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Photos from years gone by and excerpts from autobiagraphical
manuscript.
I started drumming at age 8 playing on cardboard boxes with wooden spoons. I loved hitting those boxes pretending I was the drummer on my dads Big Band Jazz and Blues LP's .

A few years later my folks bought me a real snare drum and some real drum sticks. I remember , as a kid, visiting my cousin George and my cousin Don Lee in Olympia. George had a band "Big George Barner and The Corvettes and Don Lee was Music Prof at the College in Olympia and later was Music Director at San Diego State University. I would gaze in amazement at the array of musical instruments at their homes (ESPECIALLY THE DRUMS)! I played along with Topsy Part 1 and Topsy Part 2 by Cozy Cole so many times I swore I knew them note for note by heart.

My dad was a great piano player. (He was playing on the radio at age 14 on a beautiful Baldwin Acrosonic piano he bought brand new with his own money. That piano now sits in my iving room ).

I was around 11 when dad bought himself a Hammond B3 with a Leslie speaker. I would play drums along with him as he played standards like Satin Doll, Stormy Weather, Birth Of The Blues, The Summer Breeze, Mack The Knife, Brazil, Girl From Ipanema, so many I can't list them all . And he'd even tackle Jimmy Smith and Henry Mancinni. Theme from Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn and Route 66 . And we would kick the you know what on some Cab Calloway!

I bought my first drum set at age 12 from the father of a friend of mine who had played drums to pay for his dentistry school. It was an old early 1900's Slingerland kit with a 14"X26" bass drum, a 14"X16" parade drum for a snare and the skins on the rack toms were goat skins riveted onto the shells. They used to soak the heads with water and let them dry to tune them back then. It even came with a set of Goards. I did the dentist's yard work for over a year to pay for those old tubs. I wish I still had em.

Not too long after that was when I started my first band "The Sultans" . There are no photos of me on drums prior to 1964.

In 1962 I was 15 years old and my cousin Gracey Hanson ( George Barner's half sister) had a Las Vegas Burlesque Show at the Seattle Worlds Fair, The David Rose Orchestra Played the music for the shows in fact the theme music "The Stripper" was written recorded and performed by the David Rose Orchestra. "The Stripper" was a top ten hit on the radio that year. Gracey called my dad one day and told him the drummer for the David Rose Orchestra had suffered a heart attach and had died. His widow wanted to sell his drums. We drove to her condo in Seattle and looked at the drums. They were brand new Ludwig white mothewr of pearl drums. A complete 5 piece set including cymbals hardware and cases. They were the exact drums he had played when "The Stripper" was recordrd. We bought the drums from her for $600.00 and I was on a cloud. Those drums are pictured in the photos of the Centrix and the Toffs.

At age 16, I subbed for the drummer in a big horn band at an adult night club in Seattle . I was too young to be in the bar where alcohol was being served, so on breaks they required that I stay in the dressing room back stage where the female Go Go dancers changed their costumes and did their drugs. I learned alot through that experience.

1.) What a great set of boobs looks like (yea, I peeked)

2.) What a bad set of boobs looks like , (wished I hadn't peeked)

3.) How its hard to tell the difference once the costumes on,

4.) Not to get into shootin' "H" in your vain and ....

5.) How great it is playin drums with a live big band with a full horn section.

In 1964 I started another band called "The Centrix". Bob Poole was a nototious guitar player back then , mainly because of his shoulder length hair. The Beatles had just made their US debut and their Beatle cuts were becoming the rage, although at the time everyone was chicken to copy them. Bob Poole didn't copy them , he grew his long before them. I figured Poole had at least a one year head start on The Beatles for growing long hair. But when he came to try out for the band, I hired him on the spot because he was a screamer vocally and a shredder on the guitar. My brother, Rob, had been playing keys almost as long as I'd been playing drums. He and I had been woodshedding for a few years on just keys and drums, playing some cover tunes and writing some of our own stuff. I got my old buddy Ken Camp to learn bass and hired a sax player John Hagger. Ken prefered playing guitar so Bob Poole suggested we hire Bob Gibbs for a bass player which we did. I couldn't find any body to hire us, so I started renting community club halls in Dash Point, Browms Point, Sumner, Puyallup, Gig Harbor and the surrounding communities. I made my own posters on a silk screen I made myself . We would plaster those communities with posters a couple weeks in advance, especially the High shools and Jr. Highs and we'd Pack those halls.

