To celebrate New Years, Oklahoma City has what it calls, “Opening Night” on New Year’s Eve….. Â This event takes place in the section of OKC called, “Bricktown”….. Â There’s music, food, entertainment, and fireworks….. Â This year they’ve got two headliner music acts – The Flaming Lips, which is an Oklahoma group that made it fairly big, […]
I know I’m a day Early But Happy 69th Birthday to the worlds greatest guitar player. James Marshall Hendrix Should be a national holiday.
When we started Wolfbrand Band, we decided to make a “Demo” tape that we could give to prospective employers (i.e. Club Owners, Organizations, etc.)…. We recorded Five (5) songs in November of 1973….. Now, we had no funds to go into an actual recording studio, nor did we have a mixer or any of the […]
Got to see Watermelon Slim again at the Blue Door in OKC… It turned out to be a Grateful Dead length gig…. He started about 15 minutes after 8 pm, took a short 15 minute break after about 1 1/2 hours, then played ’til they had to close the place at Midnight!…. I think he […]
Just talked to J.J., the “Road Master”, and he said he was almost back in OKC…. Thought I would give him a song to listen to next time he hits the Interstates…. It’s another “Wolfbrand Band” track from the 30MAY74 gig (for more info on WB, check the Archives #1 Post)…. Here’s “Wolfbrand Band’s” version […]
Since I’m going to be heading out of town on Thursday, and, as par for the course, I’m not packed and ready yet, I thought I would Post this Archive a bit early…. Since there was a request for “King Crimson”, here’s “Terraplane’s” version of “Lark’s Tongue in Aspic“, and since this is an instrumental, […]
Since we’re all not getting any younger, and I did receive a fairly good reception to Posting one of songs performed by one of the bands I used to be in, I thought I would, every week or so, Post a different song that hasn’t been heard by almost anyone but myself that was recorded […]
I had the great Pleasure to see David Lindley at the coolest local bar in OKC, maybe in the U.S., and that’s not stretching it!….. The Blue Door is a small club located near Oklahoma City University….. Nothing fancy, it’s really a musician’s club – a place where musicians go to here other great musicians, […]
Everyone take a few moments out of your life to remember someone who gave something to everyone (if they were intelligent enough to comprehend)…..  That’s my opinion, and, to this day, I still miss him……  Happy Birthday, John – See Ya again someday….. How ’bout a little “Yer Blues” off the “White Album” from John…..  Give it […]
Or more accurately, Time “Zip-a-de-do-dah’s” Away…… Â I could swear yesterday was the last day of August, and now, today, it’s almost the last day of September!….. Â Don’t ask me where the days went, I have no idea…… Â I did notice that we’re having a little cooler days, but, it’s still all sunshine and dead grass […]
MR’s last post got me thinkin’ (I know, Scary Huh) Did you know that the Banjo solos and backing Vocals/Harmony’s on Neil Young’s Harvest Album were performed by James Taylor. That’s right, That’s Sweet Baby James pickin’ banjo on Old Man.
Just finished listening to “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor…… Â My mind wandered a bit and I started comparing the song’s title to our weather this Summer in Oklahoma…… Â The “Fire” part we have exceeded on all levels – Temp wise we tied the all-time record of days over 100Â (50 Days)Â Saturday, and since we still […]
That’s a lot of strings….. Â How would you like to be this guy’s roadie and have to change the strings on this monster guitar and keep the darn thing in tune…… Â I sometimes have problems keeping my 6-string guitar in tune, especially when I’m pushing and bending the strings a lot…… A friend of mine […]
I made an earlier Post on going to Chicago and seeing Harmonica Hinds…… Now, H.H., he plays the Chicago style of Blues straight-up and Blues to the Bone…… I bought one of his CD’s while I was there, “Finally” and ordered another one later, “Anything If I Could”….. Both were great BLUES Albums….. You know […]
During the period of time that Mr. Jek was growing up, we would be constantly working on building projects – Models, electronic kits, any and everything, so, we needed a semi-permanet work space….. I had an old Samsonite card table and we named it ” The Group “W” Bench”….. Why?….. If you can’t figure it […]