― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
lololololol
― now breathing manually (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:51 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
A+ thread!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
omg this thread!
― now breathing manually (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
this is amazing. also SALEM should use that as their next album cover.
― The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
instant classic thread. I would book "Slapp."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 03:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
amazing thread and thank you for my new screen name.
would make an excellent Taschen book
― Chewawa Allstar (herb albert), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
IMpULSE are freakin intense
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
I mean Impulse
pretty much still looks like any bar band in my town right now
― nonightsweats, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 07:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
City Pages file cabinet to thread...
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 07:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
Marshall amp and a briefcase at the front of the stage? I bet Hendrix never tried that.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
It's 'The SLAPP' dude... Clearly hoping that they'll get gigs based on their singer's vague resemblance to Steve Harley. Also lol it's an autographed picture!The glam bandwagon jumpers are hilarious, in each group there are obviously some members who are more committed to the idea than the others.Would book Pork on the basis of their tagline.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
a+ thread
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
The 1970s was a time when people were really happy to be in bands.
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
also, chick from TIGHT: WS
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
"legendary" sirius trixon & the motor city bad boys
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
the MAGI truck is requisite cause these bands usually had tons of expensive gear, hauled around their own PA systems etc
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
Is that drummer set up in a pink cadillac?
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
yes and believe it or not he's dennis thompson of MC5
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
"would the owner of a pink cadillac license plate DY-9175 please move your car - it's blocking the stage"
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
looks like some of those dudes were also in CHICKOREE
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:49 (1 month ago) Permalink
what the
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
and AIRTIGHT
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:51 (1 month ago) Permalink
and QUADRANT
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
They look like an Air Supply cover band
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
Dude on top right is like "I have a feeling about this one. This is finally the one that's going to make it."
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
think there was also a connection to FRIENDS, who went on to become GRIBRALTOR (sp???)
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
These bands all look like my uncle and his buddies.
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
― van smack, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
can i just post these listings i came across for a local UK festival in 76/77? nobody would ever call their band 'Steve Brown Band' anymore. or 'Srewf'.
June 20(in order of appearance).SrewfDexterMushroomCancer MoonDeja VuVillageSteve Brown BandArbreDavePreacherGuyNorth StarRaw Spirit
June 19(in order of appearance)Co Op QuintetteEast CoastSouthboundSidekickHarcourt's HeroesPhil TownendSteve Brown BandGuyCubesErection
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
Erection = great band name imo
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
guycubeserection
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
nobody would ever call their band 'Steve Brown Band' anymore.
Dave Matthews Band?Derek Trucks Band?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
nobody would ever call their band 'Steve Brown Band' anymore
― the penis cream pilot walked free (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:34 (1 month ago) Permalink
Ha, even better!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:34 (1 month ago) Permalink
the rock bus tour
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
the music stage tour
ok, ok. but the kind of band that calls themselves the '[firstname] [lastname] band' is a certain kind of band. sensible dudes sensibly rockin' in sensible long-sleeve shirts. in fact, it's probably modern bar bands. go fig.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
Mike Johnson BandLiveThe Guitar Bass Drums Tour
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
KID LIZARD
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
OREO SPEED COOKIE
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
hahaha brilliant
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
at a local record store 25 years ago someone had modified reo speedwagon's divider label into "oreo speedcookie" in the vinyl bins. i thought it was just some clerk being snarky... THEY WERE REAL!
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
I remember Salem Witchcraft from the 70's. (They were a Harpo's mainstay.) They ultimately shortened their name to Salem.
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
Holy shit how did I miss this thread yesterday. M Coleman where are you getting all these?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
i n c r e d i b l e.
― goole, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:05 (1 month ago) Permalink
impulse is my favorite
― goole, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
Instant Classic Thread. Whew!
― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
The guy on the right in the Impulse photo!
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
um, all the photos!
― oreo speed cookie (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
Um... dude in the back right of Samson... with the shiny hair and the paisley shirt?
Would... errmmm... swyve.
― procedurally generated todge (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
awesome thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
<3 <3 <3 The Tennessee Hot Pants <3 <3 <3
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
that poor guy in the lower right from the Night Crew looks like a puppet or dummy or something!
― oreo speed cookie (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:58 (2 hours ago)
^^^
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
Query:
Were these band uniforms all hand made or was there a band uniform industry that died sometime in the 70's/80's?
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
this thread is rad
― my dream is to own a fly casino (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
mega-<3 Pitts' Dad rockin the double-neck SG!
― Chewawa Allstar (herb albert), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
that's 80s surely?
hot as balls tho
― goole, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
after going thru a bunch of pics on gis, I think there should be another thread called Talent Show! in a few months
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
sorry for doublin' up on the pics but
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
Haha the water aerobics class for old people at my local YMCA is called "Joint Effort."
