D.V.C. from Sioux City to Des Moines then to Minneapolis.Dr. Rox Remember When?
Article #149 July 2023By: RL Schwinden aka MrZerr0
When I was growing up in Sioux City, Iowa all I really wanted to do was be a “RockStar” as my Dad Bill was a drummer in the Twin Cities area in the early 60s, this only fueled my fire. As I have mentioned many times Tommy Bolin (1 Aug 1951 – 4 Dec 1976) was from my neighborhood, my cousin John, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Cindy were friends of Tommys. While I was inspired by bands like The Beatles, The Monkees, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Osmonds, Black Sabbath and KISS, I thought it must not be too hard to become a rockstar, at first my dad tried to teach me the drums, we found I had no rhythm, my mom told me I could not sing a note, so I was drawn to the guitar, one that really appealed to me was a Red Hollowbody Electric. By this time my dad was playing in a band called “The Boyz (from Sioux City)” with Merle Pithan on Keyboards, this really began to pique my interest. As I got into my teens and I began to hang out with Mike Langley, I started to realize that I might not hit the heights of superstardom like my idols. When I was about 16 The Bolin Family moved into the house across the street on 25th and Pierce, it was then Summer of 1979 I first met Johnnie Bolin, Tommy’s younger brother and former drummer of the Tommy Bolin Band and Richard T. Bear, Johnnie was at that time the drummer for the Des Moines Band “The Penetrators” in Dec 1980 one Sat. night I hung out with Johnnie and his pal Archie Shelby in the Bolin’s kitchen, Johnnie signed a ‘Penetrators’ poster for me which I still have. So just after high school (West ’81) I split town upon my Uncle Jeff’s suggestion and moved to Phoenix with my Uncle’s Mike and Brad. While visiting Tri-City Mall in a book store I saw an ad for the new “D.V.C.” album on Alpha Records. I thought “Will you look at that, Johnnie (Bolin) has a new band with a record out (NO ONE called them “Vinyls”) that band was “D.V.C.” an abbreviation for “Power, Accuracy, Speed” in Latin. And so our story begins.
The Cast:
John Valoyce Bartle 22 October; 1950 Sioux City, Iowa
John Vern Bolin: 17 August 1954; Sioux City, Iowa
Robert Alan Forest 15 June 1953; Ames, IowaDavid
Ducharme Jones 20 Jan 1960; Des Moines, Iowa
Rick Reed 1959; Des Moines, Iowa
Maximilian Cross Padilla: 15 March 1955; Manhattan, NYC
Brian Arther Bart: 18 August 1958; Minneapolis, MN.
Eric Holtz: Sioux City, Iowa
The band “D.V.C.” roots go all the way back to 1967 at Central High in Sioux City, Iowa, where a young Tommy Bolin meets John Bartle whose friend is Eric Holtz.Bolin and Bartle jam on guitars together. Bartle eventually joins the Sioux Falls band “Chateaux” a young Tommy Bolin is fired from “A Patch Of Blue” and also joins Chateaux, before leaving for Cincinnati, OH. in late ’67. Bartle then joins “Seven Sons” from the ashes of “A Patch Of Blue” with George and Brad Larvick, David Napier and 3 others; they release several 45s before breaking up. John Bartle and Johnnie Bolin began playing together in a band called “Sailing” in a local truck stop in Sioux City some time in 1972. Sometime in 1975 while on a break from Deep Purple, Tommy is back in Sioux City and throws together a band called “The Gassers” which lasts from 1975 to 1976. There is a Live CD of this lineup titled “Tommy Bolin Live At The Jetbar” Bartle once told me “It’s my face on the cover and my voice on the recording, yet it’s credited to Tommy?” (laughs). The band consisted of Tommy Bolin on guitar, Johnnie Bolin on drums, John Bartle on lead vocals and guitar and Roger Rothewell on bass. Tommy passes away in 1976. Johnnie goes on to Richard T. Bear for 2 albums on RCA records “Bear” and “Captured Live” both from 1979 and Bartle goes onto “The Jan Park Band” from Des Moines, Iowa, they release 1 album on Columbia Records also in 1979, however Bartle told me in an interview: “We recorded a 2nd album that didn’t get released, because Jan’s husband wanted her out of the business, I still have the tapes for it, maybe someday I’ll release them, let them come after me, what are they going to do other than give me free publicity”
