Stone Cold started out in a garage in Middletown on April 12 1986. Chip and Jeff had met previously and played together but not until they played in Luther’s garage did they form their first band together. The drummer’s name was Tony, but they called him Luther due to his likeness to a character in the movie “48 hours”. The other guitarist was Neil.

     They named themselves Stonehenge and stayed together for about 10 months,  playing two gigs, a graduation party at a firehouse on June 29 1986.Larry joined them for the firehouse gig taking over on vocals. On July 14 they kicked Neil out of the band and by September they were also looking for a new drummer. Stonehenge played their second gig at Lakewood Prep High on April 4 1987 with Ben behind the drums and John Arcara singing.After this show they found themselves again in search of a drummer and for a short time they jammed with Andy from April thru August of 87,by November Chip and Jeff were looking for other bands and Stonehenge had ended.

It did not take long for Chip and Jeff to start playing together again. On January 8 1988 Chip and Jeff got together for the first time with another new drummer (Greg). They played together throughout the year when they found time away from their other bands.

In April of 1989 Chip quit his band Atlantis and the two of them started jamming a few times a week with Greg at Chips house, they were officially a band again. They quickly felt the need to replace Glenn (he quit the band in July) and after we found Dave Curtis who became our singer we started jamming with him and his cousin Chris who played drums for us. Dave had auditioned for Chips last band Atlantis but things did not work out and Atlantis broke up Chip and Jeff  recruited him. By June the band was solidified with Chip, Jeff ,Dave and Chris. In July they were writing one of their first songs Burned.

On August 20,1989 they went into the studio to record a 8 track of Burned, Tides of Change , Girl Don't You Know and Rock N Roll Child. They recorded the tracks from August 20 thru September 10,1989 and started mixing on October 1 1989. By this time their drummer Chris had left for collage in Boston and they were rehearsing new drummers by October 4 1989.By the end of October Marco Polo was in the band. We had our first gig at Faces in Keansburg on November 16 1989.Their second gig was at Fastlanes in Asbury Park on December 1 1989.Valintines December 7 and 21, 1989.January 5 1990 at Olson's, Valintino's January 13,1990,Olson's January 19 1990 and February 9 1990,Faces February 17 1990,Olsons on March 2 1990 (Chip 1:20 minutes late) creating a band argument. March 25 1990 at Olson's. On March 31 1990 we played a show at the Ocean County Mall that was set up by Marco through Freehold Music our gig was cut short causing an argument  between Jeff and Marco ,  Marco  quit the band, the search for another drummer was on again.

Photo shoots with Marco.1 2

After Marco quit the band we drafted Dave's cousin back into the band to play drums for us at a gig at Billy O's in Staten Island on April 14,1990.During April and June of 1990 Stone Cold was auditioning drummers again. By June we were playing with our new and final drummer, Vic who had played with Jeff previously in a band in 1988.

Photo Shoots with Vic. 1, 2, 3,4

July1990

On July 26 1990 Stone Cold played its first gig with Vic manning the drums at Escapades.

We sometimes went to Keansburg to play hockey.

September 22,1990 Visions in NJ, October 11,1990 at Club Bene, November 2,1990 Studio One in Newark. November 3 1990 at Faces.

November 4,1990 Stone Cold did a photo shoot at Watchung Reservation that they used as a Christmas card to everybody on their mailing list. 

 Stone Pony November 28,1990.Club Bene November 24,1990., Fastlanes December 12,1990.

Christmas Eve 1990 party with Vick

Stone Pony on January 4 1991January 11 1991 at Club Bene. January 30 1991 at Fastlanes.

Connections March 2, 1991.

After auditioning some replacements Stone Cold decided they would brake up after financial and musical differences. They playing one more show at Club Bene on March 24 1991.

On June 19 1994 and August 8 1995 Stone Cold got together and played all their old songs when Dave was up from Florida visiting.

Vic gets married March 9 2007