The youngest member of Effective Disorder, Ricky never wanted to do anything but play the guitar, coming in every weekend, staying later every night, from somewhere far off in the East Bay. Something was really not right where he came from. The band gave him an escape, a new family. One day, he stopped going home at all and never looked back.

He shaved his pale eggplant-shaped head and took whatever drugs he could get his hands on. With the right chemicals, he could put on a show that would make The Stooges look like The Osmonds, but things didn't always work out that way.