Devon Butler

Nick Armbruster was born on a blustery "Flag Day" in the year of Our Lord, 1984. Strangely enough on that particular June day there was an incessant cool that could be felt gracing over the summer fields, as box elder bugs fluttered through the leaves of the old oaks in the surrounding woods, but the real magic of the time wont be found there instead it is best understood when you look to the hubbub of the cities during that turbulent decade of excess known as the 80's; Prince and the Revolution had just completed their tour-de-force album/film Purple Rain, Tubs and Crocket were keeping the streets of Miami safe, Ralph Macchio was taking lessons in the martial arts, Angela was giving Tony an FYI as to who the boss was, and Little Nicky was opening his eyes to it all for the first time saying "what up world?. However, there was little time for Nick to enjoy the "me" decade as it was soon discovered he had a preternatural skill for the juice harp. He formed a band called Dirty Donny's Skid-Mark Success and soon found himself in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Nick's first album Pork Chop Sandwich Delight was recorded in the same studio where Percy Sledge had recorded his alma mater "When a Man Loves a Woman." Though, due to a lack of interest in music driven solely by the juice harp from the record industry, Nick was never able to find the success or acceptance that his predecessor Sledge had. Feeling all down and out in Alabama, Nick wandered around the south until he was spotted by a talent agent that said he had just the part for him in the up and coming Sly Stallone flick: Over the Top. After numerous auditions Nick was beat out by David Mendenhall for the part of Stallone's son. Down on his luck Nick finally returned to that Midwestern state of his youth: Minnesota; he also had sworn vengeance on Stallone and Mendenhall, and to this day has been known to say that if he ever came face to face with Rocky he would flat out tell him that he was the reason Mickey died and Paulie had a drinking problem. Back in Minnesota Nick began the schooling that he had neglected since his juice harp days on the chitlin' circuit. Grades K-12 were finished with the greatest of ease though, as Nick applied the knowledge he had gotten from various wino's and an old blind man that hung out at the Muscle Shoals VFW named Carl Silverstein but insisted on only answering to Danny Zuko (as he most likely had suffered many concussions and often times spoke passionately of the film Grease). Never one to give up Nick graduated from high school in which he decided that "the whole silly affair was slightly overrated." There was no time to ponder the silliness of his schooling as Nick developed a nervous complex which centered on a fear that America had horded mass quantities of cheese from all parts of the world which was being stored in a silo somewhere in northern Iowa. The nervous habit grew into a paranoia that foreign countries were going to begin a war with America so that they may reclaim their cheese. Deciding that he did not want to go to war over some cheese Nick enrolled at the University of Minnesota as a way to dodge a possible draft. It has been a bumpy and colorful ride thus far and we will leave the saga of Nicks life here as the U of M is currently where you will find him. As for Carl Danny Zuko Silverstein, well thats another story altogether.. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .. ......