Bill Gibson frees the padlocked garage door on his Marin County rehearsal warehouse, where he’s been hashing out demo tapes for the past 11 years. But these days the drummer is arriving at the old practice place in a shiny black European sedan, because the band he’s a very big part of is Huey Lewis & The News, and unless you happen to be Rip Van Winkle, you know that they are huge. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen in the biz, isn’t it? Drummer works hard for years and years, keeps his act and the beat together—then gets big payoff. But Gibson could easily have faded into obscurity like so many other talented Marin County musicians. Lewis & The News is one of only a few bands ever to break out of this sometimes-too-comfortable and isolated hamlet just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Indeed, […]

August 1986 Issue