Once we got our own sound, the band was getting popular enough that I started scoring gigs at the High Schools and at the popular teen nightclubs like the Red Carpet on South Tacoma Way and the Gaslight in downtown Tacoma. I had booked a gig at Acquainis Girls school (which back then was a PRIMO gig). Our regular bass player could'nt do the gig so I got Mike Dahl to sub for him. Mike played electric 6 and 12 string guitar in the Toffs (a Wilson High Band) but he also was an excellent bass player. As I remember Ken was going with Bonnie Guitar's daughter and she was friends with someone at the local TV Show ROCK A GO-GO on channel 13. Well we were asked to play on the show, which we did a couple of times. The host of the show was a fellow named Randy. Randy booked the Centrix at a car dealership in Puyallup to play at a big sales event . At that event, Randy took Bob Poole and Ken Camp aside and told them that with their long hair, Rock Star look and their talent he could make them superstars and convinced them to leave my band because he would guide them to the top! Well of course they fell for it and quit the band and of course they enentually found out Randy was full of BS because he guided them nowhere. (As a side note, Presently Randy lives not too far from me and I have been told he has made a huge transformation in his life and is now truely helping people.) God bless you Randy.

But, as serendipity would have it, I got a call from Mike Dahl asking me to join the Toffs, which I enthusiastically did.

Side Note: The second picture from the top on this page was taken at the first gig I played with the Toffs in 1966. It was also the first date with a gorgeous girl named Sharon. Four years later Sharon and I were married and I'm still blessed to have her as my wife today after these past 38 years.

So, anyway...the Toffs had a completely different style than The Centrix. Where the Centrix played alot of The Kinks and The Sonics, The Doors and real edgy rock stuff, the Toffs played stuff like The Byrds, The Yardbirds, Bullalo Springfield, The Youngbloods. Music with 12 srting guitars and good vocals with fat background harmonies. The Toffs morphed a couple of times. First into 7th and Pacicic and then into Captain Flyswat and the Cat's Pajama Band. We played alot both in Eastern Washington and on this side. Kieth Wohlford, Mike Dahl, ,Jim MacGregar and Ron Lundsford left and went away to college. Kieth went on to play with some great musicians east of the mountains. He played with The Bards and in a couple of bands ( Apalosa and Apple Andy ) with Andy Aldrich ( who later was and still is the founder and owner of American Music), Doug Beckowitz and I moved into an apartment together in Tacoma across the street from UPS on North Union and continued playing as a duo we called The Porcelain Tabernacle. We performed live very few times, but all the material was written by Beckowitz and I added my two cents worth on the double bass drum kit I played. The music was actually quite incredibly good.

One day the two single gals that lived in the apartment upstairs had a visiter that heard us jamming in our living room. They brought him down to meet us. His name was Doug Skoog and he was a keyboard player in a Blues Band called Hometown Blues Band. He liked my drumming and asked me to come to their next rehearsal in Parkland, which I did. It was love at first jam! These cats were smokin on R&B and Blues stuff I had always loved but didn't know anyone in my home town was playing it. Some of the Blues material I had never heard before! We did material by Dike and the Blazers, Cool and The Gang (before they crossed over), Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bobby Blue Bland, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter. We played Tacoma and Seattle and toured around Washington, Oregon, Montana and Canada. A few years into it we added a couple more horns (Bud Brown from San Diego on Trumpet and Jeff Mason on Trombone and added alot of Butterfields big band stuff like One More Heartache, Play On, Should Have Been a Boxer. And We played a couple numbers off the Dreams Album featuring Billy Cobham and the Brecker brothers.New York was my favotite. These were high energy burnin tunes and I mean we were playin this stuff like we owned it!

