JON BRUSCHKE ON DAN KRUSE:

Dan Kruse is the musical equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife, which has kept the Swiss borders safe for generations.  If you need someone to, say, sing backup vocals, or lead vocals, or drum, or do percussion, or fly a plane, Dan's your guy.  We recently did find something he wasn't good at (Jai Alai), but it was quickly offset by several things we discovered that he was good at (surfing, juggling, making funny sounds with his mouth).  No one has played drums like Dan since Keith Moon, and Dan isn't addicted to anything that's likely to kill him, and is all around a much better balanced humyn being.

Bill Loges on Daniel Kruse

Dan’s versatility has come in handy for the band. For instance, his pilot’s license got us out of Havana after a particularly nasty mix-up regarding Casey, a rum-soaked sou chef, and Cameron’s gambling. (That’s not true.) (It was NOT a sou chef.) Dan proved an able singer on “Desperado,” despite his predilection for inserting gay themes into the lyrics. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but YOU try to harmonize when you don’t know what the lead singer is going to come out with (so to speak). Dan’s energy behind the drum kit was fantastic. He sped us through a version of “Daughter of the Moon” at Cal State Fullerton that became a legend among the band members. I ran into Dan on Memorial Day, 2004, at the airport in New Orleans. I didn’t recognize him with his pilot’s uniform on. I usually see him dressed as a cabana boy in a Tijuana brothel, but I’ll let Casey tell that story.