Dear Dr! Is that pic really pre Beatles invasion? You guys got quite long hair, that's what I'm thinking of.
And Dr, do you happen to have a set list from those days? Would love to see one, just to compare with a set list of my own band from the days. Including familiar stuff like The Rivieras fine version of Let's have a party
Well, you are correct in that picture was after the invasion started and was a transition time for us. Probably taken in late 63, early 64. We started playing British tunes as soon as the Beatles hit the radio stations in mid-63, grew our hair out, made lots of changes. Shortly after that pic was taken, we ditched the "uniforms" and went more Stones looking in our appearance. It was a great time.
In retrospect, my jazz might have been a 62 since we had been playing for sometime before the mid-63 invasion. Memory is a terrible thing to lose!
Wow, song list, that's a tough one, but from memory I can just about recreate the most common tunes we did. I'll have to work on that when I have more time!!! We played everything British and a few American groups: Stones, Beatles, Dave Clark 5, Zombies, John Mayall, Kinks, Yardbirds, Cream, The Who, Spencer Davis, Zep, Lovin' Spoonful, Animals, Paul Revere, you name it! We did probably 2-4 tunes from each group, had at least 4 sets.
Funny thing, we called ourselves "The Guardsmen" back in 62 or so before that name was picked up by a national group called "The Royal Guardsmen" who did "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" in 1966. We thought it was a good name and so did they!
