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Bill,

what ever happened to Hokie?

like the site. lots of fun reads 'bout the BR scene back when we were at klsu. A good way to burn some time at work.

ahhh the old days... lots o fun

later

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Last saw you in Kansas City in summer of 2005 when you guys played at The Hurricane. My wife and I had an absolute blast. I've been following you guys since the 1980's but it was her first time to get Cowboy Punk'd and she loved it � even when your road manager was dancing with her and swung her into the bandstand!

We spoke briefly that night about doing a gig in KC and unfortunately, not long after that Katrina hit and the world has been pretty crazy since then. I'm still an active reservist in the Navy and got mobilized to New Orleans (what a sad mess) and as you can tell by the subject line I'm now in Afghanistan. All in all its not that bad but we could sure use you guys down here for some morale. Fortunately, both my IPOD's are jammed full of Dash so it helps me maintain my sanity. I should be returning to the states sometime in spring of 2008 and my Auburn buds (don't hold it against me) are planning a welcome home bash at Lake Martin, near Kowliga. Know any decent places to play close (other than Supper Club) and would you guys be interested in doing a gig then?

Look forward to hearing back from you when you can. I see you guys are out on the road very soon. By the way, we've made friends with the German's across the street who have their own radio station and I've been invited to come over as a guest DJ and I promise the first song I play will be Dash. Maybe a first as I don't know if you've been on the airwaves in Afghanistan before. Any particular choice? I have to keep it clean as our JAG sits in to monitor or I would probably go with Bum For Egypt. I was also thinking You Were On My Mind.

Take care and look forward to hearing back and hopefully rocking our asses off when I get out of this place.

Hey Bill!

Sooooooooo miss you guys. You must remember me (Gary Dixie Wrecked) and my still best friend Tim from Novato.I mean we only hung out with you and saw you like a thousand times. Some of my best memories and shows I ever saw! Hope you are well and glad to see you are still tearin it up. By the way Tim freakin loves Live at 12th and Porter as do I along with Cheech (Dixie guitarist) who moved to Texas which is why I ain't playin anymore. Anyway if you won't come out here maybe I'll have to come down there. Still love you guys and I'll at least watch you on youtube. Maybe I'll throw up some Dixie Wrecked videos on there soon.

YEE HAW!

Gary "Bravo" Schoonover

Thanks for proving that there is still at least one band out there that
knows how to throw a party. Seeing DASH RIP ROCK in Natchitoches at the
R&B/Jazz Fest renewed my belief that there is still intelligent and relevent
music out there!
My daughter, her DJ boyfriend, and I drove an hour and a half to see your
band. We had missed a recent show in Alexandria and promised ourselves that
it wouldn't happen twice. Needless to say, you have two new fans (I always
was one!).
Thanks for signing our cds and my daughter's Dash Rip Rock t-shirt. Her
boyfriend is a dj for KROK in Leesville. I told him that he needs to insure
that the world knows that there is still powerful music coming out of the
swamp!
We played the "Hee Haw Hell" cd all the way home. I took it to work with
me on Monday and started wearing it out!
Thanks again and I look forward to seeing Dash Rip Rock again real soon.
Put me on your e-mail list if you have one: swampvoodoo@hotmail.com. I'd
also love to receive any snail mail if there is still such a thing. P.O. Box
504, New Llano, LA 71461-0504. (I personally live in DeRidder, LA and work
on Fort Polk. I know the soldiers on that military post would love to hear
DASH if they're ever given the chance.)

Roger Bolin Hi Bill, My husband and I saw you and your "Cow-punks" while vacationing in Key West, Florida a few years back and really loved your music. We had a beer at the bar after the show, surely you wouldn't remember but we sure a great time! We're from Whittier California and once in a while we hear your "Smokin' Pot" hit on KROQ. Keep up the great music Bill and you're going to be aSolo artist as well.... With your voice and lyrics you will do in whatever you pursue. Keep up the great tunes! Much Luck & Happiness Always....John and Jackie HossWhittier, California

From a fan .....

