Rick Bryant

Rick Bryant (born 1948 as Donald Richard Bryant) is a New Zealand blues and rock singer/songwriter. Bands include Rick Bryant and the Jive Bombers, The Jubilation Gospel Choir, and Windy City Strugglers. With over a thirty year history in music other bands include Mammal and Bruno Lawrence's Blerta. He is currently working on recording new album with John Kempt Gordon Spittle and other long term collaborators - Pete Bayliss, Ross Burge, Tony McMaster and the current membership of the live band.

He was convicted of possession of cannabis, cannabis oil, ecstasy and cocaine, but appealed blaming his 35-year history of cannabis use.

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    They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex- blade runner. Ex-killer.
    David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Rick Deckard, Blade Runner, reading the newspaper—his opening lines (1982)

    These are the Gardens of the Desert, these
    The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,
    And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned—
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)