Message I am forwarding this on so that you all can have a big smile on your faces after you see it. I know I did. He is great. Talkin' about talent!!!!!!!!!...
Here's a couple of kids who aren't too shabby either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8q9Gzpcy8&mode=related&search http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IH2yYx8udo...
Back in 1971, Igor at Mid-Continent in Lawrence put together yet another version of Spider & The Crabs. I've written here about them before. It was 2 drummers...
Dawayne, I think you're talking about Wes Strowig on trombone. He was inducted with the Crabs in 2006. Bruce Brown on bass? Wow! And Daryl and Bill "Wimpy"...
Wes sounds familiar to me as well....???? Did he possibly play with an edition of the Young Raiders shortly after this version of Spyder and the Crabs you...
and perhaps I am even more nuts, but didn't he (Wes) also have a brother that played in MC Bands?? Whew....where do these old thoughts and memories come...
Dawayne: I knew Mike back in "the days," too. Seems like he was around Topeka (where I was and am) or maybe Lawrence or Emporia. He was a blonde-headed kid...
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... Rathbone ... Hays ... John Amaro, Daryl and I had a band called Brutus in Manhattan in 1970. Named so because John resembled Popeye's large bearded...
... Rathbone ... Hays ... Yes, it was Wes Strowig and his brother who played in our horn section, although I can't recall his name or axe. Daryl went on to...
... skinny guy (like all of ... Yes, Wes was a funny young tall skinny guy with long blond hair with a 'stache and the resident Mid Continent trombonist who...
In a message dated 4/3/2007 1:48:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, oozlet@... writes: I later played with Wimpy in yet a zillionth version of The Rising...
Because in 1975 The Rising Suns with Walter and Izy and Bill Snow having just left and whom I joined in 1972 had moved to Hollyweird to strike out on our own...
I must add the Young Raiders as a OFTEN re-issued MC Band....I know that when I joined them in Dec/Jan of 1971/72 they had just been a band from Sioux City...
Especially carrying those keyboards up an OUTDOOR staircase in the middle of winter, RiGHT !! hehe....I also remember about 1972 a version of the Red Dogs...
That makes real good sense Bill....cause even I was a Flipper in 1978 after the Hollywood Vegas deal with the Rising Suns/Bump City faded and some of them...
Sorry to hog the message board but thoughts just keep coming....I remember that other Okie (B-ville) edition of the Flippers of Murfins was about 1971 or 2...
AND FINALLY I PROMISE.........That was the Bump City band that Jay Solemburger was the lead trumpet player for....and Patience Higgins of NYC (who now plays...
... Murfins ... Ted was in the band Fraight in the early 70s and if I'm not mistaken, was in a version of The Royal Gaurdsmen in the 60s. Many Manhattan guys...
In a message dated 4/3/2007 5:34:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, oozlet@... writes: Many Manhattan guys played in Fraight such as Rick Ambrose on drums, ...
Wes Stroig's older brother is Ross. He's a sax player. I've had several recent email contacts with him. He is in a high-level law enforcement position now (has...
Have been lurking here a while, but the recent threads about the different versions of all the MC bands reminded me: Hey - I played with those guys... OK -...
Old Knucklehead Steve Ripley.....sorta grew up with him around Stillwater Oklahoma and all the local groups.....I think he has Leon Russell's old Shelter...
Dennis Loewen is the one who gave me the details on Igor and I just can't recall ....probably buried them with my emotions as he was my buddy as he was to a...
Andrae Crouch was the gospel singer I mentioned and Billy Maxwell was his drummer producer....Gordon Shryock was the engineer for both them and some of Steve...
Friday the Thirteenth is Coming - - But Don’t Worry, Be Happy.... Because - - - The Silver Tones will be putting on some of their best Good Luck tunes at...
... drums, ... could ... in 1970 ... I never knew Fraight released any vinyl, casette, etc. I'll try to find out though. I haven't heard from the Umshied...
CLAPTON COMES TO KANSAS CITY.... I don't know how many of you out there have caught the current Eric Clapton tour..but he is on a comprehensive 12 month tour!...
Bill: I contacted Mike Steinel as a result of Dawayne Bailey's post about him the other day. Mike is interested in joining our chat group and possibly...
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