Private Numbers

In July 1984, Danny Kristensen, Rick Richards, Doug Hines, and Bruce Moody began formulating ideas for a new band. But the first order of business was to play out the last couple of Walkee Talkee gigs that were still booked. A few months later, the band had just chosen its new name; Private Numbers. The name came about one day at rehearsal at Rick Richards’ house. Rick’s young kids had those colorful magnetic letters that stick to metal and they were all over the family refrigerator. During our breaks, one or two of us would go over to the fridge and try to come up with a band name. One of the names that we liked was Numbers. A few days of staring at that name inspired one of us to add the word Private in front of Numbers and that’s how our new band name came about.