SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH - 8:00PM
Ten Years After it all Began..... For those in the know, Tomah's own Bonneville Roof Riders have returned to the local music scene after an eight-year hiatus. Dave Kenworthy, Al Blaschke, Bob Callaway, Mark Henry and Trent Koput have all tediously agreed on a multi-show deal designed to catapult them to the "Legend of the Local Bar Scene" status by sometime hopefully in the near future.
For reals though, The Bonneville Roof Riders started out as a basement band of buddies looking to bark out a few songs and drown some beers. (More beers than music actually. As a matter of fact, until Dave started bringing a tambourine and hammering away to Black Sabbath's Rat Salad off of the Paranoid record, we just wanted to drink.) In early 1993, Dave Kenworthy, John Schueler, Al Blaschke, Bob Callaway, and Mark Henry came together to perform a widely unanticipated basement jam. At that very same moment in history, the cosmos erupted in wild flame, fire rained from the sky, and down from the heavens came a name for the least righteous cover band ever to walk the face of our home of rock and ocean - The Bonneville Roof Riders had been born. The following two years were a typical basement band being a typical basement band: BRR spent one weekend or so a month in the basement working diligently on tunes and drinking beer. But on April 28th, 1995, The Bonneville Roof Riders made their inaugural appearance at a sweet little palace in Oakdale, WI titled The D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. (Don't look for it now, it's not there anymore, But on certain quiet, breezy summer evenings, you can still smell the place.) One gig under their belts, BRR continued to play shows and annoy country music hicks everywhere in the Tomah suburbs for the next 18 months.
It was at this point that BRR disbanded - no one knows quite why, lest the secrets of the Bonneville be unleashed - but many remnants of the band soldiered on in the coming years. Untiltled, Nobody's Fault, levee, Double-Wide Royalty, and Rock Bottom were just a few of the bands that limped from the ashes of the Roof Riders. But a tiny spark remained: every year, at a spot called the Sportsman's Bar, on the first day of the new year of the Julian calendar, these same Roof Riders would reunite - quite possibly to celebrate the New Year, or perhaps, to celebrate the inevitable return of... The Bonneville Roof Riders
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