BEAU BONES

Mr. Bones is the epicenter and front man for the Heebie~Jeebies, singing lead vocals and playing lead and rhythm guitar. Beau Bones grew up in the rough and tumble high plains desert town Winslow, Arizona. By seventh grade Beau had his first band that played the local church socials and school dances. Through junior and high school, Beau continued to form bands drawn from the local talent.

Race lines and music styles were blurred and his early childhood musical influences ranged from Merle Haggard to Wilson Pickett; from the Rolling Stones to Louis Armstrong; and from Leadbelly to Mahalia Jackson and a litany of others: Bessie Smith, Paul Robson, Jimmy Rodgers, Benny Goodman, Woody Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Pete Seeger, Mozart, Beethoven and many others.

While his first blues influences came form the British Invasion of the early sixties, Stones, Yardbirds, Animals, John Mayall, Cream, Clapton, he soon realized that all of his favorites performed my those British white boys were actually written by American black men ten or twenty years earlier.

At seventeen he formed the hard rock band Mantis who toured the Four Corners states and held down the Wednesday Rock night at the local honky-tonk, the Skylark Lounge just down the street from “the corner” in downtown Winslow on Route 66.

In his late teens Beau moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he attended NAU and formed the soul-funk band Rosy Van and the Ace of Spades with his high school chum Rosy Van. They played what they affectionately called the "chittlin’ circuit" – all the black bars in Flagstaff, Winslow, Holbrook, McNary, and Gallup.

After the Ace of Spades, Beau’s music focused on the blues and he began to learn the various styles and to collect blues artifacts like old vinyl recording, resonator guitars, vintage tube amplifiers, and of course a plethora of blues songs.

After many year living and playing in northern and central California, Beau move to Denver in 1991. Beau formed Beau Bones and the Heebie~Jeebies in 1996. The line up has changed over the years. The current players are some of the area’s best new talents.



STEVIE DEVILLE

Stevie Deville, lead guitar player for the Heebies, has been spotted lurking on the fringes of streets, halls, and bayous, listening to Muddy Waters, Joe Louis Walker, the Kings - (Albert, Freddie, and B.B.), SRV, Rick Estrin, Tommy Castro, Kenny Neal, Coco Montoya, and Howlin' Wolf with a big, fat smile on his face.

When he grows up he wants to be like them. Beyond that very little is known about him.

Rumors he was born in Denver in the middle of the last century are unconfirmed.



T-BONE

T-Bone Meyers, drummer for the Heebies, was raised by coyotes in the Utah desert. When his family perished in a freakishly rare inland squall, he found himself alone and starving in the desert. He would have died if he hadn't found his Anasazi spirit guide who taught him the ways of universal rhythm.

T-bone was later discovered by geologists who enrolled him in prep school where he was exposed to his first musical sounds. After evolving through bands like "The Monkees" and "Kiss", T-bone immersed himself into great rock bands such as "Led Zeppelin", "ZZ Top", "The Rolling Stones" and the like.

In his teen years he was inspired to perform as a singer, so he joined a band doing Van Halen cover songs named "Fair Warning". One band led to another until T-Bone finally saved enough cash to purchase his own drum kit.

His Anasazi spiritual Rhythmic training finally came to fruition. Today, T-Bone has mellowed and though he is still a rocker at heart, through the din of "Play Quieter", is content to turn down and play the Blues with style and touch.



B.B. DEVILLE

Brother Brian Deville is the bottom to the Heebie Jeebies' sound.

B.B. has the red gills of a native but spent some time in the midwest and deep south before coming home to the mountains.

B.B. claims to have been weened on Clapton, Buddy Miles, Jimi Hendrix, and CSN&Y. Nevertheless, in an apparent shift of the time-warp continuum, he made his professional debut singing and playing bass at the front range polka venues.

B.B. has found his blues family with the Heebies, and turned his attention to the bump and grind of the blues, R&B, Soul, and funk.

Also, B.B. was the sound engineer and mix master on their latest CD, Bones From the bluesyard.