Re-discovering bands you used to like.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Back in 1970-71 Johnny , Edgar and the Allman Bros as well as a few other bands were playing at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. I was fresh out of high school , as was a drummer friend of mine who went with me.He also happens to be an albino who looks a lot like Edgar. Jonny and Edgars crew mistook him for Edgar and dragged him backstage to get ready dispite his protests. He got to meet Johnny an Edgar and the Allman bros and during their discussion they found out he was a drummer and invited up to sit in. They had two drum kits set up so they had nothing to lose. Once they got him up there and saw how good he was, they kept him up to play  several tunes with both bands. The crowd loved having a local kid up there, so when the Allman bros came up they kept him going .
Talk about a dream come true for an 18 year old kid!!

Rick

Wow!!! That's SO fokken coool. What's your friend's name? Bet he's famous now. 

There was a guitar player in my school named Darrell Jamison who was 2 or 3 years ahead of me & a year or 2 after he graduated he came back with hair to his waist to play a gig in the high school gym. The name of his band was The Belladonna Nightmare Blues Band & all of 'em had hair to their waists & played the most incredible music I've ever heard! The music swirled around us like a HURRICANE--a tremendous psychedelic tunnel of mad boogiein'!!!

I expected him & his band to get HUGE but I never heard of him or them since!
I've googled 'em & found nothin'. Alas

I'm tryin' to push my bandm8s in that direction....

[rahock]

My friends name is Mike  Peterson and he is not famous. He was one helluva drummer with a particularly sweet jazz technique. He moved somewhere way up in northern Michigan a few years back, but before he moved he was hardly playing at all. It's kind of sad. When we were just kids of 14-15 years old he was the hottest drummer around.

Rick

[nofi]

the marshall tucker band. not your usual southern rock guitar army. plus the the thumb picking of guitarist toy caldwell and his brother bassist tommy caldwell. R.I.P for both.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Didn't know those Marshall Tuckers checked out. Met 'em in '73 when they opened for the Allman Brothers. Ramblin', Take The Highway, Can't You See...real Classics!!!

The DOORS:



Gonna be 85 this weekend & I've got nothin' to do but help friends set up a booth for a trade show Friday & break down Sunday evening.
Gonna hit the beach or at least soak up some RAYs out back.
Soakin' up some RAY Manzarek & Friends right now. Ha!

This is a pretty ol' song with some Sa-weet violin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss&feature=related

This was one o' my favs in 7th grade---"Oh little girl--Psychotic Reaction":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbcMXJdGc0w&feature=related

YouTube ROCKS!

[PWV]

Oh boy - I used to love these guys, forgot about 'em - then got the box set this year.  Its in constant rotation in the iPod these days.

LONG LIVE THE JAM! (R.I.P. Tony Wilson    )



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqiMfPe6U7g&feature=related

[ramone57]

one of their best

[PWV]

one of their best

+1  Weller was (is still) a Genius.... damnit Ramone57! Now you've jerked my flashback mechanism to here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9wowg4AjI&feature=related

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0invUXXsRAQ&feature=related

XTC was a radical shift for me back then - I had no idea songwriting could go this way. 

I wish they would do something right now - great band. 

[ramone57]

damnit Ramone57! Now you've jerked my flashback mechanism

you got me first, man!  and you just got me again, XTC was huge for me in their early days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfoEAOeYAE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMk5HrrtoYA&feature=related



just found their alter-ego band, the Dukes of the Stratosphear 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdqmCozaLco&feature=related

[Freuds_Cat]

Ahhh XTC! yes, rediscovering bands I used to like. Here is one that brings back a few memories.

[gweimer]

In the past couple years, I've gone back to Electric Warrior and realized what a great album it is (even my 20-year-old son has a copy of the CD).  It's also not as electric as I remember.  I put on "Lean Woman Blues" today at a bar with a Touch Tunes jukebox. 


And here's one of my favorite songs  (I think I'm gonna suck ya)...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Ah yeah~ Who needs tv when I got T.Rex? 

I've been gettin' visited by a hummingbird while workin' in my yard the last coupla days, so today I remembered that good ol' song.
Saw Leon Russell sing it LIVE in '71 or '72. He put on a great show with the Shelter People.
B.B. King had a hit with it too:



Diggin' out my Leon Russell Greatist Hits Double Discs!!
Leon was cool playin' bass with Dylan at Bangladesh:

[Pilgrim]

I saw the Marshall Tucker band in Loveland, CO a couple of years ago.  I was really impressed by the range of musical styles they played and how good they were at all of them.  They were excellent! 

[PWV]

damnit Ramone57! Now you've jerked my flashback mechanism

you got me first, man!  and you just got me again, XTC was huge for me in their early days.

I love "No Thugs In Our House!"  - good call.

OK, I see your XTC and I raise you.... KING CRIMSON (the early 80's version of 'em)!  Love Bruford's hair and Belew's pink jacket - heh, the bass player Tony is ahead of his time for hairstyles.

[ramone57]

then you must remember this one, too   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyTMcSzMl4I&feature=related

[PWV]

Discipline/Beat/Three Of A Perfect Pair = the King Crimson Trifecta!  Gang of Four, way underrated band.

Now you guys are leading me here: