In 1959
I was working at Boeing and looking for a way to quit and get a job
drumming.
I met a guy at work who had a friend that was a member of the
Adventurers.
He told the band he knew a guy who had drums and a meeting was set. The
deal was that they were the back-up band for Jockey John Stone and he
was
headed for American Band Stand. I played several jobs with them but was
out of my league at that time. At a job out in the boon-docks they were
pushing me to "get with it" and I stuck a stick through the snare. The
rest of the night was a bust as far as I was concerned and I think for
them also.
As I heard a
short
time later after the "Payola investigation" began, the Band Stand deal
was off when Stones record dropped way down.
I left them a
short
time later and joined a group that was started by a guy named Ramirez.
Don Gardner,
May
2007
Little Bill
Englehart
sang the vocals on "Louie Louie" with the Adventurers.
Bill Hahn and I
played
together until 1979 when he moved to California, where he died in about
1980-81. We had a club band, mostly trio, called "The Classics"
with
a piano player named Dorin Robinson. We were together from 1967 to
1979.
There is no relationship to the other band on this site named the
"Classics",
aka "CFUN Classics" 1962-1966.
Art Pease,
Drums
1959 - 1960
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Last
Update: 12 January 2019
Credits:
Seattle
Area Bands, Jeff Miller, Darryl
Riffero,
Brady Anderson, Little Bill Engelhart, Don Gardner, Art Pease, Carolyn
(Berner) Yadon), Tammy Valley, Malcolm Kennedy, Bill Engelhart