I saw DASH a bunch of times in school (Athens) a lot of years ago, and when they came through the DC area and played Iota in Arlington, VA. Still amazing after all these years, and I made believers out of several new people I brought to the show.

thanks for the update.

Michael Olive

Okay--feeling a bit nostalgic tonight--20 years ago Dash played Club
Baby Head/The Rocket in Providence RI and stayed with a young guy/recent
Tulane grad and TUL dj who knew Fred LeBlanc from his Backbeat days
with Paul Herbert down in New Orleans where the Blues was born. Anyway,
this Providence guy forced them to use the side door because his
landlord was a wacko who had front door issues. Much beer was drunk and
the next day Dash headed down the road to NYC.

I've never forgotten that night as you ransacked my records and found
Hank Williams Sr. next to Sex Pistols/Pylon/Clash etc. I think I made
the grade which is always a nice feeling.

Fast forward many years to SF where I take my new bride to the Paradise
Lounge to see Dash and end up re-meeting Hoaky who remembers that I
wouldn't let you use the front door in Providence RI--I mentioned the
landlord issues earlier, didn't I?

Now I find you on YouTube and check out your site and discover that
Dash's original drummer is the same guy I knew from filling in for The
Incredible Casuals in between the Vince Valium stints. I've seen the
Casuals every year since 1982 (with a couple of exceptions) and had no
idea that Clarke MArtty and I also shared a Dash connection.

I had the great pleasure two years ago to see an end of summer Casuals
gig in which every Casuals alumnus played. Clarke remembered me from
the old days which was pretty cool as I had long since moved to CA.
(cue Beverly Hillbillies theme)

Anyway Bill, I'm glad you're still out there ripping it up. I wanted to
say hi--please let me know if you're coming out west anytime soon. The
missus and I are ready for a night on the town.

Long lost brother in arms,

John Voorhes

Hello, I saw you last night at Twilight Alive, and told you that was the
best opening act I had ever seen. That was a real stupid comment, that
was actually one of the best shows I have ever seen anywhere. What
amazing talent, and your showmanship is out of this world. I am a 'live
music junkie', so I have seen many, many shows in my 50 years of living,
but DashRR is truly one of the best I have ever seen. I would love to
see a lot more.

Loretta Thompson
Email: lthompson@eastman.com

A good evening to the band of Dash Rip Rock

This is an email coming to you all the way from norway, simply to say that even way over here, up in the cold north of the world, there is a girl who thinks you rock! (and probably others who think so as well, but I don't know them.) I saw you guys live in Asheville last summer, and bought your album, Recyclone, which I have to admit is the only point of reference I have in liking your music, (and also that my taste in music is slightly eclectic embracing music from miles davis to metallica) but I'm sure most of your other music is just as great ;) And when I stumbled across your website today, I thought I would tell you that I think your music is great! so I did.

So rock on, and for now the one Dash Rip Rock album I have will keep my spirits up through another semester of hard studying, and somehow keep on getting me to the students pub a few times more than my wallet can afford!

Greetings from a Norwegian fan called Miranda

Dear Bill, Brian and Eric

Hi.
I`m the one of the guys in Japan,who loves R&R and swampy music.
Six days before, I got "HEY BILL"album and still listning 3times a day.
I`m grad to listen the complete version of "Natchez Trace" that I longtime
waited!
I bought all DRR CDs except "the first" at Amazon.com (BUT NOT NEW!
sorry...), and bought CDs ,DVD, all T-shirts at The Connextion.com (of
course ALL NEW!).
I believe that I am the biggest DRR fan in Japan!
I wish, go to New Orleans someday and see your gig, and dream that DRR come
to Japan on the live tour someday!

I`m happy to meet your music.and it`s cheering me everyday.

Thank you Dash Rip Rock!

Hey Bill!

Hey Bill!

It's Jimmy from Psycho Charger...we met down in Key West over the July 4 weekend...man, I really dug your show. It was great to see you guys live again! Any plans to come up here to NYC?

