About the time DBIS began, I met Tory from Oklahoma City on a message board related to my beloved Aussie band, Weddings Parties Anything. We had to bond as there were but a handful of WPA followers here in the states. Over the decades, Tory and I have emailed many times and spoken on the phone as well, but we haven't met.

Tory pointed me in the direction of The Bottle Rockets, Alejandro Escovedo, and surely a few other bands that I  would have overlooked. He had a band that never really went anywhere, Judy Judy Judy, named after Goober's Cary Grant imitation as heard on the old The Andy Griffith show. He then had a lot of fun with another band, The Smouldering Ashes. It too didn't raise a pulse though it may have had a tiny following in some micro-nation in Europe, can't recall.

Anyway, Tory relocated a decade or so to South Korea and I think he's been teaching English, all the while having fun creating pretty weird music. Here's his latest, and if you care to comment, I'll send them along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaICKDXslqA

And again, this is pretty bizarre stuff, not my usual toe-tapping fare, but hey, he's a friend.

Peter T.