Robin Lane and Clan Batteau

Story of how Robin Lane came to be friends with Robin Batteau and Clan Batteau

Girl Robin met boy Robin in lost Angeles way back in 1969. Robin and David Batteau were about to make an album for Columbia........"Batteau". Robin sang harmonies on the album, and she and boy Robin struck up a friendship that has endured to this day. Boy Robin grew up in Cambridge and had been part of the Cambridge/Boston music scene for several years with John Compton in the legendary band Apaloosa, who recorded serveral albums for Columbia.

Girl Robin was playing the folk scene around L.A. at the time, and boy Robin would sometimes accompany her on violin. He also held her head as she puked her guts from drinking too much tequila at the crazy house up in the hills of Encino that all the band members and friends stayed at while recording the "Batteau" album. The wild and crazy naked musicians and freaks would dive head first into the pool from the rooftop at all hours of the day, inciting the neighbors to make calls to the police...........it was all good fun and girl Robin and boy Robin ruled.

In 1977 Girl Rob moved to Cambridge to be close to the Batteau clan after a harrowing stay in the bin. She had become a devotee of Jesus and knew Cambridge and Boston was the place to put a punk band together so she could proselytize to the masses. She began hanging out at the legendary Ratskeller in Kenmore Square, much to the puzzlement of her friends and clan Batteau who had loved her for her folky ways. Too late they realized her time in the bin and the speaking in tongues had let loose the already precarious gray cells that had been holding her fragile brain together for so long. Jesus and Robin found the right bandmates at The Rat for her vision quest and formed Robin Lane and The Chartbusters. They went on to have national success recording three albums for Warner Brothers. And the rest, as some are fond of saying, is history.