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To: Drumbo

Vince Vance graduated from the same high school as I did one year after me. ;-)


396 posted on 12/20/2014 11:06:45 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Was that in New Orleans? I subbed with The Valiants a few nights in '78 or '79 at Tipitina's and another club in Fat City in the days of Speedo Ray Earle, who also performed occasionally with The Neville Brothers (Art, Charles, Aaron, Cyril, Ivan and my pal, drummer Ziggy Modeliste). Most of the band members in Vince's show band (about a dozen at the time) were locals, so I assumed Vince was from The Big Easy too, but I never really got to know him. The Vance name certainly had a long established pedigree in the Crescent City. I would guess he must have graduated High School in '71 or '72 as he was just a year or two older than I.

A year or so later in 1980, Zigaboo got my steel band trio a gig with Robert Palmer (long before he was world famous) with The Meters at the Saenger Theatre playing "Every Kinda People".

Every Kinda People
~ Robert Palmer ~



397 posted on 12/21/2014 12:22:50 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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