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Founder and sole heir to the Rip Rock fortune, Bill is the writer, singer and thinker-upper of all the DRR mayhem (widely know as bayouland country punk.) He did a stint in Nashville -but is happy to be back in Louisiana, splitting his time between New Orleans and his fishing condo in Slidell. He sub. teaches in St. Tammany Parish and works at Crepe Nanou while not rocking with his fantastic trio. Hoping to make a difference around the post-Katrina gulf coast, he is helping rebuild New Orleans one cowpunk song at a time.

Click this image to hear "Natchez Trace" off Bill's solo record.Media
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Guitars: Fender Telecasters, Dwight Maddux customs

Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JCM 900 50 watt, JBL cab.

Picks (plectrums) - Herco flex 50

Movies: Whalerider, Battle of Britain, The Rutles, What the Bleep do we know?, Sideways, Kill Bill (not literally, though) I & II

Writers: Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, George Singleton, Tony Rice, Tim Parrish, Neil Stephenson, Larry McMurtry

Food: Famous Dave's

Beer: Modelo Especial

Tequila: Patron (but the band doesn't allow him to drink it for undisclosed reasons)

Pet's names: Boudreaux, Zeke, Black Flickle, Beanie, Lulu, Jet, Ringo, Willie, Barney, Jinx

Canadian Province: Nunavut

Shakespearian sonnet:

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'

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18 years old with niece Dara
with chris and hoaky and a pissed-off tiger
Geaux Tigers!
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