Jason & Scorchers Drummer in Trouble (Health Care Blues)
By Jason Harper in Dispatches from the Scene
Tuesday, Dec. 16 2008 @ 4:15PM
From a listserv I get. This one hits close to home, both because the guy got laid off from a newspaper -- none of that here at The Pitch, though, thank god -- and because, dammit, musicians need health insurance. Also, the Scorchers have played KC numerous times. -- Harper
Perry Baggs, the longtime drummer for Jason & the Scorchers, suffers from kidney problems due to diabetes, and spent several months last summer in the hospital. Scorchers frontman Jason Ringenberg and guitarist Warner Hodges have performed a couple of benefits to assist Perry with medical bills, but he's still under the gun.
Perry is currently on the list for a transplant, but to add insult to injury, he was recently laid off from his job as a librarian with The Tennessean newspaper as part of Gannett's recent cost-cutting. To help out, I'm selling copies of the three Alt.Culture.Guide books, as well as my Rock Talk collection of interviews (including a Jason & the Scorchers interview) to benefit Perry.
Any one of our four books can be purchased for $8.00 postpaid and $5.00 from the price of each book will be donated directly to Perry Baggs. Full details can be found here:
http://www.thatdevilmusic.com/books/
For those wanting to make direct contributions to Perry, a PayPal account has been set up to receive donations: perrybaggs@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Conspiracy M.E.D.I.A
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