Byron Freeman – organ
Danny Kunz – lead guitar
Robert Miller – bass guitar
D.L. Chase – drums
An article in the Kerrville Daily Times from January 25, 1967 announces their upcoming show at the J.M. Auld Youth Center, and notes the band had been together for about six months with Byron Freeman as manager. Also that they had “played at the San Angelo Air Base and Service Club, the Commanche Club in Burnet, The Char Door in Comfort, Legioin Hall in Fredericksburg, and the teen Club in Kennedy and New Braunfels.”
The article also mentions another dance with a band called The Gates of Creation.
I don’t believe this group ever recorded. There was a group called Jolly Roger and the Poppiteers, from the Waco area, with a couple singles on White Deer. From the label credits, that band included Roy Irby, Dave Carr, Ray Colin, Jim Muile and Roger Simmons.
My name is Rick Dryden and I grew up in Fredericksburg. I knew all the guys in the Jolly Rogers well. I was in the high school band with D. L. Chase and played in two R & R bands with with Robert Miller. This was after the Jolly Rogers disbanded. I was the drummer in both of these bands.
One band was called “Pure Sunshine” and the other was called “Just Another Band”. These groups consisted of Robert Miller, Kenneth Molberg, Gary Jenschke and me.
Kenneth and Gary had been in a band (the Crossfires) that was signed to Tower/Capital and then ultimately the Colgems label. These Fredericksburg boys were only 14 and 15 years old. Colgems changed their name to the “Fountain of Youth”. They put out 7 singles. Their first single was in 1966 on the Tower/Capital label.
Gary and Ken located back to Fredericksburg in ’68 and ’69. We the aforementioned lineup became a reality that performed all over the Texas Hill Country.