Saying Hi A Second Time Around

From
December 14th, 2015
called
Two Buck Howie.

*****
All my life I have had a nickname, 

in one form
or another. 

When I was first went to school at 

Saint Mary's Grade School, 

because of my last name, 

Hauenstein, 

I was known as
Howie. 

That name has stuck with me all my life. 

There have been other names, 

but each year 

Howie  

has always won out. 

When I started playing music live in bars 

and clubs, 

I was still called  

Howie. 

It wasn't until I decided to start the last rock band I played in, 

before moving to
California, 

did the full moniker come about. 

I was sitting at a bar with one of my best friends, 

Scott, 

trying to figure out a name for the new band I was starting.
When, 

off the top of his head, 

Scott
blurts out,  

Two Buck Howie With The Exact Change.  

I loved it. 

After I moved to
California
I thought, 

if friends, 

and family members,

ever wanted to find me I would still use  

Two Buck Howie  

as my nickname, 

in my
Email Address,
Twitter Handle,
Facebook Page,
and on my

Blog. 

When I had a job though, 

I asked everyone, 

just to call me 

Howie. 

To make this extremely long story shorter, 

after twenty-five years, 

Kelly Conley, 

one of the fine musicians I played with during the 1980s, 

found me by doing a 

Google Search 

of 

Two Buck Howie. 

Today, 

he is the 

Director of Sales 

at the 

Radisson Hotel & Conference Center Kenosha,  

in
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

He still plays guitar

and sent me one of his original songs.
It is great to hear from you!
*****
I also want to say hi to
Paul Blavat
and
Jeffery Taschner
for locating me on
Facebook.

This is,

Happy For The Pleasant Surprise This Holiday Season,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” 

- Maya Angelou -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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