About Me
ROBERT CAL ARNOLD is a Louisiana bass player. He has played food and animal fairs, party gras drink parade floats, transworldual starlet balls, mockstar cussfests, icedome stadiums, sandnymph fish taverns and strangers backyards and done every kind of music at least once, on TV! Cal majored in Music Education at LSU, is a member of Pro Musicians Local 47 AFM-Hollywood, CA., American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Louisiana Music Hall of Fame and is a Colonel of the State of Louisiana, as appointed by the Governor.
Over the course of his professional career as a performing musician and recording artist, Cal Arnold has worked directly with many great talents including LEE FORTIER, Baton Rouge, LA., Trumpet 1963-66; THE DIMENSIONS, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1964-65; THE COACHMEN, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1965; THE TEMPESTS, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1965-66; THE EMERALDS, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1965-66; RONNIE AND THE CROWNS, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1966-67; LSU TIGER BAND, Baton Rouge, LA., Trumpet 1966-69; AL MICHAEL AND KOLLECTION, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1966-69; THE MIDNIGHTERS, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1967-69; DUKE ROYAL (LUTHER KENT) AND BLUES INC., Baton Rouge, LA., Trumpet 1969; JACKIE WILSON, Detroit, MI., Trumpet 1969; SUPERGROUP, Lafayette, LA., Bass, Trumpet, Guitar 1969-70; GG SHINN, JERRY COUNT JACKSON (LACROIX) AND THE ROLLERCOASTERS, Lake Charles, LA., Bass 1970; WHISPERING DUST AND THE SECRET DOG, Las Vegas, NV., Bass 1970; SOD, Las Vegas/Los Angeles, NV/CA., Bass, Tuba 1970-74; DEL SHANNON, Los Angeles, CA., Bass 1971; DAVID AXELROD, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1972; DUANE YEATS AND SKARLETT ROSE, Las Vegas, NV., Bass 1972; CLYDIE KING, Los Angeles, CA., Trumpet 1973; TROY WALKER, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1973-74; IKE TURNER, Los Angeles, CA., Bass 1974; ROBERT CARRADINE, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1974; NIGHTWATCH, Los Angeles, CA., Bass 1974-75; WILLIAM KATT, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1975; COTTONWOOD SOUTH, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1975-76; DIXIE, Modesto, CA./Lafayette, LA., Bass 1976-78; EDGAR WINTER'S WHITE TRASH, New York, NY., Bass 1976-78; GG SHINN AND THE TSC TRUCKING CO., Franklin, LA., Bass 1978; FLYING HIGH, Baton Rouge, LA., Bass 1978; JACK GREENE AND JEANNE SEELY, Nashville, TN., Bass 1978; MARK WILLIS AND BOOTLEGG, St. Martinville, LA., Bass 1979-81; ATCHAFALAYA, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1981-91; D.L. MENARD, Erath, LA., Bass 1981-2007; GARY WALKER, Jennings, LA., Bass 1982; SAMMY KERSHAW, MARK WILLIS AND SOUTHBOUND, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1982; BOBBY CHARLES, Abbeville, LA. Bass 1984; EDDY RAVEN, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1984; ZACHARY RICHARD, Scott, LA., Bass 1984; SONNY BOURG AND THE BAYOU BLUES BAND, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1984; ROCKIN SIDNEY, Lake Charles, LA., Bass 1986; WARREN STORM, WILLIE T and CYPRESS, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1987; BRUCE CHANEL, TANYA TUCKER, LYNN ANDERSON, Nashville, TN., Bass 1989; LARRY BUTLER, Nashville, TN., Bass 1989; THE BOOGIE KINGS, New Iberia, LA., Bass 1991; DOMINO, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1991-92; THE PENETRATORS, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1992; FRANKIE AVALON, Hollywood, CA., Bass 1992; MAMOU, Mamou, LA., Bass 1992-93; ANDY SMITH BAND, New Iberia, LA., Bass 1993; MICKEY GILLEY, Ferriday, LA., Bass 1993; CALICO CATS, Lafayette, LA., Bass, Keyboards, Bandleader 1994-2006; BILLY BRANCH, Chicago, IL., Bass 1995; JOHN DUBOIS, New Orleans, LA., Bass 1994-95; DOUG KERSHAW, Greeley, CO., Bass 2004; LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS, Los Angeles, CA., Bass 2004; LE FRERES MICHOT, Lafayette, LA., Bass 1994-current; HADLEY CASTILLE, SARAH JAYDE AND THE SHARECROPPERS, Opelousas, LA., Bass 1985-2008; LES AMIS LOUISIANAISES, Crowley, LA., Bass 2007; JO-EL SONNIER, Lake Charles, LA., Bass 2007; CLINT WEST, Ville Platte, LA., Bass 2007; MARK WILLIS AND COCODRIE, New Iberia, LA., Bass 2007-08; LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS, Lafayette, LA., Bass 2007-08; BLUE MERLOT, New Iberia, LA., Bass 2007-08; BLUE SOUL, Lafayette, LA., Bass 2008; BAYOU BOYS/GUMBO ZYDECO, Lafayette, LA., Bass, Rugalator 1991-current; HUNTER HAYES AND LOUISIANA HOT, Lafayette/Nashville, LA./TN., Bass 2006-current.
CAL ARNOLD plays '64 & '68 Fender Precisions, '06 Lakland Joe Osborn 5, '06 Spector Legend 5 and '80 Englehardt ES-1 Supreme basses. For bass strings, he uses DR, Thomastik, Efrano and Mastercard. When occasionally playing trumpet, Cal sprays into a Holton with a Jet Tone Studio B mouthpiece and Cascader spitvalves. California shaves his head with a Gillette Mach 3 and King of Shaves gel. Band-aids-Johnson & Johnson. His hat size is 7 3/4, shirt-XXL, pants 38/32, shoes-moccasins.......briefs!
