Richard Wisniach:  

Hello Life Survivors and Congratulations!! Reality Show; Cody! Cast: "Us!" Time: "Ours" Star and Commentator: "You." Let's begin. Take a walk with me back to 1965, 64, 63; I'll begin here.... Played in all of Cody High bands, but the best and my favorite was the "Stage/Jazz Band" ...remember our theme song; Peter Gunn. Curtain going up, during assemblies or concerts, everyone screaming. Exciting to be a part of that back then. I cherished it. Had my own working band on weekends plus played in a few other rock bands around Dearborn Hieghts/Telegraph. Worked at my Dad's music Store in Dearborn Hieghts on Warren Ave. My Dad was on WXYZ T.V. -a musician and comedy actor on the Soupy Sales, nite show, plus had his own Club Polka T.V. show in the Fifties. (our parents time) Stan Wisniach (Wiz'nee ak) After Graduation; a yr at Henry Ford Jr College, was drafted and joined the Navy; as a musician. After 6 months at the Navy School of Music (met a lot of very talented and heavy guys there, who played with Stan Kenton and Mel Torme already...unreal talents) we (7 of us better musicians) formed our own "Rock-Soul-Jazz Show Band," (aside from the Navy Touring Band)...while traveling Europe for a year; great fun, they treated us like the Beatles or something. We were very good, made the newspapers; we were so popular that the Navy gave us civilian clothes, and we received numerous citations and awards for "promoting good will and being positive ambassadors" for our country during the negative political climate of the Viet Nam era; 67-68 Europeon/Med tour. (our own 7 pc rock-show band) Pretty fun experience and times for a 19 year old out of Detroit. Opportunity to see, 15-18 different cities in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta etc..3-4 tour cycles to each country over that year tour. That was exciting, fun, creative & memorable...at 19- 20 years old. Nice! Settled in Southern California to get into the studio's/studio musician was the goal. Did some recording, played for Bobby Vinton, lived on the ocean my first year, life was great! During and after college I had my own working band again on the weekends;while working Corp. positions as Regional Sales Mgr. for Western U.S. in commercial Juice Extracting equip and Chiquita Tropical Products. Owned several of my own Wienerschnitzel Franchises in my late twenties= yeah, go ahead say it..."Wienny man." lol. Married, divorced, single now; two kids raised. Live on a Lake in a Bedroom Community about 10 miles from the Ocean near Laguna Beach-Dana Point,San Clemente area. Miss Michigan especially the autumn and Franklin Cider Mills, leaves turning; most romantic time and memories for me. I try and visit my nieghborhood friends/buddies in the Fall to experience that piece of my heart. Passion; I love writing songs. This weekend my son goes into a recording studio on drums, (he's 17)... and it's my favorite place in the world to be; my son, music and recording. I played all the saxes, clar, flute, and just bang around on piano for arranging and writing; that's my love. I also love photography a lot. Had offers to work at Capital Records on the business side in my twenties and blew that one, cause I wanted to stay in college. Then was in line to be a road mgr. for the Carpenter's in the early seventies, but didn't get it; my brush with some nice stuff around the music bus...in my early twenties-- Oh vell!! Took a different road; a dirt road vs. an expedient freeway-...Expand for more