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Rebel Payne
When Robbie Robertson switched from bass to lead guitar in the
Hawks in 1960, taking over the job from
Roy Buchanan, Ronnie Hawkins hired Rebel
Payne from Buffalo as their new bass player. Payne stayed with the group
until the summer of 1961, when he was replaced by 17 year old Rick Danko.
Rebel Payne left Hawkins in the
summer of '61. They played the whole summer in Grand Bend that year and
Hawkins was pretty hard-nosed about the band drinking before they went on stage. Rebel
had been warned a couple of times already. On the ill-fated day Rebel had been drinking
with Lynn Staten from Grand Bend, Henry Balas from London and myself. We had been
pounding them back all day and Reb was pretty far gone when we dropped him off. As soon
as Hawkins got a look at him he sacked him on the spot. The next day there was a new
bass player. Levon Helm was kind to Rebel
in his book, but this is the true story. I felt kind of a little guilty because we
knew that he had been warned but Grand Bend was a wild place back then and partying was
what we did...
--Bill Arnold, Canada, May 2003
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