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Personnel:
Dennis Schaefer - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Tom Erbes - Rhythmn Guitar/Vocals
Tim Peckham - Bass/Vocals
Steve Brown - Drums
Jack Smith - Lead Vocals
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Influences:
Kingsmen,
Dick Dale, The Ventures ,Stones
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Setlist
Sample:
louie louie, tossin n' turnin, walk don't
run, misirlou, little latin lupe
lu
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Equipment:
2 fender statocasters,both sunburst
finish,2 fender twin reverb amps,kay bass
guitar and a silvertone bass amp,ludwig
drums and electavoice 664 microphones,we
didnt have a p.a. system so they sang thru
the amps. sounded pretty muddy.
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Rehearsal
Space:
Everybodys
basement and garage
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Band
Vehicles:
Since
none of us were old enough to drive
everybody's parents cars, the lead guitar
players dad had a '58 Cadillac, we could
fit a lot of equipment in that
car.
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Fashion
Statement:
Blue
Pendleton shirts over white shirtstight
black racer slacks or black stretch levis,
black beatle boots from Tomhmacan shoe
store.
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Best
Gig:
Riverview
grade school home coming where we
graduated from the year before and were
able to play in front of our old
classmates and teachers who thought we
were just a bunch of hoods.
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Gig
from
Hell!:
St. Issac
Joes ice cream social which was our first
public performance and we were paid with
free ice cream. The lead guitar player got
us the gig because we played for free and
we needed the exposure. I said ice cream
won't pay for a p.a.system!
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Last
Gig:
A
farewell party for myself and family at
the rhythm guitaists home...we were moving
to Chicago. The irony of this last gig was
the last song we played was Kansas City,
("hey, hey, hey...Beatles version from
Beatles '65 album), one year later we
moved from Chicago to Kansas City.
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Comments:
As you can tell
from my bio we moved a lot when I was in my teens.
The music opened a lot of doors.
I am grateful for this website... thanks for a
place to tell this story!
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