Forgotten Bob - Oh, Baby Oh, Baby

 As Forgotten Bob says in hiss latest Oh, Baby Oh, Baby, he has 8(!) children by his wife, who he's been married to for many years. Their romance started way back when they were both into the punk rock scene, and as could be expected in the early 1990's no one thought their relationship would last. The punk scene was rather looked down upon as degenerate and immoral. some of it probably was, but these two prove that love is love, and they hung in together. 

They both grew out of the punk scene when they started having babies. Bob got a good paying job (he was always a whiz with numbers and computers) and quit playing music in public until a few years ago. He took an early retirement from a lucrative job after he saved up his money. He's told us they hardly have had any disagreements after over 30 years of marriage. He said  the only thing she insisted upon was that he get the tattoos removed from his hands, and he did. He attributed a lot of their long marriage in the fact that neither one was into drugs. He admitted to smoking until he quit playing, and a few beers now and then. He's told us so many he knew that were in the punk rock scene back then were into drugs, and he saw more than his share of friends meet a sad end.

His music now is what he calls 'rockabilly', but he lapses back into rock and roll on occasion, as in this song. He did tell us he never quit playing his guitar, most every day. And all eight of their children are musically talented, with one even studying to be a classical pianist! His wife doesn't play an instrument, but she was a singer and still has a decent voice he tells us, but he can't get her to sing on a recording. 

We've been mighty curious about how Bob looked in his punk days, and we finally tracked down a picture! Take a look at this young man in the bloom of his punk youth!

A marked difference with the way he looks now! There were no actual photos. He's always had a lot of artists friends that did portraits of him from the beginning. We emailed this picture to him asking if he knew who it was, and it wasn't 5 minutes later when he called us back. "Where in hell did you get THAT?" he asked with a laugh. "Good gravy, that was 35 years ago!" We told him we couldn't reveal our sources. He said, "Now you know why I said in one of my songs that I still got all the holes in my face where all the jewelry went!  And the 'tats! Holy cow, it was misery gettin' them! But ya couldn't be a punk back then if ya didn't have' em. Only one thing worse then getting 'em, that's having 'em removed! About killed my hands to get them taken off!"

 

 I met a woman long time past
She done it for me from the start
Ended up we got together
I finally followed my heart

But it took a bit to begin
It started to mess up my head
I got frustrated and angry
This is what I finally said

Oh baby, oh baby, sweet babe
Can't you open your heart for me
I cannot live without your love
Oh pretty baby can't you see?

All my pesterin' had results
Agreed to go out on a date
My heart 'bout beat outa my chest
So excited, could hardly wait

Didn't have much money back then
So we had some burgers and fries
Ended up talkin' for hours
Kept it honest, told her no lies

Oh baby, oh baby, sweet babe
You opened your heart to me
I cannot live without your love
Oh pretty baby you can see!

I met a woman long time past
She done it for me from the start
Ended up we got together
I finally followed my heart

We been through some very tough times
But we stuck it out together
Still go out for burgers and fries
Couldn't have done me no better

Oh baby, oh baby, sweet babe
Still got your heart open to me
Ain't had to live without your love
Pretty baby, lucky for me!

Yeah man! Still together. After 8 kids!
You heard me! They're all growed,
just my baby and me, lots of
Grandbabies. We still boogie.