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John Anderson The Price of Repression (by Kent Powell) Native of Irving, Texas, John Anderson sports the best tan among Ben Strange personnel.  He also has the most shapely legs in the group (except for Kent). John tended bar in some of Dallas' legendary rock clubs that he and dozens of others remember the names of.   Watching the bands perform, John felt an intense longing to experience first-hand the thrill of playing live, on-stage, before a crowd of indifferent drunks who came looking to score, then having to turn away even the mediocre-at-best groupies because you have to load all this crap up and take it back to the rehearsal hall;  and anyway, your girlfriend's watching 'cause she came for the express purpose of preventing you from receiving any sort of female attention, though of course she says it's to be "out there cheering for you, darlin', and oh God what's the point anyway?  I mean if you can't even....wait!  Where was I?  Oh yeah, John Anderson. "Pebbles," John's beloved Strat, was a birthday gift from friends and family.  His style of playing her is influenced by traditional Texas blues, and most emphatically by Stevie Ray Vaughan, which explains the SRV emblem Pebbles wears on her upper cutaway.