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| About Big Ran | Big Ran received his first guitar at the age of twelve. It was an acoustic flat top that was ordered from the Sears Catalog. The guitar came with a 45 rpm learn-to-play record and a book with chord charts and some easy songs to learn. The first song Big Ran learned to play and sing was "Home On The Range," and his first audience was the cows behind the fence in the back yard on his father's farm. Big Ran has never claimed to be the greatest singer in the world but the cows must have liked it because they would start making a lot of noise. LOL He received his first real cool electric guitar and amp at the age of sixteen. It was a white Fender Mustang. The Amp was a sweet Silvertone! Soon afterwards Big Ran joined a Soul Band in High School and his life would change forever!
The first band Big Ran ever played in was a soul band called "The Flames" that was started by his best friend Jonathan White. Big Ran and Jonathan had also played on basketball and Football teams together in high school at Slater High School in Slater, Missouri. Since leaving Slater, Missouri in the late 1960's, Big Ran played in Rock N' Roll bands while attending Colleges at Moberly Jr. college in Moberly, Missouri with a band called The Green Earth that was started by a friend named Bobby Orscheln, and later while attending college at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri, Big Ran played in a Soul and Rock N' Roll Band that was started by a friend named Earl Turner as well as a Rock Band that Big Ran started with the help of his Nephew Ritchie Feuers called Rag Weed! From 1978 to 1981 Big Ran was stationed in the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany and played with the number one band on the Military Club Circuit with and "Elvis Tribute Show" called "Ken Rondell and The Country Rock Revue" that was started by one of Big Rans Army Buddies named Ken Winkles! Big Ran would not want to leave out the first Country Rock N' Roll and Blues band that was put together in Slater, Missouri in 1981 with all of his hometown buddies after Big Ran returned home from getting out of the Army called "Streettalk"! After returning from the Army, Big Ran began concentrating on writing songs, and later formed Big Ran's Missouri Rock Opry in Jefferson City, Missouri, and played most of the Road House Bars in Central Missouri from Janurary 1999 to November of 2003! All these bands and the people that played in them were and will always be very special to Big Ran. In 2004 Big Ran made a decision to go back to his musical roots and start playing Blues and Soul Music again and recorded his latest CD, "Bear Creek Blues". Since that time, Big Ran has performed with some great Blues Bands such as "The Double Down Band" from The Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri that was formed by a friend from Jefferson City, named Rick Scott. In September 2006 Big Ran Formed a Rock N' Blues Club and Gospel Band called "The Big Ran Feuers Band: and played with that band until July 2007. |
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