While in Des Moines sometime in 1979 Bartle meets one David Ducharme-Jones a guitar player and vocalist who was playing a residency at Courtney’s in downtown Des Moines. Ducharme had met Johnnie Bolin in Okoboji, IA. and Johnnie sat in with his band to play on some Tommy Bolin songs. Bartle was working on a 2 song demo for a new record deal and asked Ducharme to play on the sessions. While recording Bartle had the idea to form a new 5 piece band with 3 lead guitar players to play triple guitar harmonies, and 4 part vocal harmonies especially on cover songs that had keyboards. Ducharme suggested his good friend (Rockin) Rick Reed for bass and another local talent from Ames, IA. Rob Forest. Bartle of course brought in Bolin on drums, and The Penetrators were born. From an interview with Ducharme: “Bartle came to pick me up in his Cadillac he bought with his advance money from the Jan Park deal, I was all of 19 years old so I was impressed, we spent the whole winter (1979) reheasering covers writing originals; “Now I See It” “Ain’t That The Way It Goes” Bartle being the main songwriter then, Forest wrote some; “Goosebumps” and playing gigs gearing up for the pending record label deal, since we had 3 guitar players who ever sang the lead on a song that was who played the solo of that song, we recorded some demos at Studio 2000 on Ingersol in Des Moines. Now I had just turned 20 and these guys were a older so they were more seasoned at the rock n roll lifestyle than I was and I decided that just maybe this wasn’t my scene, as I was in a serious relationship and getting married (17 Aug 1980) I decided to leave and relocate to Calif. man, was Bartle pissed about that, and he let me know it. Eventually Bartle played with my cousin Pat Morley the future drummer for “Soul Asylum”. I have a tape of my last show with The Penetrators”and here is a partial setlist:
The Penetrators:
August 1980in Des Moines, Iowa @ So’s Your Mother
Bye Bye Love (cars)Let The Good Times Roll (cars)Don’t Do Me Like That (tom petty)Now I see It (Bartle)Ain’t That The Way It Goes (Bartle)Goosebumps (Forest)Desire (rockets)Teaser (tommy bolin)The Grind (tommy bolin)Homeward Strut (tommy bolin) Owed To G (deep purple 4) Same Old Song And Dance (aerosmith)
It seems to me, John Bartle, especially was heavily influenced by “The Cars” and how could he not be, The Cars had 5 Top 40 Hits in just over a year from 1978 -79. Incidentally I did meet Ric Ocasek and his wife Paulina in Dec 1987 at a bookstore in Valley West Mall in W. Des Moines, Iowa and I saw Easton and Hawkes with “The New Cars” May 2007 in Shakopee. It was about this time that Tommy Bolin’s Ibanez Destroyer was stolen along with the rest of the band’s gear from a rehearsal space adjoined to a bowling alley in Minneapolis.
Enter Max Padilla;So with Ducharme leaving the band, so does his good friend Rick Reed. Bartle and Bolin set their collective sights on the bassist / vocalist Max Padilla from the band “Headstone” based in Waterloo, IA. Max had also played with”Footloose Band” and “Night Flight”. Padilla: “Bartle approached me first as they had a pending record deal, Johnnie came up to me later and was just as nice and humble as could be, Johnnie and I hit it off great we were best buds, we did everything together, now I was aware of his older brother Tommy, I had seen The James Gang on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, I had read his name in the credits of “Come Taste The Band” and “Spectrum” but never did think I would meet his brother Johnnie at “So’s Your Mother” in Des Moines, Iowa. Eventually Johnnie and I lived upstairs in the band house on Christmas Lake in MPLS. I remember one time Johnnie brought me some of Tommy’s stage clothes to wear on stage, he was just as nice as could be.” So Max joins The Penetrators, but as the band gets signed to Alpha Records they decide they need a new name, I believe it was Bartle who came up with the name “D.V.C.” Eric Holtz has left Columbia Records and joins Japanese label Alpha Records who did have some other artists like LuLu, The Police, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Falco, Billy Vera, Max-Q, George Benson and several others. Holtz produces the first album using a layering technique, where they would record the 3 singers, and then re-record the same parts and stack them upon each other really filling out the sound (Roy Thomas Baker did the same thing with Queen)
1st Album Summer 1981 Alpha #AAB-11005 (lead vocals)
Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Padilla)Goosebumps (Forest)Turning (Bartle)Ain’t That The Way It Goes (Bartle)Teaser (Forest)Go For It (Forest)Now I See It (Bartle)Stop Foolin Around (Padilla)Baby Wants More (Bartle)Terrified (Forest)
My personal favorites from this release: Let Me Be Your Fantasy, Goosebumps, Terrified,
Released in the USA on Vinyl and Cassette and Japan on Vinyl.I remember seeing an ad in “Circus” magazine for a contest to design the album cover for this release, and there was a follow up article showing the 2 runners up for the 2nd and 3rd place winners. 3 Single 45s were released for this album”Teaser/ Go For It” which was a hit in this area at the time late 1981 -1982″Let Me Be Your Fantasy/Now I See It” #7009″Goosebumps/Ain’t That the Way It Goes” #7013In fact “You Better Go For It” was used in a local Minneapolis Auto Dealership radio ad in spring- summer 2015.
