Many of us miss Billy Rancher every day, because he was a real inspiration musically and as a person. He used to tell me: "Don't get your dobber down" when I was depressed. Usually, we were soldiers, "The real Boraxo Team", along with our amazing crew, but he clearly had empathy for all of us and had his unique way of expressing it. Every person I meet on this journey had a very personal relationship to Billy, no matter their role.

I think I have identified myself pretty clearly as Alf Rider Wolf aka Alfred Delia in all of the posts, and if not, I apologize. Jon Dufresne and I are administering the Facebook page which is many years old with the permission of Astrid Rancher. This project has been many years in the making. Jon DuFresne, Alfred Delia, Billy Flaxel, Dave Stricker and Astrid Rancher are a partnership: Boom Chuck Partners. We are registered with the state. We own the copyrights to everything written by Billy Rancher. We all invested a substantial amount of money into creating this project and resurrecting it from the vaults of the Power Station and Chrystal Studios.We are not posing as Billy Rancher. We are his legacy protectors.

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The photographer for this photo is Mark William Rabiner.

Photo by Mark William Rabiner