Geoffrey R. Lupton remembers how it all began...

Rocksan began out of my possibly being the keyboard player for Renegade, and Bill Caisse's desire to change Renegade. Frank called me up to audition for the (planned) expanded keyboard role in Renegade in early to mid 1982. Bill Caisse was currently Renegade's soundman, and was even playing a little keys at the console. We met at a Renegade gig at the Chaparral Club at LAFB. I played Bill some of my originals on cassette tape in my car, and he got all fired up about me being in Renegade. From what I heard later, at the next Renegade meeting, Bill said they should hire me, make Bill Lead guitar in Renegade and move John Hogan to sound man. This didn't go over well with the other members of Renegade, and Bill quit on the spot. To which current Renegade drummer "Ace" said, " If Bill quits, than I do too." So the next thing I know, Bill calls me up and wants to get together. I went over to Bill's and jammed with him on some of Bill's originals, and some covers. Bill said he had Ernie Kreth available to play bass, but we wanted a front man/lead singer, as we were going with a heavy dose of Journey, Loverboy, Styx and the like. We spent the next couple of weeks auditioning guys, and found nothing. Bill finally lined up a few girls to listen to as well. After one night, the four of us listened to a girl singer, who claimed to do Steve Perry dead on, and wasn't even close. As Bill ushered her out the door, I made some comment like, "My wife can sing better than her", and all three guys turned to me and said (in unison, not harmony) "Your wife can sing?" So we went to my place, Adeana sang some different things acoustically, and everyone said, "She's in." Bill came up with the name "Rocksan" from, believe it or not, some old KISS bumper stickers that said, "99.5 KISS Rock's San Antonio." We just cut them up to say "RockSan", although we couldn't get anyone to spell it with the 2 capital letters. Some of our first gigs were opening for different bands at Cooter Browns, as "Ace" was a favorite of Joe Tawiel's (the owner), plus we did a few private parties as well. Ernie soon left, as it wasn't happening fast enough for him, (plus he and his three brothers were about to start up "The Secret") and he was replaced by Mark Yamaguchi on bass. Soon after, "Ace" left to pursue an opportunity to open a drum shop in Dallas in partnership with Kirk Scott, the local drum guru. He was replaced by Cathy Murguia (soon to be Musslewhite) on drums, from the old band Wicked Step. We started a long run about late '83 as the house band at Walton's buggy Works on Gardendale @ Wurzbach. I bought a PA system for us and we hired Adeana's older brother Eddie Milam to run lights, and a fellow named Lester Byrd to run sound. We were pretty eclectic, doing MTV stuff and arena rock, plenty of journey and Styx, with Loverboy and even Rush (stuff from Moving Pictures, which was heavy on MTV), along with The Cars, the Tubes, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, The Motels, and many others. I'm sure it was jolting for the audience to be dancing to "She Sheila" by the Promoters, only to have it segue into the 7/4 time of "Tom Sawyer" by Rush! It was also about this time some bands approached us about renting our PA and lights for their gigs, and I started the production side of "Rocksan". It really took off soon after when Steve Cureton started calling me up to rent gear and get me to help engineer bigger professional shows at the old Daddy's on Fredericksburg Rd. Cathy left, wanting to do more New Wave and the like (soon forming "Innocent Bystander") and was replaced by Don (can't remember his last name) on drums. Mark left next, and was replaced by Kenny Bullock on vocals and bass. We played on into 1984, when Bill left to join with John and Jimmie Whipple's cover band. We decided to re-vamp the band to a more pop format, and hired longtime wish list bass player/vocalist Brent Fields and searched for a guitarist. We couldn't find anyone, and quickly enlisted Adeana's younger brother, Roger Milam to play lead guitar. We played a few gigs that were, well, rough, to be kind. So we scrapped that when Brent and Roger both left, and hired back Kenny Bullock, this time on lead guitar, along with Brian Jernigan on drums and tried to really "new wave" Rocksan. We did one gig at the EM Club on Ft. Sam, and Kenny decided he didn't want to do this gig anymore. So by mid 1984, Adeana, Brian and myself decided to give it one more try. I decided my heart was really in rock, and said we should try to do the Military base circuit exclusively. We auditioned guitar players, by first having them fill out a job application with questions like, "Do you have a girlfriend? Does she run your life for you?" and "Do you have a car to get you to the gig?", and then hearing them play. We hired Keith Alan Kryszak on guitar, and Brian brought in Marcus Dlugosh to play bass and vocals. We added more PA, and tripled our old light show to compete with the American Peddlars, Hot To Go and some of the other big bands that were kings of that circuit. After a few rehearsals, we started off in the Military base circuit at the EM club at the Beeville NAS. We then played Ft. Sam and LAFB, but realized Marcus wasn't going to work out, so he left and old friend Kenny Bullock very ably filled in while we went through the job application/audition process for a few weeks till we came up with Kenny Gobar to play bass and be the second lead singer. Kenny played through 2 Peavey 1810 cabinets, which complimented Keith's 2 Peavey 4 X 12" cabinets. Now with our strongest line-up, and everyone like-minded on the musical direction, we continued in the Military Base circuit for the next year and a half, with occasional forays into private parties, the dance hall circuit, and a club off of Eisenhower Rd., which I can't remember the name of. By early 1986, with the drinking age change having made the military base circuit really start to dry up, we broke up. Rocksan still lives on in a sense with "Rocksan Productions" the sound and lighting company I originally started on the side of the band back in 1984.

- GL Sept,2003