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October 9, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Detroit Wheels.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Jimmy Bones.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Oh hey Jimmy, great to talk to you, my friend.
We've got a show coming up with Jimmy Bones and
the Snake pitt Wanderers over at the Token Lounge on
Saturday the eighteenth. Are you getting fired up from that
show yet?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jimmy, Yeah, man, we we got together, Me and the
guys got together, Deren and Dennis Burg and Quoiet again.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We got together last night.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
And we've got some guests coming in for that one,
and you know, ran through some stuff that that those
folks are going to be, you know, dealing with us, and.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be. We're gonna rock it.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm excited for you for this show. But yeah, I
guess we got to address the elephant in the room,
which is the fact that just a couple of months
ago you announced that you had lou Gerrigg's disease that
you're suffering from aos you left the Twisted Brown Trucker band.
But I saw Jimmy that it looked like Kid Rock

(01:05):
was supporting you pretty strongly there. And you did a
show with your band out at a park and him
and Uncle Cracker came out and both him and Bob
showed some great support.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah. We, well, we finished up the tour and you know,
I got diagnosed with it last December, and I kept
it very quiet, except you know, within some my small
circle and obviously the band, and you know, told Bob

(01:38):
and he was extremely supportive, has been extremely supportive as
as a whole band. Yeah, we after the show.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I had already had a show at the Park.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
In Milford booked with my band, and I knew a
couple of them were going to show up and everything
is there to ask about it and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
And then all of a.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Sudden, I'm seeing all these people and and I'm like,
what the Heck's going on? And then I see Bob's
manager there and a couple other people, and I'm like, wait,
what's going on? So many bumps me from behind and
I turned around to Bob. So I had no clue,
I had no idea. I was posing percent surprised when

(02:19):
he and Cracker showed up and everything and the whole
band was there. Stephanie came up from Ohio, you know,
Jason Krause, Aaron Julison, Marlon Young was there, you know, Cracker,
herschel Boone and his wife, Terena, And you know then
I said, hey, you guys, are you guys want to jump.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Up on something? And we they agreed and they came
up and we all did drift away and uh, and
you know that that really went over.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
You know, with the park, it's a it was an event.
It's an event that happens every Thursday in Milford Music
Program in the summertime, and they get a lot of
really good acts coming through her tribute and blues and
jazz and everything else. And I think with the turnout
that we had, you know, approaching a thousand or so,

(03:16):
that the people that were regulars that go to this
thing and put their their chairs out there around noon
and everything, we're wondering what and the heck is going
on here right now?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
You know, So you had to have felt great about
that though. I mean the support thing I did you
guys have, and and the friendship and the camaraderie that
you guys have had all these years. I remember, uh,
you know, it wasn't too long ago we had that
conversation and uh, and you mentioned that you had played

(03:50):
with Bob for about thirty years. I mean, that's incredible.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Mm hmm, yeah, yep, yep, and uh you know, and
you know, I don't. I don't know exactly where we're
at yet with that, although I am progressing and it's
getting to where, you know, to be fair, I've got
a you know, I even offered him before this past
tour or gets somebody in because you're hearing what I do.

(04:18):
But to achieve what you what I've heard over or
what the fans and you have heard over the years live,
I've had to change a lot of my mechanics of
my playing just to get that out. And and even
now doing that, I'm you know, progressing to a point
where that's not even achievable anymore.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, it's awesome that he lets you play and stay
in the band right up until the very end. That is,
that's fantastic. Yeah, it's a very difficult disease to function
with and manipulate and and mask at the same time.
So our hearts go out to you for that. I mean,
I know, it wasn't too long after we had our
conversation that the word had kind of filtered out. I

