Jeff Dowder, of Temple City, CA, is a student at UCLA (he also has a PhD and works at Cal Tech) and the drummer for the band, Darkhorse. He believes he is one of the best drummers in the business. The band cut a CD called Darkhorse which Phil premiered one evening in its entirety. Jeff's favorite song is "Bitchin".
Unfortunately the band was all killed on April 27, 1998 when the equipment van they were travelling in went off the cliff at Big Sur. This ended Jeff's chance to play at Woodstock. Among the dead was Butter Bradley and Cliff Weaver. Also Bobby Thornton, Cat Watkins, Jocko Pastore and Findley Johnson passed in the crash. So Jeff decided to just be "The Darkhorse". He wrote a song calledWhen Things Go Bad in honor of his dead band mates. Now Jeff is going to open Dowder's Drum Dungeon, a school for drummers.
Jeff recently came up with a great idea to clone Jesus using the Shroud of Turin. Discussion on air ran the gamut including whether it would be right to allow a young Jesus to "spark the owl!"
Jeff is a great wrestling fan and former professional wrestler named "Saddle Tramp" who wrestled in the SWA, Southwestern Wrestling Association. Jeff spoke with Phil after Owen Hart of the WWF was killed in Kansas City. Dowder refused to believe that Hart had actually died. He said it was just another stunt or theatrics of the WWf. Wrestlers hit their heads on turnbuckles all the time and they are specially padded. So Hart could not have been killed hitting the turnbuckle even if he fell into it from 50 feet.
Jeff is also a great roller coaster fan and belongs to a group called Coaster Mania. This group with over 5000 members looks for great coaster rides all over the world.
Jeff Dowder and his band Darkhorse is suing Napster.com. He thinks their being in solidarity with Metallica will allow them to open for the band. Jeff wrote a song to convey his feelings about Napster, and played part of it “Napster is Crapster”. Napster has put Darkhorse’s Wipeout drumming clinic (which is normally on their CD’s) on their website. A caller asked Jeff to do a paradiddle (he didn’t know what it meant); Jeff remarked later ”a paradiddle sounded like some gay ass stuff to me … last paradiddle I was involved in, she woke up smiling”, and then “the last time I was involved with paradiddles, they were slapping against my forehead”. Jeff is classic Phil Hendrie!
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