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.They reawful! he said.What s more, the pants were too short; he d always hated high-water pants, even as a preteen.Then there was the jacket.It was uncomfort-able and huge, big enough for an elephant, he recalled.Willie had first-nightjitters as it was, and to have to go onstage in a roomy jacket with short pantsadded to his anxiety.He didn t know how he could go out there and feel goodabout playing when he didn t feel good about the way he looked.Fortunately, as soon as they got home from their long stretch on the road,Buck did something about the ill-fitting suits.He and Phyllis measured Willieto find out his proper size, and the whole band had new outfits in time forthe November 2 release of the I Don t Care LP, which was Willie s first albumcover.The new costumes consisted of gold lamé jackets, white shirts, blackties, and black pants. Those clothes were made to measure.So I was a lothappier then, he said.hThere was no doubt that Willie was dedicated to his craft.As they drove downthe highway, Willie passed the time practicing and doing wrist exercises, eight 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 9090 BUCK OWENSihours a day.As Doyle put it, Willie s drums, or brains, just leaked out hisfingers. Willie also passed the time on the road by assembling small drum sets,using wire coat hangers to create the accessories. I made bass drum pedalsso I could make a sound out of the little parade drum, he said. I d make stickholders and things like that. Later, in the late 1970s or early 1980s, he wouldactually start making his own drums.Willie was the deep thinker of the group, and when he wasn t practicing,he was either reading or studying.Kay Adams said, Willie s deep.I don tknow how else to say except he thinks probably too much.He s always ana-lyzing and thinking and dissecting things and wanting to know what makesthem tick and wanting to learn things.He once said, The definition of timeis the distance between birth and death. Tom Brumley also thought highly of his fellow Buckaroo. He just lookedso good back there.Cutie, boy, I mean, he looked good onstage and he con-ducted himself in just a spotless manner.Buck could not ever say anythingto Willie, because Willie did not require it.Willie, I can say nothing but goodstuff about him.Willie was the greatest kid, seventeen years old out theredoin stuff, and just playin so good.So unique in the way he played, and hejust loves his drummin.He wanted to do more and better. Onstage, Buck referred to his drummer as Wonderful Willie Cantu, butoffstage his nickname was Willing Willie. The source of the latter nicknameis a mystery, but Willie thinks he got it because he hated waiting for thingsto happen when the group was on the road. For example, we were in Tokyoor in Frankfurt, Germany, I always would take off, even if I didn t speak thelanguage, and go exploring by myself.I ve always been like that, ever since Iwas a little baby.They d really have to keep me under a leash to keep me put,you know, so the willing part, it s like I was willing to I was the explorer ofthe band. 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 9119ROAD STORIESiWith the addition of Willie Cantu, the band that the world would foreveridentify as the Buckaroos was complete.Backed by Willie, Don Rich, DoyleHolly, and Tom Brumley, Buck rose to a level of artistic success he had neverbefore achieved and would never again equal once his current band mem-bers began to move on.As Larry Adamson said, Buck wasn t that good of asinger, but he had one hell of a band. Singer Jimmy Dean concurred, recall-ing an incident in which Jack McFadden booked Buck on Jimmy s show inNew York but failed to book the Buckaroos.Since all the allotted money hadgone to pay for Buck and his expenses, Jimmy paid out of his own pocket tofly the band in and put them up in a hotel so they could appear on the show. Everybody knew Buck without the Buckaroos was nothing, he said.Buck had a hell of a band, all right, and the guys had one hell of a time.Toprovide comic relief on the road, they played practical jokes on one another.More often than not, mild-mannered Tom Brumley was the instigator.Likehis father, Albert E.Brumley, Tom loved to play jokes on people.So shortlyafter Willie Cantu signed on as a Buckaroo, Tom orchestrated a plan with theother guys to initiate the young man into the group.They were somewhere in the mountains of Oregon, and Tom was at thewheel of the Green Goose; Buck wasn t along for the ride.(Tom, who hadtold Buck in the beginning he did not want to drive, had been allowed in thedriver s seat before Doyle, who wouldn t get his turn until either February orMarch 1964 in the middle of San Diego rush-hour traffic
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