Recycleman's New Drummer

We've got a kick-butt new drummer for the Recycleman shows -Vince Adame. He stepped right in to the show on Tuesday for the first time, without a group rehearsal, and did phenomenally well. He anticipated the breaks, and had just the right energy for the audience. I am looking so forward to having Vince with us, especially because we've been using a stinking drum machine...

If you're in the Portland area and need to hire a drummer, he's got my wholehearted recommendation. Check out his website
www.vinceadame.com

2 Years and Running Pt. 7

Dennis (AKA Bruce Reduce), my partner in crime when I perform as Recycleman, has quite an illustrious history in entertainment. He lived in LA for a lot of his life and has a lot of stories (and I've seen many of the pictures that prove it). He's in his late 60s now, and here's a few of the things he's done:

His brother Doug (another cool guy) and he tried out for the Monkees when the band was being put together. And there was this unknown dude plucking his banjo while also waiting to try out named Richard Pryor!

As a journalism student he got to interview and hang out with Cheech and Chong (and maybe you can guess what else) when they were first making their mark. He's got an audio tape of that one.

He worked as a casting director for quite a while, and a transportation coordinator.

He spent 10 years working on Star Trek -The Next Generation, doing a few bit parts and a lot of stand in work -anytime you see the back of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's head that's Dennis. He gave me a promo photo of himself dressed as an alien on the show, but I can't seem to find it right now...

I was just checking out his Internet Movie Data Base page (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870509/) to get some photos to post and discovered that he was in one of my favorite childhood movies Under the Rainbow (1981) with Chevy Chase as the Job Clerk. I'm going to have to watch it again to see if I recognize him...

I also didn't realize that he played some bit parts in some other movies that I loved as a kid:
Dreamscape (1984) (stand-in) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) (stand-in) (uncredited)

And he is in a film that's making the film festival circuit right now with Tori Spelling :
Cthulhu (2007) .... Deputy Ben

Dennis is THE MAN!