If there’s one thing that can be said about Mack, he’s solid when it comes to keeping a beat…and it seems he enjoys beating (the drums) often.  Possibly the illegitimate cousin, twice removed, of a certain musical family with the same last name, Mack has been into music since he was a kid.  “Yeah, I was inspired to play drums from watching Fat Albert and the Cosby kids.”  “Like them, I couldn’t afford to buy a real instrument, so I just started beating on the garbage cans… that, and the kids in the neighborhood.” 

Eventually he gained formal training through the pubic school system (junior and senior high school) where he excelled in music.  “I was good, but I didn’t have the chops or the grades to get into a college, so, I sold cheese at Hickory Farms and played in a band after I graduated.”  In the early 80’s, Trucks toured extensively with a cross dressing metal outfit called ANOIZE.  They were a metal cover band that did a lot of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, and Ozzy…You know, the flavor of the month kind of stuff.  “Yeah, that was fun, playing music, playing dress-up, and getting paid for it.  It was an odd time in my life.  There were times that my girlfriends would be pissed off because my make-up looked better than theirs!” But the wild life was getting a little out of hand. 

In the mid 1980’s, at the request of a couple of friends, Mack was asked to audition for a local 50’s act by the name of the GOLDTONES.  It was steady work without all of the weirdness.  Mack put away the Maxfactor, Aquanet, garter belts, and tutus and was playing it straight.  “It was a good gig, and we still had costumes and changes...Just didn’t do that transvestite thing”.  The band toured the southeastern region, entertaining at a number of military installations and large open-air venues, opening for such acts as Mitch Ryder, America, and a number of famous acts from the 50’s and 60’s. 

By the end of the 80’s the band had a break-up, or shall we say the IRS had a hand in breaking them up.  Mack took a brief time off only to return with another invention known as Kinky Aldo and the Crusty Underpants.  It was while playing at the Florida Rock festival that Trucks would meet Peter Bilt and come to his aid in the now famous Bobby Rondinelli Slim Jim incident.  They would go their separate ways, but still stay in touch. 

Around the early 90’s when the glamorous world of Hair Bands got the crap kicked out of it by the Seattle Grunge scene, Mack hung it up and took a job with a major manufacturing company.  Again, he would meet up with Peter Bilt. Seems he had grown weary of the life of a gypsy musician.  Yet he still had that music bug biting him in the ass.  Both he and Bilt had small projects that were satisfying their need to play but it lacked something. 

That something would soon be realized when on one auspicious occasion Peter’s drummer was unable to make a gig.  Bilt called on his old friend Trucks to fill in, thus, the magic began.  Trucks and Bilt could see there was something there and talks soon began with Sun Records, who owned the contract Mack T was signed to and a deal was struck to get him released. 

The alliance was then formed between the two musicians and with the introduction of Ken Worth to the equation the new band was complete. OVERSIZED LOAD was born.