Dean Lehne • •Bass Guitar • Vocals

./BioFolder/Dean_Bio_Photo.gif "If you remember the 70's, you weren't there!" Finding inspiration to play in those days was easy as playing Smoke On The Water. I ventured into many different influences of music including jazz, club music, rock, southern rock, hard rock, and yes - even those two others - country and western.

I was fortunate enough to start out with some of the best musicians in the quad city area. Crosstown band drummer, Bob, and I played together in Jazz Lab back in high school. We felt the rhythm connection and joined up with other buds and formed the Hooker Brothers Band. Though we were very successful in the area, you just can't keep those overdeveloping hormones at that age from overriding common sense and after three or four great years, "the big split". Bob and I hung together and worked on a few other projects. Again, we were blessed to play with some of the best talent the area has to offer.

My last venture before taking a 15-year hiatus to raise a family was with the Primetime Band. We played Southern Rock like it should be played but it was hard to compete with the growing popularity of RAP back in the early 80's. I am grateful to Bob and Floyd for pulling me out of retirement to put together the Crosstown Band. These guys are at the top of the "talent totem pole" and have inspired me to reach for higher levels (once I got some calluses back.) We all have a deep desire to satisfy our own need to play music while balancing "real jobs and family" schedules. This has been a great project so far and I expect it get sweeter by the year.