(05:04):
know so many people whose hearts were broken over that, Jimmy,
So we love you. That's why we're all gonna come
out and support you on the eighteenth over at the
Token Lounge, and I think it. I think it'll be
a special night. You talked about some friends coming out
there as anybody reached out and said, who who might
be showing up?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, I can I can tell you. You know, Jason
Krause is gonna come up and he's gonna sit in
on guitar on one thing. Dominic Lamar are good friend,
he always, he was in. He was in my original
Jimmy Bones and the Grave.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Robbers lineup on drums.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
He'll come up. I'm hoping that Johnny Beale come up.
Dave Edwards from the look, he and I go way back,
and he released a few years back a version of
Bring It On, hon to Me, the Sam Cook version,
and he and I the two cart harmonies on it
and release. So we're gonna do that, and he's gonna

(06:04):
do something else. And then I talk to my good
friend Derek Saint Holmes. He's gonna come up, and I said, well,
I'm going to get you up there to play if
you're you're coming, and he's today, I'm scared.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh no, he's great. Yeah, no, and he could plug
into anything, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
So Derek, yeah, and that, and he just sings his
ass off and plays his ass off. That guy is
you know, he's he's still he's still at his twenty
year old selt as far as being at the top
of his game.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Then I had read that you had put out some
new music, and that initially was why you were out
with your solo band doing some gigs.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right, yeah, we're gonna put those. We're going to put
those into the show. The two new singles that I released,
like a Fever and a whole lot of rock and Rolling.
We talked about that the last time we talked on
the air. At least one of them was out of
at that point in time. So yeah, those will be

(07:08):
in the show, and you know, and then I've got
the thing ready for Santo. Man, that's gonna be happening
not too shortly. That's that's right around the corner. So
that's all mixed, mastered, gonna be dropping.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh so you you did Christmas music this time this year.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I do have it. I've got I've got a
single that I'm releasing. Oh well, yeah, that's gonna that's
gonna happen this year.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Wow, that's exciting. That's great. You know a lot of
people are putting out Christmas music all of a sudden
these last couple of years. It seems like it's in
vogue again to do that. And you know, we've had
so many of the old ones. It's great to have
some new Christmas music. I think it's great. And Jimmy,
you know whatever whatever right now, you know makes you

(07:55):
feel good, that's what you should do, no question about it.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And yeah, I'm not I'm not letting this thing get
me down and everything, and you know, you know, my
family is very supportive. The kids are great. They jump
in and help out and like, hey, are you okay?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Let me do that for you and blah blah.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well they should. They're like they're like giant redwood trees.
They're so big.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now, yeah, a couple of them are, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Taylor and Ashton, right.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, sir man, they're both. You know, these guys are
six footers and you know, all yoked up weightlifters and
things like that. You know.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Veryah.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I think the last time I saw your kids they
were like ten years old. So yeah, I saw some
pictures of them on Facebook. I went, holy smokes, these
guys could be you know, like on the Detroit Tigers
or Lions or something. So are they into music? Are they?
Are they musical?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Taylor?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Taylor has gotten pretty good with working on his his
studio and he does quite a bit of beat, so
that kind of thing more in the hip hop world.
But they're huge fans of music all the way around.
Ashton loves his country music and everything, but he loves
rock and roll and even the younger ones. My youngest,

(09:20):
Jolie is huge into dance, into you know, company dance.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
He does ballet tap.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Everything and she's really talented with that. And Emma, my
fourteen year old, loves everything from Milana del Rey to
Black Sabbath to LEDs Uppelin, the Stones, you know everything.
She's really into Queen But and I turned her onto
all kinds of stuff. This week. I was playing her
from Robin Trower is right. I start playing you all

(09:52):
the stuff that I sang when I was in high school.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Don't take her down the rabbit hole or you're gonna
end up with you know two thousand were new albums
in your house?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, we were already approaching that because she don't they
both love Vinyl two?

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Of course, yeah, absolutely, Dane.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Is always supporting that for him too. You know, she's
a big music fan herself, and you know, if they
want something for their birthday, Jane's always picking that up
for him.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
So who are the guys that are with you in
the band on stage?

