60's
70's
Brother Billy & me with our first instruments
My first "real" guitar and maybe my first bar chord!
Very young rhythm section
Dressed up and ready for a gig
Early garage band; "The Day Before"
Playing Bass in junior high school band
The Boll Weevil Band
High School Graduation
"Dice" Billy, Steve Plotnicki, me, Alan Becker
Playing bass with Dice
Dice neighborhood fan club
Jam session with "Mama Tuma Orchestra"
80's
"Harmony Grits" me, Rich Mars, John Keys, Marty Laster, Billy, Bruce Derr
Backing steel guitar legend Buddy Emmons at steel guitar show in CT.
Backing Maurice Anderson at steel guitar show in CT.
Backing Dewit Scott at steel guitar show in CT.
"The Dixie Doughboys" back: Bruce Derr, Billy front: me, Fooch, Skeeter
Trading off mandolins with Tiny Moore at Ashokan 1986
Recording "Live at Lou's" at Quad Recording NYC 1989
One of my heros, electric mandolinist Tiny Moore at Ashokan 1985
Live at Lous session & dance
Lou Gonzalez; Owner Quad Recording and a great Doughboy supporter
The Doughboys at NY Country Music Assosiation Ed Benjamin on bass
The Dixie Doughboys with Skeeter Starke on bass
90's
Ashokan Western & Swing Week
My Old Guild X-375
The Doughboys with fiddler James Mason
Neptune Boat Club Norwalk, CT
My Roberts "Tiny Moore" mandolin
The trio at the "LEAF Festival" Black Mtn, NC Lee Metcalfe, Byron Hedgepeth
With "Con Clave" at Asheville's Latin Quarter Ozzie Orengo, Ozzie Jr. & Byron Hedgepeth
Session at Quad Recording Studios Nashville, TN
Session at Quad Recording Studios NYC
Nashville's Blubird Cafe with Skeeter Starke
Swannanoa Gathering with Ann Precival & David Cantini
Swannanoa Gathering
Trio with Byron Hedgepeth and Nils Egerstrand
21st
Century
...and Beyond
Playing mandolin with Bob Willoughby
Session with Billy and Larry Campbell
Playing bass with Brian Gurl Band
Trio with Jeff Hersk and Jo Northup
With bass brother Eliot Wadopian
Biltmore Estate Gardens
Playing bass with 42nd Street
Poolside Party