It's hard to believe I've had the pleasure of rocking with BONE for the past 30 years, albeit, with some extended hiatuses. As the club DJ at the old Whirl Inn, I would start to warm up the crowd with two marble-top Kenwood turntables from the booth around 7:30, prior to bands taking the stage around 9 PM -- 45 minute sets, then I'd cover the 15-minute breaks. Club DJ to Radio DJ to Mobile DJ to Emcee, and I was fortunate to sing with a number of great bands!

BONE and an Evanston-based band, Zolton, became the two "house band" favorites, playing the Whirl once a month, sometimes more. Zolton went through some personnel changes, and eventually disbanded, probably due to members leaving the E-Town, when the Oil Boom went bust. I had an open invitation to sing with BONE as a guest vocalist and did so, a time or two, before relocating to Casper to broaden my horizons in the radio broadcasting biz. from 1993 to 1995. 

Prior to relocating to Casper, I had spent some time jamming with a band started by Rob Dunning, with his brother, Mort, Anthony Elardi, Terry & Rick Morton and Tracy Brown.

Later, I believe May through September of 1989 and 1990, (though it could have been 1990 & 1991) I was invited to become the lead vocalist for "Power Drive" by my pal, Mel Orchard, to join him on guitar and vocals, along with the Dayton Bros., Mike on keyboards (and everything else) and Greg on drums, with Pete Proffit on bass. Power Drive changed to "The Basement Bandits," since most of our rehearsals took place in Rex & Katie Dayton's basement; they were very supportive of the sons' musical pursuits. We could have used some more vocal power in Power Drive, as Mel & I did almost all of the singing, but without a true lead guitar, we were able to pull off some pretty impressive cover versions and a couple of very good originals.

So, I had kind of lost touch with the BONE boys, having our own band in Evanston and then moved to Casper, where my singing was relegated to hosting karaoke at Armor's Silver Fox Lounge, which was a blast -- they had a great selection and I was able to fulfill some bucket list items in singing songs I'd always wanted to sing with a band, but couldn't, because these tunes were not performed by bands I'd sang with. 

We became quite versatile in Power Drive, but not to the level of BONE, but then again, BONE was a full-time band comprised of very accomplished musiciains who had played together for decades, wher Power Drive

I returned to Evanston