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All high school
buddies who just came together one at a time thru
mutual friendship.
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Personnel:
Chuck Van Brocklin - Lead Singer, Guitar,
Harmonica Joe Guidry - Lead Guitar
Fred Cunningham - Vocals, Bass
Bill Biehl - Rhythm Guitar
Paul Orr - Drums
Stormy Folse - Sax, Harmonica,
Vocals
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Influences:
Rolling Stones, Beatles, Paul Revere and
the Raiders.
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Setlist
Sample:
Time Is On My Side, This Will Be the Last
Time, Twist and Shout, Land of 1,000
Dances, Kicks, Route 66
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Equipment:
Hock shop no name bass, Hagstrom guitar,
Gibson hollow body electric...some crappy
amps...singer sang thru Silvertone
amp...the kind with the head that stored
in back of amp...we ran all mikes thru our
separate amps...
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Rehearsal
Space:
Pauls's
house (drummer).
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Band
Vehicles:
Anyone of
us who could talk parents into letting us
use the car that night.
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Fashion
Statement:
We wore
white shirts and red vests....eventually
the bass player would dress like a shiek
in robes, sandals and the headdress....we
became Shiek Beak and the Nomads (the
"Beak" part was a tribute to bass player
(Fred's) nose.....say no more.
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Best
Gig:
Metairie
Junior High Prom.....they were all junior
high kids who thought we were great (all
of us in band were in high
school).
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Gig
from
Hell!:
Spanish
Honor Society...wanted to pay us in
Spanish food.
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Last
Gig:
Been too
long to remember.
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Comments:
We were
semi-popular...always amazes me at people who say
they remember us. It was a great time. Funniest
memory is we got a job to play at a strip club on
Bourbon Street...we were all ery excited about
that....the lead guitarist's mom found out and
wouldn't let him play so we had to cancel. We
talked about kicking him out of band for that. None
of the rest of our parents knew about the job.
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