lol
― better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:21 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Riff Johnson, motherfuckers!
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 20:39 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs238.snc1/8516_1235314012800_1527694560_634323_5147192_n.jpg
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs273.ash1/20052_461813510421_745585421_10825507_413691_n.jpg
― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
u rock
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://demokidblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sixthconcession1973.jpg
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
<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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dickdestiny.com/theothersideinpottsville.JPG
― Gorge, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
The best hepcat JC Penney's fashion you could get in the county!
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://dickdestiny.com/dek1.jpg
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dickdestiny.com/george-legs_small.jpg
― Gorge, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
An SST band circa '89?
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.milesago.com/Artists/Images/Dafiduk.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.ronnierogers.com/80sclubbands/sidewinder8by10.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/porre1/Tornado/tb1-1.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://nakedsides.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/swedish-dance-bands-012.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.stanlaundon.com/bands/bluevelvet.JPG
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.therockingchairsband.com/southend/index_files/image003.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
here's these guys ^ in the swinging 60s
http://www.therockingchairsband.com/southend/index_files/image063.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://music.newcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/TuTu_Band2.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bridgeofhopeinc.org/images/photo/daybreak%202.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g165/suzysparkles/homesweet001.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://members.tripod.com/lysergia_2/LamaWorkshop/Magi/Magi_LarryTom_c1975_ed.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/lysergia_2/LamaWorkshop/Magi/LarryLeopardskin_ed.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dontbelong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/26548_329717491260_277242501260_4197556_7820534_n.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.coverbands.com.au/Bands/Able%20Magwitch/ablem2.JPG
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QPE5_uNdqds/THaY_u8IZXI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Icghwa8mWmk/s1600/Bakery+Band+members3.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.furys.ca/images/576_Poster_1970s.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cnylink.com/all_ads/turningstonetennis20090623.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.mlive.com/goinggonzo/2008/12/large_Beveridge-Brothers-Band.JPG
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.neilwarden.com/music/gallery/joes-diner002.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dirk-van.com/images%5Cbio%5C04b.jpg
― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
is that middle guy peeing?
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 9 September 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
the NEXUS band
http://demokidblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nexus.jpg
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://havegravity.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/shane-ahs.jpg
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link