In Stix's Own Words
Stix AKA Larry Lelli
"It was the craziest and best gig that I'll ever have.", says Stix of the time he spent playing with P&B, and adds "I'll love them boys forever." Stix played with P&B from 1994 until fall of 1995, when they took a month off from touring. Since Stix was pretty much living in their van at the time, he was forced to look for other work. He spent the next month living on the streets of downtown Nashville, and played his drums for tips and Colt 45 at a church for people with special needs called "The St. Pia Zadora Umbilical Congregation". During a scuffle after one of the "snipping" ceremonies, Stix was taken into custody and charged with possesion of a sheep, and carted off to jail. But luck was on his side that day, as the cops drove their cruiser into the side of the tour bus of country superstar Doug Stone. After a barter agreement was formed between Doug and the cops, Stix was handed over to Stone as settlement for the damage to Stone's tour bus. Stone promised not to tell anyone about Stix's pet sheep.
Stix began his stint playing drums and bandleading for Doug Stone until Doug suffered a mild heart attack at the beginning of 1996. Doug made it thru just fine, but decided to stop touring for the next year. So Stix was again on the streets. After hitching a ride in a Winnebago with a popular lounge act ("Lulu and her Two Bouncing Lulu's") from Nashville to New York City, Stix found himself fighting for sleeping space with the other thousands of homeless drummers on the streets of Manhattan. "That sure was a tough point in my life", Stix mumbles, "Everyone kept trying to steal my cardboard shack, and my houseguests would use my bass drum for a toilet." But again, the stars were about to line up on Stix's side. Although Stix had been doing reasonably well without his prescription medication, as administered by Dr. Pinkard and Dr. Bowden, he had fallen into occasional dillusional fits of madness. During one of his "episodes" in Times Square, Stix was discovered by the casting director of the current Broadway smash musical, "Jekyll & Hyde", and was cast as the perfect Dr. Jekyll/Edward Hyde. After debuting in the duplicitous leading role, Stix took things a little too far, and one night wandered out into the audience, with his sheep in tow. "That was the end of that!" Stix now says sitting in the jacuzzi of his Madison Avenue Penthouse. "From that day on, they have kept me chained in the orchestra pit, and I only get to play drums at Jekyll & Hyde now." Stix and his current love interest, "Lambchop" reside in NYC.
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