Asheville, NC Wild Wing Cafe 3/10/2006
North Charleston, SC Wild Wing Café 3/11/2006
This past weekend found the guys in Asheville, NC on Friday and North Charleston, SC. Both nights featured Electric Boogaloo and The White Leppard Crue (the non Buckhead version). While the boys were on the road, OJJ’s Blog (OJJB) caught up with White Leppard Crue bass player, Bobby Mullett (BM) and with 20 bucks and a pack o’ smokes, we convinced him to give us an interview.
OJJB: Hello Bobby, do you mind if we call you Bobby?
BM: You can call me Sarsaparilla for all I care, just don’t call me late for the chow line.
OJJB: First of all let’s talk about your name. When you guys play, everyone pronounces your last name as “Muh Let”, while you pronounce it, “Moo Lay”. Which is it?
BM: Mullett, Moo Lay. I don’t know what the hell Rick is talking about. He always talks about my hairdo when he talks about my name, what the hell does that have to do with anything?
OJJB: Well, uh, never mind…….let’s move on. As of late you guys haven’t been performing with Boogaloo in the Atlanta area. While another band using the name White Leppard Crue has been playing on Wednesdays in Buckhead at Andrews Upstairs. What are you guys doing during this time and who are the other guys?
BM: The other guys are also the White Leppard Crue. The Crue’s original singer, Nikki Steel had been in seclusion for sometime. Well, one day he decided to come back. With Rick Lethal’s success as his replacement, he decided to split up the territories amongst two Crues. We play with Boogaloo in the non-Atlanta area, they cover Atlanta. They are doing a different show. Mainly, they don’t have the opener like we have Electric Boogaloo. It works out though, with Rick in and out of jail all of the time and his work release program, Adrian having to tend to his chinchilla farm overseas, Johnny talking to Disney about a new Metal themed day-time kids show, and business at my garage picking up, it’s kind of handy to have a few more weekends off.
OJJB: Have you seen the “other” Crue?
BM: No I have not, but I plan to go next week. I hear that it’s a pretty good show, almost as good as ours. I doubt their after-party is anything like our after-party at the Mountaineer.
OJJB: Ok, now to the business at hand, this past weekend. How was Asheville?
BM: Asheville was great! It was good to see Buddah running the door. Dave, the owner was hangin’ out with us. Also it was great to see some old friends (Will, Michelle, Jennifer, Chris, Brad) at the show. We also had a special guest dancer on the stage. Let’s just say her name was K. I’m pretty sure that K has professionally worked the pole before. The crazy part was that she kept making Popeye faces while she was dancing. It kind of freaked us all out.
OJJB: Did you guys have the usual after-party at the Mountaineer?
BM: Yes, even though we weren’t booked there this time, we still had the usual pool party. Although, I don’t really remember any of it, I’m sure it was a hoot. I just remember leaving the Wing and passing out on the hood of an el Camino.
OJJB: Ok, how about the next night in North Charleston?
BM: Talk about a long day! I rode there with Nigel Johnson of Electric Boogaloo. We Convoyed with Spider. Spider played drums with us this weekend, filling for Johnny Angel. Spider is also the drummer for the other Crue. A long drive. I nearly passed out twice. Of course the hangover didn’t help much.
Once we got there we found out that they only wanted us to load in 9:30 and start at 11:00 and end at 1:15. Now with two 70 minute sets, this would leave 5 minutes between Boogaloo and us. Not enough time, so we told talked them into letting us play later.
So after some grub at the Wing, (special thanks to our waitress Courtney for taking care of us all night.) we headed to the room for naps.
Once we came back, the load in was easy. The North Charleston Wing has a pretty cool layout. An f’d up stage though. I think the stage there was pretty much an after thought once the place was built.
By the time we took the stage from those English guys, the crowd was primed and ready. They were yelling for Sweet Child the minute we walked out there. Something that I liked about North Charleston, is that the patrons felt it was their duty to keep our throats from getting dry. We were getting shot after shot, beer after beer delivered to the stage. Funny part is that Adrian and Spider are non-drinkers, so that meant more for me and Ricky!
The craziest part was that there was a girl dancing all over the place, including the stage and Ricky’s leg, that had obviously had pole experience. Her name was also K, just like the girl the night before. She was definitely a freak.
After we were done, some dude, tried to show us a magic trick where you tear a dollar bill in half. HA! He had no idea what he was doing!
After that it seemed like we sat in the Denny's for about 5 hours.
Overall, a good gig. OJJB: Where will see you guys next?
BM: The week after next in Augusta, that Friday. I won’t be there, Sebastian Wolf will be filling in for me that night. Who knows you might just see me, Rick, or Adrian (due to Johnny Angels residence in Nashville, it’s doubtful he’ll be there during the week.) at one of those “Other” Crue shows. Just look in the shadows, we may be lurking.
OJJB: Bobby thanks for your time.
BM: No problem, now where’s my money and my smokes? You guys got any RBV’s round here? Bobby’s thirsty!
Next week: The return of Orange Julius Jackson!
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After a month long break, to let The Dock Martin’s get some playin time in, The Fox was back in action at one of our favorite place, The Alphy Wing.
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