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FREDDIE PEREZ-STABLE On the drums is the newest member of the band and one of our oldest friends, Freddie Perez-Stable. Freddie, or “Fradio”, as he has been dubbed by Robbie the Roadie, played drums with Austin “Walkin’ Cane” Charanghat and the Sky Dogs from 1990 thru 1994. He has also served sentences in Cruisin’, Hayshaker Jones and the JiMiller Band prior to being pardoned and permitted to peacefully live out the rest of his days as a cantankerous old man as the drummer for Colin Dussault and company. Fradio officially joined the CDBP in October of 2006. Fredo is a former beauty queen who traded in the crown for the crack pipe. But he is Ok now.

Fradio hails from Habana, Cuba, a locale whose nightlife, restaurants and cabarets are renowned word wide. As a youth Fradio grew up frequenting the cities live music haunts, watching artists like Arturo Sandoval & scouring the stage & dance floor for lone strands of Sandoval’s hair. With his gatherings Fradio created a hair doll in honor of the great horn player.

As a teenager Fradio passed the time by throwing rocks at bottles & cans and birds in trees with deadly precision and accuracy. His prowess at picking off birds from trees with a rock garnered him great respect throughout the land and eventually led to his playing catcher for the Habana Leones. His tenure as the Leones backstop only lasted for 2 months though due to his constant drunkenness and unhealthy obsession with and love for Bette Midler and her music.

Eventually, Fradio and his family fled the tyranny of Fidel Castro’s Cuba by sailing across the Gulf of Mexico in a converted 1949 Plymouth DeSoto. They survived the perilous journey across the ocean in their car/boat by lovingly and faithfully re-enacting scenes from the “I Love Lucy” Show while sustaining themselves with a large bottle of  “VITAMEATAVEGAMIN.” Fradio also knocked seagulls out of the sky in mid-flight for the family to eat by throwing misc. nuts and bolts torn away from the undercarriage of the DeSoto with deadly precision and accuracy.

When he reached the sunny shores of Florida, Fradio supported himself as a migrant fruit picker and bird “watcher” and runner/bag man for the Median Drug Cartel. He eventually picked his way north to Catawba Island, Ohio where we discovered him sitting on a peach crate in the parking lot of the world famous Cheese Haven.

When we almost hit him with our band van he was banging out incredible interpretations of tunes by Cuban pianist Ruben Gonzalez on a garbage can lid. He did this while simultaneously picking off crows in the trees and off of power lines with rocks from 90 yards away. (For the uninitiated, Cheese Haven is world famous for the kindness and courtesy that it’s employees show you as you shop and sample their smoked cheese products-Eat as much as you want. They’ll make more!)

We really dug his garbage can lid playing and you never know when you might need a bird killed from 90 yards should the band van brake down by the side of the road leaving you stranded and hungry for several days. Plus he carries gear, has a sense of humor, possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball & football stats and loves the Flying Burrito Brothers! What’s not to love?

If you’ve ever seen our shows and wondered why we play for 2 and 3 hours straight without taking a break, there is a simple answer. The reason we don’t take breaks is because we don’t want to have to re-train the drummer after the break!

It is interesting to note that Fradio spent some time in Hollywood as a double for famous actors including Rosie O’Donnell, Bette Midler and Fred Flintstone. His most famous role was as a stunt/body double for Mindy Cohen who starred as “Natalie” on televisions “Facts of Life” which aired on ABC –TV from 1979 to 1988.

FRED TOBEY has been playing bass professionally ever since he and Greg Hurd started jamming together as teenagers at Rocky River High School. Fred is an accomplished and well traveled bass player (upright 4, 5 and 6 string), arranger, composer, singer and songwriter. Fred's past bands include Mary Martin & the Tuna Band, The Skydogs, the Hamilton Brothers Band, Nightbridge, Frankie Starr and the Skip Hadden / Ron Kozack Quartet. "The Round Mound of Sound in C-Town laying it down much to his wife's frown" has been working on and off with Colin for many years and was "officially" asked to join the band in 2003. This invitiation to join was extended after the grocery carts that he and Colin were pushing while each was indendendantly food shopping at their local super market inexplicably continued to bump into each other aisle after aisle. Finally by they time they had each reached the Dairy aisle and ran into each others carts for the 6th time, they decided in a strange "Coast to Coast AM" way that this must be destiny and decided to join forces to torment "Ricky" with Banjo music, save the world from Carpenter's songs and take listeners on bus trips to "Nasty Town!" Most of Colin's original songs were co-written by / with Fred. Always seeking new sources of income Fred is trying to mass market several creations that he had invented including the "Mistletoe Beltbuckle", the "Eldo" and the "Dilvis"! Fred's favorite quote (at the time of this writing) is from the "Coast to Coast AM" radio show (Ricky's favorite) and goes like this: "You don't know what you don't know." One of Fred's other favorites (and ours) is "What is the last thing a Redneck says before he gets killed?" He says "watch this!"