Richard Wilfong:  

Life I started playing the Trombone in 1970 and graduated from Mehlville Senior High School in 1976 where I was the 1st chair trombone player for 3 years and played my first song by the band Chicago, "25 or 6 to 4". I then went to Southeast Missouri State University and played in the Golden Eagles Marching Band and the University Symphony. After college, I joined the U.S. Army then played in the Colorado Springs Community Symphony. While there in Colorado, I helped form an Army combo called "Ironhorse Country". I was then transferred to Germany and the Third Armored Division Band (which was the same Division that Elvis Presley was assigned to in Europe) and spent the rest of my time there playing in beer tents and making friends and allies of the Europeans. It must have worked because after I was Honorably Discharged from the Army, the Berlin Wall came down. After the service in 1989, I started playing the blues with the late, Bobby "Bebop" Nickeson in his brother's garage. I would "sit in" and learn the blues with bands all over town and then I got a break. I saw a band playing in Manchester, Mo called "Special Delivery and the Overnight Horns". I was hired and played about 2 years with them and with the tenor saxophone, trumpet and trombone horn section. In 1991, I was playing one night at the jam session when I met the late Gary McCulley, a saxophone player and he said he was forming a new band. Special Delivery had just d...Expand for more