Sean O'Conner with Dem Bones. When he got lite up on stage, so did his guitar! Firebug... Man they were fun and they played joints all over Albuquerque.
Believe what you will.
Driving a '61 Cadillac Hearse, Lial C. Lilley pursued a career as a hairdresser for years. Then one drizzly morning on the way to work, a skeleton arose from the back and told him,
"Stop playing with bad hair and play bad guitar. And while you're at it, change the goofy name."
So Lial quit his job, changed his name to Sean O'Connor and went to the pawnshop and bought a heinous 70's brown Gibson 345 with a bad neck. He then learned only five licks, but he could play them in almost four different keys. He started the blues band Vibraluxe. Vibraluxe gigged regularly in Albuquerque and around New Mexico for 12 years and released two CD's, Blues Tonic and Open House, which are now being used as coasters in living rooms everywhere. The transmission went out on the Cadillac.
Then one evening, while lying in the back of the caddy trying to heal it through torque conversion telepathy, the skeleton re-appeared and said, "Blues isn't the whole answer." Sean was happy the skeleton didn't tell him to change his name again, so he quit Vibraluxe in '96, joined three other musicians (one of the three being Jack), and started Dem Bones. Dem Bones released a self titled CD in '98 which sold well until cosmic forces exploded the band because that's what's supposed to happen after a local band releases a CD. Sean and Jack, however, survived and eventually hooked up with the rockinest rhythm section within a 500-mile radius of Tingley Beach