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The beginning of our timeline:
BRAD BARTON - Sound, Lights
DWIGHT (DEE) CUDE Guitar
MONTE FOSTER - Drums,Lead Vocals
BRENT HERNBLOOM - Lead Vocals, Keyboards
TERRY LUCE - Bass, Lead Vocals
RICHARD MILLER - Sax, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
MICHAEL OSTERBUHR Trumpet, Vocals
STEVE PETR - Trumpet, Road Manager
SCOTT RICHARDSON Trombone, Lead Vocals
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The beginning of our timeline:
BRAD BARTON - Sound, Lights
DWIGHT (DEE) CUDE Guitar
MONTE FOSTER - Drums,Lead Vocals
BRENT HERNBLOOM - Lead Vocals, Keyboards
TERRY LUCE - Bass, Lead Vocals
RICHARD MILLER - Sax, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
MICHAEL OSTERBUHR Trumpet, Vocals
STEVE PETR - Trumpet, Road Manager
SCOTT RICHARDSON Trombone, Lead Vocals
CID Productions sends BBW to Arkansas and Louisiana on the original shakedown tour.
MARK QUICK - Joins on Trumpet
MICHAEL OSTERBUHR - departs
STEVE PETR - departs June 1973
MONTE FOSTER - departs
TERRY LUCE -departs
BRENT HERNBLOOM - departs
RICH MILLER - departs
DEE CUDE - departs
GARY VAP-Lights and heavy lifting
ANDY RUMBAUGH - Joins on Guitar
BRIAN GRASSMEYER - Joins on Bass
MURRY KAHLER - Joins on Drums
MIKE KRAUSE - Joins on Keyboards
RANDY SHARP - Joins as lead singer & Multiple Instruments
SCOTT RICHARDSON - Trombone, Vocals
MARK QUICK - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
GARY HATTAN - Joins on Trumpet, Keyboards
CHUCK BUTTON - Joins on Bass
BRIAN GRASSMEYER - departs
GARY VAP-Departs
RAY GRABNER - Joins on Saxophone, Flute, Vocals
MARK QUICK - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
RAY GRABNER - Sax, Flute, Vocals
RANDY SHARP - Bass, Vocals
SCOTT RICHARDSON - Trombone, Vocals
GARY HATTAN - Trumpet, Keyboards, Vocals
MURRY KAHLER. - Drums
MIKE KRAUSE - Keyboards, Vocals
ANDY RUMBAUGH - Guitar, Vocals
BRAD BARTON - Sound
*Music note: All BBW original music was produced by BBW 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 There is No recorded original music prior to Blackberry Winter 2.1 or after Blackberry Winter 3.3
May 1975
ANDY RUMBAUGH - Departs
MIKE KRAUSE - Departs
LUIS CUSIDO - Joins on Keyboards
MIKE KLUVER - Joins on Guitar
BOB WESTBROOK - Joins as Sound Tech
June 1975 Randy Sharp flies out to Los Angeles and adds some tracks and makes some adjustments at Sunwest Studios to finish the album.
September 1975. “The Blackberry Winter” album is pressed and released.
“Answers” b/w “The Aging” is released as the lead single.
MIKE KLUVER - Departs August 1975
FRED BETTGE. - Joins on Guitar, Vocals August 1975
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MARK QUICK - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
RAY GRABNER - Sax, Flute, Vocals
RANDY SHARP - Bass, Vocals
SCOTT RICHARDSON - Trombone, Vocals
GARY HATTAN - Trumpet, Keyboards, Vocals
MURRY KAHLER. - Drums
FRED BETTGE - Guitar, vocals
LUIS CUSIDO - Keyboardist
BOB WESTBROOK - Sound
June 1976: BBW bus crash at Wolfcreek Pass in the Colorado mountains at the beginning of a tour on the way to a performance in south western Colorado.
Mark Quick - Departs July 1976
BBW 2.3
From July 1976 to July 1977, BBW 2.3 performs as a 7 piece until July 4th 1977 when the BBW brass section retires.
CHRIS SCHOON - Joins as Vocalist/Lyricist
MARK GARRISON - Joins on Keyboards
GARY HATTAN - Becomes the new lighting tech
BBW becomes a six piece rock band with two keyboardist.
In 1978 this edition went to Los Angeles and recorded an album of 12 songs in 3 different 24 track LA studios but it was never properly mixed or finished because of budget constraints. (until 2023)
MARK GARRISON - Departs
BRUCE McCRACKEN** -Joins on keys
Bruce McCRACKEN-Departs
RICHARD B LANE - Joins on Keys, Vocals
CHRIS SCHOON - Departs and moves to Southern California
ELAINE DONALDSON - Joins as Vocalist
LUIS CUSIDO - Departs for Barcelona,Spain
GARY HATTAN-Assumes 2nd keyboard spot.
BARRY BETTGE - Becomes the lighting technician
In June of 1981, this edition of BBW 3.2 moves to Southern California. Auditioned for agents at the Rendezvous Club in Anaheim, Owned at the time by Dick Dale’s*** wife. Played the club circuit in Orange County, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego for about two years. The band played a mix of top 40 and original music in their sets.
ELAINE DONALDSON-Departs
JANET GARDNER - Joins as Vocalist
In August of 1983 JANET GARDNER used original BBW tapes (with band permission) to audition for VIXEN, who she then joined & they signed a recording contract with EMI. BBW went on hiatus at this point, continuing to remix original material but never really abandoning the name or the music…..
1983-1996…. For 13 years there was no band performing live under the name “Blackberry Winter”…..to the best of our knowledge.
DWIGHT CUDE - Guitar
SCOTT RICHARDSON - Trombone, Vocals
JIM BOHART - Trumpet, Trombone, Fluglehorn, Vocals
LAMONT FOSTER - Drums, Vocals
STEVE JACOBI - Keyboards, B-3, Vocals
RAY KIRKPATRICK - Sax, Vocals
MIKE THOMAS - Bass
STEVE VOORHEES - Trumpet
LONNIE WEYENTH - Trombone, Mouth Harp
TERRY ZUELOW - Trumpet
SCOTT RICHARDSON - Departs
MIKE THOMAS - Departs
LAMONT FOSTER - Departs
DEE CUDE - Departs
JAIMIE FRISTO - Drums
TERRY SINNARD - Bass, vocals
DAVE BUCHHOLZ - Keyboards, Vocals
CRAIG LINK - Drums, Vocals
MIKE LOVELESS - Guitar, Vocals
JAIMIE FRISTO - Departs
JIM BOHART - Departs
IN 2013 BLACKBERRY WINTER IS re-formed by Steve Jacobi with a new cast of musicians and personnel.
THE CURRENT LINEUP:
CRAIG LINK - Drums, Vocals
STEVE JACOBI - Keyboards, Vocals
TERRY SINNARD - Bass, Vocals
MICK JOHNSON - Guitar, Vocals
TERRY RYAN - Tenor and Bari Sax
TERRY SPEED - Sax
GREG TESDALL - Sax, Vocals
*Deceased members are: Dwight Cude, Luis Cusido, Terry Luce **Shortest tenured Blackberry member *** Dick Dale -The surf guitar king
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