Jan 18, 2021
Pete Krebs has played guitar in so many influential Portland
bands that it's hard to list them all: Hazel, Golden Delicious, The
Stolen Sweets, The Portland Playboys, and Thee Catnip Brothers. He
started his journey playing in punk bands and now he plays Western
Swing at the rodeo every year in Pendleton, Oregon. He's a two-time
inductee into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, and he's survived
cancer twice.
I met Pete for the first time in 1992 when our bands played
together in Virginia at a club called The Insect Club. It was his
band, Hazel, my band, Five Eight, and the Spinanes. Someone got
naked onstage and we almost got beat up and very nearly didn't get
paid. The next time we played together was in Portland and that
night I heard Pete play a song that has haunted me for 30 years. In
this interview, I finally find out the name of it and the original
artist. Wild.
You can find the infamous photo that brought all of this together
on the Crash and Ride Facebook page.
You can read more about Pete and hear a bunch of his music
here:
https://www.heypetekrebs.com/
As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by
MusiCares:
https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief
And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here: