The Witnesses | en

There are multiple artists going by The Witnesses: 1. A mid to late 80s punk/garage/rock n roll band from San Francisco fronted by Dave Dick. They released an LP called "Scene of the Crime" on Raizer X records in 1987. 2. The Witnesses first came together as a band a few years back when the five musicians from Brooklyn rented an upstate farm known locally as The Rotten House. That's where they learned to sing together, practicing their harmonies while they pulled roots out of the dirt and jammed in the barn each night till the moon went down. Now,...

Sam Butera was the saxophonist and leader of Louis Prima's backing band during their heyday years in Las Vegas. Butera stayed on after Prima's most popular duet partner & wife Keely Smith left and Butera continued to play with him through the 1960's until Prima's death in the mid 1970's. Butera lead an active life and continued to perform regularly in Las Vegas and on tour until age made nightly forays less feasible a few years before his death at age 81 in June of 2009. .