Johnnie Bolin: Interview with me: “Well, Eric (Holtz) didn’t think the recorded really represented what we sounded like live, specifically my drums, I explained to him, well live I am using Steve Smith’s (Journey) 9 piece Sonar kit live, and in the studio you had me play a 5 piece, it’s just not the same I just can’t do as much. The problem we had then was they really didn’t know how to market us as a band were we “Rock” or “AOR” or “Heavy Metal” remember that was a transition time period from “New Wave” (post punk) to “Heavy Metal”.” Ducharme: “I am pretty sure that’s my guitar work on a few of those songs, that I did not get credit for, oh well”Bartle: “Washburn was really starting to come back at that time, they gave me a custom A-20 Bullseye model, and a black one with an endorsement, what happened to them… I sold ’em”
Padilla: ” I played my 1976 Fender Blonde Precision, I bought at Taizio Music in NJ. for most of the album, but when I used a flanged sound I used a Yamaha BB-1200″
A friend of Johnnie’s Kurt J. recorded a show of DVC, here is the setlist and who sang what, and who the original version was by:
Aug 1981 Silver Dollar N. Sioux CIty, Iowa
Bye Bye Love (cars)Tough Guys (reo) Stop Foolin Around (DVC) Max Padilla Fantasy Girl (38 special) Aint That The Way It Goes (DVC) John Bartle When Your World Is Running Down (police)Walk Away (james gang)Funk #49 (james gang )Rocky Mountain Way (barnstorm)In The City (joe walsh solo 1979, then eagles) Party’s Over (journey)Majestic (journey)Where Were You (journey)Make Your Move (DVC – Penatrators) Rob Forest Baby Wants More (DVC) John Bartle Gone Gone Gone (bad co)Now I See It (DVC) John Bartle Rock N Roll Manager (DVC- Penatrators) Bartle & Forest Terrified (DVC) Forest
Bolin: “Remember this was a different time back then, back then bands could play up to 5 nights a week, usually Tuesday to Saturday for about the same money bands are getting paid today, on that where is our “cost of living increase” (laughs). But all that started to change in the early 80s when that Lightner girl was killed by a drunk driver, her mom formed “MADD” Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, I’m not sure about every state but Iowa changed the drinking age from 19 to 21 July 1986. With that it effectively ended the ability of bands like “DVC” “Dare Force” and “Chameleon” to earn a living playing locally because bars and clubs were folding like dominos, because there were no new customers for almost 3 years, and in Iowa it seemed most bars and clubs had about a 18 month to 3 year life span.”
Padilla: “I remember living in the band house on Christmas Lake and Bartle borrowing my portable cassette recorder working on “I Want Your Body” Bartle was a great songwriter and simply amazing in the studio and Forest showing the “Drop D Tuning” for “One More Time” I had never seen that before. Holtz turned in the acetates to the record label, and they came back with “We would like to hear some Keyboards on these songs” were just not down with that, we were a guitar band that’s the way we wrote and recorded those songs so we stuck to our guns, and while we waiting, Bob F. at the label was fired and pretty soon the record label folded. ”
Bartle: “Yea I have the masters for the 2nd album, I think I am going to put them out soon, I mean why not Alpha folded decades ago, who’s going to come after me, and what could they possibly do? I have been working on a cover for the CD, check these out (shows me about 4 different paintings) I paint them with a brush, NOT An Air-Brush. You know I re-recorded “Tonight” on the Chill Factor CD on Antipreneur Records back in 1996.” “Chill Factor” consisted of: John Bartle, Johnnie Bolin, Dave Napier (from Seven Sons) and Bob Birch (from Board Of Directors) they also covered a Tommy Bolin and Gassers favorite they performed live “Wang Dang Doodle”.
