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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:58 am
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My first band started about 1963. We were playing all instrumental covers of The Ventures, The Shadows, Duane Eddy, etc. We were playing at a backyard house party after several months and this guy convinced us that he could sing and play saxophone.

He brought out his tenor sax and we followed him on tunes like 'Night Train', 'Watermelon Man', Comin' Home Baby', One Mint Julep', 'Tequila' and we thought he was GREAT!

The next night we got together with this Realistic (Radio Shack brand) wonky PA with a pair of 'horns' (PA speakers) and as we started to rehearse when we were called upstairs to hear this band called The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Well, the instros slowly faded away and we started working on vocals and harmonies and learning more about this "British Invasion" and soon were doing covers by The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and one thing led to another.

Next came James Brown. First real concert I ever saw and that band was FUNKY! So now we we're doing a few original tunes and getting some good gigs and eventually was on the same bill and played with this guy, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. We hung out with Bill Levise (Mitch) and his band (Jim McCarty, the guitarist is still giggin' around these days and is a fine player and hell of a nice guy!) and learned a lot about the 'biz' end of things. After that we went through many personnel changes started a roadband and the rest is history, as they say.

MM , bro , mitch ryder and the detroit wheels , such a great meet MM that band really did rock.


Bill (aka Mitch) is still out there with a different band doing shows and Jim, who had also played with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice (from Vanilla Fudge) in Cactus, is doing some shows around the Detroit area currently with Johnny Bee and the Detroit Rock n Roll Review.

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good times!!

Music was going through all kinds of changes and a lot of experimentation.
In one weekend, after The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, went form a diet of big band and be-bop to rock.

Times were fun and exciting too. Lots of ideas and experimentation.

The only troubling thing at the time was VietNam. My family lost a few good friends.
I missed that excursion by a year, but still have my draft card; 1-H = high school senior

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Farking amazing times. It felt like, from early '66 to the end of '68, the WORLD changed. Especially in the USA. Serious emotions everywhere, big and little stuff getting too much or too little attention. Personal recollection is maybe a solid 10% of the teens / young adults were participants in the "hippie movement."

There is an excellent hardbound book called "HIPPIE" which cronicles things by each year.

And personally, 'remember things well. As an organic chenmistry major, 'learned what was in those drugs and how easily they could be made wrong...and skipped the trip, so to speak. Scary shid, recreational chemicals....

Which (being sober and yet fully paarticipating) made the reality of living the time that much more real and memorable, being alert and sentient and...yes, many stories. Very, very good times, with a few big sads and a bunch of goofies.


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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:12 pm
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from what i remember it was awsome.i was in my early teens but i hitched around alot. one time to this seven day rock fest in New Roads Louisianna, man what a time.


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Hey cuillera I had one of those portable 8 track players in blue. It ate batteries like crazy. First the volume would drop then played slower and slower. The tapes were too big to really carry around too. Now you look at I-pods. Wish we had all this cool stuff growing up. But I still would rather have grown up then than now. We had muscle cars, protests, gas under 50 cents a gallon. Ah the good old days!!!

My earliest music memory was when my brother got Elvis's hound dog 45 and played it at my grandmothers house. Her brother Frank was appalled, called it noise and said you can't understand the words. Then came the Beatles and the British invasion. It was an exciting time as I was born in 59 and wanted to be a drummer my brother was the guitarist. While my brother and father would argue seemed like every night over the talent of the Beatles vs Glenn Miller he was very tolerant of us practicing at the house. He eventually came around though and yes there are some Glenn Miller songs I listen to also. Music can span generations but back then it separated a lot of families. From my perspective by the time Woodstock rolled around it was about more than the music. They were wild times for sure. I was a little too young to fully enjoy them but made up for it in the 70's. Don't know how I survived it sometimes.

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I don't remember big chunks of it....but they tell me I had a great time!

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i was born in 1946, i was at woodstock! need i say anymore? :wink:


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Postscript...

...the vets returning from Vietnam were SO sad in so many cases. 'Went to college with and palled around with a lot of guys who had seen and done and remembered and could not let go of stuff no human being should have had to endure, let alone a 19 year-old.

What was really amazing is how WELL most of them functioned after spending a year in what could literally be paralled as for many of them, Hell.

Guys whose worst life-experiences were getting dumped by their high school sweetheart or getting a speeding ticket or flunking geometry or blowing the trans on their car...

...went in like four months, to seeing human beings blown to ragged, bloody pieces, crippled, blinded, having to kill and living in constant fear of being killed. Carrying deadly weapons and being expected to use them at a nanosecond's notice, fear of booby traps, snipers, land mines, torture if captured.

"How was your last year?" asked the new Organic Chemistry 251 lab partner on the first day of class.
"Oh, it sucked. Had a lousy time with classes, one prof was really a jerk. Parents are getting divorced. Car needed new brakes, tires, carb and starter. How 'bout you?"
"I was in Nam. Three of my buddies came home in bags. One has no legs. I killed at least two people. Malaria is acting up again. Still limping from when the helicopter got shot down. Gotta go to court for beating up couple scumbags who called me baby-killer. Sure am glad to be back, though."
Whenever someone dropped something or slammed a door, he would drop to the floor, wild-eyed.

They can never be prayed for or honoured, enough.

(Personally, 'was not wanted by Navy because of imperfect back construction and drew #365 in the draft lottery; this military career was not intended to be.)


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Rhumba wrote:
Aw !! Jayro, I thought this was about somethin' else.


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i was thinkin the same thing :lol: :lol: :lol:

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