On June 2, 2006, the Hampton Grease Band reunited for the first time
in 33 years to perform their legendary 1971 double album, "Music to
Eat." The group included all the original surviving members who played
on the record (Bruce Hampton, Glenn Phillips, Jerry Fields and Mike
Holbrook), along with Bob Elsey (of the Swimming Pool Q's) filling in
for the late Harold Kelling. The show took place at the Variety
Playhouse in Atlanta before a packed house and was professionally
filmed by director Barry Mills and a 5-camera crew. After 2 1/2 years
of editing, Barry has just released the 1 hour and 23 minute DVD, and
it's available for order here.
http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/glennphillips/orders.html

Hampton Grease Band will always be important for me, as they played
the music to my first riot!
http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/50.html

Tonight, in his honor, I think I'll get shit-faced drunk and sing
"Summertime" the way he used to do.  Although there's no way I could ever
imitate those big bass pipes :-(

I'd like to have a dollar for each night as a kid I lay in bed with my
transistor radio listening to his show on WLAC Nashville, then WPLO Atlanta,
then WFOM Marietta.

It was a blast playing all those Hop-A-Roonies for him and hanging out at
the radio station listening to all of his monkey business.

Rest In Peace, Big Hugh!


-----Original Message-----
From: bandhistory_com@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:bandhistory_com@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of JerryWomack
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:02 AM
To: bandhistory_com@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bandhistory_com] Big Hugh Baby just passed away a couple of
days ago


Lanier Boatwright called to tell me.
The article about him on AJC.com is very good.
Here's a link to it:

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/obits/stories/2008/06/03/jarrett
.html


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Lanier Boatwright called to tell me.
The article about him on AJC.com is very good.
Here's a link to it:

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/obits/stories/2008/06/03/jarrett
.html

The original BandHistory.com group was deleted without warning by Yahoo.

Jerry Womack made some significant archeological finds of band
memorabilia, so I thought it best to reconstruct the mailing list
to announce his priceless finds!

Here are the links to the pages containing the finds, the new stuff
is at the bottom of the pages:

    http://www.bandhistory.com/album/circustrain/1970.htm
    http://www.bandhistory.com/funkysoultrain.htm
    http://www.bandhistory.com/album/misc

Eddie Hamrick has posted his profile!  Check it out at

    http://www.bandhistory.com/profiles/eddiehamrick.htm

I reconstructed this list by reviewing old emails and the profiles
posted to the BandHistory site.  If I have missed any email addresses
on this list, let me know.

A search has been added to the website, so that you can put in any
name or text that appears on the site, and it returns the pages on
which the names or text is found.

    http://www.bandhistory.com/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi

I attended the Marietta High School band reunion on 14 September,
2007, to coincide with a Marietta HS football game at French Field.
Boyd McKeown and Mayor Dunaway received awards for their
contributions to the Marietta School System music program on the
field before the game.  My brother, Jimmy (drum major 1971) and I
attended together.  The Band Booster Club talked about making it an
annual reunion, so stay tuned...

Todd Merriman