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
Were the members of bar bands a lot older back then? Or do I just not pay attention to bar band members today?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
pre-MTV
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 05:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
^this look needs to come back
― i'm the kind of challop that's built to last (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
couldn't resist!
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
ok camel ain't exactly a bar band
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Hampton Grease Band ain't exactly, either.
Outstanding thread.
― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
Some of it is the optical illusion of see these haircuts for the last 30 years on the cohort as they age. The Night Crew looks like it might have a father and son, though!
North Americans were skinny once!
― bendy, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
Does "Joint Effort" refer to some kind of pre-Yes/Buggles merging of Uriah Heep and The Partridge Family?
― maltsnapper, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
it really is sad to go through old photos up to the present and watch the ballooning waistbands expand, I gotta say
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
God... the bone structure of these people's faces. So strange.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
Best thread ever.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
holy sweet jesus.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 30 July 2010 15:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
a couple of the ones I posted are canadian
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
I hope Airshow the band played at airshows.
― kkvgz, Friday, 30 July 2010 16:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
QUICKBREATH
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
is "consolidated talent" their tagline or management company?
― elephant rob, Friday, 30 July 2010 16:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
I was hoping "Rock Creek" was the management company and "Consolidated Talent" the band!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
^^^those dudes have GOT to be British. we don't make those kinds of faces in America!
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol they are
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
searching for these has led me to a lot of nostalgic old dude blogs
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
Which you are now going to link plz.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
The guy in the middle kinda reminds me of Mick Fleetwood.
― kkvgz, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
major lol @ the concept of "British expressions"
― Darin, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
― circa1916, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
This thread made my week.
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
Mind Garage (1970)
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
more like SHAME amirite
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
The New Creation were hardly a bar band. They were more of a Shaggs-esque Christian garage outfit that released one record in 1970, recorded, I believe in a day. http://www.companionrecords.com/pages/newcreation.html#
And their song "Dig (The Evolution of Man)" is one of my favorite jams, despite its general dismissal of tempo.
― biggray, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
The Appliances = yacht rock band trying to jump on the post-"My Sharona" skinny tie new wave/power pop bandwagon. Grumpy Michael McDonald on the far left is having none of it.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
I want to hear Mind Garage
― I think I'm Big Bird, Harold Hooper (crüt), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
Jonah's Whale dreamed of having Roger Dean paint their album cover but only got as far as having their weed dealer make a passable Dean-knockoff logo.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
All you need to know about Barbara Allen and the Tennessee Hot Pants
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
How the pros did it:
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
Iommi looks like he is on his way to Idlewild to take shipment of 100 kilos from Medellin in that picture.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
"Little Rock" based out of an office ten blocks away from where I'm sitting right now.
― ˙˙˙˙˙ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
The ghosts remain there. You must investigate.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 19:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
Maybe they're still there, like that dead guy in Tokyo.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, July 30, 2010 2:58 PM Bookmark
^^^ wow!! This is a GREAT read, y'all, check this link.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah, not kidding -- amazing read.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
Who's the fourth guy????
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Wilko, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
xpost -- Zeppo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
xxpost -- That was during the week or so when both Rutsey and Peart were in the band. OK, I made that up. Jeff Jones, maybe?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 30, 2010 4:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I think it's Shemp.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
yo ned here's one of the better put together nostalgic sites I came across. I'll try and find some of the others. http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
Seriously though, who is that 4th guy with Rush? My brain is now officially broken.
― Moodles, Saturday, 31 July 2010 05:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
"I want to hear Mind Garage"
i used to have a mind garage album. pretty good.
― scott seward, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
I can't really suss out what kind of music they'd play.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
Wikipedia sez Christian Rock...looks like a barrel of laughs.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
I had to repost this one to make a note of the fact two of them are wearing the exact same shirt. 2-for-1 sale at The Gap?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
I have a friend whose first name is Beckett. I have informed him of this band's existence.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
xp L-R: MES, Richard Stilgoe, John Junkin, David St. Hubbins, Noel Redding
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
the Beckett picture is potentially the funniest thing I've ever seen, genuinely in tears over here.
― Dwight Yorke, Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
The little beardy fella is my fave.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
Five secondary school English teachers, circa 1975...
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
They had some uneven floors in the 70s as well.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
> that poor guy in the lower right from the Night Crew looks like a puppet or dummy or something!>> ― oreo speed cookie (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:37 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
He/they look(s) far more better now (The Blues Time Band):
― meisenfek, Saturday, 31 July 2010 20:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
Bruce Hampton went on to semi fame with "Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit"
― Shakeytown, Monday, 2 August 2010 15:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
Apparently no one has yet noticed that John Curulewski (in the first photo) was the guitarist in Styx who was replaced by Tommy Shaw?
The fourth member of Rush in the photo is Mitch Bossi. He wasn't in the band very long.
― stahlhart, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
Damn, I always miss Curulewski!
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
this thread is excellent.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
― zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 11:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
"Headband and Trilby" would be a good name for the genre Murder One played.
