Rockin' '50s Fest Green Bay,WI

Green Bay Wisconsin

With my buddy Pat Morrow. Not only was Pat cool enough to bring a vintage kit for me to use at the festival, but he customized the front bass drum head as well. What a CAT!

Onstage during RCR's set.

Chomp!

Hijinx with Veikko and the doghouse bass.

Larry and Lorrie Collins, aka The Collins Kids. Child stars of the 1950s, they wrote their own tunes, sang in the most unbelievable harmonies, and Larry picked a wicked doubleneck lead guitar. They played a great set at the Festival.

Doubleneck summit! The Collins Kids with fellow Mosrite devotee Deke Dickerson.

Bobby Crafford onstage with Sonny Burgess and the Pacers. The Pacers were one of the original bands on Sun Records, and still tour the world over today.

With (from left) rockabilly vet Glen Glenn, R&B legend Jimmy McCracklin, and guitarist Gary Lambert. Glen and Gary have been playing together since they were teenagers in the 1950s, and had a big hit with "Everybody's Movin'" (Springsteen covered it). I played a gig with them in May, 2001 at Elvis and Priscilla's Honeymoon house in Palm Springs.

With Bobby Trimble, drummer for Big Sandy and the Fly Right Boys.

With Country singing legend Narvel Felts. Narvel recorded for a number of labels in the '50s and '60s, including Sun and Sonic, before finding his niche on the Country music scene in the 1970s. His emotionally charged voice is a thing to behold.

The great Claude Trenier. Along with Louis Prima, The Treniers were one of the hottest rockin' acts of the '50s, and they were just as influential.The group's leaders, identical twins Claude and Cliff Trenier, sang with voices so similar that it gave the music an unusual stereo effect ­ years before vocal doubling became a popular recording technique. After playing across the street from the Treniers for a summer in the resort town of Wildwood, New Jersey, a young Bill Haley was so influenced by their sound, that he decided to take his Western Swing band, The Saddlemen, into an R&B direction. As a result, you have the birth of Bill Haley's Comets, and the dawn of what we now consider to be rock 'n' roll.

The Treniers onstage in Green Bay, with Claude still fronting the band over 50 years later!

Man, they get started young out here in the Midwest!

With my man Scott Roller, lead singer of the Saddle Tramps, barber to the stars and all around swell guy.

With Hyperions drummer and smooth cat Javier "Suavier" Estrella. We based the RCR song "Walkin' Like Brando" on the Hyperions' original.

The "colorful" crowd that a Vegas Rockabilly festivals attracts!