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Sierra Madre, CA. 05/20/06. Image property of Dave Clarke.
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Lisa and me at the Elvis Birthday Bash. I think I see him in the Balcony. 01/08/06. Image property of Kista Cook.
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Lisa Finnie and the band name du jour. Left to right it's John McDuffie, George Friend, John Palmer, Lisa and me. The Annual Elvis Birthday Bash at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood 01/08/06. Image property of Dave Clarke.
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590 x 600 seemed like a good idea at the time. 5/5/2005.
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Dazed and confused at the Cafe Boogaloo, Hermosa Beach. 12/10/04. Image property of Colin Miller.
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Rockin' with Rosie Flores. Adams Ave. Street Fair, San Diego. 09/25/04. Image property of Marie Provost.
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All tuxed up and ready to go. Casual at the Proud Bird, a restaurant near LAX with a great collection of airplanes and flying memorabilia. 6/26/04.
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On the set of Ready, Steady, Go. Not really, but dig all the old vox amps. It's the Gram Parsons Fest. Played here with Honky Tonk Train. That's Bill Maresh, Jane Allingham and Mike "Soupy" Sessa. Joshua Tree, CA. Septmeber 2002.
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Long hike thru the desert to the Gram Parsons Fest at Joshua Tree, CA. Fall 2002.
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Radio Ranch Straight Shooters. Left to right that's Doug Freeman, Dave Strother, Laura Kass, Paul Greenstein, George Edward, me, and Chaz Smith. Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles. 1/2/01
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Radio Ranch Straight Shooters. Left to right that's Doug Freeman, Dave Strother, Laura Kass, Paul Greenstein, George Edward, me, and Chaz Smith. Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles. 1/2/01
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Edwing's Barnstormers. Brentwood Artwalk, Fall, 2001. From left to right, that's Edwing playing a harp thing, Giovanni Nickens playing drums, The immortal Cal Bezemer playing piano with his right hand and organ with his left hand, me playing bass, Don Bell sitting in on soprano saxophone.
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Edwing Sankey; incredible jazz guitar player. Some BBQ joint in Lake Perris, CA. Fall 2001.
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James Intveld at the Dixie Belle. Los Angeles. 8/18/00.
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Mike Turner, James Intveld, Shawn Nourse and me at the Dixie Belle. Los Angeles. 8/18/00.
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8 x 10 seemed like a good idea at the time. 1999.
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Combo Au Go Go at Liquid Kitty from an LA Times article. Alex Schultz, Guitar; Jerry Angel, Drums; Ralph Rickert, Trumpet; and me where the bass belongs, in the back. DAMIEN MAKE ME ANOTHER OMEN! Los Angeles circa 1999.
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Jammin' with Gene. Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, 1998.
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On tour with Candye Kane, jamming at a friend's house in Seattle with Sue "Forgot my Beehive" Palmer and Steve Geller. July, 1998.
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Monterey Blues Festival with Candye Kane. Yup this is the same stage that Jimi Handrix burned his guitar on. 6/27/98
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Sue and I are checking the anatomical correctness of a European mannequin while Steve Geller looks on, getting ready to jump in. It's all part of the show baby! The Mixx in Ternheuzen, Holland, 5/1/98.
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With Candye Kane and Sue Beehive Palmer somewhere in Europe, April 1998.
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With Candye Kane somewhere in Europe, April 1998.
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Trying to play drums at soundcheck. Jeff Ross (awesome guitar player) is playing my bass, Sue "Beehive" Palmer is trying to ignore us, and Candye Kane is oogling Jeff. La Palot Palot, Montbelliard, France, 4/11/98.
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Eddie Perez, James Intveld, and me. Raining outside, roof is leaking, still having a great time. I remember seeing both Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds at this club in 1984. The Decade, Pittsburgh. 3/9/98
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The Incontinentals; Me, Laura Kass and Doug Freeman. Los Angeles, 1997.
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Farina, sometime in 1995 or '96. Woody Jackson (Useless Playboys, Friends of Dean Martinez) playing guitar, and Jenny Homer (Downey Mildew) singing.
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My dad Rodney on the cover of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra program. September 1985. Image property of Ben Spiegel.
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Here's a period piece. Pretty close to "Hall of Douchebags" quality (www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/index.php). What's up with the hat? And vest? Hittin' the big time on the blues scene in Pittsburgh. That's Howard Smith, Mike Sallows, my sister Lucy Van Sickle, Butch Crisafio, and young me. Early 1982.
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Rodney returning home to Toronto while on tour with the Pittsburgh Symphony. This is the picture from the New Bedford Sunday Standard-Times article on hometown boy done good. 12/8/63.
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Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra with William Steinberg. My pops Rodney is the guy with the big bushy beard in the back right. Pittsburgh 1971.
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My dad, young Rodney Van Sickle, serious as can be in black horn rims and white bow tie. Detail from George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. 1957.
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George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. 1957.
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My great great great grandfather. He's my mother's father's mother's father's father (honest), William Henning, born 1819 in Prussia. He played bass in the Preston (Ontario, Canada) String Orchestra.
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