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JOE KELLY - Vocals - After many years as an opening act at CBGB's
and his miserable failure in getting all of the stickers off the walls, Joe knew that he was through with NYC's Punk scene and refocused his energies on Blues/Rock music. So he packed up his belongings and moved to the center of the genre's musical universe to network with other rising stars. As it turns out, Weehawkin, NJ is a tough place to get noticed because there are so many talented musicians and not enough gigs to go 'round. Not knowing where to turn, a desperate Joe Kelly answered Jack Butler's personal ad in the Village Voice, and when it turned out that he could also sing, Joe was asked to front the band.
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ERIC SCHIEBLER - Guitar/Vocals -One too many car thefts landed Eric Schiebler in New Jersey's Bonnie Brae correctional institution. As fate would have it, he was befriended there by "Eddie the Janitor", a kindly old sole who took the youth under his wing and gave him his first guitar. After realizing the boy's natural talent for the blues, Eddie cultivated the emerging bluesman and put him back on the road to recovery. After a brief tour of his homeland, Mississippi, Eric is now back where he belongs - Playing guitar in NJ and meeting with his parole officer as scheduled.
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BOBBY EMERSON - Drums -After being thrown out of the R.L. Johnson Elementary School in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Bobby found work as a dishwasher at the then unheard of Stone Pony. It was there that he received his well-publicized musical exposure. As the story goes, a freak lighting accident maimed the drummer for the national touring act "Moondog and the Howlin' Blues". Bobby an aspiring but inexperienced drummer, was asked to sit in. Subsequently, Bobby became a highly regarded session and fill-in man. Seen by Jack Butler personally in May of 1992, Bobby was signed immediately to be the backbone of the fledgling project.
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GEORGE PIERRO - Bass -Having his legs pinned under tons of rubble from a cave-in deep within a coal mine in Tennessee, George had a vision that would change his life forever. He knew that if he could survive this ordeal, he could become a successful Tennessee Long Shore Tuna Fisherman. The very thought kept him alive when all others lost hope. He was rescued twenty minutes later and bought a fishing boat with the money he made from his numerous television appearances on Oprah. Tuna fishing was harder than he ever imagined, so he asked the locals what he was doing wrong. They told him "Boy, you needs to go after Bass and not Tuna." Not knowing that Bass was a fish, George began to study music and later played with such famous acts as The Manson Family, Tennessee Lamont Walker and Nashville Nelly Johnson before joining Jack Butler.
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BOB FOX - Guitar/Vocals -Born into a white, middle-class family in deep Georgia, Bob was tragically orphaned at the tender age of five when his parents failed to return from their first hot air balloon excursion. Placed in the G.W. Carver Home for Wayward Boys, Bob overcame adversities such as juvenile arthritis, whooping cough and chronically flat feet. In 1983, after enduring seven years of torturous, non-stop AM radio at the home, Bob decided enough was enough. Looking for an alternative musical lifestyle, Bob threw caution to the wind and jumped a freight train to Mississippi. There at the Red Rooster Bar and Grease Pit, he first hooked up with Eric Schiebler. Realizing their common interest in early blues recording, the two quickly became friends. Eric soon gave Bob the original, worn, flat-top acoustic guitar that "Eddie the Janitor" had given him so many years before...the rest, shall we say, is JB history.
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