'The Messiahs' = Ken Kraft, Bobby O'Neill &Craig Owens 2026-03-27 interview on KZSC's 'Bushwhackers Breakfast Club'

Bobby came to Santa Cruz in 1964, when he was still in high school, following a musician he played with in a band; he started the iconic Santa Cruz band, "Snail", in 1968, & Ken Kraft Joined later that year; Snail toured all over...Southern California, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield; Snail landed a record deal in 1978 with Cream Records (David Crook), who had moved down to Hollywood; Snail got air play, & got big in places like Idaho's college towns; they recorded their 2nd album in Bayshore, Florida, where they recorded by day, and the Eagles would record evenings / nights their album, "The Long Run" - some fun stories came out of that, especially Joe Walsh, who was a character; they shortened the name "The Hen-Pecked Messiahs" to "The Messiahs" when they expanded from a duo ("The Shell Boys") to a trio, adding Craig Owens on bass & vocals to make a drumless trio; The Money Question? Bobby - no...after Snail stopped touring he became a house painter (but he picks the songs that fit the group - the drumless incarnation); Ken? Yes! He's done a lot of studio work & production; Craig? Yes! He's been fortunate, making enough as musician to "pretty much" make it...he spent 10 years on the road as Lacy J. Dalton's bass player, before working for Emu (aka "Eµ") in the 1980s (Emu, starting in a Silicon Valley apartment before moving to a house in Santa Cruz, helped drive the sampling revolution through their modular synthesizers and (later) samplers as well as drum machines; Emu for "Emulator") An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan", airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California.

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This episode is 28:24 long.

This episode was published on Mar 29, 2026.

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