Surfing the Web for "Alex Taylor" led me to another Tippy Armstrong recording- Bobby Womack's ' 72 album, Understanding.
Tracks:
1. I Can Understand It [*] (Womack) - 6:30
2. Woman's Gotta Have It (Carter/Womack/Womack) - 3:30
3. And I Love Her (Lennon/McCartney) - 2:40
4. Got to Get You Back (Lewis) - 2:47
5. Simple Man [*] (Hicks/Womack) - 5:50
6. Ruby Dean [*] (Hicks/Womack) - 3:22
7. Thing Called Love [*] (Hicks/Wright) - 3:55
8. Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So (Diamond) - 3:07
9. Harry Hippie [*] (Ford) - 3:50

Players:
Bobby Womack - Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Producer, String Arrangements
Bobby Wood - Piano, Keyboards, Piano (Electric)
Tippy Armstrong - GuitarRoberto-

[you'll look on the ablum, you'll see after Tippy's name the parenthesed quote ("thank you, Tippy")-capn dean]
Jimmy Johnson - Guitar, Engineer
Reggie Young - Guitar
Harrison Calloway - Trumpet
Ronnie Eades - Sax (Baritone)
Harvey Thompson - Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
Truman Thomas - Keyboards
Barry Beckett - Piano, Clavichord, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Moog Synthesizer
Bobby Emmons - Organ, Keyboards
Clayton Ivey - Keyboards
Pam Grier - Vocals
Patrice Holloway - Vocals
Rene Hall - Arranger
Mike Leech - Bass, Arranger, String Arrangements
David Hood - Bass
Roger Hawkins - Percussion, Drums
Hayword Bishop - Percussion, Drums
Charles Levan - Assistant Producer
Frank Lopez - Assistant Producer
Cheryl Pawelski - Assistant Producer
Dale Quillen - Trombone
Janice Singleton - Vocals
[Robert.
Tippy also played on Bobby Womack's album "Communication". I couldn't tell you all the cuts, but my wife, Jennifer Toffel, was one of the background vocalists on a song called "Come l'Amore". Lotsa great music from that era.
John Townsend http://www.JohnTown.com

Subject: Re: Jogging The Deep South's Memories Of The Beatles



Robert,
Thanks for the old Beatle's nostalgia. On Sunday I remembered my time
to see the Beatles on August 15th, 1965. I was working in New York for
my grandfather that summer and my brother was working for our Uncle at
the Worlds Fair. We got tickets to the Shea Stadium concert from
scalpers (the Red Cross). We paid $10 each for 12th row tickets. I did not
hear that concert until it played on TV. There were over 50,000 people
there and at least 49000 were screaming girls. It was the largest outdoor
concert ever done at that time. The girls were so loud that you could
not hear the jets going over from LaGuardia Airport. The sound system
was totally inadequate. I can see my self in the Beatles Anthology video
that I taped off the TV. I now have taken a still out of the video, and
have it blown up so that I am between the Beatles as they walked across
the field to the stage. I have it framed along with my ticket stub from
the concert.
I also have some other ancient pictures of groups. I have a picture of
South Camp performing on the Quad. The lineup at that concert was Chuck
Leavell on piano, Paul Hornsby on organ, Glenn Butts on guitar. Bill
"Squirmy" Stewart on Drums and Frank Friedman on Bass.
I also have several pics with different versions of the OMen and Their
Luv. I would like to get them to the guy that is doing the southern
beach music list. Unfortunately my scanner is down and I don't have a way
to digitize them.I know that he only wants bands that were 50% R&B
which we were when we opened for the Pieces of Eight the summer of '67. At
the end of the summer our drummer Mike Hatchett brought Jimmy Hendrix's
"Are You Experienced" to practice. That changed everything. We kicked
out the horn players (unless they also played something else) and
changed our song list to a more psychedelic mixture. It was during that time
that we recorded our first 45, "Maybe Later" that has been recently put
on the Psychedelic States anthology CD (still waiting for my first
royalty check).
Let me know if we can get together to copy some of these pics.
Bruce

Leavell seated on the left
Mullinex seated in the middle
Charlie Hayward on the right
The two guys against the wall are not identified. Please sent their identification along with any suggestions or unwanted comments to robertoreg2003@yahoo.com
From WYKER:

The cat behind Chuck is Jimmy Nall and the other cat is James Taylor's older brother..Alex Taylor... who was the first one to cut BABY RUTH on his first album...and I thinik it was also Capricorn's first 45.

