They are all working stiffs and that also helps explain their durability. Eastteam works for the Eureka Rubber Stamp Co., Rowley produces commercials for Cox Cable, Vickers is in his 33rd year working for Louisiana-Pacific Corp., and drummer John Palotas, who joined The Roadmasters just three years ago, is consumer products manager in the Eureka Mall office of Six Rivers National Bank. Palotas believes that the drum chair job in The Roadmasters is the best in the county. I know there are drummers who'd give their eyeteeth for that chair. You've got guys who are responsible and others who are just flakes.
Personalities clash, egos clash.
That happens, and it's a transient type of thing. But I think by maintaining the family element is how this band has stuck together. Music has been in the families of members, too. Ross, for example, had two grandfathers who were musicians. He operated a hearing-aid shop locally.