The Frisco Circle Band Project...
The "Project"....
The Frisco Circle Band Project was the creation of Jim Massey ("JW") of Houston, TX. As a band member himself going back to the 1960's, Jim looked back to the time where he experienced working with awesome musical & songwriting talent and thought how great it would be to pull together such talent into one platform for many to enjoy. Therefore, his purpose was to provide the planet with quality original music and inspiring programming through a Roadhouse Radio Platform and to support fellow Musicians/Songwriters with showcase exposure. He recruited two other Musician/Songwriters who caught the vision. Therefore, with the creative trio of Jim Massey ("JW"), Don Dickinson ("Don Paul") (Raleigh, NC) and Dave Eiffert ("Cross-Tie") (Cleveland, OH) evolved "The Best Damn Internet Radio EVER". JW still plugs away with Frisco Circle, Cross-Tie is doing great things with his band ("One-Eyed" Fred) and Don Paul is Operator and Station Manager of the Roadhouse.... All 3 are very much involved in the success of the station.
Our Insight...
May The Circle Be Unbroken ...
THE HOBO CULTURE: The Frisco Circle looks back to the Hobo culture of Depression Era America. The jungle population would do their best to bring in what provisions they could to supply the camp. In the evening all would gather around and place their contributions into the 'frisco circle'. Everybody contributes; everybody benefits.
Such is FRISCO ROADHOUSE RADIO
Our Historical Inspiration
THE MELODY BOYS TEXAS SWING BAND
This picture was taken in 1936 in Galveston, Texas. That's JW's Dad with the Bass Fiddle and his Uncle in the midst with the Fiddle. It was told that they would later travel around with the greats of the Texas Swing Bands of that era. He remembers a Nashville great and Grand Ole Opry member, Little Jimmy Dickens, came to his home in East Houston when he was a boy . His Dad, JW, his Uncle Cesar and some others jammed all night long in his living room. He had an old Sears acoustic guitar and they let him sit in. He was "hooked" and never looked back. (Thanks Dad and Thanks Uncle Cesar-JW)
I WAS IMMEDIATELY HOOKED. THAT OPENING RIFF!
Unlike most musicians, I had no musical role models in my family. My father didn’t play bass in a blues band. My mother didn’t give piano lessons to neighborhood kids. No instruments laying around, nor was there a radio or record player blaring out songs in anything close to regularity. I remember a cache of 8-track tapes that came in from Columbia House. Burton Cummings, Engelbert Humperdinck, Barry Manilow. It’s hard to imagine how a young lad would ever be inspired by music with such meager influences. That all changed in 5th grade during an assembly/talent show at school. Some 6th graders (old guys) had formed a band. With Electric guitars! They played Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water. I was immediately hooked. -"Cross Tie" Walker