Get Out And Push started with an explosion of
desire and a chance to play. Andy Cowan, Bruce Paxson, Walt Hasson,
Joe Mendiola and Tom Himmelspach decided in 1976 that we had to
play music . . . professional music. We learned the changes and
immediately had the chance to play at the Village Inn in Washingtonville,
Ohio, where The Butler Brothers ( thanks and love, Lonnie ) and
John Douglass ( Jerrys' dad ) played. We had heard these bands and
were off to the races.
You can't enter a race without a name, so after
many agonizing discussions, we decided on "Get Out And Push"
because all of us sooner or later had to push our old pickups, vws',
old tired chevys, whatever would run to get together and practice.
I remember one night busting four foot snow drifts
in Walters' old Lincoln on the way to a Village Inn job. I'll never
forget the night that Andy and I played as a duet at a restaurant
in Hanoverton. We left after supper to play another job at a bar
in Salem. The weather was bad, the radiator hose blew, the battery
died and we had to call for rescue, then we realized that we had
left our instruments at the restaurant 20 miles away. However we
did make the job ( on time ) and had a good time as always.
So we got a name, we wrote some songs and we
played every chance we got. The band members have come and gone
other than Andy and I but we have always maintained top, heartfelt
quality in our music ( the bluegrass signature ).
For the last 24 years we have continuously played
on major festival stages, radio stations, town festivals, county
festivals, given history of bluegrass shows to schools and universities
and even performed as the bluegrass band in the stage play FOXFIRE.
We love what we do ( hey Andy, do you remember playing in the grocery
store checkout lane ? ).
We've recorded ourselves all along and constantly
strive to keep current in our material ( keeping current to me means
digging deeper to find those bluegrass gems ).
Well if anyone has any comments, questions or
-Work- please exercise your EMAIL prowess and I'll respond ASAP.
Contact:
Get Out And Push
c/o Andy Cowan
33110 Willard Rd.
Hanoverton, OH 44423
