LINKS

Green Parrot of Key West is the legendary bar where author Ernest Hemingway once hung out.A Key West landmark since 1890, the Parrot is the first and last bar on U.S.1. Home of great drinks and bad art, pool, darts, and pinball. It's a one-of-a-kind open-air tropical saloon with spine-tingling cocktails, friendly bartenders, and ice-cold beers, including Newcastle Brown Ale, on tap. Accept no substitutes!!!
www.bopper.com - Cactus Jack and the Cadillacs: the craziness lives on!!
Dead rock stars and how they got that way.- Major site of dead rockers organized by name, year, cause of death, etc. Settle any argument!
The Dead Rock Star's Club. EVEN BIGGER than the previous link. Includes accounts of the demise of every obscure musician you could ever think of. Mick Ronson, B.J Wilson (Procol Harum), Nicky Hopkins, J. Frank Wilson (did the 1964 version of "The Last Kiss" - his only big song was about a car crash and he died in a car crash)), even players who were in regional bands. Goes all the way back to the 1890's as it includes blues and jazz.

Fuzz Acid & Flowers, an extensive guide to U.S. psych and garage music 1964 - 1972. The name says it all! I found the Bubble Puppy, Ultimate Spinach, and Music Machine, just to name a few of my 60's favorites.
WLOF-95 AM Website - Back in the days before FM AOR (Album Oriented Rock) every city had a great AM station that played the best rock and pop hits of the day (as long as the song wasn't over 3 minutes, 5 seconds). Orlando's was WLOF, Channel 95, the station that broke the Beatles locally.
List O' Bad Songs - Steve Vandermeulen has complied a directory of some of the stinkinest tunes to ever curse the radio waves. "Kung Fu Fightin'", "Afternoon Delight", "Havin' My Baby" YEECH!
My son's web site - Destined to be the next Neal Peart!
The Outlaws - A tribute site maintained by a former Orlando resident who was a friend of the band in the early days leading up to their first album in 1976.
Mr. Tequila - The World Wide Web's authority on the fire water from "south of zee border", hosted by our ol' SICK buddy Norm Countryman.
Roadside America - what the SICK BAND is to music Roadside America is to tourism. Leave the Disney monster behind and visit sick America.
Ric Todd Web site creation.
Stone Soup Remember the old kid's story about the animal with nothing to eat who tricks all the others into putting their vegetables into his boiling water with stones in it? This site is not about that story. It's about an Orlando band with some of our buddies in it who grace these very pages.
The Blue Flame Cafe Did you know that "When the Levee Breaks" on Led Zeppelin IV is an old delta blues song originally written and recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and her husband Joe? Dig into the history and roots of this American art form from whence came rock and roll.
The Sidewinder Band These cats have been around longer than I have! Jerry Runyan, well known guitar slinger about town, and his cohorts deliver great classic style rock and sizzling blues.

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