hairdo really come from? Was it really inspired by David Bowie, as I have read? When they see a band come out and just do their own stuff and have their own style, I think that gives them a lot of inspiration, you know? They looked at us and said, “That's where I want to be.” When we talked to kids in bands during that period, they couldn't get a gig unless they were doing cover tunes. MS: We were into any band that put on a bit more of a show. The Ziggy Stardust things was really big with us, and Alice Cooper was really big with us, just because he had an incredible show, you know? We were broke, so we wanted to look kind of spectacular. We all had kind of that Ziggy Stardust hairdo, just spiky and things like that. Now the Seagull hair came from, we were getting ready to go on stage, and I was looking in the mirror, spiking my hair up, and Franky (Maudsley), the original bass player, he basically put his hand on the top of my head and said, “Could you scoot down so I can see?” He wanted to see himself, and it just flattened the top of my hair, and at the same time, my manager was trying to rush us onstage … Basically, I went on like that, then I saw some of the girls pointing at my hair, saying, “Wow, what's that?” Next time, I said, “Now I'm going to flatten it myself and stick the sides up, wingy. Then you get into people saying you look like a '57 Cadillac (laughs).