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to give up drumming, Swindelle switched to bass, then guitar. His early ‘80s band was called Harbor Express. After years of touring the southeast, Swindelle says, he got tired of taking new band photos following yet another change in musicians. He and his wife, piano player Martha Peltier Swindelle, left to form a duo, first called Rise and Shine, then Pet Supplies (because Martha’s grandmother owned a pet shop on Waters Avenue). The next name was Time Bandits. He works solo now, sometimes with a bank of drum machines and effects (as Roy & the Circuitbreakers). He and Martha comprise two-thirds of the Christy Alan Band. By the ‘80s, the need for booking agents—and personal managers —was on the wane. Bands booked themselves, the stage shows changing appropriately as the styles of music morphed. “And every small town had local bands,” Swindelle explains, “and everybody had their favorite bands. So they started calling the bands
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