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Biography of a performer

The Beginning

True American Origins

At the Palomino Club in Hollywood

It began when Liberty took his first band on the road, having left his native alifornia to find work in the American Midwest. In Minneapolis he found five musicians and did his first gig at the nightclub in a motel in Watertown, South Dakota. The rest is history, to coin a phrase, and a very obscure and strange history at that. From there he toured the Five States and adjacent Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri, where he had so much bad luck that he has petitioned the State legislature to change the state's spelling to Misery. Once, in Wisconsin, the agent came out to the club where he was playing, took all the money Liberty was owed, and left them penniless in the middle of the trees in Janesville. They loaded their ton of sound and light equipment into the Dodge maxi-van and tried to get back to Minneapolis. but then a tire blew out on the freeway, and when they tried to replace it, they found that the spare was flat and totally ruined. Do you want to know the rest?

Venue in the Icebox

Back in California, Liberty was occasionally associated with Ron Smith's Celebrity Lookalikes agency. It was never profitable, but it was interesting at times, and if he didn't look too closely, he could dream that he was meeting real stars!

The Great Pretenders

But the world and its adventures were beckoning, and the standard American music scene of small clubs and bowling alleys did not offer the professional atmosphere of Europe's great cabaret clubs and its theaters with their sixty-foot stages. It was time to get artistically and professionally serious.

Lib and Family

When the chance came to work in Las Vegas with the Dancing Machine, Liberty jumped at the audition. Nothing happened for six months, and then the producer of that show came back with an offer of three months--in southern Africa, at Sun City.