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“It was a very small town,” recalled drummer Suzi Blodgett. “There was one school building for first grade through high school.” Blodgett formed the Shades with Cindi Stouder and Jannie Gard. They began rehearsing in a one-bedroom house on the edge of town in spring 1964. Their first performance was for the congregation of Etna Green Methodist Church, where Gard and Stouder played folk songs on acoustic guitars while Blodgett kept time on a tambourine. With encouragement from the community, the Shades quickly graduated to electric instruments. Cindi played a Gibson ES-335, Jannie a right-handed Harmony bass upside down. Suzi helmed a Camco drum set. Sporting matching bouffant hairstyles and handmade outfits, the trio took gigs wherever they could, from regional bowling alleys to the local Elks Club.
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