― bendy, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
Two Ibanez V's in one band. More than coincidence???
― zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Saw these play once:
Second from right: Alan Partridge in fat suit
― Taylor, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:38 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
The guy on the far right in the red pants looks like his name should be "Maxwell Plumm"
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:46 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Sounds like the title of a series of books set in a boarding school.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:09 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
L-R:Mr. Richardson - the trendy liberal English teacher, Flashbastard - the school bully,Mr. Werther - the dodgy ex-con school caretaker,Donny - head of the 6th form, popular with the ladies,Timpkins - currently digging a secret tunnel into the school tuck shop,Mr. Thompson - jaded Physics teacher who hates kids and wishes that he'd kept playing keyboards in that band instead.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:15 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Also available in the series:"Donny Wins The Day""Timpkins Can't Swim""Flashbastard Gets Drafted""Mr. Werther In Prison""Mr. Richardson Has A Fit""Old Thompson Goes Postal"
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:17 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^ totally want these books
― Darin, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:20 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
― better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:21 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Also watch out for a lucrative line of slash-fic.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:22 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
at least two of the bands pictured I actually witnessed in the 70s: SAMSON at a high school dance and MUGGSY in a college-town bar (quintet pulling funny faces, posted in between TIGHT & MAGI)
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:26 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Samson: guy on the far left looks like Jonathan Frakes (Riker in ST:TNG(, guy on the far right looks like the first drummer from Roxy Music.What did Muggsy sound like?
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:30 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Samson's bass player (far right corner, the guy kate masonic fancies) was guitar teacher at my local music store (and a classical cellist)
Muggsy were a hard-rocking Detroit area cover band w/two guitars. members went on to play w/Cub Koda and record in the 80s as Weapons
here's a 70s bar band that was really really good (my BFF Ricky played drums) two other members went on to sub for Tom Petersson in Cheap Trick
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:36 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Riff Johnson, motherfuckers!
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:39 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
riff - aka cliff - went on to front off broadway
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:41 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
It's a great name. And those guys dont look like a bar band, they look like they've already graduated to separate limos to shows and no red M&M's territory.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:44 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Off Broadway was great -- it seemed like you'd hear "Stay In Time" several times an hour on WLS in 1979. And it still wasn't played often enough.
The Tom Petersson sub...Jon Brant?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:49 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Geez, how many Chicago bands are shown here?!?! I know an awful lot of these people. Too bad there wasn't a shot of D'Thumbs when Tommy Aldridge was on drums.
― gweimer, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:06 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
that's a sore point cause tommy aldridge replaced my buddy but the band broke up not long after that. anyway here ya go...
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:11 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
at least two of the songs on Off Broadway's second LP were in D'Thumbs repertoire. maybe more? gweimer probably knows. I never lived in Chicago. most of the stuff i posted came from two Facebook groups - Detroit Bar Stars and Chicago Bar Bands 1975-82
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:14 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
i was listening to the first two off broadway albums the other day and i kinda liked them despite the fact that they aren't very good. they were no cheap trick. to put it mildy. but a lot of those kinds of bands were better live.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:57 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
"mildly"
hahaha you got that right. the vocals on those off broadway albums are really mannered, can imagine riff/cliff being pretty smarmy live. I think d'Thumbs must've been "heavier" than Off Broadway. my friend was in a classic 70s bar band after that called Theatre - they had a palm tree logo and lead singer who spieled between songs like a Top 40 DJ. eventually went power-pop w/a different singer.
"we'll be back in fifteen minutes. don't forget to tip the bartenders & waitresses - they work hard!"
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:20 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
these guys are like the best thing out of my hometown Cincinnati besides Bootsy & Lonnie Mack, originally known as the raisin band, later the Bears (w/Adrian Belew) and the Psychodots. versatile.
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:31 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:33 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
u rock
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 23:51 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
<img src=http://www.dickdestiny.com/theothersideinpottsville.JPG />
The Other Side. At a 'ski resort' in Schuylkill County, Pennsy.
Re upstream -- I saw the Bonnie Parker Band. They occasionally opened for major label acts in the southeast Pennsy hinterlands.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 21:13 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― Gorge, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 21:14 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Yeah I saw the Bonnie Parker Band once, paired with the Good Rats, naturally. She modeled herself after Suzi Quatro, which is obvious from the picture. Can't really remember too much about her show...
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 00:38 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
awesome Gorge - looks like the late 60s or v. early 70s fashion-wise
― the legendary sirius trixon (m coleman), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 00:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
The best hepcat JC Penney's fashion you could get in the county!
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 01:20 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
The glam metal bar band that influenced every hair band that migrated from PA/NJ to LA, the Dead End Kids.
At Chubby's in Allentown. I was there. <img src=http://dickdestiny.com/dek1.jpg />
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:56 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:58 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
An SST band circa '89?
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 22:07 (3 weeks ago) Permalink