August 26, 2007---- Big Anouncement from FOG!

One of the original "five old guys", Bruce Burgoyne has decided in recent weeks that it's time for him to retire from the music scene and focus more on his business, Boone's Junction in Wilsonville. The hauling of equipment to and from the shows is taking its' toll on the "old-timer" and in his own words, "I ain't as young as I used to be", so he's gonna put up a hammock and kick back on the weekends and watch the rest of us sweating it...anyway... It's been a great 3 years with Bruce and we'll miss him a lot but there will be one last chance to heckle, I mean, see him and that will be the weekend of September 14-15 at Hing's in Oregon City. You've got to make plans to come out and help us send him off on that Saturday night. He'll always be welcome to come out and sing a set or three in the future (on those days he's taken his Geritol!) so we'll be seeing him from time to time. Maybe even play on the deck at his Pub in the near future...

The rest of us will carry on as a 4 piece and possibly have periodic guests from time to time. At the moment we're in the process of dividing up Bruce's songs! :-) and of course, some of them won't be sung by any of us so you won't hear us doing those songs. They are songs that fit his voice perfectly so we'll also be missing those tunes as well as his percussion playing. We wish the very best of luck to Bruce in whatever he does in the future and we'll be seeing all of you at Hing's on September 14 & 15.

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July 2, 2007

We had a lot of fun this past weekend at Pub 181. Nice crowd both nights. We hope you had as much fun as we did. That is what keeps us going night after night. As soon as the dancers make their move to the floor the adrenaline pumps up and Buckster is good for the rest of the night. He has too much fun, by our estimations, but it rubs off on the rest of us.... Once again, thanks for coming out and we want to see you at our next show at Hings on July 15-16.

Rock On!

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June 10, 2007

This past weekend was excellent! Very enthusiastic crowd kept us on our toes every minute on Saturday. Hing's must be the birthday celebration club in Oregon City. Quite a few birthday's, in fact, this weekend. We had a guest singer on a tune, Holly Cole from a band called "Lowenbad" and her rendition of "Fever" was absolutely beautiful. I couldn't believe our luck to have someone that talented come up and join us... and she's Janet's niece! Along with that we had a great turnout from you and that keeps our energy level at a high level. We'll be back at Hing's this coming weekend (June 15-16) so come on out. The week after you can catch "The Kooltones" at Hing's. Thanks, Marty, for the use of the lights!

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May 3, 2007

Steve Hart joined us on April 13-14 at Hing's and it couldn't have been any better. Excellent musician and great friend to have. We had a nice crowd both nights and we'd also like to thank Jeff Munkers and his wife for coming out and Buckster's wife Pie as well as their friends. One of his friends, Mike, is a fine drummer and he came up on 3 songs and he came up later as played conga's on 3 Santana tunes, one being "Black Magic Woman" and it sounded like the record. I (Mark) was amazed since we have never played the song. Fortunately, Steve, Tom and Dean had done it in years past and I happened to know the drum part. All we had to do was let Bruce and Buckster clang on some percussion odd-sorts and let Mike do some conga stuff. I'll remember that one for a long time to come. And, Jeff came up earlier in the night and played some tunes with us and was as solid as ever. Thanks to all who came out and joined us and we hope to see you at our next show in June.

Also, we've made some schedule changes recently so please go to our schedule page in case you were planning to join us on one of those evenings that was changed as well as a couple of added weekends at Hing's in June and one at Pub 181 (date to be announced) later in the year.