Bill McDonald (Wild Bill), Bill Pitcher (Mild Bill) and Babe and Jim Catino have remained in their hometown of Batavia. Some of McDonald's former groups included the Kickers, The Knockouts, Wild Bill and His Buffalo Yankees and Slim Chicken and the Midnight Pickers and he is currently with Buffalo Road Show and Ghost Riders. Pitcher was part of The Bimbo Brothers, Bull's Eye, American Country Four and Pavilion Natural Grass, and is also now with Buffalo Road Show and Ghost Riders.
The Catino brothers were in Mesa with Joe Mazzerella; Jim was also part of The Squires, The Majestics and The Road; both play with Buffalo Road Show.
Michael Murray, born in Batavia and raised in Corfu, had a longtime gig playing guitar with Sierra from the mid-1970s to 1990s. The band went from Batavia to Colorado in 1977 and then the group moved to San Diego, Calif., a while later. It included former area locals Kevin Moyles, Paul Tydelski and Bob Delson.
Murray gradually made his way back east, landing in Doylestown, Pa., in 2005. He's a software engineer for Rochester-based Element K.
A 1973 Pembroke High School graduate, he has set up a Web site for his class at: www.home.rochester.rr.com/pembroke73.
Wild Bill & City Council
Six Degrees of Connectedness... Between Wild Bill and City Council:
Bill McDonald, member of Ghost Riders and Buffalo Road Show, plays with Bill Pitcher and Babe and Jim Catino, all who have worked with Patty Hawley, new program director at GO ART! and formerly an events coordinator at Genesee Community College, which is where the Ramble logo was created by a visual arts class before being passed on for advertising, some of which is being taken care of by Don Burkel, head of the Business Improvement District, which gave its full support of the second annual Ramble before it went to City Council for a final vote this month.