Post by sloopjohnc on Apr 18, 2020 17:15:58 GMT
One of the reasons I like having Ray here is reading about the bands and artists he saw and my guitar teacher is the same.
I was mentioning to him that there is a great, thorough piece on Skip Spence in the most recent Ugly Things, and he being around 65, went to see all those bands or played with them.
Talking about the article, he mentioned he saw the Airplane when Spence drummed for them and before Grace Slick was invited to sing. He's also mentioned seeing Zeppelin, Cream, and Hendrix at the Fillmore. We were once having a discussion about what dead rock stars could have gone on to bigger things and I mentioned Hendrix. He said he'd seen Hendrix three times, and each time he was far worse than the time before so he wouldn't have included him in that list.
At his high school battle of the bands, the Beau Brummels were the headliner to give the rest of the bands an idea of what other local bands could aspire to. He's friends with the original drummer of Santana, was good friends with the guitarist in the Chocolate Watchband, and the Dead and Moby Grape were both started in the general vicinity of where we both grew up - we're both from the same hometown - so it's kinda cool to hear about all the '60s stuff.
He played in funk bands coming up so he's got a lot of Sly Stone and Tower of Power stories too.
His biggest claim to fame was touring with Jesse Colin Young, who he hated and said was a huge cokehead.
All in all though, they are pretty cool stories.
Does anybody else have an elder folks who have cool music stories about the '60s and such?
I was mentioning to him that there is a great, thorough piece on Skip Spence in the most recent Ugly Things, and he being around 65, went to see all those bands or played with them.
Talking about the article, he mentioned he saw the Airplane when Spence drummed for them and before Grace Slick was invited to sing. He's also mentioned seeing Zeppelin, Cream, and Hendrix at the Fillmore. We were once having a discussion about what dead rock stars could have gone on to bigger things and I mentioned Hendrix. He said he'd seen Hendrix three times, and each time he was far worse than the time before so he wouldn't have included him in that list.
At his high school battle of the bands, the Beau Brummels were the headliner to give the rest of the bands an idea of what other local bands could aspire to. He's friends with the original drummer of Santana, was good friends with the guitarist in the Chocolate Watchband, and the Dead and Moby Grape were both started in the general vicinity of where we both grew up - we're both from the same hometown - so it's kinda cool to hear about all the '60s stuff.
He played in funk bands coming up so he's got a lot of Sly Stone and Tower of Power stories too.
His biggest claim to fame was touring with Jesse Colin Young, who he hated and said was a huge cokehead.
All in all though, they are pretty cool stories.
Does anybody else have an elder folks who have cool music stories about the '60s and such?
