PM Press

HEYDAY

There were a couple writeups in his hey and sell-out days. One was a band profile for a little combo called, "Crossfire." A band playing stadium rock (Zep, VH, Def Lepord, Rush, etc.) at a time most other bands were crooning to the pop strains of Bon Jovi, Journey, and the sell-out version of REO Speedwagon. Crossfirians were rebels, underdogs, and went on to win the Western Kansas Battle of the Bands (Miller Hihghlife's "Rocks to Riches") in the spring of 1983.

SELLOUT

Another write up came as Ronnie Hays was literally dying on Ron Rohlf's creative vine. Determined to stop disappointing his parents, he (Rohlfie) took a job at a produce distribution company in Salina, KS. His moonlighting gig was a failed slash at producing records for local artists using his pre-digital 4-track cassette recorder. The paper thought it admirable Rohlfie was interested in LOCAL artists. Believing a body of great music could be grown out of the high-plains soil.

LOL

Alas, it was not to be. Rohlfie lost local support to the regional phenom, Mark Selbe. Selbe, later went on to achieve world-class songwriter status scoring hits with the Dixie Chicks and a host of other platinum-selling recording artists.

Not like the competition wasn't super-stiff or anything... ;-)