O.C.'s Kid Ramos keeps the blues real

As a teenager in the '70s, David Ramos listened to all the big groups of the day, acts such as the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin. Great stuff, but it always left him wanting more, a stronger dose of what inspired those rock 'n' roll bands.

"I was always like, 'There's something about the blues,'" says Ramos, sitting on the covered patio outside his Anaheim home. "It was almost like a mission I was on. I knew I was just scratching the surface."

Over time, Ramos dug deep, teaching himself the history of the blues, learning how to play the music on his guitar by playing his LPs over and over again in his bedroom after school.

Guitarist Kid Ramos of the band Los Fabulocos sits on his 1953 panhead
Harley Davidson at his home in Anaheim. It's the fifth or sixth Harley he's bought
in rough shape and then restored, hunting down parts on eBay and at
swap meets.