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At 16, I got my first paying gig from answering an ad in the local paper for a drummer. Even though it was a country gig, and I listened to the likes of Iron Butterfly and Bloodrock, I decided a gig was a gig and talked the guy into hiring me over the phone. After all, I had listened to country most of my life from my parents, so I figured I could do the gig. They asked me back and I played with them almost a year. The job paid $15.00 a night, and that was big money in 1970!
Since then, I have played with a wide variety of bands, including rock, country, blues, R & B, light jazz, pop, funk and disco.
The band that made the most impact on me, however, was a local band by the name Kartunes, a band that stayed together over ten years, from 1982 to about 1994. I have a tribute page to that band here.
In the last few years I have become something of a fill-in drummer, and I like the variety of performing with a lot of different bands. I have played drums for Chuck Berry, the classic rock band Misledd, Emery Lovett and Wildfire, Hinson's Swinging Playboys, the Baub Eis Band, Johnny D'Agostino's Fried Crawdaddies, Roy Whaley and Ambush, Horsefeathers, Bruce Poe Band and many more, covering a great many styles from Rock to Country to Motown to Blues to Western Swing. I like it all.
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