WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[gearhed289]

Cave Dwellers, cool! The bass player Bruce Gordon was the owner of the flight case company I started working at in 1996. He also had a backline rental business. He was one of the main guys at R&R cases starting in the mid 70s before he split off around 1995. He was/is also with the New Colony Six. There's also an appearance by Ron Onesti who runs the Arcada Theater in St. Charles, IL, and more recently the Des Plaines Theater in... Des Plaines, IL. He's the guy who lets them into the room, then applauding at the end.

[pauldo]

[cozmik_cowboy]

Cave Dwellers, cool! The bass player Bruce Gordon was the owner of the flight case company I started working at in 1996. He also had a backline rental business. He was one of the main guys at R&R cases starting in the mid 70s before he split off around 1995. He was/is also with the New Colony Six. There's also an appearance by Ron Onesti who runs the Arcada Theater in St. Charles, IL, and more recently the Des Plaines Theater in... Des Plaines, IL. He's the guy who lets them into the room, then applauding at the end.

R&R make the best flight cases going!  Having spent the bulk of my full-time pro days in & around Chicago, these are names I recognize (even if I didn't recognize the faces).  What company did he (and you) go to when he left them?

A quick look at my friend Dean Milano's book in the "Images Of America" series, The Chicago Music Scene 1960s And 1970s, and I see that Mr. Gordon went to the New Colony Six from the Revelles; the Revelles were originally called the Cave Dwellers; a bit of full circle, here!


Peter (who will add that once upon a time, if you asked them nice - an gave them a bunch of cash - R&R would build you a pair of amazing 1X18" scoops; they would move some air!)

[cozmik_cowboy]

Those hepcats, like, swing, Daddio!


Very nice.


Peter

[Quasar1]

John Hiatt and The Goners…featuring Sonny Landreth 

[gearhed289]

Well, R&R USED to make the best flight cases, but MT took it a step further. Plus, we will build it the way YOU want, not the way THEY want to make it.  (I hear complaints about that a lot). Bruce started a company called AdvantEdge after R&R, which is where I started in '96. In September of '97, the company was bought by a couple of guys from On Stage Audio and became MT Case Co. They've now grown into a massive audio/video/lighting company as OSA International, with locations in Chicago, Vegas, and Nashville.

[cozmik_cowboy]

A bit of sports history: 

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

John Hiatt and The Goners…featuring Sonny Landreth 

Man, the Goners were a seriously kick-ass band!  Thanks for this one.

And it brings to mind a coffee table book my sons gave me.  It's somewhere in the attic, so I can't check these first 2 names, but it's titled Nashville Portraits;  a collection of music-biz pix by an apparently famous photog from there.  In the caption of a publicity shot for a joint tour by 4 of my all-time favorites, he quotes someone else whose name it seems we're supposed to know, speaking thusly"


"If there were a just God overseeing the world of country music, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark would be selling out concert halls and arenas, and Toby Keith would be selling used stereos out the back of his pick-up truck".


Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Gary Clark Jr. Tiny Desk: 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Well, R&R USED to make the best flight cases, but MT took it a step further. Plus, we will build it the way YOU want, not the way THEY want to make it.  (I hear complaints about that a lot). Bruce started a company called AdvantEdge after R&R, which is where I started in '96. In September of '97, the company was bought by a couple of guys from On Stage Audio and became MT Case Co. They've now grown into a massive audio/video/lighting company as OSA International, with locations in Chicago, Vegas, and Nashville.

Just a funny coincidence... about this same time, early 1996, I started working at Nashville Custom Case, building Custom road cases for just about anything and everything imaginable. The guy who owned the business had been a musician, and didn't mind scheduling work around my touring schedule. Anyway, he'd single-handedly grown that thing from his garage to a multimillion dollar business. He and his wife finally sold it to their employees and retired a few years ago. https://www.nashvillecase.com/ I try to stay in touch, as they were very good to a young struggling musician. I'll have to post some old pictures of that place on my shop thread one day.

[Quasar1]

John Hiatt and The Goners…featuring Sonny Landreth 

Man, the Goners were a seriously kick-ass band!  Thanks for this one.

And it brings to mind a coffee table book my sons gave me.  It's somewhere in the attic, so I can't check these first 2 names, but it's titled Nashville Portraits;  a collection of music-biz pix by an apparently famous photog from there.  In the caption of a publicity shot for a joint tour by 4 of my all-time favorites, he quotes someone else whose name it seems we're supposed to know, speaking thusly"


"If there were a just God overseeing the world of country music, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark would be selling out concert halls and arenas, and Toby Keith would be selling used stereos out the back of his pick-up truck".


Peter

Thanks Peter, I listen to everything you post, most make me grab my Ax and bop along! Keep em coming 

[Quasar1]

Blood pulsing slammer from the first Taj Mahal album  

The song was written in 1930 by "Sleepy John Estes", who was the son of a Tennessee sharecropper and blind in one eye!

Besides Taj, the great Jesse Ed Davis is also on slide, as well as Ry Cooder on rhythm

[cozmik_cowboy]

Blood pulsing slammer from the first Taj Mahal album  

The song was written in 1930 by "Sleepy John Estes", who was the son of a Tennessee sharecropper and blind in one eye!

Besides Taj, the great Jesse Ed Davis is also on slide, as well as Ry Cooder on rhythm

It says something about the level of slide chops available here that Mr. Cooder of all people was relegated to rhythm......

Thanks Peter, I listen to everything you post, most make me grab my Ax and bop along! Keep em coming 

Why, thank you, Phillip; that means a lot!

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

My  mom sang this one all the time.  The Dead South make it sound a tad different than her version........ 

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

American Roma guitarist Danny Fender passed last month; here's some of his stuff: 

In Mr. Fender's obit in Vintage Guitar, they mention as an influence fellow Roma picker Johnny Adomono, who "....in the '60s and '70s...cut a number of successively more bizarre LPs ranging from Balkan songs to lounge music, often with far out effects."

Well, you know I had to check that out - and i did:  I'm just not sure yet what I make of it.  Thoughts?


 

Peter