Bill Bethurem

It's been a tuff year for me....I was diagnosed with Throat Cancer in April and have been undergoing Radiation Treatments at CARTI. I caught it early and now done with my treatments. In the healing process.....I'm going to beat this, and feel very fortunate that I sought treatment immediatly after my lymph nodes swelled, had a very good surgeon and staff working with me. I have to give a shoutout to Jeanne Huddle (Ms. Love the Librarian)....she took me to my appointments and helped me through this process, I don't have anyone and I couldn't have made it without her......I moved back to Little Rock on January 3 this year after being gone for 3 1/2 years in Nashville and Memphis....I was playing in a working band around Nashville for about 1 1/2 years. We played around the Middle Tennessee area.....Had a lot of fun with those guys and they were excellent musicians...Did not play any gigs in Memphis...Lived in Collierville, which is a very nice area, but Memphis didn't suit me. Finally got to transfer back to my old Lowes in Bryant...come see me this Spring and buy some plants from me....
I will be playing gigs around Little Rock soon....I will post them here if anyone reads or keeps up with me....The guys I play with here are good guys....we played together about 8 years before I moved away. So many gigs, I really don't remember them all...hopefully we will pick up where we left off....I still don't think I am too old to play...and am enjoying music now more than ever. Hope everyone is doing well...and I am grateful to have this site to come to occasionally.
The person I stay in touch with the most from back in the day is my partner in crime Larry Cross. We still remember those days at Woodstock, in the rain and mud with Hendrix and The Who and....wait that wasn't us....Well, we still have all those shows at Barton....not to mention the Aerosmith show at Pine Bluff and Rush at Robinson..... Peace.....BB

My school story is being blessed to take my trip to Europe in 78 with sixteen classmates. We went to France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. It was an eye opening experience and gave me a real insight to other cultures that I carry with me to this day....The teachers that went with us were, Nancy Crary Jones,(who I have bumped into once in a while) and Jerry Plauche'. I have stood just feet from some of the greatest artwork ever. Stood on famous landmarks, and seen some of the most beautiful scenery. And met some of the best people while I was there in the short two weeks of our trip. Had to Add......Of all the things I did in Europe, and all the places we went (Lucerne, Cologne, Brussels, Heidelberg, Paris....etc...) the best memory I have is, on the first day there, I met a very sweet girl, Lori from Cloverdale, Indiana, and about the third day there, everyone went to Versailles, France, we stayed in Paris, and got a bottle of very fine French Wine, wandered on the streets of Paris drinking our wine out of the bottle and emersing ourselves in the local scene. After a while, and another bottle later, we realized....Hey, we're lost....well we kept wandering around, and finally found a policeman who spoke English enough to get us back to "The Grande Hotel", where we were staying. What a great way to spend an evening, and I would not trade that nite for just about anything else I have experienceed in my great 48 years of life.....