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Podcast: The Jeremiah Show: Pop Culture, Music Icons Food Gods
Episode: Doug Legacy - The Muppets, Zydeco Party Band
Description: Mike Gormley Presents...Doug Legacy!
Doug Legacy is a musician and one of the founding members of the Zydeco Party Band. He has puppeteered background characters on Muppets Tonight and his band was featured as the house band for the show (with Legacy playing accordion). Doug is also known for The Bucket List (2007), Gilmore Girls (2000), and Muppets Tonight (1996).
Doug wound up in Los Angeles in 1977 where he immediately won the Gong Show playing steel drums. He then went on to play them with Rod Stewart (a significant vocal influence on Doug), where he met Jimmy Z, playing great blues harp...