Alex died at King Snake Recording Studio during a thunderstorm..it knocked the power out and Alex was one cat that could not stand any down time...

He died much too young ! And was a great Soul singer...

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwyker
"Photo 4. The Tuscaloosa Music Dogs. Left - Chuck Leavell, Middle - Lou Mullinex,
Far Right - Charley Hayward. I don't know the names of the two guys in the back. Maybe some of your tribe could refresh our memories on that. I don't remember the band name either. I just made up The Tuscaloosa Music Dogs."
JOHNNY TOWNSEND

T-TOWN GIG ON THE QUAD- THE LATE LOU MULLINEX ON DRUMS, RONNIE SEITEL WHO PLAYED FOR THIS SIDE UP, CHARLIE HAYWARD(now playing for the Charlie Daniels Band) ON BASS AND FRANK FRIEDMAN WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THIS SIDE UP

CORRECTION FROM BRUCE:
robert,I am not sure about the two dudes in the first photo. I think they may be from the group Sundown.Judging from the hair length of Chuck and Lou. Sundown was Chuck,Lou, Court Pickett ( all from Tuscaloosa), Asa Howard,Vocals, Ronnie Chambly, bass, Bobby Cornelius Guitar. I have the album with only one picture of the group on the back. Wow the Southcamp photo that was second is very similar to the one I took that afternoon in August of 1969. Same angle. There was a lot of jammin going on that aafternoon. was Townsend the source for that picture? He is mistaken about Mullinex playing. My picture has Squirmy on drums (same shirt as in your pic, but you can see Bill's receding hairline in my pic, definately not Lou. My pic also includes Hornsby and half of Chuck's head. Glen Butts is standing where Charlie is and Frank is playing bass. In your pic, Frank's bassman is on the ground but in by pic it is on the stage. I think that a lot of people played that day on the quad. The neat thing is that there is only a two recepticle plug that came out of the ground next to that big Oak Tree. All the power came from there. You had to be careful about how many amps were pluged in or someone would have to go and replace a fuse in the ROTC building.Any way getting back to the first picture, Sundown was formed in Macon and those other players are probably Ga. pickers. You may just have to email chuck about it.Bruce

Thank you so much, Pete!!!!
I've been doing this rock 'n roll research for less than three months on the Internet but it all started back in ' 87 with Bruce Hopper and Dart (Charlie's brother) Hayward down at the Chukker (Pretty sure that was about the time Hinton was hanging out in Tuscaloosa for a short while).
This has been some of the most satisfying work I have ever done.
So many people have helped. Of course, I copied all of your stuff about the Men-ites and the Allmans and the Night Crawlers but I would also like to thank Wyker(Magnificent 7/Rubber Band/Sail Cat), Kevin "Big Kahuna" Plemons(Bruce Channel, Larry Henley), Keith Glass (Eddie Hinton), Bruce Hopper (The Omen and Their Luv plus all the Chukker archives he helped initiate), William "Igor" Alford (Lou Mullenix and assorted Tuscaloosa musicians), Ken Babbs (the Allman Brothers/Grateful Dead connection), Bob Nix (Roy Orbison's Candymen/Billy Joe Royal/Larry Henley and the Newbeats/Atlanta Rhythm Section), Jeff Lemlich(the Allman Joys and other Florida bands), Johnny Townsend (Magnificent Rubbers/Rockin' Gibraltars), Kim Venable (The K-Otics/ Classics IV), Greg Haynes (heybabydays.com/ Swingin' Medallions) and Richard Burke (The Chimes/ Candymen/ Wilbur Walton Jr. and The James Gang).
Can't tell you guys how much you have enriched my life and , listen, WE HAVE ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE!
BEST,
ROBERTOPete Carr wrote:
Hi Robert,
Sure, you can use the pic(s) I posted here.
I don’t think anyone would object at all.

