Editing Gary Busey (section)

===Early career===
[[File:Texas Wheelers cast.JPG|thumb|right|Busey (standing), [[Mark Hamill]] and [[Jack Elam]] from ''[[The Texas Wheelers]]'', 1974]]
Busey began his showbusiness career as a drummer in The Rubber Band.<ref>Johnny Carson Show August 23, 1985.</ref> He appears on several [[Leon Russell]] recordings, credited as playing drums under the name "Teddy Jack Eddy"<ref name="Teddy Jack Eddy">[http://tulsatvmemories.com/mazeppa2.html Tulsa TV Memories.com], Gary Busey reference as Teddy Jack Eddy in Tulsa, Okla.</ref> a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], called ''The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting''<ref name="Teddy Jack Eddy" /> on station [[KTUL]] (which starred fellow Tulsan [[Gailard Sartain]] as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). For his skits on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero, belligerent, know-it-all character. When he told Gailard Sartain his character needed a name, Sartain replied, "Take three: Teddy, Jack and Eddy."<ref name="Teddy Jack Eddy" />

He played in a band called Carp, which released one album on [[Epic Records]] in 1969.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p16310|pure_url=yes}} Carp] at [[AllMusic]].</ref> Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley", he was the last person killed on the series ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (in the third-to-last episode, No. 633&nbsp;– "The Busters").{{cn|date=September 2024}}