Nate Smith with the Fearless Flyers the other night.
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Cool rock n roll photos
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Quite possibly there is some text missing. It does look strange.
Show Me the Body. Julian Cashwan Pratt playing his banjo.
Interpol. With David Bowie & David Byrne, and onstage.
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I first saw him during the summer of 1965. I was 13. I lived in Chicago for 25 years and got to see him and so many of the other Chicago blues musicians many times. I lived walking distance from several blues clubs in the city. They were great places for unwinding after a work day. The Jazz Showcase was also just down the street. I caught plenty of shows there, too. Eddy Clearwater and his band, with guest vocalist Leroy Brown, provided the entertainment for my second wedding reception (out of 3 total; I've thankfully been wife-free for 13 years).
Tony Newton- Motown bassist and beyond. He played the wonderful groove on the Jackson 5's studio version of Never Can Say Goodbye.
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Jim Gordon began as a professional drummer with the Everly Brothers in 1963 and was a popular session drummer in Los Angeles, recording with Mason Williams on the hit "Classical Gas", "Pet Sounds" with The Beach Boys, "Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers" and "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" with The Byrds in 1968. He was a member of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends during their 1969 tour, along with Eric Clapton. Gordon became widely known for his drumming in Eric Clapton's Derek & The Dominos band during the early 1970s, and for co-writing the band's hit single "Layla" with Clapton.
During much of the 1970s, Gordon remained a first-call studio musician in Los Angeles, appearing on albums by top-selling artists of the period including John Lennon, George Harrison, Carly Simon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Judy Collins, Seals & Crofts, Art Garfunkel, Bread, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Gordon Lightfoot, Carpenters, Daryl Hall & John Oates, and others.
He was featured on the 1973 recording "Apache" by The Incredible Bongo Band, which featured a long percussion break by Gordon that has been sampled countless times on rap, dance and hip-hop releases. During 1973, Gordon became the drummer for The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band.
Gordon began to suffer serious mental health issues in the late 1970's. This included hearing voices in his head, part of what was later determined to be schizophrenia. He was also indulging heavily in alcohol and recreational drug-use, which exacerbated his poor mental health. Tragically, on June 3rd 1983, he killed his mother with a hammer, believing her to be some form of devil taking over his life. Gordon was sentenced to second-degree murder and given sixteen years to life in California's Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) in Atascadero, a town just north of San Luis Obispo. Gordon spent the rest of his life in mental health institutions, and died in March, 2023 in the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville.
Also, I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a "Wayne Rogers lookalike contest", but if there was, Jim Gordon could have easily won that.
Debbie Harry, Suzi Quatro, and Joan Jett
I remember seeing Fishbone around 1984 (can't remember who they opened for, maybe General Public) at The Ritz in NYC I think, and I think it was Angelo Moore who yelled out that it was his 19th birthday.
That photo reminds me of this one (Big Jay McNeely, Los Angeles, 1953)...
