Line Drive band/UFS 10-17-83
When this band’s 1983 Uncle Floyd Show appearance was featured on “This Was The Uncle Floyd Show” on StageIt.com on August 12, 2025, it got a favorable reaction. Their name didn’t ring a bell with me (I was the show’s photographer at the time), so I checked the archive master list – and sure enough – I shot their performance during the October 17, 1983 taping of the show.
I dug up the B&W negatives and contact sheet and picked these three images to scan:
But I noticed something else interesting in the contact sheet: some really good images I took during the rest of that day’s taping – images that had never been used, scanned, printed or even SEEN anywhere else before.
The band was not well-known and I had no other reason to revisit this shoot, so the negs sat untouched/unviewed in the file cabinet for over 40 years.
Some of the bits and cast members (and puppets!) shown on that contact sheet are still well-known and beloved today: Mrs. Brillohead (!), Julia StepChild, Jerry Jersino, Ricardo Romantico, his girlfriend Weenie (she wishes) and Looney Skip Rooney.
Let’s start with Mrs. B (“ah, look, Buster…”):
Julia:
Two Weenie bits:
Two shots of Jerry:
One very cool shot of Ricardo (this is not a posed shot – just a lucky candid):
Floyd, Weenie, and an off-(TV)camera Skip, who’s probably the phone voice talking to Floyd:
I was very happy to find these shots………..and that got me thinking: these are from ONE roll of B&W film (Roll #110, if you’re interested). I have almost 200 of these rolls, plus at least a thousand color slides. I wonder what else might be in there. These days, I might have the time to go through them all, but then what?
That would be a TON of scanning, but toward what end? I’ve been out of the business for over 30 years, so I’ve lost all my contacts, including book publishers.
Any good, realistic ideas out there? When (and if) I sell my archive, it’ll be all out of my hands, so I’m putting it out there to loyal Floydians now to see what you guys think is possible while I still have control of everything.
Feel free to leave any comments below. If you prefer to keep it private, there’s a contact info link on bobleafe.com.
One last thing that I found out while researching the band: Jose Loo, who is listed as Line Drive’s singer (but maybe not when the band was on UFS), had a stroke in June 2023, is in a rehab facility and cannot work.
Sound familiar?
(“Send any extra notes – as StageIt calls them – to……………….”)
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