LARRY OTTESON - Maunesha River Bandits - Waterloo, WI
Channel: J Mitey
Date: 2014-09-13

Larry Otteson, owner of the property U Serve U Save, allowed our band to utilize his building and parking lot as we celebrated Waterloo WI Weiner & Kraut Days in 1997. See coming out of the crowd Larry first stops to hear a couple words of encouragement from Mayor Dan Gorder before proceeding to the stage.

As this video was done, way back in '97, things like Face Book and You Tube didn't exist, and so when the video was taken it was never expected that it would end up on the internet and so not a lot of care was taken to do a song from start to finish, etc.   This therefore, is only a small portion of the entire song and that's true of a number of these.
The group featured on these video, The Maunesha River Bandits are four guys from Waterloo, Watertown and Jefferson. John Meitner, bass horn player, has worked with many polka bands over the years. Mostly he was associated with Shorty Shoemaker in one of several of Shorty's groups.  He also worked with Don Peachy and limited engagements with Bernie Roberts, Ray Dorschner's Rainbow Valley Dutchmen, Jolly Cholly's band, The Al Dykstra Band  and other well known bands, ( and some not so well known).
The "Bandits" are four guys that work together on occasion in Waterloo. Richard "Scratch" Altreuter, Jefferson, had his own unit, (Scratch and the Cats), but also has worked with many other bands. Glenn Soldner worked with his sister Joyce in many local engagements in and around the Waterloo-Reeseville area. They were known as the "Two Tones". Myron Moldenhaurer is from Watertown and he too is a well versed musician.