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Rusty

We're All Here For A Purpose - I'd Rather Be In Control Of My Destiny, Than Become The Victim Of It.

About Me


Bluesmanian Devils - "Keepin' The Blues Alive"


My Interests


I've been playing drums since 1964, ouch, okay I've been around the block a few times and rode hard and put away wet a few times. So, what's wrong with that? Here we go, My interests- My Family, Music, Acting, Hot Rods and Old Cars In General, Doing My Radio Show "Rusty Mann's Midday Extravaganza" on 96.7 The Eagle. Play enough guitar to get the idea across. Fishing, which I don't get to do nearly as much as I'd Like. It's theraputic, you know. -_- Meeting People That Share A Common Ground. Exercising My Sense Of Humor. Occasionally Shaking Things Up! I like paintings as well and tastes ranges, but I love Salvador Dali paintings, I used to paint quite a bit when I was younger and was always trying to get into his head, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't appreciate a Monet', Van Gogh or a Norman Rockwell Americana painting as well. Now when I pull up a blank piece of paper and pencil, I'm always sketching Hot Rods and Rat Rods. You need to ask? An art lover? Yeah, Lets say the Arts, doesn't that cover it all? Also, I was a Cowboy Action Shooter before they even came up with a name for it. I was doing that for years before they decided to make it a sport. My favorite choice for shootin' is an 1866 44-40 Yellowboy replica or S/A 45 long Colt, proficient with both. Love playing with my 1937 Chevy and riding my Harley, no surprises there. Oh, and Winning The Powerball Drawing (Like Everyone Else), I Just Threw That One In There To Sound Somewhat Normal. "In reality, I believe that the quality of friends is definitely more important than the quantity." "We're all here for a purpose, if we were here for a porpoise, we'd all be at Sea World!" 'em???

I'd like to meet:

Non-Crappy Starring You! eCards on JibJab

Music:

Blues. Classic Rock or a combination of the two, some Classical, Music from different cultures, (Japanese Drums Kick Ass!) All kinds of Christmas Music, Music that makes people feel good and Music that makes people want to shake their cabooses. And anything that my good friend, Bass Player and comrade, John "J.P." Piwtorak get involved in and jammin' on.A well rounded musician ..boards and guitar, I'd really like to get out to L.A. to see my buddy Bruce Swanson play a gig out there, better yet play a gig with him out there, still got to work on getting him to jam when he comes back this way again, we haven't done that in years. The band he's with "McKibben" has a new CD out now. Kudos Bruce, miss ya' bro!!!

Movies:

Besides the ones that I've been in that bring back great memories; Anything with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Robert Deniro, Kathrine Hepburn, Cary Grant, William Powell & Myrna Loy, Betty White, Fredric Forrest, Sam Elliott, Robert Duvall, James Garner and too many to list. I like all Alfred Hitchcock Movies, especially North By Northwest. Movies and acting in them are a passion, almost as much as playing music. I also like cheesy old hot rod movies where the cars are the stars too. I'd like to make a new Hot Rod Movie, there hasn't been a good one since American Graffiti. I have DVD's of Car Shows from all over the country, plus some I've shot myself and transfered to DVD, Where ever there's Hot Rods, Street Rods & Rat Rods, I'll be there. And man do I wish John Wayne had some new movies comin' out. I'll bet he's made some new ones in heaven, maybe I can be in one with him when I get there. Have an extensive DVD library to play with and always adding to it. I'm going to need a bigger house, well, I need one now.

Television:

Not Much. Educational and an occasional sitcom. Mostly for the weather report. Have an extensive DVD collection, network TV is pretty lame. I recently added to my collection the entire original TV series of Amos and Andy, all 72 episodes. That's one of my favorite oldies, makes me laugh hard enough to pee someone else's pants. Er, uh?

Books:

Any Ramblings by Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Definitely anything by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons) and I'm not referring to Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn(He was ahead of his time),Charles Dickens, Louis La Mour, any writings by Red Skelton(or Paintings).

Heroes:

***My Wife(Best Friend)*** Musical heroes: Any Blues Pioneers-Muddy Waters, Willie Joe "Pinetop" Perkins-(Hey Pinetop, I miss sippin' beer and shootin' the breeze with ya' at Buck's Working Man's Pub, I lost track of your birthdays after you moved), Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, etc. Modern: Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Carmine Appice - (Hey Carmine, Thanks for showing me some tricks of the trade back in Monticello), John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, Cub Koda, Eric Johnson, Charlie Musselwhite, Gary Moore, Robben Ford, Pat Travers, Rick Derringer-(Hey Rick, I still got the cheesy 8MM movie of you hamming it up for the camera at Valparaiso University, Gibson Explorer remember?), Kenny Kinsey-(The hardest workin' bass player in the biz, keepin' the blues alive-We Be Jammin' Kenny!), Jeff Massey-(Hey Jeff, I never told ya', Just watching you go into one of those hundred mile an hour lead parts just blows me away!), Nick Byrd-Mr.Guitar(Hey Nick, you're about cool-Time for another shot? LOL.), Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan R.I.P. B.B. King-(Hey B.B., Remember Kickapoo Creek right after Ted Nugent?), Eric Clapton, Steve Marriott R.I.P.-( Miss Ya' brother), Roy Buchanan R.I.P., Rory Gallagher R.I.P. and so on and on. I've got to mention Mark Stein, Keyboardist for Vanilla Fudge who smoked all my cigs but made sure that I got some pizza and a qoute that stuck in my head. (No Matter How Good You Get, You Always Want To Be Better", Thanks Mark, to you and Carmine). Now, You get the picture. These are all people who have affected my presence here in one way or another. My thanks to them all.
RUSTY MANN ON DRUMS AND VOCALS

My Blog

Bluesmanian Devils

Allright, I'm sticking to my guns! I still say, "Blues Ain't Just Music, It's A Lifestyle!" Since my life has been has been extended, so has my love and interest in the Blues been intensified and...
Posted by Rusty on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:06:00 PST

My Grocery Shopping Experience!

The new supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of thunder and the smell of fresh rain.When you approach the milk cas...
Posted by Rusty on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST

The Cowboy!!!

One hot day in August, a cowboy rode in from a trail drive. He goes into this cafe and there's only one place left to sit, next to a young lady about 21 years old. He sits down and the waiter comes ov...
Posted by Rusty on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:37:00 PST

Take This Knowledge With You, Go Fourth and Do Wonderful Things!

The Bathtub Test During a visit to the Mental Asylum the visitor asked the Director what the criteria was which defined whether or not a patient should be  institutionalized."Well," said the Dire...
Posted by Rusty on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:48:00 PST

Da' Blues...

All forms of the Blues are expressive extensions of someone's soul. Therefore, I love all forms of Blues. The type that I sing may not be the same styles that I enjoy playing drums on. When playing dr...
Posted by Rusty on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:58:00 PST