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Paul Graves and Bob Werner have been friends since 1972 when they first started jamming together in high school. In the late 80s, drummer Cary Aye introduced Paul to John Mondin. Paul and John started doing occasional freelance gigs together. Around 1990, Paul and John asked Bob to join the new band that they were forming, The Chilltones. After The Chilltones broke up, Bob, John, and Paul stayed in touch and tried to find clubs where they could keep a side project going to play together once a week. For a while they were able to do this at a bar in Granite City, Illinois called Eddie's. At another point they had a regular Saturday afternoon gig in Dellwood, Missouri that ended at 7:00 PM, allowing the band members to get to their other gigs with their other bands later in the evening. For those afternoon gigs the band was called the Dellwood Matinee Blues Band. Drummer Cary Aye played with the band throughout this post-Chilltones, pre-Eat A Peach period. Around the beginning of 1998, John called Bob to let him know that he had heard that a restaurant in Alton, Illinois called Ralph's was looking for a piano player. Bob dropped down there, did a quick audition, and went to work for Ralph. Later that year, Ralph had an idea that he would like to do a weekly Sunday afternoon barbeque. He asked Bob if he could get some musician friends together to play on Sundays. Bob called John and Paul. It was around the fourth of July of 1998 that Bob, John, and Paul first performed on a Sunday at Ralph's. Marc Waters was the band's new drummer. Guitarist Paul Light would drop by and play some of the sets with the band. The band didn't have a name. They would jokingly refer to themselves as The Ralph's Sunday Afternoon Barbeque Blues Band Extravaganza. After a while, Ralph wanted to advertise and told the band that they really did need a name so that he could include it in the advertisement.
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Johnny Adams Allman Brothers Bad Company Badfinger Beatles Jeff Beck Chuck Berry Richard Berry Blind Faith Brewer & Shipley Jackson Browne Roy Buchanan Jimmy Buffett Canned Heat Cheap Trick Eric Clapton Joe Cocker Albert Collins Commander Cody Ry Cooder Cowboy Robert Cray Cream Crosby Stills Nash & Young Spencer Davis Group Delaney & Bonnie Derek & The Dominos Rick Derringer Bill Doggett Doobie Brothers The Eagles Eddie Floyd Robben Ford Grand Funk Grateful Dead Grinderswitch Herbie Hancock Billie Holiday Howlin' Wolf Elmore James KC & The Sunshine Band Albert King B.B. King Freddie King Latimore David Lindley Little Feat Little Milton Los Lobos Lynyrd Skynyrd Taj Mahal Paul McCartney The Meters Thelonious Monk Van Morrison The Neville Brothers Johnny Otis Robert Palmer Junior Parker Wilson Pickett John Prine Bonnie Raitt Rare Earth Rolling Stones Bobby Rush Sam & Dave Santana Bob Seger Paul Simon Jimmy Smith Steely Dan Rod Stewart Roosevelt Sykes The Temptations Rufus Thomas Traffic Robin Trower Big Joe Turner Stevie Ray Vaughan Junior Walker Joe Walsh Muddy Waters Johnny "Guitar" Watson Junior Wells The Who Wild Cherry Johnny Winter Steve Winwood Neil Young Frank Zappa ZZ Top |
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