Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen News

He's been known to the world as Commander Cody for nearly 40 years, but George Frayne, co-founder of hard-to-pigeonhole 1970s rockabilly/R&B/boogie-woogie/blues/country band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, never really wanted the title.

Ever since Bill Kirchena s early days as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists in Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, his trademark has been trucking songs.

They said, "Slow down! I see spots!" The lines on the road just looked like dots.

From its northernmost terminus at Interstate 5 in Red Bluff the majority of California Route 99 is built to freeway standards, though it is at times a two-lane rural highway or a four lane divided highway.

The sounds of Cajun and early country music will echo from the stage as Augusta puts on it second concert of the summer season at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Harper-McNeeley Auditorium on the Davis & Elkins College campus.

A conversation with George Frayne - better known as boogie woogie booze-rocker Commander Cody - veers all over the place like a Hot Rod Lincoln careening down a country road.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down basic rock & roll, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody's country-rock rocked harder than the Eagles or Poco -- essentially, the group was a bar band.