Ron Negley on the right.
Many years ago, Ron Negley and I were part of the band scene. This was in the latter part of the seventies! A long time. He played the drums, and played them very professionally, and later he added some keyboards before we drifted in new directions. Ron moved in with other music and I eventually quit the band circuit for a long time as well. In fact, Ron’s new band were to play music at my wedding in 1979. They couldn’t make it, and he sent along another band to fill the void.
Recently we met up again through social media and today, July 21, 2025, we managed to make our scheduling work to get, an actual physical get together again. All these years and we finally greeted each other again.
We talked music almost the entire afternoon with lots of laughs. We talked about the many musicians we encountered in our lives. Those years in bands were a great time allowing to learn much about life. It is hard to believe how I wasn’t old enough to play out at clubs for a number of years until I reached the magic age of twenty-one.
Left to right…Ron Koedel, George Penn, Ron Negley on drums and Larry Smail on five-string banjo.
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