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Within weeks Wallace had moved to Dallas and was on the road with Reverend Horton Heat.
To replace Baranowski on drums was David Mabry.
This line-up was the first to break into the markets in the upper Midwest like Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis.
They toured and promoted the new single even though it was with Barton and Baranowski.
Mabry would be replaced by Kyle Thomas.
With Kyle on drums the band broke into new markets on the west coast in Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
It's during this time that Reverend Horton Heat secured a record deal with Sub Pop Records.
It was also during this time that the band would travel to Memphis to record with former Sun Records greats, Barbara Pittman, Malcolm Yelvington and Johnny Powers at the old Memphis Recording Service where Sam Phillips started Sun Records and recorded Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, B.B.
King, Howlin' Wolf, Jackie Brenston and many more.
The band would often spend the night on the floor of Barbara Pittman's apartment.
Charlie Reid became the manager after a couple of years of the departure of Livingston with Heath booking his own tours in the interim.
Reverend Horton Heat recorded for Sub Pop at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle and Crystal Clear in Dallas, which made up the majority of material on RHH's debut album, "Smoke 'em If You Got 'em".
Then, the band recorded with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers producing at Ardent Studios in Memphis.
That record was called The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat.
Reid's role as manager/booking agent came to an abrupt halt in April 1992 after it was learned that Reid was stealing money from the band.
After another stint of Heath booking more tours for the band, Heath hired Scott Weiss as his manager/booking agent, and Weiss continues in that capacity with his company Atomic Music Group.
Weiss immediately went to work at finding a major label for Reverend Horton Heat.
He was successful at getting Interscope Records to co-release the album "Liquor in the Front" with Sub Pop as well as securing a three-record deal.
With Weiss, Reverend Horton Heat has not been without a record deal since the 1990 signing with Sub Pop Records.
Around 1990, drummer Kelly Patrick "Taz" Bentley joined the band just in time to record the first album.
Taz played on the first three albums and stayed with the band until just after the release of "Liquor in the Front".
Taz was replaced by Scott Churilla on drums.
In 2006 drummer Scott Churilla left the band and joined fellow former Sub Pop group The Supersuckers.
He was replaced by Paul Simmons, formerly of Legendary Shack Shakers and Petra.
The band released their one and only album with Simmons, the country flavored "Laughin and Cryin with the Reverend Horton Heat", in September 2009.
In May 2012 it was announced that previous drummer Scott Churilla would be returning to the band full-time.
Victory Records signed Reverend Horton Heat in 2012, and an album titled "Rev" was released on January 21, 2014.
A YouTube video for a single on the album, "Let Me Teach You How To Eat," was officially released on November 12, 2013.
On July 31, 2017 it was announced via the band's Facebook page that long time drummer Scott Churilla had left the band.
No details were given on the cause for the split; only that the band wished him luck in the future.
On August 11, 2017 the band announced Scott's replacement, Arjuna "R.J." Contreras, formerly of the band Eleven Hundred Springs, would be handling all drum duties and that the band was currently in the studio recording a new album.
No details of its release have been given.
Matt Jordan of West Virginia joined the band full-time in September 2017 playing piano and organ as well as doing some singing.
"Psychobilly Freakout", and later "Wiggle Stick", were both featured in video segments on the show "Beavis and Butt-head".
The song "I Can't Surf" was part of the soundtrack of the video game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3", published in 2001.
"Psychobilly Freakout" was used on a commercial for Buell American Motorcycles and a slightly altered version was featured in the game "Guitar Hero II" and later on "Guitar Hero Smash Hits".
Their song "Baddest of the Bad" is featured on the soundtrack to "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground".
The 1997 PC video game "Redneck Rampage" also includes two of their songs: "Wiggle Stick" and "Nurture my Pig!"
The song "Big Red Rocket of Love" is featured on the video game "MotorStorm" for the "PlayStation 3" and a slightly altered version of the song was featured in a 1999 television commercial for the Mazda Miata.
The song "Pride of San Jacinto" is featured on the video game "Hot Wheels Turbo Racing".
The song "Teach Me How To Eat" was featured in a 2017 Subway commercial.
Heath has a signature guitar from the Gretsch Guitar company, the 6120RHH.
One of his favorite vintage guitars is a 1954 Gibson ES-175, which he rarely plays on the road since its wiring buzzes in certain venues.
His favorite amplifier was the Fender Super Reverb but is now the Gretsch Executive.
Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports
The Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS; ) was the world governing body for roller sports, including skateboarding, rink hockey, inline hockey, inline speed skating, inline alpine, downhill, roller derby, roller freestyle, inline freestyle, aggressive inline skating, inline figure skating and artistic roller skating.
It was established in April 1924 in Montreux, Switzerland by two Swiss sportsmen, Fred Renkewitz and Otto Myer, who had close connections to the International Olympic Committee.
The FIRS gathered more than 100 national federations, including countries from every continent and they are affiliated with the International Skating Union.
