Does anybody really want to read this? . . .

I guess I knew from a pretty early age that I wanted to be a musician. I played trumpet in junior high and high school but soon thought guitars were much cooler and playing in a band would be a great way to get attention from the girls. I wasn't much good at sports so I knew this was the only hope for me.
My dad played a stand-up "doghouse" bass with my uncle. We had an old guitar in the house and I kind of just taught myself to play. My moms family was a bunch of eccentric but lovable and interesting people. Her brother Swen played numerous instruments, my mom played guitar a bit and they all played together. My favorite uncle holds a great degree of love and honor for me in my musical career. The name Oscar Palm will bring a smile to the face of a lot of older folks who can remember him. He was an excellent accordionist. He played as the feature attraction with many sidemen all his life. To quote Jim "Champ" Christianson: "I wore out a lot of shoes dancing to Oscar's music". His music brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people and was greatly loved by many fans. When Oscar walked in a room, it was like someone turned on a light.
I played guitar in my first band in high school: "The Last Generation". We were kind of psychedelic pop or something like that. We took it pretty serious or at least I did. In college I played with the original version of the Genuine Wizzard Band. It was during this time that I first began playing music with a cat called Danny Haskin. He was the best guitar player around and it was the beginning of what was to be a "long strange trip" of playing music together. After our drummer left I switched from guitar to drums and we continued Genuine Wizzard as a 3 piece "power trio" with Tom Hotchkiss on bass, Dan on guitar and me on drums. I'm sad to say that both of these great musicians and friends are now gone from this Earth.
Later the band evolved into "Amber Current" and then "The Last Chance Dance Band". Danny and I also played for a time with "Red Man, White Man" and "Bitterroot". I also played for a while with "The Stoned Redneck Band" featuring Rick Trulson. In Fargo I played with the Paula Day Show and Carol Miller and the Country Four. In Grand Forks during college there was a band I can't remember the name. Back in Williston I played with "The Catalinas" featuring the legendary Claudi Florez. In the mid 80's I joined up with an existing band called "Southfire" and we had some great years together.
Later Danny and I re-grouped and with my wife's encouragement tried out a drummer/singer named Kyle Baarstad. I've been with the cat ever since. We're going on our tenth year as partners and friends.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. We just try to put out the best music we can and try to play what people mainly want to hear and dance to. We now are lucky to have a very talented guitarist/bassist/singer Brent Corbin who has been doing a fantastic job with us. We feel that we are really on track and excited about some new tunes and some new places we'll be playing. I feel we've got a really nice combination of talent, enthusiasm and compatibility that is really hard to find.
For this and much more I am very thankful to our Creator who gives us whatever talent we've got.