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, the the snake bit Wanders are Quaite Finn again
on drums, Dennis Burke on bass and you know Dennis
from Tino's, Gee's Dumpster Machine and many others around. Great player.
And then kind of my wingman on this on guitar

(10:48):
is Garrett Melanic and Garrett's uh you know, played with
played for me over the years. That's film playing on
and all the new singles playing guitar. And he also
worked with me on the rock Spell record that Dick
Wagner or not Dick Wagner Jack Douglas produced, you know

(11:13):
where we backed me and and Garrett and Johnny b
And and Paul Randolph. We backed the Detroit Youth Choir
and a great project that provides you know, all the
proceeds go to provide music, therapy and everything for the
lives children.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, and Garrett did. Garrett did his time to the
last couple of Alice Cooper records, Detroit Stories and Breadcrumbs,
so he's he's on both of those records too. He's
a he's a ringer man. Garrett's great.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
He mean, decided now what you want to do with
your music career? Are you gonna? Is this your last show?
Is this uh one of your last shows? Is this
something that you're thinking about or have you made any
plans at all?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I am not letting this thing knock me down, and
I will keep performing, writing, recording, doing live stuff as
long as I can walk up on stage and hold
myself up and sing. You know. Like I said, a
lot of my driving piano has gone now, but I

(12:25):
can still you know, I can still play keys, play
organ you know, since that kind of thing, I've lost
a lot of my let's say Elton John Leon Russell,
that kind of technique, the real pounding driving stuff, you know.
The weakness in my hands won't allow me to attempt
it anymore in so lot as well as fingerdeck stery.

(12:48):
But hey, I haven't lost my outside voice yet, and
I can still play harmonica and do all of that,
so I'll keep going as long as I physically can.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
We all we all feel for you, We have been
thinking about you, and just you know, want you to
be the best you can be and as long as
you can do it, then enjoy it and get out
there and kick it out. Because there's nothing better, you know,
for things like this than music, right, so you know

(13:20):
why not?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, and the whole I mean not only the Detroit
you know, and the music community, but worldwide, the fans,
my family, friends, everybody. The outpouring of love and support
has just been very humbling and you know, just just

(13:44):
absolutely fantastic. The people that came to the show in Milford.
And then John Bobby and I spoke the next day
because you know, he can sure put together some great
productions and everything, and he's like, let's go in the token.
Let's do that. So here we are going in October
the eighteenth, thanks the John Bobby.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
And our good Friend's Horse Cave Trio will be opening
up that show. I'm going to be out there as
your official MC.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
And all right, man, all right, good, And that's the
best news I've heard.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
All Oh, is that right? Well you need a professional introduction,
of course you do. And I saw that You're going
to have some special T shirts out there as well.
So are those for anything other than souvenirs or does
the proceeds go to anything?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
They're just you know, it's just part of my merch stuff,
you know. So we've got the Bones Infinity shirts. And
then I did a re release of the photograph shirt
of me playing the piano and Linda a Lexi took
that photograph one day and we turned it into a
T shirt, you know, So we've got a version of

(15:03):
it that that we did it on a light colored
T shirt in black instead of the usual black and white.
And I kind of took the took the cue from
the NHL last year, so I called it the reverse retro.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I love that, Yes, sir man.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
All right, Jimmy, well listen, do what you have to
do to keep yourself rocking and rolling, and we're all
going to come out and support you and see you
on Saturday the eighteenth at the Token Lounge in Westland.
I wouldn't miss it even if I wasn't your MC.
I was planning on coming out there.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
But you know, we want to great to see you, man.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
We just want to support you and just give you
a big hug and tell you that it's going to
be all right and we're going to be here for you.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Thank you, Doug. Yeah, the love that's been coming through
everything is just just incredible. And I think everybody all right,
and I'm gonna keep rocking, all right.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
That's the best news I've gotten all day today, all right,
So thank you for that, Jimmy Bones, all right, all right,
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