Hometown Blues Band had an on going gig at The Red Carriage on Tacoma Avenue in Tacoma Washington that lasted for a few years. We would get booked other places and would tour occassionally, but always returned to The Red Carriage. Sometime in 1969 The Red Carriage was bought by a new owner and he renamed the place Daverthumps. It was open as Daverthumps for the better part of a year with us as the house band. One night we came to play and the place was locked up with a flyer posted on the front door stating the IRS had closed the club for unpaid back taxes WITH ALL OUR EQUIPMENT INSIDE! Well as was customary in Hometown Blues Band protocol was, in good times and in bad times when in doubt PARTY. So we all went to Curts appartment and had a party. At about 11pm the owner of Daverthumps showed up at the party and told us he had just finished breaking into the club and took all his belongings and was skipping town for parts unknown. He told us he left the back alley door open and we could go in and rescue our gear. He also invited us to help ourselves to anything else in the club we took a fancy to. So we moved the party down to Daverthumps. We packed up our gear and got it out of there then we came back for a " night cap " or two or three or four. We cleared out around day break.

Luck would have it that a club down on Pacific avenue called Ezmirelda's was looking for a band. We scored the gig. Ezmireldas was the seediest joint in Tacoma or Pierce County for that matter. It was a topless joint and was patronised by some pretty unsavory people. To us, heck! It was a gig! We made good money playing there. Especially, for me, when The Ravishing "Miss Angel" from Los Angeles would come through on a special appearance. Miss Angel was a strip tease artist. While I accompanied her on the drums. ( I had double bass drums), she would strip down to her G string with these tassled pasties. I'd be soloing, she'd be twirling those tassles in every direction and the patrons would throw money up on stage at her. Well some of the money would fly through the small mic. holes I had cut in the front of my bass drums. Miss Angel told me after her first show that any money that landed in my bass drums was mine to keep. So before the next show started I took a pocket knife and cut a huge hole in both of my bass drum heads. ( The 18th picture from the top shows my drums with the heads cut out. A ragged job at that). Somone gave me a bumpersticker that said "LET IT ALL HANG OUT" I stuck it inside one of my bass drums as a sort of tribute to Miss Angel. I was getting $80.00 a week playing at Ezy's and when Angel came to town I made even more. With that kind of income and job security I figured I could now afford to ask Sharon to marry me!

Sharon and I got married on May 2nd 1970. Sharon had a good job as advertising artist in the ad department at Peoples Department Store. Not long after we were married the band hit the road on a U.S . and Chittlin Circuit tour with a top 10 recording artist ( this is another whole story I'll write about someday.) Oh what the hell, I'll tell a bit of it now! One afternnon, I got a call from Far West Entertainment. They needed a blues band to tour the midwest and south US (Chittlin Circuit) as the back up band for Atco Records R&B recording artist R.B. Greaves. I got this call on a Friday afternoon right after all the guys had left my house where we had been practicing. Farwest needed an answer within 24 hours because the tour started three days later on Monday in Fort Wayne Indiana. The club owner where we were playing wouldn't let us out of our Contract, so we hit the road, for Indiana, right after our gig ended on Saturday night. We drove straight through non-stop from Tacoma Washington to Fort Wayne Indiana and arrived at the Kit Kat Club 1/2 hour before the gig started on Monday night.

Now imagine this..... Six hairy , funky road weary hippy musicians, a full PA System, a full size Hammond B3 organ with a Leslie speaker cabinet, a Fender Rhodes keyboard and satelite speaker system, a full set of drums with cymbals, hardware and a trap case, a bass guitar and bass amp with 2 huge speaker cabinets, a guitar amp, a bass guitar, a couple guitars, a tenor sax, an alto sax, a bass sax ( yes "bass" sax not a baitone), a trumpet, a flugal horn, two flutes and all of our luggage CRRRAAAMMMED into a 1950 International Travelall with the back panel doors tied together with a rope because it was too overloaded for the doors to latch and our 1960 Ford Econoline van equally over-stuffed.