2nd Album
Post Toastee (Forest)Crash Landing (Forest)Nobody Wins (Bartle)Right Between The Eyes (Forest)One More Time (Padilla)Rock And Roll Women (Forest)Tonight Will Last Forever (Padilla)All I Need (Forest)I Want Your Body (Bartle)
My personal favorites from this release: Right Between The Eyes, One More Time, I Want Your Body, All I Need. I remember in April 1983 I saw a local Sioux City band with a female lead singer perform “Crash Landing” at the bar at KD Stockyards Station. They announced it with this “And now an original song from some friends of ours”
The story I heard at the time, still living in Sioux City was: “Bartle was tired of touring and being on the road and was about to get married so he decided to leave DVC, and form a new local band “Glass Hammer” I still have a promo poster and until recently I had a Fender Twin Speaker Cabinet once used by the band (Glass Hammer). In April I found out DVC was going to be performing at the Auditorium with 4 other bands, one being the “Free Beer” band, I am afraid I do not recall the others, I do remember one was a local Native American Band. My memory of this next show is vivid, not just because I have actual photos I took, but Jack Forest (Rob’s brother) gave me a 25 min TV Station filmed VHS recording of the show. The band came out and there he was Johnnie Bolin behind the drums the very same Chrome Ludwig he played in his brother Tommy’s band summer of ’76 wearing white sunglasses. Bolin: “I was wearing sunglasses on stage, how did that happen, I can hardly see as it is, so for me to wear sunglasses, I don’t know” and Rob Forest front and center dressed as a 1920s Newspaper Boy, somehow this look was so cutting edge and Rock N Roll at the time.
Forest playing Johnnie’s Ibanez Candy Apple Red Destroyer, with his teeth! Forest was a phenomenal guitar player and equally as great of a vocalist. To his left was Max Padilla, the consummate rockstar, he looked like a human jaguar, the first guy I ever saw with highlighted hair he looked surreal and the way he moved on stage he would lick his right hand fingers as he plucked his bass strings, then he would do a half jump as the same time, he wore these extra long white sweatbands. Padilla: “That’s because I was sweating so much, I would become dehydrated, my fingers would stick to the strings if I didn’t, like our name said ‘Power, Accuracy, Speed’ we brought it 110% everytime, and remember, back then you had 110 watt par cans hanging behind your head and in your face, no LEDs back then, we were sweating me and Johnnie, and after the show behind Bolin’s drum it was just sawdust, man. The dude hit hard, you know what I am saying, Johnnie and I were a unit, we knew what each other were doing, solid rhythm”. And Padilla could sing almost exactly like Steve Perry of Journey and played bass at the exact same time and was a fantastic bass player at that. This is THEE Show where I had the idea “I doubt I can be a superstar, but I think I can do what these guys are doing. In fact I have actually played a few songs live with Johnnie Bolin on drums! In fact I will do so again on Sat. 5th Aug in Sioux City. this was John Bartle’s last show with DVC, and Brian Bart did come out and play the encore with the band.
2 May 1982Sioux City Auditorium Bartle’s last show (from Video and the best of my memory being front row taking photos) Teaser Goosebumps Let Me Be Your Fantasy Crash Landing Aint That The Way It Goes I Want Your Body Terrified Now I See It Stop Foolin Around Go For It On My Way Pushin Your Luck Post Toastee
The 2nd album was in a slightly different direction, firstly Forest wrote and sang the majority of the songs, and ultimately his image became part of the logo for the band (Forest with his back facing forward in front of a full Marshall stack turning up the volume to 10) secondly the music was heavier than on the 1st album.