ANyways, attached is the pic of you and I at the Green Parrot...I sent it to Lou Brutus also.

Hope to meet up again soon!

Jimmy
Psycho Charger
Official Gravesite of Psycho Charger!!!

Hello Bill, or should I say Mr. Davis. My husband, Chad, and I met you at a DNC show at Amos' Southend, Charlotte. We enjoyed the show so much and have been wishing to see you again! This Aug. 11, 2006 show at the Orange Peel is coming up and we live only about an hour away, so we will be there. If you'd like to see who I am check out my homepage at chadnmit.bebo.com. Looking forward to seeing you again, Misty.

I used to book you guys in Miami Beach, The Stephen Talkhouse and Stella Blue. Nice to hear that though the line-up changes you guys still go on. Heard you are doing a show at Rock 'n Bowl for the VooDoo Vixens on Friday the 28th. My daughter is dancing with the Burlesque Show on the bill - Trixie Minx. Would live to get their to see the show, but stuck in FL.

Take care,

Woody Graber

My wife Crystal and I have had to wait an entire year since y�all played in Asheville last July I think, so we are psyched to be mini-tour groupies next week! We had so much fun last year (and over the years obviously), so we will see you in Kingsport and Asheville. I recently took a new job in North Carolina, but we still have our house in Johnson City, and so we will make the long trek up to Kingsport Thursday and then over to Asheville Friday. It is actually our anniversary weekend (lucky number 13) so Crystal�s mom is keeping our kids while we celebrate in a fairly unique way.

Let me know if you need anything in East TN, and we look forward to seeing y�all next week and hearing some old stuff as well as new!

Best regards,

Steve

Hey Bill, I'm pretty sure the wife and I'll be makin' the trip down to Mucklewain from Ohio. Last time I saw the Dash was @ that Little Brothers show w/Watershed. Let me know if you still have any prime campin' space we can get in on. It would be great to have somethin' reserved before we got there. Also, do you have any info on what you can bring in to that gig ie; video cameras, beer, food, etc...? Hopefully we'll see ya soon.

Thanks.

Joe Booth(from Cincy-the town Dash never plays.)

WHAT UP HOME SLICE....SEEMS YOU COME TO TOWN WHEN I AM OUT OF TOWN.....HEAR YOUR PLAYING RAGGAE THESE DAYS....HOPE THE REGGAE FEST WAS FUN AND EXCITING. IF YOUR IN NOLA AROUND THE VOODOO FESTIVAL WE SHOULD HOOK UP. BE WELL AND STIR UP LOTS OF SHIT.

John Fivgas

Electrical Designer

video of DRR playing 'Legacy' from the mid 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPFQTMuPZTg

think this is from MG III. Dash doing a very horrible version of BTE's GOOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-dsSlJZxE

MUSICIAN'S 20-YEAR DASH

What: Dash Rip Rock
When: 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2
Where: Bamboo Willies, 400 Quietwater Beach Rd.
Cost: Free
Details: 916-9888 or www.bamboowillies.com

Looking back on more than 20 years of rowdy, Southern-fried punk performances and an always-revolving door of personnel, Dash Rip Rock's frontman Bill Davis has no regrets. Well, except for the time when the band partied a little too hard in San Francisco and arrived late for a KROQ-sponsored show in Los Angeles.

"The one that totally sticks out is when '(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot' hit on the West Coast," Davis recalls, phoning from his home in New Orleans. "For six weeks, it was the most-requested song on KROQ in Los Angeles and we were really riding a wave."

Dash Rip Rock, named after one of Elly May's love interests on "The Beverly Hillbillies," was slotted to perform with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, KISS and The Fugees back in 1995. Davis, who recently returned to the Big Easy after teaching history in Nashville, remembers racing from San Francisco to make the radio station's Weenie Roast rock show in Los Angeles.

