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At the time we were
attending Seaholm High School or Bloomfield High.
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Personnel:
1962-1963
Paul Kelcourse - Lead Guitar
Larry Welker - Rhythm Guitar
Butch Hamilton --Electric Piano
Scott Chambers - Bass
Ben Mills - Drums
1963-1965
Paul Kelcourse - Lead Guitar
Butch Hamilton - Electric Piano
Scott Chambers - Bass
Tony Maciorowski - Rhythm Guitar
Burke Lewis - Drums
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Influences:
Ventures,
Beatles, Beach Boys.
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Setlist
Sample:
You Can't Sit Down, Johnny B. Goode, Boney
Maroney, Walk Don't Run, In My Room.
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Equipment:
Fender Jazzmaster and brownface Concert
amp, Fender Duosonic and brownface
Princeton amp, Fender P-Bass and whiteface
Bassman, Wurlitzer electric piano and
whiteface Bandmaster, Don't remember the
drum kit...possibly Ludwig.
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Rehearsal
Space:
Butch
Hamilton's basement.
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Band
Vehicles:
1962 Ford
Falcon - everybody and the equipment would
cram in. The guitars were on our laps in
the back seat, amp heads on the rear
window decks, etc., etc.
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Fashion
Statement:
Iridescent
green nehru jackets, followed by blue
lapel-less blazers, black pants, white
shirts with tab collars, and skinny black
ties.
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Best
Gig:
Bloomfield
Hills Battle of the Bands at Groves High
School, 1964, took second place. Also
Walled Lake Casino - 1964, things just
went well with the entire set...the joint
was rockin'!
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Gig
from
Hell!:
A sock
hop at a high school in Detroit, I don't
remember exactly where. We followed a band
that was several years older than us and
played the same material only better. We
didn't do well.
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Last
Gig:
Bloomfield
Hills High School Junior Prom 1964 is the
last one I remember. Attached picture (top
of page) is from that gig featuring: Burke
Lewis drums, Paul Kelcourse (Jazzmaster),
Scott Chambers (P-bass), Tony Maciorowski
(Duo-Sonic), Butch Hamilton (Wurlitzer
electric piano)
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Comments:
After breaking up
in 1965, Larry Welker, Paul Kelcourse and Butch
Hamilton again joined forces. Paul then played
with the Four of Us and the Fugitives. Larry
Welker and Butch (now Boot) Hamilton joined Billy C
Farlow to form Billy C & The Sunshine from
1966-67. Welker went on to play with several other
blues bands including Sam Lay, and Hamilton joined
Mitch Ryder for a while. Most of post Overtones
history is off the internet, I haven't seen any of
these guys since 1965 or so. I went on to get a
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and have been doing
that since.
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