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ricky weeth

About Me

Ricky was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ricky is the Director of Music Ministry at the Salvation Army Harbor Light Church and Multi-Service Center in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ricky performs regularly with Joe Cody down in the La Crosse Wisconsin area, as well as with their band The Junkyard Saints. Ricky also apparently enjoys writing about himself in the third person. Ricky is also currently working on his debut CD at 3 time Grammy(tm) winning Actual Sound Studios in La Crosse, WI. Whoever said that "nothing good comes out of Wisconsin" for music can pretty much

officially

kiss mah grits. Life is good. God is good all the time. And all the time God is good. S'true. Really.


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Member Since: 29/12/2006
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Ladies and gentlemen.... MY 15 year old SON BRANDON WEETH has now joined the ranks of the undead, the few, the loud, the cadre of the unbroken line... On Friday 23 April, Brandon played his first show with his Da and Joe Cody at the Cochrane Inn, Cochrane, WI. And he did, in fact, rawk. Check the songlist and dig Folsum Prison Blues. :)



past, current, and future players include:
other guitar: Joe Cody Howard "Guitar" Luedtke, Irene Keenan Jr., Mike Von Muchow, Roger Johnson, Nick Shattuck, Billy Hembd, Big Daddy Cade, Corey Freehill, Steven Freehill Jr., Mike Caucutt,Bob Weeth, and many others
bass: Rick Brown, Israel Massenberg, Mike Von Muchow, Paul Richardson, James, Steven Freehill Sr & Jr, John Caucutt, Caleb Cody and Joe Cody
drummers: Les King, Greg Strasser, Jimmy Lachman, Mike Role, Kipp, Rick Harris, Terry Nirva, Shelton , Preston "Sickfoot", Steven Freehill Jr (yes, he plays all kindsa instruments!) Cory Freehill (and so do he,)

Influences: absolutely every God-created creature I've ever encountered. Most notable guitar influences include (in no particular order) Andy Summers, Monte Montgomery, Mark Knopfler, SRV, BB King, HUBERT SUMLIN IS THE UNDISPUTABLE KING OF GROOVE, Keef Richarzzmate, Mick Taylor (the only Yank to be an official Rolling Stone and their best guitarist) Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Howard "Guitar" Luedtke, Joe Keenan, Irene Keenan Jr, RANDY FUCKIN' HEMBD, BY GOD BILLY SIGERS (rip guys) any of the many who have played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans, Tab Benoit, Brian Setzer, Danny Gatton, and my brothers Bob and Charley Weeth. Keyboard players who have influenced me: D-Sav from Saint Louis, Rick Wakeman, Billy Powell, Mark Davinni, Dorothy Burgess, Dorothy Weeth, Lars Carlson, and believe it or not, Floyd Kramer. Drummers who have had influence: Jimmy Lachman, Kipp, Rick Harris, Stewart Copeland, John Bonham, BRON A. WESTLAND III (rip)and CHARLIE WATTS who is the GREATEST ROCK DRUMMER EVER TO EXIST BAR NONE. Bass guitarists: Izzy Massenberg, Peter Phippen, "Magic" Deb Luedtke,Paul Richardson, Rick Brown, Mike Von Muchow, John Rochner, Paul McCartney and Spinal Tap
Sounds Like: prick teeth
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New single release to benefit Team Kristie

as you know, I've been slowly creepin' on my CD "Beautiful Trainwreck" for quite some time.Back in July, however, there was a brief flurry of activity with this project and I had informed Michael von ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:59:00 GMT

TheJunkyardSaints - #8 blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0oPaYBq2vw the Saints at the Flipside 26 DEC 09. Not bad considering I had a three inch cut in mah belleh four days prior. lol.
Posted by on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:55:00 GMT

ROAD TRIP WITH THE JUNKYARD SAINTS!!!!!!!

November 22nd, 2009!Road trip to MPLS.This is in the planning stage.Definitive word will appear here and on Ricky's FB.IF THIS HAPPENS, it will likely go down like this:Saints will roll in 1 van. (mos...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:56:00 GMT

Tribute to Rachel Maxine Cody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zag70WZ03yk
Posted by on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:00 GMT

WHAT WORKS NOW

the following was posted on my Facebook as a note for whomever of my friends to read.  Some of my friends here on MySpace aren't on Facebook, but you're still VERY VERY VERY much included in the heart...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:03:00 GMT

romeoyjuliet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFdFV6zaHc video from a recent jam night appearance.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:33:00 GMT

There Is No "Culture of Alcohol."

The following is a letter sent today to the La Crosse Tribune.A little background for those not in my viewing area.La Crosse Wisconsin has a population a little over 50,000 people.  For the past fifty...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Why Ricky Will Never Become A Professional Texas Hold'Em Player

I was sitting in La Crosse County for a month or so oh, back in 07. Ina low security little area with twenty five to thirty swell guys,depending on the court calendar.We had a schedule within the sche...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:09:00 GMT

a fairy tale i'd love to believe in.....

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl 'Will you marry me?' The girl said, 'NO!' And the guy lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and  played golf a lot and drank scotch and di...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Hoax Hoax Hoax. No, that ain't french........

ho fuckin' ho fucin' ho.OKChristmas.This, as a festival, was a compromised sham from the git go.The pagan Yuletide, a time of post harvest, feast-lest-we-go-stir-crazy, general merriment was something...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:01:00 GMT