[TLM Staff Writer, Beverly Paterson Notes: My initial introduction to Lance Records arrived in the summer of 1986 when I purchased a copy of a compilation album, released on the Eva label out of France that featured New Mexico bands from the sixties. For the past couple of years, I had been obsessively collecting garage rock discs and was sinking my starving ears into anything and everything that fit such a category. Not only was I tickled pink to stumble upon a group of bands I had never heard before, as my motto at the time was the more obscure the better, but I was thrilled these folks were from New Mexico because I grew up in the state. From 1968 to 1974, I resided in the Land of Enchantment, and though the pop bug had already bitten me, I had no real knowledge of the music's history. I was tuned into contemporary stuff, and until about the age of eleven, I seriously thought The Beatles had invented rock and roll. You have to remember, that in the early seventies, there were no vintage radio stations to be had and my literature preferences then included 16 Magazine, Tiger Beat, supernatural stories and comic books. Therefore, my musical education was rather limited. continue]