I met Buck Taylor...

Back in the late 70's when he was in the made for TV movie "Standing Tall" from 1978. I wrote about this on this board some time back... so just quickly -

That movie, (Standing Tall), was filmed near Weed, Ca. where my cousin owned a cattle ranch, (it was not filmed on his ranch). My cousin is in my band... he had just purchased the ranch and moved up to Weed when he called us one day and said he had a job for us to play music during the breaks in filming to entertain the cast and crew. We spent about 3 days on the sets.

I told the story here about the barroom brawl I was involved in there... , an actual brawl rivaling anything you've ever seen in the movies. Not a piece of glass, chair, table, nothing was left unbroken. I don't recall if Buck was at the brawl, (small bar near the filming locations), but most likely he was... the movie was near wrapping up and most of the cast/crew were there. I do remember the two main stars Robert Forster and Linda Evans were NOT in the bar that night.

I remember waking up on the barroom floor amongst scattered glass, wood, bodies everywhere. The bar, I think it was called "The Shamrock Inn", is still standing today... drove by it in the last couple of years, but it's been out of business for years now. - JamesJM