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We were classmates along
with the Remanes
from the same school. We were all on the same
undefeated football team in 66.
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Personnel:
Phil (Flip) Haebler - Lead
Guitar/Vocals
Bill Buchsbaum - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
Alex Hilton - Lead Vocals/Harmonica
Peter Nathan - Drums
Curtis Taylor - Bass
Jeff Cubbage - promo man, moral, musical
and equipment support
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Influences:
Rolling
Stones, Beatles, Animals, Kinks, Soupy
Sales
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Setlist
Sample:
Not Fade Away, House Of The Rising Sun,
Louie Louie, Gloria, etc
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Equipment:
Phil/Lead Guitar - Fender Stratocaster
1964, Fender Deluxe Reverb amp.
Bill/Rhythm - Magnatone guitar...don't
know his amp. Peter had Rogers drums - he
might have had a set of ludwigs later on.
Alex preferred his Shure mics; Curtis/Bass
- Hagstrom with Ampeg amp; Jeff had all
sorts of guitars and basses.
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Rehearsal
Space:
Phil's
basement; Bill's basement most of
all.
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Band
Vehicles:
Whatever
the parents chose to drive - station
wagons were the rage for that
crowd.
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Fashion
Statement:
Beatle
boots, too tight jeans and probably lots
of clearasil.
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Best
Gig:
We had
entered the "battle of the bands" in the
Rollerdrome in Keyport NJ. We were the
youngest band by a good 4 years. I think
that we were the only ones that were
driven to this by our mothers. There were
about 30 bands in this shelled bowling
alley. We placed fifth, albeit last place
out of the top five, but we did beat out
all those others. I think it was partially
on the merit of our age and the sound,
thank you very much. Our prize was to come
back and open for the big show a few weeks
later. We opened up that show for the
group that sang the "Boy From New York
City" I can't remember their name
( The Ad
Libs, 1965
-ed). Anyway
- Peter had been in Florida and the
Standells just hit the charts with "Dirty
Water", which had not yet hit the New York
area. He must have brought the 45, we
figured it out and used that as our
opener. Needless to say it was very well
received. We were quite psyched about the
whole event.
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Gig
from
Hell!:
I can't
remember ever falling totally flat on our
collective faces. maybe because we had a
limited number of gigs.
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Last
Gig:
Can't
remember that either...
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