About Us

There I met a neighbor who could actually play and my interest once again
piqued.
There was a club in town where I used to hang out on Friday and Saturday
nights called The Jaguar (it was an all ages club). There I saw some of the
coolest bands ever......Vanilla Fudge, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, The Who
and a little blues band from across the pond called The Yardbirds......HOLY
SHIT!! Who was that little guitar player squeezing shit out of his guitar like
I've never heard before? Jimmy Page!! Got to talk to him, too; nice chap,
even though I didn't know who he was.

I bought every Brit blues band album I could find, so actually my formal
training was ass-backwards. I learned the British way of playing, then got
into the American blues roots.

So my main influences were guys like Peter Green, Danny Kirwin, Jeff Beck,
Jeremy Spencer, Mick Abrahams, early Eric Clapton (until he started using a
Strat....blah) Then along came an American........Leslie West! Whoa! His
phrasing and vibrato were stunning..........little did I know that in the future I
would get to play with the man and even get complimented by him (if you
call getting punched in the arm and being told you're a fucking good-ass
guitar player a compliment!!! OK.....it was!!! )

I had my various bands in high school and after graduation I started a band
called Arson...........not a bad band, I wrote about 98% of the material and had
Scotti Brothers Records looking at us...BUT, it just wasn't working for me.
Back in high school I'd met a singer by the name of Dan Buck. We became
good friends and had a few bands together. He went on to form The Boyzz
while I had Arson. The Boyzz got signed to Epic Records in 1978. They were
a helluva band......loud, proud, obnoxious......my kinda band! They broke up
in the early 80's and a few years and a couple bands later the now Dirty Dan
Buck and I hooked up and started a band called The Sinners. That
eventually evolved into Dirty Dan Buck and The Boyzz .

We've done some great gigs and shared the stage with some great
bands.......Ted Nugent, Doobie Brother, Jimy Sohns (The Shadows of Knight)
Kansas, The Buckinghams, Cheap Trick, CCR, Seether, Wishbone Ash,
Uriah Heep, Leslie West, Ratt, Savoy Brown, George Thorogood, UFO,
Heart,   Rare Earth , John Kaye & Steppenwolf, Eric Burdon and the
Animals........etc. We've also played with some great Chicago musicians as
well.

                             Dirty Dan Buck and The Boyzz

In loving memory of my
mum Ethel "Pinky" Abel
1922 - 1996

About Me And My Bands.

GUITAR WEASEL

Having been born in the 50's, I was lucky enough to see a lot of cool stuff,
well actually, I didn't realize any of it till the 60's but all the same it was still a
very cool era to be growing up in.

I started playing when I was about 9 or 10. Hearing all that "Rock 'N' Roll" on
the radio got the better of me, so I begged my parents to buy me a guitar.
Damn, what a trainwreck that was! Taking lessons bored the hell out of me,
so I put it down for a while and resumed about a year later. This time it was
better, I had a great teacher and became really inspired. Things were going
well until one day we moved across town. No friends, nothing to do except
play my guitar. So being the new kid on the new block wasn't so bad after all.
.

Another Journey Comes To A End

Sadly on May 19th 2010 my first dog Opie died from complications
from a vascular tumor on his leg. In a way, he was my favorite dog,
part Border Collie, part Lab, he was one of those lovable dogs who
always had his tail wagging and followed me everywhere. I think I
miss him the most, even when it was his time, he left us with his tail
wagging, it was truly sad. Now Opie is with his brother Floyd, happy
and healthy chasing rabbits once again.

"I see you everywhere, but you're nowhere to be found."

R.I.P. Guys We miss you and love you.

As you may or may not know, I'm no longer with the band due to
my issues with Diabetes and internal problems with the band. I'm
off looking for new adventures and have a couple possibilites in
the works.