El Rey and The Night Beats

"Still Crazy After All These Years"

The 2009/current El-Rey And The Night Beats

Front Row: El Rey Ojeda, Duffy Wage
2nd Row: BJ Gebhardt, Gene Schiller, Terry Thuemling, Rich Gonia
Back Row: Ray VonGunten, Jim Capozzo

Check out the gig photos here.

The 2005 El-Rey And The Night Beats

El Rey Ojeda, Mike Price, Steve Gunther
Terry Thuemling, Larry Price, Gene Schiller, Jim Capozzo, BJ

1957 The original Night-Beats:   El Rey Ojeda - Sax, Rusty Bartelamas - Lead Guitar, Ron Kurtz - Rhythm Guitar, Tom Montez - Drums, Ace Rudan - Bass

Dick Whitstone - Vocals (not shown)

The Early 60s: Skip Rhode - Bass ('63), El Rey, Jack Stafenbeil - Drums ('62), Terry Thuemling - Rhythm Guitar ('60), Rusty

Live at the VFW in Waukesha

The Mid 60s: Gene Schiller - Bass ('67), Rusty, El Rey, Terry and Jack.  It's the english era.

Terry gets the award for best all-time Night-Beat outfit!

The Late 60s: Rusty, Terry, B.J. Gebhardt - Bass ('68), Jack and El Rey (not shown is Rudy Petrovsky - Bass).  

It's the Zivkos' era.  

Jack gets the award for all-time best Night Beat hair!

The Early 70s: B.J., Gene, Mike Price - Drums ('71), El Rey and Rusty at the Sunset Bowl.

The Mid-Late 70s: El Rey, Ron Moen - Bass ('73), Rusty, B.J., Mike and Terry at the Whistling Toad... It's the Disco Era.  

Nice collars guys!

The 80s:  Steve Gunther - Lead Guitar, Bill Block - Bass, Mike Moretti - Drums, El Rey and Pete Llanas - Guitar.  

Others from the '80s not shown are Bill Akin, Dan Hansen, John Fredricks and Jeff Loss.

The 90s:  Jim Cappozzo - Trumpet, Frank Reda - Trumpet, Dennis Stevens - Bass, J.P. Slater - Drums, Pete Llanas, El Rey and Steve Gunther - Guitar.  

Others from the '90s not shown are Larry Price, Al Nettesheim, Andy Congemi, Chuck Theama, Hans Roitters, Tim Dotson and Rocky-Rico-Rotscha.