A Dare . . .

[pes_laul]

Hmm I do not know. im still just a kid pretty much haha.

 

[bigG]

A Dr. Hook Story

Oh boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA
Double oh boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjxZDT_5SA&feature=related

I can't remember a song that I liked that I am or was ashamed of. Alot of people thought "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks was lame, but I loved it. It was a rewrite, in English, of a Serge Gainsbourgh hit in French...

The Dr. Hook story: In abt 1971 or 72, towards the end of my gigging days, Dr. Hook was booked in Miami for a big Friday night show. I was backstage and struck up a friendship with Billy Francis (the keyboard player - left rear in the video). They were in town for a couple of days after that show, taking a break and hitting the beach - relaxing.

Billy and I hung out, went to the beach, had dinner, drove around and he met some of my friends and family, stuff like that... I intro'd him to my soon to be ex-wife's best girlfriend and they boffed alot at our house in the wee small hours...she was living with us in our spare bedroom. In our talks, Billy got around to asking me if I'd be interested in replacing their bass player, as he just wasn't gelling w the rest of the band and they were looking to get rid of him. Billy recommended me to Ray Sawyer (eye patch) and Dennis Lacorriere (stoned talker) and myself, Billy, Ray and Dennis jammed at my house. They were onboard for my coming along and replacing the bass player on tour and permanently like, immediately...

After much consideration, I declined, as I was going thru a divorce, had a one year old son, and, quite frankly, was REALLY tired of the road. And, yes, Ray and Dennis, especially, were BIG stoners and totally crazy. I wasn't a stoner and that was another part of my decision making - putting up with totally baked band leaders.

BTW, the late, great Shel Silverstein wrote most all the lyrics to their first couple of albums (including their first hit, "Sylvia's Mother"...anyone remember that one?) and was a "part of the band", so to speak.

Anyway, I didn't take the invite, and the rest is not history...not my history, anyway. They ended up selling out to MOR crap like "Only Sixteen" and others, which diehard fans like myself hated, but, of course, that's when they had truly big hits and made really big money! I kept in touch w Billy for some time after that initial meeting. When I first met him, his phone # and address were an apartment in California. When thay went MOR and really made money, he bought a nice house, had a few nice cars - really great guy and he deserved the success.

I always wondered how I would have ended up had I gone w them, but never really regretted my decision...really!

And, back to the original thread, I knew what I didn't like when I heard it, and the ONLY album I ever burned, literally, was Freddie and The Dreamers' album that had their one hit on it. Can't remember the name of it. Thankfully! (Ah, hell, I just remembered it - "Do the Freddie" I think it was...)

Sorry to be so long-winded, but it's a good story from my past gigging musician days, rubbing elbows with some greats and many not so greats.

The end. Finally! :thwap

 

[Tig]

My memory can no longer suppress this bit of damaging information. At the risk of losing the small amount of street cred I may have scraped up from the gutter, and possibly becoming a rock target for life, I will now confess:

For a very small amount of time in the early 80's, I owned and listened to... this is difficult, so bear with me...
An Adam and the Ants cassette. :nope
There, I said it, and feel much relieved. All I can say is that it was just a silly, fun, pointless bit of fun (partially to do with a girlfriend, of course).

Go ahead... Ban me! I've earned it!

 

[syo]

For a very small amount of time in the early 80's, I owned and listened to... this is difficult, so bear with me...
An Adam and the Ants cassette. :nope
There, I said it, and feel much relieved. All I can say is that it was just a silly, fun, pointless bit of fun (partially to do with a girlfriend, of course).

Wow, lots of people blaming their girlfriends around here...
Alright play it straight Tig, don't tell me you would switch off Stand and Deliver or Ant Music. You'd still get into it wouldn't you?



Any act with two drum kits can't be all bad...

 

[FrankenFretter]

My memory can no longer suppress this bit of damaging information. At the risk of losing the small amount of street cred I may have scraped up from the gutter, and possibly becoming a rock target for life, I will now confess:

For a very small amount of time in the early 80's, I owned and listened to... this is difficult, so bear with me...
An Adam and the Ants cassette. :nope
There, I said it, and feel much relieved. All I can say is that it was just a silly, fun, pointless bit of fun (partially to do with a girlfriend, of course).

Go ahead... Ban me! I've earned it!

You haven't lost any...um...street cred with me, Doug. I'm not ashamed to have listened to Adam and the Ants. That was actually pretty good stuff. And like Syo says, any band with two drummers can't be all bad! I listened to a lot of "New Wave" stuff in the 80s, as well as metal and punk. I was diverse even then; or was it just fence sitting?

 

[Tig]

You haven't lost any...um...street cred with me, Doug. I'm not ashamed to have listened to Adam and the Ants. That was actually pretty good stuff. And like Syo says, any band with two drummers can't be all bad! I listened to a lot of "New Wave" stuff in the 80s, as well as metal and punk. I was diverse even then; or was it just fence sitting?

I'm the the musically diverse club as well. In the 80's I'd listen to music from
Metallica to Elvis Costello,
The Cure, Husker Du, Meat Puppets,
Miles Davis, Pretenders, Steely Dan, Neil Young,
Depeche Mode, XTC, Public Image Ltd, TSOL, Black Flag,
MDC, REM, Guns N' Roses, King's X, Fang, Jodie Foster's Army,
Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Queen, Adam Ant, Ramones, The Clash, The Jam,
The Police, The Cars, UB40, English Beat, Talk Talk, Echo and the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Devo, Dead Kennedeys, Iron Maiden, Stray Cats, Anthrax,
Megadeth, New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain...

This is about 1/4 of the bands I had albums of and listened to, not including dozens of small punk bands that toured across the states.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

I'm the the musically diverse club as well. In the 80's I'd listen to music from
Metallica to Elvis Costello,
The Cure, Husker Du, Meat Puppets,
Miles Davis, Pretenders, Steely Dan, Neil Young,
Depeche Mode, XTC, Public Image Ltd, TSOL, Black Flag,
MDC, REM, Guns N' Roses, King's X, Fang, Jodie Foster's Army,
Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Queen, Adam Ant, Ramones, The Clash, The Jam,
The Police, The Cars, UB40, English Beat, Talk Talk, Echo and the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Devo, Dead Kennedeys, Iron Maiden, Stray Cats, Anthrax,
Megadeth, New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain...

This is about 1/4 of the bands I had albums of and listened to, not including dozens of small punk bands that toured across the states.

I listened to pretty much all of those except the metal guys. Add Talking Heads, The Kingbees, Men at Work, The Violent Femmes, The Romantics, AC/DC, Def Leppard, The Tubes, Springsteen, Van Halen, Jimmy Cliff, The Cult, Lou Reed, SRV, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Prince, . . . etc. There are lots more. Oh, and Adam Ant too.