A bit of my visual history. Every picture has a story.There's a prize for identifying the younger versions of me in some of the
these pix.
Grand Hotel Dance Orchestra - 2000.
How bands dressed in the late 60s - early 70s.
Styles had changed by the early 90s. Hot Rod Chevy.
We wore sneakers.
Why I moved to Minnesota from Miami in mid December, 1974.
This Hammond beauty weighs 300# less than my BV.
Can't beat the F-horn.
Sometimes there's a lot of counting.
CATS. Scariest thing I've ever faced as a trumpet player.
Early 80s and and playing swing - still in sneakers.
The room's not empty because of me.
And then the steel player picked up his bari . . .
I knitted that mitten . . . I mean mute.
Can you guess the holiday?
Lowering of the flag at Yellowstone.
Longest time I ever spent with a band.
My second duo. The young are sooooo optimistic.
Sandra Lee and the Velvets. A southern MN legend.
Me and my Reynolds Contempora. Thanx Rex.
I'm actually not sad. It's just heavy.
Sooooo . . . I had to miss a one nighter. They rolled my Hammond B
out into the street while unloading the trailer.
IN THE RAIN !!!