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Contents of the 1996 Rockabilly Pages
I try to remember this:
Don't try to describe a Kiss concert if you've never seen it; don't ever forget that you just might wind up being wrong. (Jimmy Buffett)
Rockabilly Rebel Weekend
Contents of just this page:
Welcome
Band Lists
Better writers than I.... Rocket J, Del Villarreal
Link for David Loehr's James Dean Galllery in Fairmount, IN.
Fountain Square Theatre
Peter Scanlon
links to the many other RRW pages at this website.
In The Beginning...
Rockabilly Rebel Weekend, a.k.a. Fairmount '96, November 7-10, the fourth annual Rockabilly Rebel Weekend is history. Don't despair if you weren't there. This site is the next thing to being there... unless someone makes a video.
Sorry, but the one pic I don't have is Scrappin' Jim doing a somersault off the dumpster of the Dollar Inn, stark raving nude. I love it when the shy babies cut loose! (Kazu danced for the first time in his live-long life!) And did you miss the jam session at the White Castle where Slick Andrews of the Mean Gabardines from Cleveland [phone (216) 696-7773,] the Swingin' Demons from Flint, Michigan and assorted friends wailed for a couple of hours? The customers fled in panic, but the street people stayed to enjoy it with the rebels. Many thanks to the kind Swingin' Demon Rockin' Rudy (now of the Starlight Drifters) for filling in the Demons details.
The Band List!
EMCEE: Ken Mottet ********** DJ Joe D
Thursday, Nov. 7, Early Bird Welcome Party is now on the Thursday Band Page.The lineup there is:
The Bel Airs
Swingin' Demons
Truly Lover Trio
The Blue Moon Boys
Notes about Friday's Bands have their own separate page too. You can easily link back to this page when you have read about the Friday bands. Here is a list of Friday's players:
Friday, November 8
The Slippin' Slacks
Nobody'sBusiness
The Swing Rays
The Duvals
Three Blue Teardrops
The Ranch Girls and the Ragtime Ramblers
The Big Six
Saturday and Sunday are on separate pages too, as you remember. I did leave the Saturday lineup on this page for those in a tearing hurry.
Saturday, November 9
The Twilight Ramblers
The Vibro Champs
Rocket 88
The Atomics
Wayne Hancock
High Noon
Sonny George
Ronnie Dawson
Sunday, November 10, Bye, Bye Brunch 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Lots of pictures from Sunday, The Morning After. Yep, we let our hair down, and no one said they minded having their picture shown here. What good sports!
Hugs and kisses to all the wonderful rebels from this weekend. Well, maybe not to those five cranky folks. (Wolf image from the Bottletone's CD, Corn Rampin'.)
Thank You David Loehr for Rockabilly Weekend '96, the Largest Greatest Rockingest Swingingest Shakingest Original US Rockabilly Festival!
Our host, David Loehr, calls the crowd a "crazed band of fifties fanatics from all over the planet, in a weekend of rockabilly insanity." Hope you were there. David's James Dean Memorial Gallery is at 425 North Main Street, Fairmount, Indiana, 46928. Phone (317) 948-3326. Lenny Prussack has his nostalgia store there too.
Fountain Square Theatre
This event's venue, Fountain Square Theatre has its own website. It is smashing! The building is a semi-restored 1920s era theatre with an attached 1950s diner (breakfast, lunch and dinner in the diner,) where the enployees worked 16 hour days and longer catering to our every whim. Not many employees could have stood up under the pressure, and we all owe them enormous appreciation.
The full-size stage was clearly visible from all areas of the room. There was plenty of room for dancing and mingling. It's easily three times the size of Marion's location last year.
The giant antiques store specializing in 50's furniture, clothes and collectibles within the building stayed open for us all the hours we were there. We were made very welcome.
Jenny Watts and her sweetie, Matt Shaffer! What a cute pair of Rockabillies! Long may they rock. They came to the James Dean birthday party on February 8, as well as the Blue moon Boys-Swing Ray double bill at Fountain Square on February 22. They dance as well as any couple ever has! Update: Later on they got married , and still are as happy as ever.
Happy Smiling People
Awesome! Only five grumpy people in the whole mix! We are all friends for life now. These are the nicest people in the world, all gathered in one spot. Will you find yourself on here? Do you remember what you were doing? Are the bruises healed yet?
You deserve to hear more about this, so subscribe to Rocket J's 
Joanne Van Vranken's great magazine, Rhythm & Roots Reviewvia Joanne's Rockabilly Riot web page. Joanne lists more Rockabilly web pages in her issue #10. I'm amazed. I was a total Rockabily virgin 'til I saw David's ad for this weekend, and you can tell that from every word I write.
Del Villarreal is a hard-working DJ and reviewer who writes for some awesome rockabilly mags, has his own radio show, Go Kat Go, in Michigan. He's done a lot for the genre. He's kind to newcomers, too.
Screamin' magazine had a laden and busssssssssyyyyy photographer there every minute, and between him and Ken Mottet, you should be reading in-depth coverage from a guy point-of-view.
Peter Scanlon is making some web pages so we can learn to make our pages easier for the folks who have to depend on that software that reads the page to blind people. If you make pages, visit Peter Scanlon's accessibility pages.
Pete's pic, with Rocket J, is in the photo album.
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