User:John "Dancin Bear" Crabtree

John "Dancin' Bear" Crabtree was born June 11 1958 in Norfok Va. my birth parents were Elizabeth Wilson and Abner Holben, my original name was John Brady Holben, at 6 months old I was adopted by Carl & Dolly Crabtree my name was then changed to John Allen Crabtree. My early years was spent in Norfolk Va and then in Rhode Island (my father Carl was in the Navy) and then we was back in Norfolk. Upon my father being honorably discharged after 22 years, The family was then transferred to South Point, Ohio near his fathers old stomping grounds. I lived there for a couple of years than my father bought a small farm near Chillicothe Ohio. I started 4th grade at Huntington Local School..I was lucky I cheated death twice before turning 14. I once took apart a broken washing machine and got the wiring out of the motor and was out in the yard twirling the wire around with a large bolt tied on the end and I hit over head wires. My mother Dolly was washing dishes at the kitchen watched out the window she said there was a flash and watched me get knocked to the ground. And the 2nd time I had joined the Boy Scouts and the group had went to Pike Lake for a day of swimming (I didn't know how to swim) after being coaxed I dog paddled out to the pier and then I was coaxed till I dove off the diving board I woke up on the beach I was told that he had almost drowned.

I lived in the country till the 9th grade, his parents bought a house in Chillicothe Ohio.The teenage years was troublesome and I wound up going in the Navy.After a stint in the Navy I wound up back in Chillicothe met a girl and married her (been together 36 years) had 2 kids a boy and a girl. Had a lot of jobs restaurants, carpentry, house building, restaurant building, hotel building, apartment building, jail building, concrete work. owned my own tree service, truck driver, and a DJ, in all of that I spent 12 years on the road working with the rock & roll bands, I toured with Black Oak Arkansas, Guess Who, Robin Trower, The Outlaws, Leslie West, LA Guns, Ace Frehley, Laaz Rocket, Cinderella, AC/DC and a few others... i was a merchandiser, driver, drum tech, security, sound engineer, asst. Tour Manager.I have been in all of the United States except Alaska. I have rode motorcycles for almost 40 years have been in 33 states on 2 wheels