01/26/08 - Yet another installment at Trotti's lounge went off without a hitch. Joining us onstage was Gweedo! Stay tuned for new pictures coming soon.
12/15/07 - Dave Fairman and Lee Steel held their 4th Annual DT reunion show at Trotti's Lounge on Saturday, December 15th. Supported by members of the T.B. group, Blind Rage, Lee and Dave managed to work their way through several Deloris standards including "Fashion Would Dictate", "Heavy Philosophy", "Border Patrol", the Ricky Wilcox, pop anthem "Little Too Late" plus various other cover tunes that were DT favorites. "Sweet Jane" deserves honorable mention here. Thank you so much to all the musicians who came out to make this show a very memorable event for the two of us. We hope to see you all again next year for our big 5.
09/13/07 Linda Fairman, wife of original DT Bassman Dave Fairman, passed away unexpectedly as a result of complications due to diabetes. R.I.P Linda! We will cherish fond memories of you forever. You can contact Dave via email: [email protected]
That Dirty Clown wants to by YOUR friend! Kacy Ross' masterpiece is on the street with plenty of time to end up in your stocking for the hollidays. That Dirty Clown IS the perfect gift. It's been known to remove the toughest of stains and even makes crinkle cut french fries. For more information go to www.MonitorThis.com and for a listing of stores throughout the U.S. that will be stocking "That Dirty Clown", go to http://www.musicmonitornetwork.com/directory.htm
Following a recent airing of "That Dirty Clown", one of Kacy Ross' most elaborate solo projects, on a nationally syndicated radio show, a New York based music publisher, Monitor Music Network/Grim, has agreed to produce and release this original work of audio art. Stay tuned right here at MySpace.com/DelorisTelescope for more information on how you can get your hands on this highly anticipated release.
Milk The Glory
(a brief history of DT)
Once upon a time, a bank president's son built a music studio in the game room of his father's Clearwater home. The rest is history.....
The band officially known throughout the Tampa Bay Florida area as DELORIS TELESCOPE was originally formed with members: Lee Steel on guitar, Dave Fairman on bass, Russ Hammock on drums and Bruce Batton on guitar.
This early version of DT would open several shows for The Theater Band, The Fanatics and Slider but momentum didn't begin to build until a year later when
Kacy Ross (guitarist with the Theatre Band) and
Andre' Belloice (drums) took Bruce and Russ' places, setting the wheels in motion that would catapult this group into Florida's musical history forever.
Not long after the gigs started to roll in, and very shortly after the Miller High Life "Rock To Riches" band showcase held at Mark Twain's in Tampa, Andre' decided to retire his sticks leaving a space behind the drums that would quickly be filled by
Ricky Wilcox (drummer with the Theatre Band).
With a solid line-up, Telescope sets out to dominate the local scene with the lone battle cry:
"We're gonna play our own music even if we have to ram it down their throats".
At it's inception, there was a group effort to be the "quietest band playing the circuit" says frontman Ross. That mission didn't last long with Bonecrusher Wilcox driving the rhythm. Ricky is a solid rock drummer in the purest sense and helped to shape a sound that would take this group from clubs like Ms. Lucky's and the Red Rose Pub in Tampa, the Cheshire Cat and Swamp Club in Gulfport, The ACL Club in St.Petersburg, and opening act for MTV bands on their rise to the top, all the way to 98Rock's first "Nu Rock Festival" at Jannus Landing where they were joined onstage by harmonica legend, Early Bluebird and together with Small Population, The Wankers, The Headlights and The Flaming O's, entertained an croud of close to 10 thousand attendees.
Seeking the American dream of family life, a house, a car, a dog etc..., Lee departs from the band, leaving behind the DT name he conceived several years before, never to be replaced by a second guitarist. DT went on as a 3 piece group to open for Men Without Hats at St.Petersburg's Bayfront Centre only weeks after Lee's departure.
As the years went on, Dave Fairman (the last original member) also bowed out of the line-up leaving an opening at the bass rig that would become a revolving door which included Manny from Four-In-Legion, Eddie Pecchio, and several other bassmen until finally settling on Stevie Grandmaison (best known as front man for The Limosine Band, and Stevie & The Hotheads).
The final trio of Ross, Wilcox, and Grandmaison would continue along a path for another 10 years that would make the name Deloris Telescope a household phrase throughout Florida, winning countless awards, appearing on radio, television, on film, and recording a string of highly successful albums including "Milk The Glory", "Tres Miserables", "Dolorus", "Ting" and "Xenolith".
Deloris Telescope called it quits in 1996, 13 years after it all began, but the music and the memory lives on!