After driving straight through with no sleep since the previous Friday night, we were exausted but keyed up to kick off our debut gig on the opening night of our U.S. Tour with ATCO recording star the famous Mr. R.B. Greaves.

Here's another mental image: We pulled up out front of the Kit Kat Club. The 1950 International Travelall had these big Peace Symbols rubbed into the side panels in the oxidized old original green paint and our 1960 Ford Econoline van had the faint image of the Pacific Northwest Bell telephone Company emblem still on the doors. We've got luggage tied to the roofs of our overstuffed jalopies... We must have looked like the "Hippy" version of the Beverly Hilbillys

We sonder into the club. looking like Henry Fonda's Seedy looking band of outlaws in "Once Upon A Time In The West". R. B. was sitting at the bar sipping what must have been his fifth or sixth Ron Rico and Coke. He'd been waiting there for most of the afternoon. He was thrilled to see us and ordered Ron Rico and Cokes for all of us. The drink of choice for R.B., this was to be the first of MANY rounds of Ron Rico Cokes to be provided to us by the generous R.B. The tour was just beginning.


We had good crowds at the Kit Kat Club and, tho we were jamming for the most part on RB's material since we'd had no rehearsal with him, audience response was great. RB just loved the band. The final night of that first gig turned out to be very interesting and a bit scary to say the least. As we were packing up our gear, RB approached the band members and explained the situation. The contract stipulated that the band would have a 3 piece horn section. We only had 2 horns. The club owner was refusing to pay RB for the gig. We're thinking "Great, here we are 2,000 miles from home with no money and now we're getting the shaft on our first engagement of the tour" . RB assured us that his management would take care of it. He told us to sit in the lounge after we pcked up and order a bunch of drinks because his management was sending some "gentlemen" to collect our pay and it woud take a few hours for them to fly in and come to the club.

We had been waiting, what seemed like, several hours when there was a loud banging on the front entrance door of the club. The owner went and unlocked the door and three very large, athletically built "gentlemen' , in three piece suits, came in and walked back to the office with the owner. (These guys looked like NFL linmen). They were only in the office for, I'd say 90 seconds when they came back out with our pay. We knew from that moment that when it came to high jinx from club owners, we had nothing to worry about.

Well, of course then we had to get a third horn player, so we wouldn't have a repeat of that situation. Enter our old multi-talented buddy, Terry Gunter.

Terry Gunter is a person that has perfect pitch and plays any instrument he lays his hands on. He had played drums, bass and baritone sax with Hometown in the past, We knew he would be the remedy to our situation, but we also knew that
1.) He didn't have his bari sax anymore.
2.) We needed him for the next gig and he would't have time to drive or take any kind of ground transportation systen and
3.) He was terrified of hights and would refuse to fly.

We called him and told him we needed him to get a horn and fly across the country and join us. By the grace of God , he agreed. He wasn't able to get there in time for the following engagement Indianapolis, but RB's manaement was able to renegotiate that contract so there was no problem. The next gig was Shreveport Louisianna. We picked up Terry at the airport. Being affraid of hights he had indulged himself in plenty of liquid courage en route. He was obviously feeling no pain when he disembarked the airplane. When we went to get his baggage at the baggage claim, we saw this 4-1/2 foot black plywood coffin on the baggage conveyer. Terry walked over and grabbed the two large galvinized handes on one side of it and pulled it off the conveyer. We were laughing our asses off. Terry said wait till you see and hear the bass saxiphone I bought. That's right, not a bari sax, but a bass sax! He scored it in a pawn shop but it had no case. He built the case out of plywood and painted it black. I had seen plenty of bari saxes but had never seen or heard a BASS sax. The horn was so big, the case he built looked like a coffin. We got stares from people everytime we moved that horn.

