Mink DeVille was formed

Mink DeVille was formed in 1974 when singer Willy DeVille (then called Billy Borsay) met drummer Thomas R. “Manfred” Allen Jr. and bassist Rubén Sigüenza in San Francisco . Said DeVille, “I met Manfred at a party; he’d been playing with John Lee Hooker and a lot of blues people around San Francisco. … I met Rubén at a basement jam in San Francisco, and he liked everything I liked from The Drifters to, uh, Fritz Lang .”