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| Start date for lineup: Summer 1973 |
| Date disbanded: 1975 |
As far as equipment goes Joe was playing a Les Paul Deluxe finished in cherry sunburst which he purchased from a student at Iowa State. He still had the Acoustic head for an amp and was using the Vox Beatle speaker cabinet for speakers.
It is not known what brand of drum set Howard was using at this time, but he had acquired a double bass and two floor toms to augment his standard set. Also around this time the band had taken to placing the drums farther forward on stage than what was traditionally done. The main reason being Howard was interesting to watch as a drummer and they felt it would be appropriate to feature him by having him forward on the stage.
| Joe Boesen: Guitar, vocals |
| Howard Bothner: Drums, guitar, vocals ('73-mid 1974) |
| Dave Carlson: Guitar, vocals |
| Tim Fees: Bass, vocals |
| Steve Fellingham: Keyboards, vocals |
| Alan Graybill: Drums (Fall 1974-75) |
Tim was playing a Fender Precision bass. Is not known what he was using for an amp.
Steve Fellingham used a variety of keyboards. Amongst those that he used were a Hammond M3, Farfisa Mini Compact, and a synth which he purchased as a kit and assembled with some help from a friend.
It is not known what kind of kit Alan was playing at this time. Most likely it was a standard kit for the day consisting of kick, snare, two shell mount toms, and a floor tom along with various cymbals and hi-hat.
The band was using a dedicated P A system that they had purchased from Ralph Stevens who ran a music store in Ames. It consisted of a Phase Linear power amp and some homemade speaker cabinets that Tim helped build. The speaker cabinets held Electro-Voice woofers and some high-frequency horns along with some piezo tweeters on top. The cabinets were bass reflex cabinets and were made out of plywood that was painted white. They had at Peavey twelve channel mixing board which a friend of theirs by the name of John Lofstedt ran for them. It's not known what type of microphones the band used.
One gig that stands out in Joe's mind was a job that they played at the Twin Lakes Ballroom right around Easter time. The reason it stands out is that they brought mums and Easter lilies from the greenhouse to decorate the stage. The band started playing a bit farther away from Boone by this time. They were using a couple booking agents instead of doing their own booking which was the main reason why there were able to get jobs farther out from the Boone area. The most the band made during this time was probably about $250 with the least amount being about $125.
Joe currently lives in the Adel area, working for Stine Seed. He plays occasionally for his own enjoyment and sometimes for church functions. Howard is currently living in Colorado. It is not known if he is still involved in music or not. Dave played in a couple other bands after Burntshoe broke up. He was last known to be on the police force in Phoenix Arizona. It is not known if Tim continued on in any other bands. Toward the end of Burntshoe he was in a kind of downhill slide. He'd been arrested and put in jail in Des Moines for drunk driving. While in the jail he tried to hang himself. Things were worked out and Tim is doing OK as of this writing. He was last known to be working as an EMT at a hospital in Waterloo. Steve dropped out of music after this band. He passed away from a heart attack in 1997. Up until that time he ran a nursery/tree service with his wife Peg.
After Alan left the group he joined up with a band based in Ames. named Just Us. Eventually he ended up in California where he does finish carpentry and is still involved with music - having a little 16 track studio in his home. Aldon left the band in 1975 to join the Marines. He is still involved in music and has played in bands ranging from country to heavy metal.