To be continued....

Photos and excerpts are not in perfect cronological order, but close.



Big George Barner and The Corvettes
1959 or1960

My cousin George Barner (dark suit) was Lead singer/
Front Man

Note: I am a few years younger than George, but I had my 1st band
"The Sultans" in 1959. There are no photos of The Sultans
I've got ROCK in my genes .



Billy with the Toffs 1966 age 19
These Ludwig drums were previously
owned by the drummer of The David Rose Orchestra



Billy and Rob Barner The Centrix
at The Gaslight



1964
Bob Poole, Ken Camp and Billy
The Centrix at The Gaslight



John Hagger (sax) & Billy setting up
for rehearsal 1964
( these are the Ludwig drums I bought from the
widow of the drummer of the David Rose Orchestra)



The Centrix 1965
L to R - Bob Gibbs, Steve Eckberg, Bob Poole,
Billy Barner, Rob Barner and Ken Camp



Billy on ROCK A GO-GO
TV Show 1964 or 65



Navy days



The Toffs 1966

L to R: Billy in back on drums, Jim McGregor, Doug Beckowitz,
Bud Brown, Kieth Wohlford and Mike Dahl



The Toffs 1966

LtoR Doug, Billy, Ron, Mike and Kieth



7th & Pacific 1966 aka The Toffs

L to R: Ron Lundsford, Mike Dahl,
Billy (behind Mike) Doug Beckowitz, Kieth Wohlford



7th & Pacific
aka Capt. Flyswat & The Cat's Pajama Band



Cat's Pajama Band Poster
Design & Silk screen by Bill Barner



Billy with Capt. Flyswat & The Cat's Pajama Band
(Photo by Lance Lambert)



The white sections of the teeth between the letters were
painted with florecent paint which looked really really FAR OUT
under black lights, especially when tripping on LSD (so I was told)
of course I had to take their word for it because I was tripping
on the other side of the bass drum playing it and couldn't see it.
(Design & Artwork by Bill Barner)



Porcelain Tabernacle 1968

L to R Billy Barner and Doug Beckowitz

Photo by Lance Lambert



Porcelain Tabernacle



Billy rehearsing at The Red Carriage 1968



Hometown Blues Band 1968

L to R Curt Southworth, Billy Barner, Doug Skoog, BJ Krett and Terry Gunter



Hometown 1968 or 69
L-R - Billy Barner, Doug Skoog, Curt Southworth and BJ Krett



L-R _ BJ Krett, Chuck Heinold, Doug Skoog,
Curt Southworth and Billy Barner



Billy playing at a Rock Festival in
Hometown Blues Band 1969



Billy singing and playing the blues
in Hometown Blues Band 1970



Hometown Blues Band 1969

L-R - BJ, Chuck, Billy, Doug and Curt



Billy & Sharon May 2, 1970

Our wedding day
Honeymoon Bound
Still happily married after 39 years this May 2nd 2009



Billy 1970 or 71 double kicks

I stuffed my motorcycle boots in between the bass drumsin front so it looked like I had my legs were stretched out.
I cut the front drum heads of my bass drums out with a pocket knife
one night when I was soloing behind "Miss Angel" (a famous stripper from L.A),
so the money they threw at her would land in my bass drums.
After she told me to keep any money that landed in my bass drums.



