Two Buck Howie

All my life I have had a nickname, in one form or another. When I was first went to school at Saint Mary's Grade School, because of my last name, Hauenstein, I was known as Howie. That name has stuck with me all my life. There have been other names, but each year Howie  always won out. When I started playing music live in bars and clubs, I was still called  Howie. It wasn't until I decided to start the last rock band I played in, before moving to California, did the full moniker come about. I was sitting at a bar with my best friend at the time, Scott, trying to figure out a name for the new band I was starting, when, off the top of his head, Scott blurts out,  Two Buck Howie With The Exact Change.  I loved it. After I moved to California I thought, if friends, distant family members, or old girlfriends ever wanted to find me I would still use  Two Buck Howie  as my nickname, in my email addresses, and on my Blog. When I had a job though, I asked everyone, just to call me Howie. To make this extremely long story shorter, after twenty-five years, Kelly Conley, one of the fine musicians I played with during the 1980s, found me by doing a Google Search of Two Buck Howie. Today, he is the Director of Sales at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center Kenosha,  in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. He still plays guitar and sent me one of his original songs. As soon as I find the time during these hectic Holidays, I'll put it on  Youtube and we'll all be able to enjoy it.
This is, Happy For The Pleasant Surprise This Holiday, Jim Hauenstein,
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