The Bubbadinos

At the first session for the Bubbadinos third CD recorded in Studio A at KUNM when Ken arrived I pointed out where he was to set up his operation, and as I pointedaround the room to where everybody else was sitting, I said, and that’s where Dino willbe and Stefan right next to him. Ken said, “Good, so all the noise will be comingfrom the same place.” –Mark Weber

As much as Bubba D loved playing the tracking sessions Dino loved the mixing sessions with the post crew DQW (dino/quincy/weber). When we finally dug into the studio “concept album” (#4- yup, we’re beating a dead horse/the sargent bubbadino sessions), we used George Martin’s book (with a little help from my friends), about the making of Revolver/Sgt. Pepper’s/Magical Mystery Tour, as the script for the entire project. – J.A. Deane

Dino & Colleen moved to Ribera, New Mexico, from Oakland, around 1995. And somewhere around that time I drove the two hours north from Albuquerque to visit them. This is a little adobe village with house trailers and horses and a little restaurant called The Sad Cafe. And as I blundered around trying to make sense of the directions to Dino’s house, a little mud-spatter’d car started following me. I decided to pull into the dirt parkinglot of the Catholic Church and this car with dogs all hanging out the windows and a rough customer wearing a yellow Caterpillar duckbill hat pulled right up behind me. I looked in my rear-view mirror and said to myself, “I wonder what this bubba wants.” And it turned out to be Dino in disquise! And thus is how Dino became Bubba D.–Mark Weber

When Big Web asked me to join his new band the (as yet un-named) Bubbadinos he asked me to play trombone but I told him that I wanted to play lapsteel guitar. He said “I didn’t know that you could play the steel guitar”, I said “I can’t”. –J.A. Deane

The photos from February 27, 1999 were from a performance arranged by Dino’s friend from San Francisco and it was called “Cookie Marenco Presents THE BUBBADINOS in the Liquid Audio Crash Pad” at the Doubletree Hotel, downtown Albuquerque. I don’t remember what songs we did — I’m sure there’s a set list somewhere — Cookie recorded it, you can see the pop filter stuck on my face — there were quite a few Bubbadino renditions of old country songs that never made it to CD. Just imagine what a goldmine country music is, we could spend years just playing Buck Owens, or Ernest Tubb, or Carl Smith. Myself, I had to write songs for the CDs because we couldn’t afford to pay for the rights for as many songs as can fill up a CD. Which was a shame, because there are so many great country songs.– Mark Weber