Hometown Blues Band 1971

L to R Curt Southworth, Billy Barner, Thom DeRosa, Doug Skoog,

Bud Brown & BJ Krett



Billy (not pictured) played in Muf in 1969 - 1970



Peaceable Lane 1972



Peaceable Lane 1972

L to R Upper Row Billy Barner, Terry Toporke, Charlie Harcus, Jay Thomas
L to R Lower Row Gail Long, Greg Buhre, Mark Swamberg and Charlie Foster



Peaceable Lane 1972



Billy in Peaceable Lane 1973



Jonah's Whale early 1970's

L to R Top Row Ken Rowland, Billy Barner, Chickenman, Glenn "Smoke" Urbank,Thom DeRosa, B.J. Krett Seated Tyrone Jones & Veronica Warren



Jonah's Whale 1974

L to R in back Billy Barner, Bill Kitchen, Mike Stowell, Glenn Thomas, Niel Vietenhans. In front Veronica Warren and Tyrone Jones



Billy in Kaye-Smith Studios 1973
with Jonah's Whale



Jonah's Whale 1976

L to R Upper Row Niel Veitenhans, Mike Stowell, Billy Barner and Bill Kitchen
L to R Lower Row Glenn Thomas, Tyrone Jones, Mike Jones



Jonah's Whale 1976



Billy 1977



1976
Jonahs Whale



Jonah's Whale 1978
Left to right
Billy Barner, Mike Jones, Chuck Williams, Tyrone Jones, Michael Stubblefield and Glenn Thomas



Jonah's Whale Maui 1979



1978 -79
Jonahs Whale



Billy with Jonah's Whale in Kona 1979



Jonah's Whale 1979
L to R Billy, Glenn, Tyrone, Michael and Mike



Jonah's Whale 1981



Jonah's Whale 1981
L to R Upper Row: William Hawkins, Tyrone Jones and Glenn Thomas
L to R Lower Row: Billy Barner, Michael Stubblefield and Roger Wood



Billy 1977



Jumbo Groove 1986
L to R Ron Gardner, Dudley Hill, Paul Gabrielson and Billy Barner



Jumbo Groove 1989
L to R
Ron Gardner, Jho Blenis, Billy Barner, Terry Jae and Dudley Hill



Grilled Mice
Mykel Spatz, Larry Curtis & Billy Barner




Baby Jones 1995-96
Top Row; Donny Booker, Tyrone "Baby" Jones
Bottom Row: Billy Barner and Glenn Thomas



Color Blue 1999 or 2000
Eric "Rico" Bauer, Billy Barner, Jim Adams, Craig Landron
and Sonny Schaaf



Color Blue 2000



The Doug Skoog T-Boy Neal Band
aka The T-Boy Neal Doug Skoog Band
2000
Clockwise from Top Left: Billy Barner, Laurie Johnson,
Les White, Doug Skoog and Tom " T-Boy " Neal Boyle



BBC Project late 90's early 00's
(No they aren't mug shots!)
Billy Barner, Tom Brain and Steve Cavanaugh



The Great Pretenders 1999 or 2000
Top: L to R
Charlie Hollis, Tom Brain, Jere Knutsen, Brad Cyrier
Bottom: L to R
Steve Cavanaugh, Ed Peterson, Ron Smith and Billy Barner



L to R:
Steve Cavanaugh, Tom Brain, Steve Vincent,
Charlie Hollis, Jere Knutsen, Ron Smith,
Brad Cyrier and Billy Barner


Top L to R:
Steve Vincent, Billy Barner, Ron Smith, Steve Cavanaugh
Bottom L to R:
Jere Knutsen, Dan Mohler, Charlie Hollis, Brad Cyrier


Billy at the Sawdust Days
Blues Festival in Oshkosh Wisconsin 2002



Blues Alliance
photo by John Jacobson



Blues Alliance at Doc Maynards 2006
photo by John Jacobson




Blues Alliance
photo by John Jacobson



Billy at David Lange Studio
recording "Two Things For Sure" session
with Blues Alliance 2005
photo by John Jacobson



Blues Alliance Promo
photo by John Jacobson




Billy at Sunbanks Blues Festival 2005



2005
Blues Alliance at Highway 99 Blues Club
photo by John Jacobson



2005
Doug Fulcher and Billy at Lange Studio
with Blues Alliance "Two Things For Sure" session
photo by John Jacobson



Blues Alliance at The Swiss



Nicole Fournier and her 3lb. Universe
Perfoming at The Thunder in The Sun Festival 2007
Billy in back on drums



