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       It All started as a joke!.... In 1977 Hard Rockers Chuck Maultsby and Scott Bish started up a Tucson based Country band named CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS. They started playing at a country-swing college bar, THE STUMBLE INN, on Monday nights for laughs and beer... The joke started catching on... A low budget, self produced, self titled album was released in 1978 which contained a little diddy called "MY GIRL PASSED OUT IN HER FOOD", a true story written by Chuck's pal Tom Walker (RIP)...  KFAT radio in Giloy, California (and a few others) can take credit for playing the toon and inspiring the WHEELS to produce a second LP titled "COUNTRY SWINGS, DISCO SUCKS". Released in 1979, it included the toon destined to become a worldwide anthem, "DISCO SUCKS"... The joke took off like a rocket!... (see the whole gruesome "Disco Sucks Story" page at this site)... A total of five LPs were released between 1978 and 1982 on the band's label Wagon Tracks Records. Not to mention, four singles and several contributions to to various compilation LPs (see the Discography page at the this site)... After eight years of constant touring, songwriting and recording, the original WHEELS started drifting apart. By 1999 Chuck figured he was done with the band moniker and sold the servicemark rights to a Nashville band for the price of a ten day long-range fishing trip outta San Diego. The "new" CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS got a song charted in 2000 called "Beauty Is InThe Eyes Of The Beer Holder" then called it quits a couple years later... The all original Wheels got together in Tucson for a reunion show in 2006 and now days three or four of the "originals" can be found playing at the fun places around L.A. (that's Lower Arizona)... So now it's a bit confusing as to who CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS is and who recorded what, when, where...   Everybody here in Arizona and some parts beyond just won't stop calling us CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS even though we are now: CHUCK WAGON MAULTSBY and THE SAME OLD BAND...  Check out the Performance Schedule page at this site and see where Chuck and the SOBs will be doing a little beer drinking and hell raisin! .... which reminds me.... You can down load the toon "BEER DRINKING and HELL RAISIN" and 23 other original toons from the five LPs through this site via CD BABY....    Cheers & Beers!