December 2016
Steel Notes Magazine
RW:
Ronnie Wheeler Blues has a show Dec 2nd
at Bowery Electric Map Room ... 8pm. Feb
4 you can catch the rest of my bands at the
Beast of Bourbon.
MBW:
How about Bad Avocado ???
RW:
Bad Avocado started maybe 3 years ago ...
We have Interstate Johnson on Lead guitar
& vocals ... me on Lead guitar and vocals
... Stu Richards aka Chicken Leg on bass
& Shauna Westgate on drums ... We are a
jam band that play mostly originals a few
covers ... Interstate & I do sick harmony
guitar leads and it is a total blast!! ... See us
Feb 4th at Beast of Bourbon... https://www.
facebook.com/badavocado/
MBW:
Let's step w ay back ... tell us when and
where this Tasmanian musical devil began
to emerge ???
RW:
My 1st concert ... Age 13 ... to see KISS ... I
thought 'hmmm, I wanna do that'
MBW:
Were you caught off guard by anything
in particular that began spinning those
Wheeler wheels ???
RW:
Janes Addiction & Mother Love Bone ...
Set my sail.
MBW:
Can you tell us about any influences you
had ... where, when & how ???
RW:
When I was 10 years old I really loved
Fleetwood Mac ... 12 years old I got into
Aerosmith ... 13 Led Zeppelin, Van Helen,
Metallica, Saxon. Black Sabbath, Judas
Priest, then came Randy Rhodes w. Ozzy ...
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born & played in lots of band back in the day.
MBW:
What was going through your head at let's say fifteen ???
RW:
Girls girls girls & learning to play Randy Rhodes & Jimmy Page licks.
Girls & the sweet leaf.
MBW:
What were your interests and did you have a lot of friends ???
RW:
Even when I was a little nerdy kid I always had lots of friends ... I was
interested in just guitar and singing ... Some of my family would try