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 (thirteen years ago) link
"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 (thirteen years ago) link
The ghosts remain there. You must investigate.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe they're still there, like that dead guy in Tokyo.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
All you need to know about Barbara Allen and the Tennessee Hot Pants
― 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, not kidding -- amazing read.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.rushisaband.com/images/200904/1084.f.jpg
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's the fourth guy????
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30472833&id=1124012102
― Wilko, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- Zeppo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously though, who is that 4th guy with Rush? My brain is now officially broken.
― Moodles, Saturday, 31 July 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"I want to hear Mind Garage"
i used to have a mind garage album. pretty good.
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20061120/110058215920.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't really suss out what kind of music they'd play.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Wikipedia sez Christian Rockhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Saintmarks.jpg/450px-Saintmarks.jpg...looks like a barrel of laughs.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.beckett1040.co.uk/scanned%20photos/Beckett_72_73shrunk.jpg
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
The little beardy fella is my fave.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Five secondary school English teachers, circa 1975...
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
They had some uneven floors in the 70s as well.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
> 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): http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/26/l_d473634df7bf93b3a7c88a5127f08ccf.jpg
― meisenfek, Saturday, 31 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Bruce Hampton went on to semi fame with "Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit"
― Shakeytown, Monday, 2 August 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn, I always miss Curulewski!
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is excellent.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://carmenborgia.com/fave/pages/murderone/murderoneposter.jpg
― zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Headband and Trilby" would be a good name for the genre Murder One played.
― bendy, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Two Ibanez V's in one band. More than coincidence???
― zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw these play once:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1692/maxwell.jpg
Second from right: Alan Partridge in fat suit
― Taylor, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like the title of a series of books set in a boarding school.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ totally want these books
― Darin, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Also watch out for a lucrative line of slash-fic.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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
http://www.offbroadwayusa.com/d
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Riff Johnson, motherfuckers!
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
riff - aka cliff - went on to front off broadway
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a sore point cause tommy aldridge replaced my buddy but the band broke up not long after that. anyway here ya go...
http://www.offbroadwayusa.com/1bac.jpg
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link