Bakersfield loses local music legend...
Slim The Drifter: July 20, 1960 - May 25, 2007

This morning I recieved an e-mail from Bakersfield's Greg Goodsell, a longtime friend of the Slim's. Scott was an architect of the Bakersfield alternative music scene during the '80s, with a variety of local bands, and solo projects. He will be missed..

(Scott "Slim The Drifter" Sturtevant)

Mon 5/28/2007 3:34 AM:

“Slim the Drifter” – aka W. Scott Sturtevant has died. He was one of the few people I have known longer than my own brother, having been best friends with him since Kindergarten. Scott would found Bakersfield’s very first punk band Teen Suicide, before he branched off into a solo career under the nom de plume of Slim the Drifter. Scott cultivated controversy and a reputation for a hard-living lifestyle. A friend put in a call to his wife in Reno, Nevada, and she confirmed that he had died on Friday. The Slim the Drifter MySpace page lists Friday as his date of death. If you knew or know of people who knew Scott, please pass this on. - Greg Goodsell

BIO from the Slim the Drifter MySpace page:

Scott "Slim The Drifter" Sturtevant July 20, 1960 - May 25, 2007

Hello, I'm Slim the Drifter. After long years of playing in four-on-the-floor bands, I started to record on my own in late "91". Low-Fi was all I could afford at the time, so that's what I did. I had a blast. The result was "Callin' Cali" (Gang of Hair 002). I toured as a one man show with my trusty boom box and sang to my own tracks without vocals. I'd put at least one mic on the box and play Mr. Microphone with the other one. I threw confetti, gave away (99 cent store) prizes in raffles from Hell... Jeez, sometimes I felt bad for having so much fun! I played a show once in my hometown of Bakersfield, California with none other than Kinky Friedman, who will hopefully be the next Gov. of Texas. He nicknamed me "The Karaoke Cowboy", A name that I still hear once in awhile. There was a small college radio hit on "Cali" about a cross dressing truck driver, it was called "The Ballad Of Bill". After a restful and restless period, I went back out on the road with a six string and I've been doing that ever since. Though there are a couple of lost efforts in between, I have a new record with my three piece band, Slim the Drifter Trio! We also have a My-Space site and as far as I know, we'll be able to sell you a record through My-Space by Christmas. The music is purely American. We will upload samples and gimmies A.S.A.P. Look for "The Guilty Ten" by Slim the Drifter Trio. We hope you like it. Keep the faith, Slim

R.I.P

Location: 1215 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93301

May 15th, 2007, Fishlips Bar & Grill

11:45am PST

Former Bakersfield educator Vincent Brothers is found guilty of killing his family in Bakersfield, Ca.

Brothers has been called the "OJ Simpson of Bakersfield.."


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<<Check out the video of the verdict as it was broadcast live, and photos of locals checking it out..

Location: 5101 California Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93309

I just got the scoop from The International Herald Tribune

Anybody else out there got some scoop on this??

Published: May 8, 2007

BAKERSFIELD, California: Actor Tom Sizemore, still on probation for a drug conviction, was arrested Tuesday outside a California hotel after police found what seemed like methamphetamine in his car, authorities said.

Sizemore, 45, was arrested outside the Four Points Sheraton hotel in Bakersfield, about 110 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Detective Greg Terry said.

Calls to Sizemore's representatives were not immediately returned.

Officers were called to the hotel about 7:30 a.m., after a man believed to be an associate of Sizemore's challenged an employee to fight while trying to check in, Terry said.

The man, Jason Salcido, 33, was fighting over whether he had a reservation, the detective said. Police discovered that Salcido was on parole and found that he was carrying a "narcotic smoking pipe," Terry said.

Officers learned he was with Sizemore and spotted the actor sitting in a 2004 Ford Mustang in the hotel parking lot.

"He displayed symptoms of being under the influence," Terry said.

A search of the car turned up two bags of suspected methamphetamine and more smoking pipes, Terry said.

Sizemore and Salcido were arrested and booked for investigation of possession of methamphetamine, being under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of narcotic paraphernalia, the detective said.

Police could not immediately say what Salcido was on parole for. It was not known if he had a lawyer.

Sizemore, whose movies include "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," was convicted of methamphetamine possession in October 2004.

His probation was revoked the next year after he acknowledged faking a drug test and failing to be checked for drugs every three days.

Probation was later reinstated but Sizemore faced another parole revocation and prison time after testing positive for drug use in January 2006. However, he was given three years probation after tearfully acknowledging he used drugs. He also was ordered to submit to weekly drug tests.

The actor also was convicted in 2003 of domestic violence involving his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. He had been free on bail pending an appeal in that case.