A proposal to dissolve the federation and merge with the International Skateboarding Federation to form a new body known as World Skate was ratified in September 2017.
Since 2017 World Skate has organised the World Roller Games, comprising all the world roller sport disciplines as regulated by the World Skate international federation.
The FIRS aimed to foster the Roller Sports movement and participation on a global scale.
Its areas of responsibility were as follows:
The authority of FIRS was recognized by the following organizations:
FIRS recognized the following continental confederations:
Each continental confederation comprises or recognizes, in turn, various national governing bodies and associations.
Skating is considered to be one of the most complete physical exercises that exist and enjoys huge popularity on a world level.
According to the latest estimations, there are more than 40 million habitual users of recreational skates throughout the world.
White Sea–Baltic Canal
The White Sea–Baltic Canal (, , ), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal () is a ship canal in Russia opened on Wednesday 2 August 1933.
It connects the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea.
Until 1961, its original name was the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal ("Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal imeni Stalina").
The canal was constructed by forced labor of gulag inmates.
Beginning and ending with a labor force of 126,000, between 12,000 and 25,000 laborers died according to official records, while Anne Applebaum's estimate is 25,000 deaths.
The canal runs , partially along several canalized rivers and Lake Vygozero.
As of 2008, it carries only light traffic of between ten and forty boats per day.
Its economic advantages are limited by its minimal depth of , inadequate for most sea-going vessels.
This depth typically corresponds to river craft with deadweight cargo up to 600 tonnes, while useful sea going vessels of 2,000–3,000 dwt typically have drafts of .
The canal was originally proposed to be deep; however, the cost and time constraints of Stalin's First five-year plan forced the much shallower draught.
The total length of the waterway is , of which are man-made.
The current flows north from Lake Onega to the White Sea, and all navigation marks are set according to it.
Once in Lake Onega, ships can exit the southwest shore through the Svir River (and its two locks) to reach Lake Ladoga and then proceed down the Neva River to Saint Petersburg and the Baltic Sea.
Alternatively, from Lake Onega river ships can sail eastward into the Volga–Baltic Waterway.
The canal begins near Povenets settlement in Povenets bay of Lake Onega.
After Povenets there are seven locks close together, forming the "Stairs of Povenets".
These locks are the southern slope of the canal.
The canal summit pond at 103 meters elevation is long between locks 7 & 8.
The northern slope has twelve locks numbered 8–19.
The route of the northern slope runs through five large lakes; Lake Matkozero between locks 8 & 9, Lake Vygozero between locks 9 & 10, Lake Palagorka between locks 10 & 11, Lake Voitskoye between locks 11 & 12 and Lake Matkozhnya between locks 13 & 14.
The canal empties out into the Soroka Bay of the White Sea at Belomorsk.
The settlements of Povenets, Segezha, Nadvoitsy, Sosnovets, and Belomorsk are located along the canal.
Minimum lock dimensions are wide by long.
The navigable channel is wide and deep, with a radius of curvature of .
Speed is limited to in all artificial portions.
In conditions of low visibility (less than one kilometer) navigation is halted.
For the navigation seasons of 2008 to 2010, the canal locks were scheduled to operate from 20 May to 15–30 October, giving 148–163 navigation days per year.
The Soviet Union presented the canal as an example of the success of the first five-year plan.
Its construction was completed four months ahead of schedule, though it was not as deep as initially planned.
The entire canal was constructed in twenty months, between 1931 and 1933, almost entirely by manual labor.
The canal was the first major project constructed in the Soviet Union using forced labor.
BBLAG, the Directorate of the BBK Camps, managed the construction, supplying a workforce of an estimated 100,000 convicts, at the cost of huge casualties.
Although prison labor camps were usually kept secret, the White Sea Canal was a propaganda showcase of convicts "reforging" themselves in through useful labor (Soviet concept of "perekovka", reforging or rehabilitation).
Marshall Berman states that "The canal was a triumph of publicity; but if half the care that went into the public relations campaign had been devoted to the work itself, there would have been far fewer victims and far more development."
In particular, he emphasizes that politics and public relations ruined the usefulness of the canal:
The workforce for the Canal was supplied by the Belbaltlag camp directorate (White Sea–Baltic Corrective Labor Camp Directorate, WSBC) of the OGPU GULAG.
Genrikh Yagoda, Deputy Chairman of the OGPU, as well as Berman, Firin, Kogan, and Rappoport were awarded medals for the completion of the canal by the Politburo on July 15, 1933.
The Soviets portrayed the project as evidence of the efficiency of the Gulag.
Supposedly "reforging class enemies" (political prisoners) through "corrective labor", the working conditions at the BBK Camp were brutal, with the prisoners given only primitive hand tools to carry out the massive construction project.
The mortality rate was about 8.7%, with many more sick and disabled.
The workforce was organized into brigades of 25–30, which made up phalanges of 250–300.
There were norms for labor, for example of hand-dug stone per day per brigade.