![]() ![]() The group, based in Martha's Vineyard, are all fishing fanatics, and they decided that the basic fighting characteristics of the typical bluefish suited the personalities of everyone in the band at the time. I worked for a while in the early 90s with the criminologist Jock Young, who had written many essays and books on Folk Devils and Moral Panics and the psychology of Outsiders, gangs and gang mentality. Everthing that media whore Arsenio Hall broke into television talk shows as an announcer. We human individually abnd collectivekly have all evolved I could argue that the Talibam and Putin et have not evolved at all, but let thatpass for now. You would probably be the same age as my son. (he ran illegal gambling clubs & fenced gear etc),my dad ran out of his room wearing just his pants & chased the black bloke down the stairs & into the kitchen where my dad caught up &battered him & threw him through the glass back door which led into the garden,the black guy ended up torn to bits & with a thumb missing!.Dad ended up getting nicked for it after he called the OB to come & get the bloke & my dad got 2 years bird for the assault-ridiculous huh?. With a Blues and Roots sound, the variety of the grooves in the music allow for a wide spectrum of venues. WebJohn Cravin Hoy, 10 January 1957, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. The white building was the Express Dairies, my grandfather used his influence (nobody was foolish enough to say no to him), to get me a milk round out of there my 1st job at 9 years old. Finding common ground with a broad range of different American lifestyles and music styles, black soul or white trash, Hoy’s output refuses to be limited to a strict genre category.LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 19755/76 1976/77 1978/79 1979/80 1981/82 I would say though, there are some incredible facts and figures about our club it depends whether you find them relevant, or helpful, to your commitment to the club that every Gooner follows. Hoy’s lyrics often display a wild, unpretentious sense of humour on ‘Love Dog’, he sings ‘I wanna be your mutt. So far Hoy and the Bluefish have encompassed styles such as blues (Trolling The Hootchy, You Gonna Lose Your Head) and zydeco, rockabilly, pop (Walk The Plank), all released on Tone-Cool Records. A couple of long-standing fellow musicians are Jeremy Berlin (keyboards) and Paul Size (guitar). The band saw over 30 personnel changes over the years, with Hoy, always shifting direction with whatever current members’ inclinations and influences led them. Playing his harmonica in an ad hoc band at a friend’s wedding gave Hoy the impetus to organize a full-time line-up for his new band, Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish. The decision to play professionally was cemented by the birth of his daughter and a new-found sense of commitment. ![]() He jammed with other musicians when he met them but never formed long-term partnerships. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his rootless, lonely existence drew him towards the blues, finding rhythm in the pace of his footsteps. Wherever he travelled, he always had a harmonica in his pocket, which he described as ‘just a kind of companion’. Never graduating high-school, Hoy did a round of various labouring jobs, even passing a brief stint with a circus. He ricocheted from coast to coast visiting his mother and father, hitchhiking and stowing-away on freight trains. He experienced a nomadic childhood with his parents’ divorcing when he was 10. ![]() Hoy became a musician more by default than plan. John Cravin Hoy, 10 January 1957, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. ![]()
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