Billy with B.I.G ( Blues Industry Giants)
at the Sunbanks Blues Festival 2007
Photo taken from stage left



The Galaxies 2008



The Galaxie's 2009



The Galaxie's 2009



The Galaxie's 2009



Blues Orbiters at The Rock Fish Anacortes 2008
L to R: Ron, Roger, Brian Billy and Dan



Billy with The Blues Orbiters 2008



The Tommy Wall Band
aka The Wicked Line
Doug Kearney, Billy Barner, Tommy Wall



Wedding Band
L to R Doug Skoog (off camera), Billy Barner, Scott Simmons, Martin Salinas, Mark Riley. (also appearing were Charyl Clark and Steve Sarandos)
Taken at Brian and Sarah's Wedding



Jammin at Skoog's
L to R Les White, Dean Riechardt, Billy Barner,
Randy Oxford and Steve Cavanaugh



The Blues Redemption
L to R : Billy Barner, Brian Feist, Joe Hendershot & Doug Skoog



Son Jack, Jr.& The Delta Hot House
at The Rock Fish Grill in Anecortes
(L-R Son Jack, Jr., BillyBarner, Michael Wild and Mark Davies)



Jerry Miller Band
at Doyle's in North Tacoma



Billy playing with Blues Redemption
at the SSBA "Back To Beale ST." competition
July 4, 2009
(Blues Redemption was the winning band and will advance to the
National Finals in Memphis in January 2010)

Name dropping.

Over the years and in my travels I have met some amazing and wonderful people and excellent musicians both locally and on tour at gigs, jam sessions, recording sessions and in exotic places like Hawaii, LasVegas, L.A. around the U.S. and in Canada.

Guitarists:

  • BJ Krett
  • Matt Gallagher
  • Dudley Hill
  • Jho Blenis
  • Bob Hill
  • Mark Riley
  • Mark Whitman
  • Kevin Cronins
  • Jo Johansen
  • Dean Riecherdt
  • Ron Smith
  • Steve Cavanaugh
  • Tom "T-Boy Neal" Boyle
  • Doug BecKowitz
  • Rich Dangel
  • Tom MacFarland
  • Greg Timmons
  • Robert Cray
  • Jesse Savage
  • Nicole Fournier
  • Rod Cook
  • Doug Kearny
  • Micky Thomas
  • C.D. Woodbury
  • Terry Bailey
  • Sammy Eubanks
  • Jerry Miller
  • Steven Stills
  • Bill Pease
  • Denny Weaver
  • 'Pat " RedBalls" Martin
  • Evan Groom
  • Ed"Wheatstraw"Taylor
  • Rick Thompson
  • Spencer Davis
  • Ned Netner
  • Fred Corpus
  • Billy McPhearson
  • Mark Swamberg
  • Billy Stapleton
  • Alice Stuart
  • Drake Levin
  • Bill Carr
  • Tim Hall
  • "Rockin" Rick Herskainin
  • Jim Valley
  • Nick Vigarino
  • Glenn Thomas
  • Jim Adams
  • Teddy Bellusci
  • George Benson
  • David Patterson
  • Roger Rogers
  • Richard Molina
  • Malcom Clark
  • Steve Bailey
  • Roger Williamson
  • Arthur Lee
  • Dan Taylor
  • Brian Lee
  • Doug Kearny
  • Billy Stoops
  • Lee Ann Travalia
  • Glen McCarty
  • Son Jack, Jr.
  • Brian Fiest
  • Martin Salinas
  • Anthony Estrada
  • Roger Enders
  • Tim Sherman
  • Kimball Conant
  • David Brewer
  • Peter Damon

Bassists:

