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I was twenty-three that January of 1984, a lead singer in a band called Chill Factor, still carrying the ghost of the seventies in my bones like a faded tattoo. The leather jackets had been traded for darker coats and stranger haircuts, and the raw snarl of punk,our old religion, had flatlined somewhere around 1980.  What we played now was called post-punk, a colder, more angular music that suited the grey Los Angeles smog filled skies and the narrowing futures we saw ahead. I had been the lead singer in a string of loud, beautiful disastrous bands that never " got anywhere" because I kept sabotaging any record company offers my guitarist was urgently looking to find. Most of the bands that accepted label offers were getting screwed...So I was always suspicious of the music industry... Now, 4 or 5 years later, the crowds were different, but the ache remained the same. We played many of the L.A. clubs, from the Anti Club to the Music Machine... Brock, my drummer, was the only one who truly understood my defiance and determination to carve my own path.. We were both philosophers in battered boots, more interested in the questions than the applause. Where other bands chased the chaos of the road, we chased meaning. We had our share of female admirers—many pretty faces pressed against the stage edge, eyes bright with that dangerous mix of lust and hero worship—but we never quite knew what to do with the groupies. They felt like tourists in our private cathedral. Brock and I preferred the long talks after the gigs, drinking coffee at cheap all-night diners... One night, after watching a band play to a half-empty venue somewhere in the industrial sprawl near Venice Los Angeles,, we sat drinking coffee at a Tiny Naylors coffee house. “You ever really listen to ‘Break On Through’?” I asked him.Brock replied  “The Doors. Yeah. Jim Morrison screaming at the universe.” “It was ’67,” I said, leaning forward. “Man hadn’t even walked on the moon yet, and here’s Morrison talking about breaking on through to the other side. Not just the light and the dark, though that’s there....sun and shadow, the whole dualistic dance. But outer space, Brock. The void. The outer limits.” He started laughing. I did as well. I could see it even as I spoke: the black expanse beyond our thin atmosphere, the place where the known world ends and something else begins. The song wasn’t about sex or drugs, not really. It was a map. A desperate transmission from a man who had pressed his face against the glass and seen the infinite staring back. Light bleeding into darkness, consciousness cracking open like an egg, the terrifying freedom that waits when you finally push past the barriers we build around ourselves. That type of "breaking through" can only be met with laughter. So I started writing lyrics and showed him my idea for a song called "Outer Limits." It referenced a "Terrible Zoo" as in humanity being zoo animals or farm animals, used, monitored, and discarded when no longer useful.  “Most people hear the organ riff and the howl,” he said quietly. “They miss the terror in it. The invitation.”Brock was deep.He said " call it Terrible Zoo". And so we did. R.I.P Brock, you were a true brother... Songwriters Thomas Schoenberger Brock Wheaton 1956-2003

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