Hot rod hullabaloo

People often asked "what did you do with all the money?" (that is all the money my parents gave me for music lessons....)
Really, the typical question is "how long you guys been together"?

Actually we had all played in bands together for numerous years. One particular gig was a party classic rock band called "The flaming Sambuca's"
(pics to follow)

But Clem and I did try our hand at a hillbilly jug band...

Were not allowed to say who the guy on the right is...
Something to do with the authorities and a friendly little discussion that took place at the Park Town Hotel in Saskatoon......
(maybe that's why he is wearing a disguise) Me and Clem however grew them beards our selves....

(yep that's a rubber chicken in my pants)



A quick hill-Billy joke:
I gets me pulled over there odder day by the PO-leese
and he dun askem to me if Iz gots any ID.

I sayz to hem "ID about what"





Before all that Clem played in a tribut to Ted Nugent band called "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"

But because he was always touring the sleezy Northern Alberta Bar circuit he got something mean growing in his hair that stuck with him until the end of his flaming Sambuca's era. It all started one winter somewhere around Ft. St John He tells us that what ever it was in his hair was telling him to do all sorts of bad things like "don't eat bran, eat a Big Mac, and don't drink that milk let's get some beer" but the worst was this voice kept saying "go ahead lick the frosty bumper...You'll like it.
So we called an intervention, and well, this was the result........

**editors note, it's been determined that nothing was in his hair. Speculation points to his conscience giving up on him due to too many gigs with Greg from Ricasso, or Lou whispering suggestions in his ear while he was driving. ....or it could have been some kind of telephathy from Carson Cole.

Now guess who that cute lookin guy is on the right.....

NO, It's not a Young Vince Gill***

Yea, that's me with a size 30 waist and a cheese eating grin. Some body took this shot at the variety night at our high school back in the day. The guy in the middle was some adult student who showed up drunk and stoned , playing that girl folk music crap, named Tim..... I guess the drunk part was o.k. But the teachers liked him cause he would remind them of there dreams and ambitions about being a free spirit with home made tie dyed t shirts and all.

He had a problem with his teeth, I guess some one set them free one night too. As the story goes he screwed H.E.L. music out of some cash and left town. Probably when the pogy ran out and the cheques stopped coming in. The guy on the left is a fella named Don Derkawitch ...Or something like that. He went on to record a bunch of Ukrainian polka music with that "Pandora" S.G. copy of his. He was a good guy....His mom always made you eat stuff like pies and cookies when you went to his house.

Thanks to Raplh of (the former) H.E.L. music store in Saskatoon, he was always a good guy too. Screw Tim the tootles hippy.