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Topic: I hope 'Earnest B.' doesn't mind..... |
Roger Rettig
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 11:20 am |
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...but here we are in, I think, 1981 somewhere in LA. I love the licence plate!
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Chris Lucker
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 11:24 am
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That looks like the Palomino parking lot.
"Parking area" would be more accurate.
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 11:39 am
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Now you mention it, Chris, I believe it was. Later that night - at Doug's suggestion - I went to 'Calamity's' and saw the Shut-Outs with Sneaky Pete and Thumbs Carlille - a great band, so I went back the following night too.
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Mike Schwartzman
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 12:25 pm
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| I love the licence plate! |
Very cool, Roger...and the Chevy van looks good too. I can't guess the year, but I'll bet it's from at least a decade earlier. Those amber turn signals look like somewhere in the 1960's to me.
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Rick Schmidt
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 3:55 pm
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| Roger Rettig wrote: |
| Now you mention it, Chris, I believe it was. Later that night - at Doug's suggestion - I went to 'Calamity's' and saw the Shut-Outs with Sneaky Pete and Thumbs Carlille - a great band, so I went back the following night too. |
Roger... wasn't Garth Hudson in the Shut-Outs also? |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 4:55 pm
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Sorry, Rick - I don't remember. I was so mesmerised by Thumbs that I hardly saw anyone else!
Doug had asked me if I knew anything about him. I, with cretinous ignorance, said that the name was familiar but I thought he was a some sort of 'hillbilly player...' (I wasn't even living in the US back then, but just being a tourist.)
How far wrong could I have been!? He turned out to be one of the best, and most musically inventive, guitarists I'd ever heard. I'll never forget his solo on their version of 'Mystery Train'!!! I've since caught up with his recorded work and I listen to him often.
There was a keyboard player with them (and a female singer who, I seem to recall, played bass). I may have a photo from that night somewhere around here...
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:10 pm The Shut-Outs
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Not great pics, I'm afraid, but you get the idea. The keyboard player is in #3 - what do you think? Is it him?
My memory is apparently faulty re: the female bass-player (oops!)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Rick Schmidt
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Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:30 pm
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Cool Pics Roger...I think that is Garth (from "The Band" fame) right behind Thumbs in pic #1.  |
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Earnest Bovine
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:32 pm
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| The Shutouts was Greg Humphrey's band. Greg got some pretty good paying jobs in those days when the discos changed to Urban Cowboy theme. For quite a while it was usually Greg on bass, his wife Rose on guitar, Jack Daniels on guitar, Steve Duncan on drums, Doug Atwell on fiddle, me on keyboards, and Dan Tyack on steel. Thumbs would sub for Jack. Jay Dee or Sneaky would sub for Dan, or sometimes I would play steel and Garth would play keys. That's Garth in the first photo behind Rose and Thumbs. |
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Skip Edwards
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LA,CA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:32 pm
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Not Garth in pic 3. It might be Dave Frazier. In the first pic you can see Garth behind Thumbs, playing his Yamaha CS80 synth.
Looks like Bob Regan on gtr. Greg Humphreys played bass, I believe.
Wow...Calamitys. Lots of memories there...
And, I'm not too sure that's the Pal parking lot... |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:46 pm
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| Yes, that's Bob Regan on guitar, and probably Dave Fraser. I think the photo of my van is behind the Valley Arts store on Ventura Blvd, a few years before John Orr burned it down. |
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Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 6:01 pm
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| Funny. Bob just posted a band picture on Facebook a couple of days ago. I'd have loved to hear that band! (And yes, definitely Mr. Fraser.) |
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Joshua Grange
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Los Angeles, California
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 12:26 am
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 2:29 am
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I love seeing those Music Man amps in use with that band... I still have mine and love it....JH in Va.
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Kirk Eipper
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 1:46 pm
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John Orr, the former fire captain burned down valley arts?
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 6:29 pm
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| That looks like the Palomino parking lot. |
Nah, too much asphalt ... |
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Kirk Eipper
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Posted 4 Feb 2012 7:48 am
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It could be the Cowboy in Anaheim?
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Jim Eaton
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Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 4 Feb 2012 10:46 am
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I have to agree with Doug on the photo being behind Valley Arts.
JE:-)>
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