I just found out the Hatchet Brothers will be playing the Casbah this Sunday, Jan. 11 with CLA (with Steve Poltz) to help celebrate the CASBAH's 20th Anniverary!!!!!
You all know it's been a few years since we've played and who knows when it'll happen again!!!
And it's me, Gregory, Jack and Charlie

HELP SPREAD THE WORD, PLEASE!!!! we only got a few days to spread the word to all Hatchet fans.


I can't wait! see you at the Casbah
love Frankie lee

OBITUARY
'Buddy' Seigal, 48; performer a mainstay of S.D. music scene

By George Varga
POP MUSIC CRITIC
April 3, 2006

Bernard Buddy Seigal was a tireless mainstay of the San Diego music scene for more than 25 years.

An accomplished singer, guitarist, songwriter and band leader, Mr. Seigal performed music professionally as Buddy Blue and was a founding member of the Beat Farmers, the San Diego roots-rock band that earned international acclaim in the 1980s.

Mr. Seigal died early yesterday afternoon at his La Mesa home. His death was ruled sudden and unexpected by the county Medical Examiner's Office. An autopsy is pending. He was 48.

Mr. Seigal played on the Beat Farmers' first two albums before launching a musically eclectic solo career. In recent years, he was a driving force behind the Farmers, as the revamped version of the Beat Farmers called itself.

He used his Buddy Blue moniker as a music critic for the San Jose Mercury News, The Orange County Register and other publications. He also wrote regularly for The San Diego Union-Tribune, and his popular and often controversial column, Blue Notes, ran each Thursday in Night & Day for the past four years.

Mr. Seigal, who experienced some heart-related problems in the past, had been suffering from a sinus infection, according to his father-in-law, Danny Marshall Sr. of Ramona. However, his father-in-law said, Mr. Seigal had been characteristically on at the birthday party Saturday for his wife, Anne, 41. The party was held at the La Mesa home he and his wife shared with their daughter, Tallulah, 4, and Mr. Seigal's mother, Suzanne, 81.

Buddy played music and did a little singing. Then he got up in the morning and played with the kids his daughter and nieces and nephews, Marshall said last night.

He hadn't been feeling well, but he blamed it on the sinus infection, which was pretty bad. After he was done playing with the kids, he said to Annie, 'You know, the past three days I've been getting ready for your birthday party, and now it's your turn to do some work, because I'm going to bed.' Then he went in the bedroom and laid down because he was feeling tired. He shouted out her name, and that was it. She ran in and he was on the floor. Then she called us at the Wild Animal Park, and we rushed home.

A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Mr. Seigal was born Dec. 30, 1957. He and his mother moved to Southern California in 1974, and he began writing about music while attending college here in 1979. In addition to his work with the Beat Farmers and Farmers, he either led or was a key member of such top San Diego bands as the Rockin' Roulettes, the Jacks, Raney Blue, the Buddy Blue Band and The Flying Putos.

Buddy was literally a giant on the local music scene, said a fellow musician and San Diego music booster, Bart Mendoza. There was no one here more recognized and beloved, in a quirky way, than him.

Mr. Seigal's praises were also sung by Sven-Erik Seaholm, his longtime collaborator and the producer of nearly all of Blue's solo albums.
Buddy was one of the first people to actively be a part of the scene in the sense of making sure there was one both as a musician who frequently performed and in booking live music at many local clubs.

He made a similar contribution as a music critic, and he never hesitated to strongly state his opinions, no matter how much ire they might incite. His music column in the Union-Tribune identified him as a San Diego musician, writer and all-around curmudgeon, and it was an apt description.
He was such an honest person, and that was one of the main qualities of his music and his writing, said San Diego singer Jose Sinatra, Mr. Seigal's close friend for the past 20 years. His honesty (ticked) a lot of people off, but that was part of his appeal he always told you what he thought. His death is a horrible loss.
No information was available yesterday regarding services.

What is your favorite memory of the Hatchet Brothers ????? COME ON!!! AND DON'T HOLD BACK!!! What's the drunkest you've ever been at a Hatchet show? What did you do? Did Frankie ever spill you beer walking on the tables?