  • Ken Camp
  • Bob Gibbs
  • Mike Dahl
  • Jay Mabin
  • Kurt Braime
  • Red Kelly
  • Mike Cox
  • Jeff Johnson
  • Kieth "Wolfman" Wohlford
  • Joe Parker
  • "Little"Bill Engelhardt
  • Tyrone Jones
  • Terry "Jae" Willet
  • Paul Gabielson
  • Tom Brain
  • Sam Carlson
  • Dan Mohler
  • Dave Dickerson
  • Jess La Follette
  • Rick Burton
  • Joe Hendershot
  • Chuck Hienold
  • Terry Gunter
  • Bill Kitchen
  • Donny Booker
  • Buck Ormsby
  • Mark Lindberg
  • Paul Buck
  • Kenny McGowen
  • Kim Workman
  • Larry Landis
  • Jim Kessler
  • Steve OFarrell
  • Pat Fereday
  • Barbara Blue
  • Tommy Wall
  • Mike Stubblefield
  • Gary Way
  • John Lee
  • Terry Taporky
  • Thom DeRosa
  • Hank Yanda
  • Roger Smith
  • Eric Bauer
  • Les "Wild Child" White
  • Bill Charlton
  • Lissa Ramaglia
  • Chuck Naubert
  • Mark Davis
  • Jesse Rogers
  • Timmer Blakley
  • Don Harvey
  • Bobby "D" DiChiro

Keyboardist:

  • Bill Barner, Sr.
  • Rob Barner
  • Roger Williams
  • Jim McGregor
  • Doug Skoog
  • Barney McClure
  • Scott Lindstrom
  • Charlie Harcus
  • Horace Silver
  • Chris Menzel
  • Glen "Smoke" Urbank
  • Mike Jones
  • Roger Wood
  • Cory Lerios
  • Sernie Solidarius
  • Sonny Schaaf
  • Rick Ulski
  • Russ Adams
  • Dick Powel
  • Steve Vincent
  • Jeff Morgan
  • Ed Peterson
  • Mike "Jop" Jaap
  • Sandy Harvey
  • Paul Richardson
  • Buck England
  • Bruce Wold
  • Don Molander
  • Mykel Spatz
  • Mike Stowell
  • Tim Hill
  • Chris James
  • Doug Johnson
  • Barry Torence
  • Eric Robert
  • Steve Thorpe

Sax Players:

  • John Hagger
  • Steve Eckburg
  • Curt Southworth
  • Joe Brazil
  • Billy McPhearson
  • Greg Buhre
  • Terry Gunter
  • Jay Thomas
  • Denny Goodhew
  • Niel Nietenhans
  • Phil "Chickenman" Boguzewski
  • "The Doctor" Chuck Williams
  • William Hawkins
  • "Greasy" Jim Pribbenow
  • Tom "Zuke" Mazuka
  • "Mocow" Craig Landron
  • Steve Sarandos
  • Cheryl Clark
  • Ron Gardner
  • Mark Marush
  • Jim Boggs
  • Art Shore
  • Pete Lira
  • Jim Coile
  • Scottie Harris
  • Angelo Gerrero
  • Mark Eubanks
  • Ron Rustadt
  • Jere Knutsen
  • Tom Harmon

Trumpet, Flugalhorn and Cornet Players:

  • Bud Brown
  • Jay Thomas
  • Frank Ani
  • Mike Stowell
  • Ken Rowland
  • Tracey Hooker

Trombone Players:

  • Jeff Mason
  • Charlie Foster
  • Randy Oxford
  • Mike Stowell
  • Jim Stevens

Blues Harp Players:

  • Jay Mabin
  • Doug Skoog
  • Ronnie Wolf
  • Jeff Mason
  • Laurie Johnson
  • Dick Powell
  • Paul Green
  • Steve Bailey
  • Paul DeLay
  • Charlie Musslewhite
  • Brian Lee
  • Dan Newton
  • Michael Wilde
  • Anthony Estrada
  • Neal Fallen
  • Mark DuFresne
  • Lloyd Meadows

Female Vocalists:

  • Karen Lovely

Male Vocalists:

  • Lloyd Meadows

RubBoard:

  • Lynn Grigsby
  • Lloyd Meadows




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