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1996, Rodney Johnson Band, I always had a great time working with this band… Rodney always had great players on his gig. The bass player and drummer position was always a revolving door, some of the guys I remember working with are: Cody Carlson/Drums, Jessie Andratti/Drums, Randy Panda/Drums, Rockin’ Ron Thompson/Drums, Tyrone Starks/Drums & Vocals, Ronnie Ellis/Bass, Wayne Six/Bass, Chuck Rainey/Bass(who played with everybody in the world, but is probably best known for recording on most of the Steely Dan records), Michael Lee/Lead,Rhythm Guitar/Vocals, me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Paul Harrington/Harmonica, and Rodney Johnson/Vocals. |
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Danny Melton/Keyboards & Vocals, Richard Bannister/Bass & Vocals, Mike Lang/Drums and me/Guitar & Vocals |
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Jerry LaCroix, formerly of Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Edgar Winter’s White Trash, Rare Earth, and the Boogie Kings out of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The members of that band were: me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Martin McCall/Drums, Mark Austin/Bass & Vocals, Rex Mauney/Keyboards & Vocals, Ken Stock/Keyboards. |
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John Keaton Band, Chip Abernathy/Drums, John Smith/Sax (used to work with Edgar Winter’s White Trash, Toto, The Boogie Kings and who knows who else) Ken Stock/Keyboards, John Keaton/Vocals & Bass, and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar. John has to be one of the best vocalists I’ve ever worked with and it was always a good time working with this band. |
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Karen Bella Band, high energy rock and roll/blues band with Karen Bella/Vocals, Mark Austin/Bass & Vocals, Martin McCall/Drums, Paul Harrington/Harmonica, Keith Stone/Sax and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar. |
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Alibi, with Mike Hamilton/Keyboards & Vocals (formerly with Point Blank), Katrina Hamilton/Vocals, Wayne Six/Bass & Vocals, and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, the drummer position was a revolving door at times, so we had guys like: Ken Murray alias Nardo/Drums, Nick Oshoa/Drums, Rockin’ Ron Thompson/Drums, Gene Glover/Drums. This band with Gene Glover playing drums played a show in Deep Ellum as Bo Diddley’s rhythm section. |
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Charles Stewart & True Colors,
another blues/rock band that I had a lot of fun working with consisted of: Charles
Stewart/Vocals & Guitar, Chip Abernathy/Drums, Tolbert Pitman/Bass & Vocals, after Tolbert quit, we got Freddie Pol/Bass & Vocals, Darby Orr/Keyboards & Vocals, and me/Lead & Rhythm
Guitar.

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Info, was a rock band that played more hotel gigs than anything else…I had a lot of fun working with them. The band consisted of: Patty Sterling/Vocals, Billy King/Bass & Vocals who was later replaced by Ronnie Jordan/Bass & Vocals, Mike Lang/Drums, Richard Theisen/Keyboards & Vocals, and me/Guitar. |
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1984, Started playing guitar for song writer, keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist, Bobby Whitlock who
worked with Eric Clapton on the Derek & the Dominos album, Bonnie and Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton & Friends album, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison and others…the band was based out of Ft. Worth, TX and the members were: me/Lead, Rhythm and Slide Guitar, Bill Randolph/Bass & Vocals (formerly of Nevada Bros. Band and Point Blank), later on Eddie Marshall (formerly with The Larry Franklin Band played Bass, Jonny (Rosebud) Doughty/Drums, David Milsap/Lead & Rhythm
Guitar/Vocals. Bobby kept telling me I was going to have my chance to meet Eric
Clapton, but unfortunately it never happened. It was a pleasure and an honor
to be able to work with Bobby and the rest of the guys in this band.




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1979, I started working with The Larry Franklin Band, which was a high energy country rock band. We started off at a club in Denison, TX called Lucille’s, and after a few months of rehearsal we went on the road playing coast to coast.
The members of that band were: Larry Franklin/Fiddle/Guitar/Vocals, Ray McCarthy/Keyboards/Vocals, Jeff Williams/Drums, me/Lead, Rhythm & Slide Guitar, Stacy Starnes/Bass, Gary Jackson/Lead & Rhythm Guitar/Vocals and Wayne Perrin/FOH Sound Engineer. Eventually Stacy quit and was replaced by Eddie Marshall.



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1976, I started working on an album project with long time friend (who I’ve known since I was 12 yrs. Old) Gordon Eatherly at Pollaro’s Recording Studio in Denison, TX. Gordon and I wrote a lot of songs together and with Joe Pollaro’s permission started laying tracks down at his studio using Sid Whatley/Drums, me on Guitar, Jimmy Lowrance/Guitar, Jim Choate/Bass, Danny Melton and Ray McCarthy/Keyboards & Vocals and Gordon Eatherly/Vocals & Acoustic Guitar. Sid and I both engineered the project. When we finished it we started playing gigs around Sherman, Denison, Dallas and Oklahoma as the Rusty Gordon Band which consisted of everyone who played on the album except Sid and Ray. We enlisted long time session drummer Mike Webster to start playing gigs with us.
Later on the album was mailed to WBAP Radio in Dallas where they were holding a contest called the Best Bands in Texas. We won a place on that album with a song we wrote called “Going Back to Texas”. Later on we submitted the tape to Q102 Radio in Dallas and won a place on the More Texas Crude album with a song we wrote called, “Can’t See the Ends”. Even though we had some radio station recognition, we weren’t making any money. So, I started working for Pollaro Multi Advertising Productions as an engineer and a guitarist for a short time.





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Shortly after that Dale introduced me to a guitar player named Jimmy Lowrance who he said played with a style similar to mine. We had a great time jamming and ended up playing together in a blues/rock band called Nevada Brothers.
Through the approximately 4 almost 5 years that the band was together the personnel
changed a few times. The band started out with Dale Bolin/Drums, Ronnie Roth/Vocals,
Jimmy Lowrance/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Steve Dupuis/Lead, Rhythm & Slide Guitar, can’t remember the bass players name, and Danny Melton/Keyboards & Vocals.



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After the Spellbinders, at age 15, I started playing guitar for another band in Sherman called, “Love Is”. I thought it was a stupid name for a band, but we must have been pretty good because we won a battle of the bands contest, and beat out some of Sherman’s best bands that had been playing together for a long time. The members of that band were: Dale Bolin/Drums, Bob Maret/Vocals and Guitar, Danny Melton/Keyboards and Vocals, Skip Tumbleson/Bass and Vocals. We frequently played at the Sherman and Perrin Youth Centers, the Municipal Building in Sherman, Tanglewood at Lake Texoma, and a place called the Sputnik Club in Cartwright, Okla., without our parents knowledge. Glad we’re still alive after working there!
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My first band to play guitar in was called The Spellbinders. We were all in the 7 th grade except for the drummer who was a year older than the rest of us. The members of that band were: John Blystone/Guitar, Roger Marshall/Bass, Marc Jaco/Vocals (who later took Rogers place on the bass), and David Dennis/Drums. We played sock hops, cottilion dances, the Youth Center in Sherman and at Perrin AFB and the Perrin Recreational Area at Lake Texoma. John, David and I still go out and eat lunch together occasionally and David and I work together on Texas Dept. of Transportation informational/training videos. |
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