Alpha Records closed in July 1982 due to a slump in music sales in general due to Disco and the 8-Track. While Disco was a huge trend in the music biz from roughly 1977 to 1980, people generally went out and danced and for the most part did not actually buy Disco records. Many Music Retail Stores invested heavily in 8-Track inventory which was popular from about 1976 to 1980, when the 4-Track Cassette virtually killed the 8-Track format overnight in late 1979 the music stores were stuck with inventory they could neither sell or return. Having worked with many people who were in the biz at the time, one being Mike P. of Wax Works Ent. from Owensboro, KY. he had this to say “So Disco was over and there we were eating 8-Tracks for breakfast, wondering what we were going to do next, then “Thriller” came out in Nov 1982 and single handedly saved the Record Business 4th quarter in ’82″May 1982; Enter Brian Bart of “Dare Force” this band had been around in the Twin Cities since the late 70s. The band consisted of: Brian Bart; guitar and vocals, Johnny O’Neal; vocals and guitar, Brian Lorenson; Bass and Mark Miller; Drums. Dare Force has released 4 titles on Cassette, CD & Vinyl in their career. With Bart joining the band they really head in a new harder and heavier direction and yet still keeping their Pop sensibility. Padilla: “When Bart joined, it was tough to watch him leave his childhood buddies, but when he came on board he really took charge and got things done and steered the band in a new direction.Bolin: “As far as I could see Bart only joined DVC because we had a record deal at the time with Alpha, I could tell he later regretted leaving Dare Force when the label (Alpha) folded. But Bart was a big Tommy Bolin fan, so I know he liked that aspect of being in the band” In 1987 long after DVC Bart and Bolin recorded a version of “Post Toastee” in the same vein as the DVC 2nd album version. On Bart’s 1st Solo Cassette “Future Vision”. Pudge and Johnnie Bolin’s Friend Kurt J. recorded a show of DVC Mk2, here is the setlist, who sang and where the original song came from. Reading over this you can see how different the setlists from back then used to be, a lot of songs that were current hits on the radio, as this was a year or 2 before MTV ruined the Music Biz, because just after MTVs launch, people only remember a song if it had a video on MTV. My point is; go to any club or bar today and it’s the exact same song by the exact same bands they saw on MTV in 1988, nothing has changed in 35 years.
24 Sep 1982: Maplewood Bowl, Maplewood, MN.
Seventeen (DVC) set for 3rd LP (Forest)Homeward Strut (Bolin)Hollywood (Thin Lizzy) (Padilla)Blue Wind (Beck & Hammer)Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams & Beatles) (Forest)Keep On Rockin (DVC 3rd LP) (Forest)Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Kinks & Van Halen) (Forest)
Im The One (Van Halen) (Forest)Soul On Fire (Dare Force) Brian Bart SoloGo For It (DVC 1) (Forest)Majestic (Journey)Where Were You (Journey) (Padilla)
Let Me Be Your Fantasy (DVC 1) (Padilla)Pushin Your Luck (Dare Force) (Bart)Walkin On The Moon (police) (Padilla)When Your World Is Runnin Down (police) (Padilla)Rock N Roll Women (DVC 2) (Forest)Guitar Solo Brian & RobTerrified (DVC 1) (Forest)Whole Lotta Rosie (ac/dc) (Bart)Misty Mountain Hop (led zeppelin) (Bart)The Power (rainbow) (Padilla)On My Way (Dare Force) (Bart)Teaser (tommy bolin) (Forest)
Owed To G (tommy bolin)
Rock And Roll (led zeppelin) (Bart)Right Between The Eyes (DVC 2) (Forest)Goosebumps (DVC 1) (Forest)Drum SoloOne More Time (DVC 2) (Padilla)I Want Your Body (DVC 2) (Forest)Crash Landing (DVC 2) (Forest)The Grind (tommy bolin) (Bart)Post Toastee (tommy bolin) (Forest)
I mentioned Brian Bart joins the band and changes the direction. I remember Bart played a White Gibson Explorer and he used to pull the headstock forward to recreate the Eddie Van Halen divebomb sound. Bart: “Yea, I still have that guitar, crazy thing all those years I did that it never affected the neck or the playability, crazy huh?” With Alpha records shutting down, DVC starts looking for a new record label. As I understand it they were working on a 3rd album with Brian Bart, as they had a few songs leftover and some new ones written with Bart and the 3 originals Bart brought with him from Dare Force. Here are some possible songs for inclusion.