"We stayed out really, really late and we missed the gig � a really huge gig," he says with a laugh. "I mean, we showed up, they let us in and there were all of these Hollywood types walking around backstage. It was such a crucial show and we blew it."

The 45-year-old musician's mind seems to be swimming with all of the disappointments he's endured since forming his then three-piece rockabilly band back in the summer of 1984.

"OK, I have many, many regrets," Davis recalls, citing problems with management and the band's constant roster changes. "But we've had many successes as well."

Over time the band has evolved into a raucous live act popular at college-town venues and dive bars across the South. In 2005, Dash Rip Rock put out a retrospective CD on Jello Biafra's (Dead Kennedy's) Alternative Tenacles label. While the group has boasted a lineup that included Cowboy Mouth's manic drummer Fred LeBlanc and Ned "Hoaky" Hickel, today the only remaining original member is singer-guitarist Davis.

"People have sort of wandered in and out of the band and that's made it particularly fun for me," he jokes. "I'm not with the same ol' fuddy-duddies."

Davis is fairly ambivalent about Dash Rip Rock's membership changes over the years. "Things just happen," he remarks. "Like last year, we lost our drummer because of Hurricane Katrina. Right now, we all seem to be settled in and I don't foresee any mutinies in the near future."

Taking cues from the early-'80s American roots rock revival embodied by such acts as Rank & File, The Beat Farmers and The Stray Cats, Davis says Dash Rip Rock's original magic hasn't waned over the years.

"Sure, we may not have the same fire we had back in 1984," he responds. "But, I still have it when I go onstage. I'm not the problem. The issue has always been if the other guys are still into it as much as I am."

Davis says it's the friendships he's maintained that has kept Dash Rip Rock's fire burning.

"I met Jello Biafra in '86 and we kept in touch," he says. "When it was time for us to do a retrospective record last year, I called him. I didn't expect him to agree to do it and he was like, 'I definitely want to do it.'"

While the musician has had a love-hate association with the corporate gatekeepers who control mainstream radio and music distribution in the past, Davis insists that the band has benefited immensely from the democratization effects of the Internet.

"I'm more optimistic now about the music business than ever," Davis comments. "These days you can buy a Dash Rip Rock record anywhere you want. It's all over the Internet. With all of this new technology, we've seen an upsurge in our music moving more than it ever did when we were with Mammoth Records, when we were in every record store in the world.

As far as his relationship with Dash Rip Rock's string of fallen members�like Cowboy Mouth's LeBlanc and original member Hickel�Davis says it's all good.

"When you're in a band with someone for eight years, it's like they're one of your brothers," he muses. "Of course, when you're on the road for a long time in tiny little vehicles, brothers fight. However, despite all of our little snafus, we always manage to land on our feet."

sam@inweekly.net

I�m pretty sad to be writing this � but I will always make it a point to let everyone know when a
great friend passes and what they meant to me. Keith Keller ( aka Fred Flames) passed away this
weekend in NOLA. He was back here trying to rebuild � making his own distinctive contributions to
the post-Katrina effort. He died in his sleep Friday � had a heart attack. In DASH history � he was
a key player: He came out on the road with us in 1992 and recorded �Boiled Alive� and an early
version of a BetaMax digital recorder. He edited all the songs and sent the shit to Mammoth (our
label at the time). It was our best selling record ever and helped establish us as a seminal,
legendary southern punk rock band. Keith also helped us with �Get You Some of Me� � he
recorded �Livin the Lie I Love� and also repaired the edits of other GYSOM songs. His old equipment
and vast knowledge of recording processes was a huge advantage when we cut with him. Fred Flames was
a fishing buddy and a recording buddy. We would go outta Delacroix to nail reds and specks � he had
a boat parked in Reggio and was an avid fisherman.

The coolest thing Fred Flames ever did was read from the Tibetan Book of the Dead on our
song �Dosed.� It is on �Testosterone� � an Australian only release. At the end, as the songs fades �
you can hear a backwards voice � That is fuckin Fred Flames y�all and rest in peace mother fucker we
will miss you.

DASH