Danny Garone and the Iron Outlaws at The Fish Fry - By N.L. Belardes

Is this Cesareo? No! It's Danny "Iron Gunner" Garone

I was in the mood to play six degrees of Cesareo Garasa recently and up popped the new alt country band, Danny Garone and the Iron outlaws (I've been listening to their music a lot on bakotopia. I dig "Southside"). Yes folks, Cesareo is in another band. Only this is country/rock music right out of the six shooter of old Moonshine Deathbed—eternally resting in peace—a little more than a footnote now: one of Cesareo’s many connecting points to the Bakersfield music scene.

Connect him to Mento Buru, Black Dog, Moonshine Deathbed, Midnight Panic, Adema, Karmahitlist, Rocky Nash… oh man the list goes on.


Is this Cesareo? No! It's AJ Lopez

There I was at the Fish Fry (Fishlips). A few people arrived from the scene including one local I like to call The Opportunist. I know every artist is one. But that’s beside the point. She’s no artist. I guess I just don’t like the flaky type—those Kelloggs Corn Flake wanna be climbin’ the Bakersfield social elite networky type who lay big claims as if having found the next falootin’ gold rush. Whooee that's a mouthful.

Those floozies are a dime a dozen.

I once disagreed with her slurred drunken point of view in the back of a bar.

Ever since she looks through me like I'm an invisible Texas Tornader.


Iron Gunner at the helm

I’d already fallen into a mood with a Texas-sized headache, but still wandered into the music scene for a brief round-up with Cesareo’s latest posse. I met the Iron Gunner himself, Danny Garone, for a quick handshake, then sat back and listened to a few licks. There was some banjo, guitar work, a stand-up bass, and you know, all the fixuns for some footstompin’. There was a little of that too.


Bakersfield needs a lot more music like Danny Garone and the Iron Outlaws. Black Dog comes to mind...

Finally I snuck out for some fresh air—head still a mess, and gave up. I jammed into the Bakersfield night to zoom back to my cabin out in Ol’ Eander.

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