Former Park City Mayor Dana Williams, center, joins the Dr. Bob Band during a 2020 performance at the Boneyard Saloon. From left: Bets Conner Pott, Greg Friedman, Williams and Jeffrey Howrey. Howrey has posted a new rockumentary called “Dr. Bob Rocks!!!” on the band’s YouTube page. The video is a musical history lesson of the 42-year-old band.Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey The 2020s have been good to Park City-based rock band Dr. Bob. In 2022, the group, led by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Jeffrey Howrey, celebrated its 40th birthday, and in the spring of 2023, it released a concert documentary “The Ghosts of Rock ‘n’ Roll” that was filmed during a 40th anniversary concert at Deer Valley. A few weeks ago, Dr. Bob posted “Dr. Bob Rocks!!!,” a six-video musical history lesson of the band, on its website, drbobjdh.com, and YouTube. “It contains hundreds of photos from the files of several friends of the band,” Howrey said. “In the video are many local musicians and venues, including the Alamo  — now the No Name Saloon — where Dr. Bob played more than 300 times between 1982 and 1998, and Cisero’s — now Firewood — where we performed in excess of 200 times during the same stretch.” Howrey calls “Dr. Bob Rocks!!!” a “rockumentary” because it tells the story of the band only through music and photos with no voice overs. “We have employed a lot of visual techniques we have learned from watching dozens of Ken Burns documentaries on PBS over the years,” he said. “Before we even started assembling ‘Dr. Bob Rocks!!!’ I spent six months tracking down photos to be used in the video.” That was a “heavy lift,” Howrey said, because he looked for photos from the band’s early days, “back when nobody had cell phones.” “With the help of numerous associates and friends, I was eventually able to get a hold of an awesome, voluminous supply of exactly the photographs we needed,” he said. “As with all recent Dr. Bob videos, all credit goes to longtime band roadie-turned-IT whiz John Gonthier, who produced, directed, edited and compiled ‘Dr. Bob Rocks!!!'” Bets Conner Pott cranks out the low end during a past Dr. Bob band concert. Pott, who now lives in Oregon and is part of the Portland music scene, is a founding member of the Dr. Bob band with guitarist and singer Jeffrey Howrey.Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey In addition, the rockumentary features newspaper clippings and snapshots of what Howrey calls the “Golden Era” of live music in Park City during the 1980s and 1990s. And in addition to the Dr. Bob hit “Protesting Life,” the video features five previously unreleased, deep tracks from the Dr. Bob vaults — “Lookin’ for a Freak,” “Unabomber,” “There is No Dr. Bob,” “Pretty Girl” and “Who You Are,” according to Howrey. “It goes on to document the history of Dr. Bob into the new millennium,” he said. While Howrey has remained the sole constant member of Dr. Bob, the band would not be what it is without its co-founder and original bassist Bets Conner Pott. Pott, now a mover and shaker in the Portland, Oregon, music scene with her two bands — Macey Gard Band and Girl Crush — said she remembers when she first connected with Howrey at the University of Utah. “I was a folk-rocker back in college, and I was in a folk trio called the Dry Creek Trio with a singer named Kevin Murphy, who went on to write for and star in ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000,'” she said. “Jeff was the editor-in-chief of the Daily Utah Chronicle, the college’s newspaper, and he had formed the Barney Fife Band.” Howrey asked Pott to sing some background vocals for a recording,” she said. “He had won a job at Rolling Stone magazine in New York, and the band was going to take a recording to shop around.” Pott sang on six songs and had a great time with the recording process. A few weeks later, Howrey had renamed the band the Utah Zoomers, and Pott found herself working at a Girl Scout camp called Camp Cloud Rim and living in a tent near the top of Guardsman Pass. “I dropped out of college, and just met the love of my life who had to go back to Wisconsin for the summer,” she said. “Jeff contacted me and asked if I wanted to go to New York City with the band. And said, ‘If you do, show up at my house on Aug. 10 for photos.'” Pott showed up for the photo shoot. “I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life going, ‘What if?’ you know,” she said. “So I packed up everything and moved to New York City with the band, and I never looked back.” The Dr. Bob band lineup of Bets Conner Pott, left, Christy Carter and Jeffrey Howrey rocked Park City and the Intermountain West from 1988 through 1992. During that time, the band opened for the Doobie Brothers and the Romantics and recorded its debut album, “No Woodstock.” Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey Pott and Howrey returned to Utah after the band didn’t make the waves it wanted to in New York but decided to play music as Dr. Bob, with a rotating roster of local musicians, including keyboardist Brian Hess. “‘Dr. Bob Rocks!!!’ Is dedicated to Brian, who performed and recorded with the band from 1993-95,” Howrey said. “(He’s) just one of dozens of local musicians and singers without whom Dr Bob would not be here today.” Other musicians that helped Dr. Bob throughout the years include drummers Jim Clahane, Mark “Sully” Sullivan, Christy Carter and Jim Clahane. Clahane was a Park City High School junior, and the band had to sneak him into bar gigs, Howrey said. “A couple of his classmates, Jay Worley and Todd Mather, also joined the band, and then we had three underage members,” he said. “Fortunately, they all looked pretty mature for their ages.” Sullivan was one of Dr. Bob’s go-to drummers in the ’80s and ’90s, Howrey said. “Mark’s family were miners, and his roots in town go back to the 1890s,” he said. “His father, Will, was the mayor of Park City during the 1960s and 1970s, and he cut the ribbon the day in 1963 that commercial skiing began with the opening of Treasure Mountain, which is now Park City Resort.”  After Sullivan stepped down from the Dr. Bob drumstool, the band found Carter, Pott said. “He was a true professional, and he had charisma like you had never seen,” she said. “He could sing like you would never know and play his drums. Women would throw themselves at him and cry. He was just magic.” Guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeffrey Howrey has led Park City’s Dr. Bob Band for the past 42 years. Howrey posted “Dr. Bob Rocks!!!,” a six-video musical “rockumentary” on the band’s website and YouTube page.Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey The Pott, Howrey and Carter lineup was what put Dr. Bob on the Intermountain West’s music scene from 1988 to 1992. “We toured and played many big shows, including opening for the Doobie Brothers and the Romantics,” he said. “This lineup recorded our debut album, ‘No Woodstock,’ and several songs on the follow-up, ‘Beer for Breakfast.'” While the years Carter played with the band were magical, things crashed after he discovered crack cocaine, Pott said. The final straw came after Dr. Bob was hired by Debbie Fields from Mrs. Field’s Cookies and football great Steve Young. “They hired us to play at Deer valley for a party for G.Q. Magazine,” Pott said. “It was huge, and all of these people from New York were there.” Carter never showed up. “I kept calling him and calling him, and when he answered, he was (messed) up in a crack house,” she said. “It was probably one of the worst nights of my life.” That was pretty much the end of Dr. Bob’s heyday, even though Howrey and Pott kept it going throughout the years. And when Pott moved to the Northeast, Howrey kept the Dr. Bob flag flying. “I think the secret of the band’s longevity is the optimism Jeff and I have,” said Pott, who returns to Park City from time to time to perform with Dr. Bob. “Even when we were in college, we were very optimistic, and I don’t think either one of us has changed. We had a common bond in the music and making people happy, and that’s what we do.” Mark “Sully” Sullivan, whose family tree reached back to the founding of Park City, was the first drummer for the Dr. Bob band.Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey “Dr. Bob Rocks!!!” is another notch in the band’s colorful history, Howrey said. “It bring(s) us to a total of about 25 videos on the Dr. Bob Band YouTube channel, and if you add up all the platforms where Dr. Bob videos are posted online, we currently have about 25,000 views,” he said. “It makes me glad that we started focusing on cranking out music videos when the pandemic struck four years ago.”