I kinda like these guys ...

[Highlander]

Did that with Grand Funk playing London in '74, and with Alice playing London in '72, but being to far for the younger me to travel, and then them playing Glasgow in '73 but not London...!
Somewhat disgruntled to be in Scotland circa '77 when Doobies/Black Oak did a double header in London, and got back to discover the next gig was Glasgow... AAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHH...!!!
Oh, and going to a drinking buddies younger brother's birthday bash and giving away a ticket to the first Blizzard of Oz tour... so never got to see Rhoads... rip...

[gweimer]

Rick James


Funk Brothers


Muscle Shoals Swampers

[Dave W]

To go back even further, Big Al Downing & the Poe Kats; he was also Wanda Jackson's pianist and the only nonwhite member of that band.

Then there's the Del-Vikings.

[Pilgrim]

And the DelTones?

[Highlander]

Rick James with 2/5ths of Buffalo

[uwe]

And the DelTones?

Help me, where's the black guy? Or is this another case of TV yellow or something ...

[Pilgrim]

Sorry, wrong theme.  Mea culpa.

[4stringer77]

The first time I ever played rock and roll in front of a crowd was at a dormitory party in boarding school in my tenth grade. The band consisted of me, a son of an Israeli Sephardic immigrant father and an Ashkenazi Jewish mother on bass, the lead guitarist's father was from Cameroon and his mother was African American, the drummer was an international American student from Saudi Arabia who was half Chinese and half Caucasian and the lead singer/ guitar player was Japanese American. Race was the last things on our minds. We were more concerned with playing a good set. We pulled it off very well and the crowd wanted more in fact but we had already played everything we learned. I think it was a couple Hendrix songs, a Blues Traveler song called Mountain Cry and maybe Alive by Pearl Jam. The looks I got from an upper class coed who I thought was cute are part of the reason I'm still hooked on playing till this day.

[Droombolus]

The looks I got from an upper class coed who I thought was cute are part of the reason I'm still hooked on playing till this day.

Still hoping for a second time eh ? 

[4stringer77]

Nope, not from her at least. She's probably about 40 by now 

[Basvarken]

What's so bad about that?

[TBird1958]

Nope, not from her at least. She's probably about 40 by now 

Wish I was..............


about 40 

[4stringer77]

What's so bad about that?

Idk. Ask Hugh Hefner.

[uwe]

Last I heard he is way above 40!

[Highlander]

I thought his batting average would be welllll over 40 by now, with all those bunnies running round the ranch...

Maybe he follows the view that you're only as young as you feel...