Posted on 06/01/2019 11:05:18 AM PDT by bassmaner
Had the pleasure to see Roky perform on several occasions: he was a unique talent and extremely underrated.
I should hope to be so honored that someone would pause and take note of my (eventual) passing. Different strokes I spose...
His last album was in 2010. But he never found a big label, his stuff is hard to find, but worth the effort. I only heard about him because of my love of zombie movies. Burn the Flames is on the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, the great punk rock zombie movie, also where “braaaains” comes from.
It has to be a miracle!
Jesus is trying to tell
you something.
“actually”
Actually, huh? That proves it!
13th Floor Elevators, right?
Have you ever been to an Ozzy Osbourne concert?
“Have you ever been to an Ozzy Osbourne concert?”
1972.
“Wow, you’re super-fun! I bet you go to some awesome concerts.”
I hit a lot of shows until around 1976. Mostly DC metro venues and Balto civic center, RFK, stuff like that. Then fusion sort of pulled me in.
RIP.
Roky covers a Buddy Holly tune...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zebFNf7K61M
Rest in peace, Roky, you did good.
They sound like the Standells.
“Man you’re just plain stupid.”
Um... disco sux
We usually referred to other bands as ...
What’s ‘is name and his local group.
Other than Donna Summers’ “I Feel Love,” yeah.
But what’s disco got to do with this thread?
Is it Satanic, too?
That was good. I’d have enjoyed
their version of Cell Tower Blues.
Well, I woke up this mornin’,
rolled outta bed,
looked at mah honey,
she sat up and said,
“See out the window?
That steel-hard cell mast?
You give me summa dat,
or you’ve had your last.”
I got the cell tower blues.
My woman thinks it’s funny
to keep popping crotch fruit
like Energizer bunnies.
We got more kids than sense
and I’m sick to death of balling
but that damned cell phone tower
shows no signs of falling.
I got the cell tower blues,
and don’t mind multiplying
but, lord, being fruitful
is mighty stupefying.
“Have you ever been to an Ozzy Osbourne concert?”
It might have been 1971... It was an old gigantic roller rink in Alexandria Virginia, all wood and it had one of the largest pipe organs on the East Coast.
When I saw ELP there Emerson got on that pipe organ and played a fugue, I also saw Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels along with several other bands one of which was Alice Cooper I think he had his second album out at that time which is probably the last Alice Cooper I really listened to, but the sound there was incredible and Ozzy Osbourne had just come out with his paranoia album.
The roller rink is long gone, it burned down sometime in the early 80s I was overseas at that point but there was some big shows they used to come through there.
The Baltimore Civic Center was always a good place, RFK in the summertime had some shows, I can’t remember if it was the capital Center or if it was called something else but I saw George Harrison’s big Bangladesh review with Billy Preston and all the Indian musicians, I saw the Heep and Blue Oyster Cult and several others I really can’t remember.
Baltimore Civic Center I saw Zeppelin When Zeppelin 4th album came out I saw the Allman Brothers a couple times up there, with BB King once and I saw Janis there early 70s with my sister. Stuff like that.
There was a bluesy club right across the Roslyn Bridge called the Cellar Door which later became Cellar Door music productions, I saw Muddy Waters in there at least five or six times, the David Bromberg band would always swing through town and played there and Johnny Prine, Johnny Winter lots of acts used to come in there. DC had a few clubs and we used to go see Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan, Junior Wells (?)...all them guys they were all over town.
Roy Clark used to play in DC quite a bit, Jimmy Dean lot of country acts because at one point what is now the bad side of town was where all the West Virginians used to live when they came into town to work during the week and they would all go to these country and western bars all down in Southeast DC. There was a lot of acts up in there but I didn’t see too many in SE, however my good friend’s mother was a bartender down there and I did go down to her place and she used to hang out with Roy Clark and Jimmy Dean and all them guys and she was a Harley Rider and they were too. It was just kind of cool... my dad had a bike he was a Shriner and they’d all come over to the house pick up my dad and they all go off riding up in the Blue Ridge so yeah there was a pretty good scene in and around there for a while. It all sort of died up in the seventies after disco came in and destroyed everything with their DJ inspired clubs.
My sister saw a lot more shows and I did she was a few years older, she saw The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Who...a bunch of bands before they started hitting the big venues, they played down in Georgetown in gymnasiums and stuff at the University. I saw Crosby and Nash at the University and I’m pretty sure David Lindley was playing slide guitar with them and quite a few members of the LA Express were their backup band... Great shows one and all.
“But what’s disco got to do with this thread?
Is it Satanic, too?”
Um... Disco Stu call me something and I told him disco suxs. That’s all it has to do with it... other than the fact that disco hit and there was probably 350 bands in DC that suddenly were without work and all the big rock and CW club scene just suddenly evaporated and these DJ inspired discotheques opened up and DC became a boutique disco club scene.
Saw them frequently in Austin mid 60’s. You Gonna Missed Me sounded a bit like Van Morrison’s Gloria. Which came first I don’t know.
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