The Debutantes out of Michigan with their Mosrites.
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Cool rock n roll photos
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Johnny Winter with a Harmony Sovereign that was in the Guinness book for largest guitar ever made. Harmony built a few for promotional purposes in the early 1970s, one sold at auction years ago for around $3,000. Ripley's in San Antonio has a Harmony Bicentennial model made up in that size, and another hanging from the ceiling at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix.
2 shows at The Factory in Madison, WI on Feb. 27 1968, where Otis Redding was earlier scheduled to play...
Eric Burdon and The Animals in rehearsal at the Scene Club, London 1963
photo-Terry O'Neill
photo-Terry O'Neill
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WW2 jam session with singer Phil Harris, comedian Jerry Colonna, singer Skinnay Ennis, Count Basie, actor Fred MacMurray @ Camp Santa Anita Ordnance Training Center, Arcadia, CA
Don't know if the Doc Severinsen/Tonight Show Band, qualifies as "rock n roll", but I do approve of his choice of amps..
John B.Williams, (1974-ish), with Peavey series 400+2x15.
Doc Severinsen was real cool and he said, ‘Don’t pay any attention to what’s written. I don’t care what you play, I want the band to swing.’” Williams held down the bass chair on “The Tonight Show” for seven years from 1969-1976.
John B.Williams, (1974-ish), with Peavey series 400+2x15.
Doc Severinsen was real cool and he said, ‘Don’t pay any attention to what’s written. I don’t care what you play, I want the band to swing.’” Williams held down the bass chair on “The Tonight Show” for seven years from 1969-1976.
Saw it, used it, lived to tell about it.
Stood next to Iggy while watching The Swans…
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Yeah, I could see that…some of their stuff sounds like it takes cues from his Bowie/Berlin era output, maybe even “Endless Sea” or the Stooges’ “We Will Fall”.
With a guy named Michael Gira at the helm, they started out as a brutal industrial/noise guitar onslaught, giving Sonic Youth some competition(both bands emerging from that early 80’s NYC scene).
Then they took an interesting turn into a dark, folky kind of sound, and added a female vocalist named Jarboe. I wouldn’t quite call it goth, but it fit in with the 4AD stuff I was listening to at the time, especially Dead Can Dance. I was all about the Bill Laswell-produced album they had out at that moment, ‘Burning World’, which featured a fairly straight ahead cover of this old chestnut:
…and one of my favorite tracks otherwise:
I was in NY, summer of ‘89, for the New Music Seminar, similar to SXSW but all over Manhattan, handing out my demo tape, and was excited to see them, there, and while lined up against the wall off to the side of the stage, this funny little guy squeezes in next to me. I look down, and eff me, it’s Iggy. Chatted a bit, then they started playing.
Now, if you really want some catharsis…
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Ronnie Earl with fellow Bluesman John Hammond Jr. RIP
