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Will Rigby

WILL RIGBY
 
 
Will Rigby  is an American drummer known for being the drummer of jangle pop band the dB’s, a band he formed along with Gene Holder and Chris Stamey in the late 1970’s.  He has also performed with many other artists and has released two solo albums.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
 
 
Mick Farren wrote the liner notes to The Sound of San Francisco; they started out this way: 
 
     Everyone knows the old joke.
     Q What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend? 
     A Homeless 
 
Actually, I hadn’t heard that old joke, but I knew such a drummer.  A group of kids from my hometown of Winston-Salem, NC formed a rock band called the dB’s; the drummer was and still is Will Rigby, the son of a good friend of my mother’s.  Even though they were in a quasi-successful rock band, my mom told me once that Will never could afford an apartment in New York and was always bumming around from apartment to apartment with his friends up there. 
 
The above is actually the back cover of the I.R.S. album by the dB’s, The Sound of Music; that’s Will Rigby on the left of course at the drumset, with Peter Holsapple (songwriter and guitarist), Gene Holder (bass guitar – I remember him from my schooldays also), and new member Jeff Beninato (guitar). 
 
(January 2013)
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