The Mystics – Feb 1966 – The Bridge Club in Bridge City, Tx. The club was formerly a movie theater.

Larry Talbot, Bill Smith, Ray Little, Me

The Basic Things – Sept 1966 – at the Rose Room, Hotel Beaumont – Beaumont Tx.

The Basic Things – 1966 recording session in Pt. Arthur, Tx.

Tom Arrington, Ronnie Cooper, Herman Bennett, Larry Quinn, Me

Naked Letus – 1968 – The Cellar – left to right – Me – Jas Stephens – Mike Hickman – not pictured is Steve Coleman.

Naked Letus – 1968 – Promo Photo

Steve Coleman, Mike Hickman, Me, Jas Stephens

Me with Naked Letus at the Cellar – 1969

The Magic Ring – 1967-68 Houston, Tx

Unknown Go-Go girl, Me, Doug Reneau, John Wilson, Jim Clinton

Photo is from a taping for the Larry Kane Show in Houston.

The above photo is from a “Young Rascals” concert we opened up for. The venue was the Coliseum in Houston. None of the amps were miked and stage monitors were something we had never heard of at that time. The P.A. consisted of a cluster of Altec Voice-of-the-Theater speakers suspended above the center of the building.....had to be at least 150-200 feet from us. It's the only vocal reference we had and the delay because of the distance was not conducive to playing and singing since it wasn't in sync with us.

Steve Young Plus – 1973 – Beaumont, Tx

Steve Young probably taught me more about music than anyone I ever worked with. I'm very grateful that i got to work with him...in spite of the monkey suits we wore. Steve passed away in 2010.

Cowboy Robt. Bob & The Cowtown Queens – 1975 – Panther Hall – Ft. Worth, Tx – (We never could afford the Queens (Female backup singers), so we changed the name to "The Stricklin-Pierce Band".)

Me, Randy “Panda” Woolery, Arvel Stricklin, Cal Freeman

The bass I'm playing is a 1962 Fender Precision that I converted to a 6-string bass long before they became popular. It was tuned EADGBE a full 2-octaves lower than a standard guitar, unlike the Fender 6-string and Gibson 6-string basses available at the time. Those were actually Baritone guitars and were tuned only an octave lower than a standard guitar.