How old do you want? 1965 good enough? lol. Second iteration of a band called "The GraveDiggers", which - er - died a death. Re-named "The Sugar-Beats" as seen here in January 1965. I'm in the middle with the Harmony 75. We are playing, so I am told by the guy on Stage Right with the leftie Epi Casino (still mates after all these years), "Johnny B. Good". Note for the eagle-eyed - the drummer Dave Johnson (where are you now?) hadn't got round to changing the name on the drum skin. The Gig was also personally famous for being where I proposed to my girlfriend, the present Mrs Sixchannel. Wonder what I'd have done if she'd said "no"? Cheers Ian
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Wow, I remember being a little tyke and watching my parents perform in the 60's. I'm just not that old yet I guess. What I'm finding scary is even the most recent one I can find is from more than a few years back (top). Earliest one I can find is when I was almost an adult, but not quite .. 1980 I think, college jazz band. I'm the long hair on the right.
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And when someone gets famous all the photographers follow you around just like they did with the Beatles and you get whole books of unreleased photos decades later.
Was just thinking as I was typing that the Beatles must have been the most photographed groups of all time, maybe even the superstars nowadays have a lot more privacy.
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If that pic was college jazz band, how old were the 2 trumpet players on the left side of the brass row, or the female sax player? They look like they were 30 THEN!
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I want to share the story of that sax. The one in the old picture was a Buescher. It was like one rung above a student rental, and in fact it may have been a retired student rental knowing where I got it. The one in 2015 though....
I was looking around Craigslist for a specific horn and saw that horn listed by a guy in New York. It was a listed as a "King". I asked him for the serial number. When I got it I called the company that King became and asked them if they could run the serial and pin down the manufacture date, they said they could get it down to 1st or 2nd half of a year. They ran the number and it was built in the 1st half of 1964. I will digress and come back to this point.
I emailed the guy in New York and worked out a price. With shipping, it came to me for less than $100!!When it arrived I blew air through it and one key leaked. I took it to my shop and the horn guy there looked at it and said he'd call me. 3 days later he called and said "All that was wrong was one key up top was bent. It doesn't even need pads or cork." The bill was $27. That guy's name is Tom Ianni. I have known him since we were little kids.
So, both Tom's father and my father, both long since deceased, worked at King back before it became King. It was originally called H. (Henderson) N. White. The plant was in Cleveland, on E 52nd St. I grew up on E 61st St. That horn, as I could date it, would have been worked on by both my dad and Tom's dad.
Back to the phone call. When they told me "1st half of 1964" I said "Great. That means my father would have worked on this horn." They asked who he was and when I told them, the woman on the phone said "Oh my god." and told the other woman in the office that she had the son of my dad (Names redacted) on the phone. And they both got on the call and went on and on telling me how nice my dad was and he was always greeting them when they walked through the plant. And I laughed as I said "Well, you didn't live with him. He could be stern."
So, morale of the story is that I played those last few years of reunion shows with an H.N. White horn that was worked on during assembly by my father, and it is maintained by another H.N. White worker's father. And I got to buy that legacy and memory horn for about $125!!!
When Henderson White died, he had a brother who thought he would walk in and take over the business. Henderson's wife, Edna, said nay nay. She read the will and found that SHE was the sole heir to the business. She quickly lawyered up and on some random day, her lawyer and police came in and escorted Henderson's brother out of the place. The court later assigned a payout value to that silent partner that was the brother, and he just rode off into the sunset for what I later learned was a meager inheritance. He was a very minor partner and Edna took over. Bless her heart for not being pushed around!
That's me on the Guitar with the Jazz Band. Everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in a lifetime, this was mine.
To paraphrase Florence Foster Jenkins "You may say I could not play, but you can't say I did not play."
Cool quote!
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very first band, all the members were in the same freshman high school class. I'm the guitar player on the far left with the Peter Tork haircut and no-name guitar. We were terrible, but we played all the time because the bass player's dad took an interest in the band and managed/booked us.
It didn't matter that we sucked because we were too young to join the musician's union, so the only venues open to us were places where other very young and inexperienced bands played.
The fact that we played all the time made a difference, and by the time we were 16 and could join the union, we already had an established local reputation (as being one of the better bad bands. Hey, you gotta start somewhere)
Note the 45's hanging from the ceiling. This particular venue was in a church basement. That's how church ladies thought a hip place should be decorated. I'm pretty sure there were also black light posters. ;-)
If that pic was college jazz band, how old were the 2 trumpet players on the left side of the brass row, or the female sax player? They look like they were 30 THEN!
They were (maybe more). I've always been lucky and placed well above my abilities .. which always helped me learn more faster. One of those trumpet players had a doctorate and the sax player had her masters .. like I said, I been lucky,
At the time I thought it was funny that the instructor had a Master degree and the guy he was teaching was a Doctor. Me; I was fresh out of high school. But I made the band and they actually performed one of my compositions .. just one of the many ways I've been blessed throughout my life. I call it Luck of the Bob
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