3rd LP: 1983Are You Ready (Forest)Keep On Rockin (Forest)Seventeen (Forest)Make Your Move (Forest)Rock And Roll Manager (Forest)Post Toastee (2nd version) 1986 single By Bart & BolinOn My Way (Bart)Pushin Your Luck (Bart)Soul On Fire (Bart)
Bart: “Are You Ready, oh yea I forgot about that one, Forest and I wrote that one together, that song rocks, a great one to open with. You know Bolin recorded Post Toastee with me for my solo album ‘Future Vision’
After several months of looking for a new record deal, apparently Bart is discouraged and decides to go back to Dare Force.Forest: “I am leaving the band and getting married, and moving to Reno, NV. to be a blackjack dealer, we are still hopeful we will be releasing the 2nd album on a new label” So DVC play their last show in Sioux City. I recorded the show on a bitter cold Wednesday night. I do recall seeing DVC another time between May and Dec. Unfortunately I can not recall exactly where and when it was, I do believe I saw DVC the night before at The Patio, and also went the following night and recorded the final show. The Patio was a tiny little dive on Pierce street about a mile south from the Bolin’s and my family’s house, we used to go there all the time because there was not much else to do in Sioux City, and drinking age was 18 maybe 19, it didn’t really matter as I went to my 1st bar at 16 after work one night at the Plaza. I recall them playing 2 sets. They had these 2 white lighted pedestals that Padilla and Bart stood on. For the last song, “Walk In My Shadow” Johnnie told me this was a Bolin Brothers Favorite. Johnnie’s younger brother (Rick) Pudge sang lead vocals, John Bartle played lead guitar and so did Johnnie, Forest played bass and Bart played drums.
Padilla: “Yes, our Saturday show was canceled due to weather, Our very last show was at Libation Station in St. Paul on Sunday the 11th Dec. 1982, every musician in town came out to send us off”
8 Dec 1982 The Patio: Sioux City, IowaAre You Ready To Rock (DVC original written by Forest & Bart) (Forest)Homeward Strut (Bolin)Hollywood (Thin Lizzy) (Padilla)Blue Wind (Beck & Hammer)Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams & Beatles) anniversary Lennon was killed (Forest) Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Kinks & Van Halen) (Forest)I’m The One (Van Halen) (Forest)NOVO COMBO (up periscope) (Forest)Rock N Roll Women (DVC from 2nd LP) (Forest)Brian Bart’s Solo (Dare Force)Terrified (DVC 1) (Forest)On My Way (Dare Force) (Bart)
Teaser (Bolin) (Forest)Let Me Be Your Fantasy (DVC 1) (Padilla)Pushin Your Luck (Dare Force) (Bart)Walkin On The Moon (Police) (Padilla)When Your World Is Running Down (Police) (Padilla)Right Between The Eyes (DVC 2) (Forest)GooseBumps (DVC 1) (Forest)Johnnie Bolin’s SoloOne More Time (DVC 2 written by: Forest) (Padilla)Rob Forest’s SoloCrash Landing (DVC 2) (Forest)Post Toastee (Bolin & DVC 2) (Forest)Max Padillia’s Solo Walk In My Shadow (Free & Energy) (Rick “Pudge” Bolin)John Bartle’s Solo
And so DVC ended in Dec 1981. Unbelievably we saw Brian Bart just 3 weeks later open for KISS on Thurs. 30 Dec 1982 in Sioux City, Iowa at the Auditorium with Dare Force, yet another band that really inspired me, as DVC had just ended. Incidentally I just got a British Import CD Board Recording (NO VINYL) of the entire KISS show from 30 Dec. 1982. So Bartle formed “Glass Hammer” Brian Bart goes back to “Dare Force” Max Padilla moves to Milwaukee to join “Breathtaker” Forest moves to Reno, and for a brief moment the “Forest -Bolin Publishing Company” is formed (I have some stationary from this venture) and in only a few months Johnnie Bolin will replace Mark Miller in Dare Force and the band will put out their 2nd release. Pudge Bolin: “My brother and Max are joining a new band, they really want Max because he can sing those Journey songs so well”
In the summer of 2010 DVC got inducted into the Iowa Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, and there is a movement to reunite DVC to play the event.Bolin: “I found Max, he’s a truck driver in Florida, I talked to him about the event, he is kinda on the fence about it, I talked to Rob too.”
Padilla: “If we’re going to do this we are going to do it right, no half ass, I want to have some practices, and it has to be the original 4 or I’m out”
Forrest: “That was a really long time ago, I don’t think I am really interested in doing that”
And so Bartle and Bolin performed as usual, sadly without the other 2.
And there you have it MrZerr0’s story on DVC. In my life some people have bothered to ask me who was a major influence to me, I do not hesitate and answer “DVC” from Sioux City, Des Moines and MPLS. Rob Forest absolutely influenced my vocal style (when I am NOT doing my tribute bands) Max Padilla influenced my stage presence, and Johnnie Bolin influenced my sense of humor.
Check in next time …. MrZerr0
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