VB Forum / General / February 2005

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees.
For the maples want more sunlight,
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

Hard to believe Randy left Rush and Neil Pert out of it.

--
Jim Carlock
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"Larry Serflaten" <serflaten@usinternet.com> wrote
"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@mvps.org> wrote

Areosmith, Bad Company, Black Sabbath, The Greatful Dead....

I liked the more mellow side;  Chicago, The Doobie Bros.
Seals and Crofts, and one of my favorites, Yes.

LFS

Loved Yes, and ELP (Emerson Lake & Palmer). And my fav on the mellow side is
Steely Dan.

I used to be a photographer, in the mid-late 70's, and our company was hired
by record companies to do PR shots of bands performing in Toronto. I
attended pretty well every rock concert in the city between 1976 and 1979,
and met everyone ... Chicago, Beach Boys, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck
(the original), Santana, Rush (Toronto boys - Geddy lives about a half mile
away), Eagles, Jimmy Buffet, Chris de Burg, Meatloaf, Kansas, ELP, Electric
Light Orchestra, Heart, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, Ramones,
Beck/Bogart/Appacie, Kiss, Stones, and a whack of others I'll remember after
this is sent.  Those were almost as good years as playing in a band myself.
<g>

I saw Seals and Crofts at the first "California Jam" back in the 70's....
everyone was there. Can't say I'm a Chicago fan though... imo, there's very
little room in rock and roll for trumpets <g>. A good sax, on the other
hand, is always welcome <g>

I vaguely remember getting drunk with David Allen Coe in
Lake Charles LA in the middle 70's.

Any points?

Funk49 doesn't ring a bell, but I loved Grand Funk Railroad.

I met the Eagles at a concert they played in TO.  Jimmy Buffet was the
opening act, and he was great. The eagles sounded amazing - just like the
record amazingly. But there were problems - all called ego.  The concert was
at Maple Leaf Gardens, and when the band was moving from the visitor
dressing rooms used for visiting bands to the stage a whack of their
security team went out first and muscled the paying concertgoers out of the
way to clear a wide you-can't-talk-to-the-band birth through the halls and
onto the stage. At the post-show party Jimmy came in on-time, and was
amazing - talking to everyone, and anyone, and inviting all to sit down and
horse around.  Towards the end of the party in comes the Eagles advanced
guard security team, again muscling a path to ensure untouchableness, the
band came in for 5 minutes, spoke to a couple of record company execs, and
left.  We spent another couple of hours at what turned out to be an
incredible party with Buffet sitting contently surrounded by not only party
goers, but a few fans who had simply asked him if they could go the party
too. So two thumbs up for Jimmy, and a big raspberry for the Eagles.  The
music of both, of course, can't be faulted.

Hi Ken ...

Yep, I remember Bloodrock - I *really* liked some of their stuff. They're
still around too -or part of them:

BLOODROCK REUNION CONCERT WITH NITZINGER & SPECIAL GUESTS - A BENEFIT FOR
STEVE HILL

12 MARCH 2005 -SAT - 8 PM - RIDGLEA THEATER - 6025 CAMP BOWIE BLVD - Fort
Worth, Texas USA)

http://www.bloodrock.net/.

(That made me remember (don't know why) the very first live concert I ever
attended - Cream at Toronto's Massey Hall in 1966 I believe it was.  GAWD
was that loud.  That was where I fell in love with Marshal's, which I bought
about a year later.)

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inagaddadavida ... <emphasis>let me tell you a story.</>

In The Olde Days (when I was in high school), there were really only three
notable guitarists around. The first was Paul Naumann who later became the
lead guitarist of the one-hit wonder band "A Foot In Cold Water ("Make Me Do
Anything You Want" was their hit), myself, who jammed with Paul, and a
fellow named Brian (who had a band whose name I can't recall). Paul was an
amazing and a meticulous player as his lead riff in Make Me Do attests, and
he was considered the "best lead guitarist" in Scarborough (a suburb of
Toronto). I was considered the best rhythm guitarist in Scarborough. Brian,
a hard-rock guitarist, was really good but like a lot of others.

Anyway, Cedarbrae had annual talent shows and starting in grade 9 Brian's
band always played at the shows, and always played inagaddadavida. All 17
minutes of it. In grade 10 (my third year at the school) I got pissed
because there was no competition for him so I put a band together.

I primarily hung around with musicians from a nearby high school - Woburn -
playing with a bass player named Bruce Barrow, and a sax player, Nat Abrams
(who went on to play with Donnie Walsh's Downchild Blues Band). Occasionally
Prakash John (from another band with Dominic Triano called Bush and later
with Alice Cooper) would join too.  A guy named Des McAnuff was always our
singer (he went on to produce the play Tommy and the movie Adventures of
Rocky and Bullwinkle with Piper Perabo.
(http://www.tribute.ca/bio.asp?id=1907) (His daughter played Piper's child
alter-ego).

So I got Des, Nat and Bruce in this new band, and we recruited a few of the
best brass players from the Cedarbrae band along with a drummer I knew to do
a song off Blood Sweat and Tear's first album (pre David Clayton Thomas)
called Somethin' Going' On.  We had two weeks of practice after school,
sounding the song off the album and then playing.  The concert finally came,
we did our song, Brian's band did (drum roll) inagaddadavida. We got a
standing, and Brian, well, inagaddadavida went on and on and on and on and
on...

The band I threw together was meant to be a one-night only band, and so
after the gig and the party we "broke up". The next day Brian invited me to
join his band, which I agreed to do if we never, ever played inagaddadavida.
He agreed, we formed Buster Crabb, and were together for two years (and
never played inagaddadavida) touring Ontario playing every Friday and
Saturday night, usually at high schools and occasionally at Frat parties.
(Hence the claim on my Bio page that I found "girls love guys who play
guitar, and often".)  The cool thing was, that after failing grade 9 things
just clicked, so much so that it was no problem for both our parents as well
as the school to excuse us at noon on Fridays, and occasionally on
Thursdays, so we could drive to our next gig. Ontario is a huge province.

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(Hickey's eyes would probably not light up with my cell ringer - it's the
theme from hockey night in Canada. <g>)