At the battle of the bands dance that was held over Christmas vacation at Ogden High Ron was not with the group that night. Ron’s family was going to California during Christmas vacation that year. He was not going to be allowed to stay home so that he could play the dance. Denny and Ron concocted a fake telephone call that would be from Ron in California to Denny. In the course of the call Ron was going to perform a song supposedly over the telephone so Denny could tape it and play it that night at the dance. What happened in actuality was Denny and Ron got together well ahead of time and recorded the Beatles tune “All My Loving” to Denny’s reel to reel tape recorder. Only those in the band knew about it. At one point during the set at the dance–with Ron’s guitar and amp on the stage along with two purple candles which were lit very ceremoniously–the tape was played. Although they did not win the battle of the bands competition that evening, the supposed phone call brought down the house. Phil Dorner had brought his tape recorder to the dance to record portions of each of the three bands playing that night. He happened to record this part of Road’s set on tape. The entire gym was quiet as the tape played-you could not hear anyone talking at all. When the tape ended there was an explosion of applause.