“I Have Some Wonderful Memories, Friends, Photos and Recordings” Butch Rillera on Swoop’s World

This week on Wednesday January 12, 2011, we go wild here at Swoop’s World Radio. Join us for both of our shows. That’s right we said BOTH! As you may have heard we are happy to announce we have joined ZTalkRadio.com.

Call us crazy but starting this week we will be broadcasting two shows on the same night—4 solid hours of entertainment! First we’ll be broadcasting the show you’ve been used to hearing on BlogTalkradio.com from 8pm-10pm PST and then we’re switching over to ZTalkradio.com and continuing our night with “Swoop’s World Radio Late Night” from 10pm-midnight PST.

We hope you’ll join us and follow us over each week. Our goal is to continue to provide you with the same great entertainment and informative topics you’ve come to expect and provide more opportunity for our listeners to tune in and participate.

Listen to the Butch Rillera Interview

Butch Rillera with Redbone

On Wednesday, January 12 @ 8pm PST tune into “I Have Some Wonderful Memories, Friends, Photos and Recordings” our interview with Butch Rillera.

A few weeks ago our guest was Barry Rillera, on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, at 8pm PST, we get to know his talented brother Butch!

Butch started out with the Righteous Brothers when he was 14 years old. Because he was so young, Bobby Hatfield used to pick Butch and his drums up and drive him to their recording sessions.

Butch toured and recorded with the Righteous Brothers until he left to replace Bobby Ramirez in White Trash with Jerry LaCroix.

Once White Trash with Jerry LaCroix broke up he joined the band Redbone and recorded 4 albums with them. While with Redbone they were constantly appearing on TV shows, (some of which you can find on YouTube), and toured Europe and the U.S.

After Redbone, Butch went on to form his own 13-piece band (“Bim Bam”) and played Disneyland and local clubs. After the Righteous Brothers broke up he went to work as a manager of their chain of nightclubs, the Hop.
The Hop closed in ’94 and Butch went on to manage The Empire Ballroom in Newport Beach Ca.

In ’96 Butch suffered a brain aneurysm and subsequent Basel seizure that left him partially paralyzed, which left him unable to perform.