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Red Hot Women & Ice Cold Beer
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Released: Jan 1, 2006
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  • Genre: Americana / Classic Rock / Country

    Location Lower Arizona (L.A.), Please select your region, Un

    Profile Views: 63362

    Last Login: 12/20/2010

    Member Since 12/9/2006

    Website chuckmaultsby.net

    Record Label Downloads at CD BABY, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody etc.

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. It started off as a joke! After several years of playing in Hard Rock bands, Chuck Maultsby and Scott Bish started up a band in 1977 which was named CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS as a total joke and started playing on Monday nights at the then popular Country Swing Dancing stronghold, THE STUMBLE INN, in Tucson, Arizona. A low budget self titled LP was relased in 1978 which garnered just enough attention to inspire a second LP mostly on the strength of a silly-ass toon called MY GIRL PASSED OUT IN HER FOOD (KFAT radio in Gilroy, California was the source of most of this inspiration). A second LP was released in 1979 which included a toon called DISCO SUCKS (Parts 1 & 2) which was the perfect toon considering the anti-disco backlash at the time. Disco Sucks blew up big time world wide only to flame out shortly thereafter because of the Comisky Park Baseball riot in Chicago (see the whole story of DISCO SUCKS at the website: www.chuckmaultsby.net). Three more LPs were released but none ever achieved the success (however fleeting) of the COUNTRY SWINGS, DISCO SUCKS LP. The moniker, CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS, was sold in 1998 to a Nashville band who charted a toon in 1999 called BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEER HOLDER. So there is some confusion now days as to whom, what and where the "real" CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS is....which is a source of amusement! Visit the website at: www.chuckmaultsby.net for details, music, videos, photo galleries and INFORMATION ON THE TWO CDs: "THE BEST and/or WORST OF CHUCK MAULTSBY AND HIS OLD BAND" and "CHUCK "WAGON" MAULTSBY- "24 ORIGINALS".... both can be ordered from the site or through CDBABY.COM ... These CDs are collections of songs from the five studio albums, released on Wagon Tracks Records under the name CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS between 1978 and 1982... Stop in for a visit to the website and enjoy! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... - ..Get Your Own.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... - ..Get Your Own.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... - ...... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... | ..View Show.. | ....http://payplay.fm/maultsby2 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    MEMBERS ARE: CHUCK "WAGON" MAULTSBY (The DEAN MARTIN of the DOUBLEWIDES)-Lead & Backing Vocals.... ERIC MELLEN-Guitar, Backing Vocals.... SCOTT BISH-Bass Guitar, backing vocals..... ROB FRANCIS-Keyboards.... The Strange Loner-Drums.... and NEIL HARRY on Pedal Steel Guitar (sometimes)... These guys are all here because they aren't all there!  .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... - ..Get Your Own.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... | ..View Show.. | ..Create Your Own.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... | ..View Show.. | ..Create Your Own.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Influences

    Influences?! Well... DEAN MARTIN, AC/DC, Bob Wills, SLIPKNOT, Commander Cody, Stones, and just about anythang anybody hitting 60 has ever heard of... My earliest memories of music around 1953 was living with my Grandparents in Manhattan Beach, California. They had a TV!! Grandma loved Liberace and Grandpa liked Spike Jones.... My Mom really dug Elvis and Harry Belafonte in the Fifties so I heard that a lot as a kid living in Las Vegas from 1954 till 1960.... Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, and Little Richard were tearing it up too!.... Then we moved to Del Rio, Texas from 1960 till 1963 where WOLFMAN JACK was broadcasting on radio XERF outta Ciudad Acuna, Mexico right across the Rio Grande... So I heard a lot of blues like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Bo Diddley, the real shit! Like ZZ TOP says: "I HEARD IT ON THE X".... Then we moved to Hawthorne, California ('63-'64) where the Beach Boys actually grew up two blocks away and still hung out, so how could you not dig the Beach Boys! The English Invasion started around this time too, so you could get beat up for liking the Beatles in Hawthorne! The first time I heard The Rolling Stones (Not Fade Away) I figured they were one of the Black bands that the Wolfman would play. Then I saw a photo of The Stones I thought they must be surfers with hair like that , but they were English!...It was kinda confusing. The Surf bands were huge in SOCAL too like Dick Dale, The Astronauts (from Colorado Springs?), The Chantays, The Surfaris.... Then we moved to Tucson, Arizona ('64-present) where the English Invasion was really getting strong so I decided to become a Beatle! I saw my first "big time" rock n roll show in Tucson in 1965 which was Sam The Sham and the Pharoes. I hooked up with some like-minded classmates and started a band covering The Beatles, Stones, Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and The Pacemakers, Them, and Sam The Sham. We wore matching suits and ties until ... we opened a show for THE SPIDERS from Phoenix (who morphed into ALICE COOPER). I quit the cutesy "beatle" band and started the first ever Spiders tribute band and played what they were playing at the time which included a lot of Yardbirds! We opened another half dozen or so shows for THE SPIDERS until they moved to L.A. to make it big. We were also doing our Spiders schtick at the same coffee house that the STONE PONIES were playing, until they moved to L.A. to make it big too (that Ronstadt chick really made it big!). ....So, we're up to the late '60 now. We're signed to CAPITOL RECORDS and gotta single out that skyrocketed to 192 on the Billboard Top 200 and contributed two songs to the HELLS ANGELS '69 movie soundtrack. We're playing L.A. now and then (Whiskey A Go Go, Gazarri's) when one night we go to The Whiskey. An odd band with three lead singers named Three Dog Night was there! THAT did it! We added two more lead singers and did the first Three Dog Night tribute band! ....Then Led Zeppelin hit it huge! So about this time, I figure to hell with it!! I'll never be able to sing like this Robert Plant freak so what else is there? Around the early to mid '70s I tuned into the Country-Rock thing. Ya know, Commander Cody, New Riders, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker. OK! Country can be cool, and ya don't have to get castrated to sing like these people...I'm in!... And Here I am!

  • Sounds Like

    Well....It depends on how much you've had to drink!... The Spanish word for it is: ENSORDECEDOR....There's been some folks that say we sound like two cats and a pair of boots in a clothes dryer... Some think we sound worse than a freight train going through your bedroom at 90 miles an hour with the horn blaring at 3:00 A.M... Some drunken mouthbreathers tell us: "You guys are off some", and usually add: "That was a bad jam", but we are used to negative critics... We have been officially ranked as the 9th best band in Arivaca, Az. (out of the three bands there)... Our equipment is now so old that it's too valuable to use so we try not to play much...

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