Eliot Mayer
Engineer, Radio Amateur, Musician, UU
W1MJ
The New Ham Band (NHB) was my first band after graduating from UMass Amherst. It consisted mostly of friends from the ham radio community. We practiced in my basement on High Street in Stoneham, MA and a few other basements for about two years (1977-1979), and did one live performance. In January 2026, I dug out some old NHB cassette tapes, digitized them, and posted them here.
Recorded in my basement during the spring and summer of 1979 on a Maxell UDXL II C90 cassette tape. Kudos to Maxell for making a tape with 48 years (or more) of retention.
Georgina Gibbons - Vocals
Todd Rhodes, WB1FTF - Drums
Joe Polcari, WA1PQE - Bass
Rick "Bones" Palm, K1CE - Guitar
Rich Maltzman, WA1NRT - Keyboards, Vocals
Eliot Mayer, W1MJ - Guitar, Vocals
Allan Bacon, K1BA - Sound
Ricky Daz - Vocals on "Rocky Mountain Way"
The New Ham Band’s one-and-only live performance took place on July 21, 1979 at the NOBARC Hamfest (Northern Berkshire Amateur Radio Club ham radio festival) at the Cummington Fairgrounds in Cummington, Massachusetts.