Best Wishes
Pete Carr
www.PlayThatGuitar.com

-----Original Message-----From: robert register [mailto:robertoreg2003@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 7:56 AMTo: MIGHTYFIELDofVISION@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [MFV] The Session Reunion Gang

Hey Pete,
Talked to Larry of the 69 South Band yesterday down at Rhonda's next to the Farmer's Landing in Fosters on the Black Warrior. He said Paul Hornsby had been in Tuscaloosa recently jamming with Bill Connell.
Man, could I put that picture uv ya'll on the Internet and publish it on my weblog, CUBA, ALABAMA http://robertoreg.blogspot.com

I'd shore 'preciate it.
best,
robert ka$h register

THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004
BEATLES FIRST AMERICAN TOUR
On this tour, the Beatles performed with Jackie De Shannon, the Righteous Brothers, the Bill Black Combo and the Exciters.
(submitted by Robert Register)
19 AUGUST, 1964: COW PALACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
we wuz there. took the bus up old 101 through towns becuz the brakes didn't work. I drove becuz cassady was somewhere else. Had to downshift into granny to stop at the red lights. we parked right in front of the cow palace becuz we were a bus. inside it was crazy with so much screaming you couldn't hear the words. people were pelting the band with jelly beans. some guy got on stage and stood behind Ringo with his hands in the air making peace sign. kesey got spooked and said let's get out of here, this place is on the edge of riot. we had a nice slow drive home, downshifting to granny. There was a sign on the gate into Kesey's: The Merry Pranksters Welcome The Beatles but they never showed up.
-- Capn Skyp

ROBERTO,
I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT BEATLES DATE IN JACKSONVILLE AT THE GATOR BOWL. I WAS ASKED TO GO TO THE SHOW WITH A B.M.I. REPRESENTIVE AND WRITE DOWN THE SONGLIST. THEY WERE NOT PAYING ROYALTIES TO THE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS FOR THE SONGS THAT THEY WERE PLAYING THAT WERE NON-ORIGINAL. I WAS JUST A KID, BUT I KNEW MY SHIT WHEN IT CAME TO WHO DID WHAT WHEN IT CAME TO MUSIC. THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT THING ABOUT THIS DATE WAS THAT JACKSONVILLE WAS HIT WITH A MAJOR HURRICANE THE DAY BEFORE THE BEATLES CAME TO TOWN!!! PRESIDENT L.B.JOHNSON FLEW IN AND DECLARED JACKSONVILLE A DISASTER AREA!!! RINGO'S CYMBALS WERE FLYING AROUND LIKE FUCKING PIE PLATES, BUT THEY WERE FUCKING MAGNIFICENT!!! I NEVER LOOKED BACK!!! WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED THE FUTURE!!! YOUR GOOD BUDDY,
RENEGADE ROBERT NIX!!!

17 AUGUST, 1962: MAJESTIC BALLROOM, BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE (EVENING), TOWER BALLROOM, NEW BRIGHTON (NIGHT)


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Left to right: Pete Best,Lennon,Delbert,Bruce,Paul and George

Pete Best’s final performance as a Beatle. Brian had broken the news to Pete two days earlier, John called the Beatles’ first choice, Ringo Starr, at Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Skegness, where he was performing with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Starr quit the Hurricanes within days and returned to Liverpool.

18 AUGUST, 1962: HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DANCE, HULME HALL, WIRRAL, CHESHIRE

After two hours of rehearsal, Ringo appeared with John, Paul and George for the first time as an official member of the Beatles. At the Cavern Club the next day, the group faced angry fans who shouted “We want Pete!”. George got a black eye in the ensuing scuffle.

9-31 MARCH, 1963: TOMMY ROE AND CHRIS MONTEZ TOUR (TWENTY-ONE SHOWS)

This tour included the Beatles, the Viscounts, Debbie Lee, Tony Marsh and the Terry Young Six. After the first night, the billing was changed to put the Beatles at the top.


18 MAY - 9 JUNE, 1963: UK TOUR (TWENTY-ONE SHOWS)

The UK tour features Roy Orbison, Gerry and the Pacemakers, David MacBeth, Louis Cordet, Julie Grant, Ian Crawford, the Terry Young Six and Tony Marsh.

FIRST AMERICAN TOUR

On this tour, the Beatles performed with Jackie De Shannon, the Righteous Brothers, the Bill Black Combo and the Exciters.

19 AUGUST, 1964: COW PALACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA


11 SEPTEMBER, 1964: GATOR BOWL, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

16 SEPTEMBER, 1964: CITY PARK STADIUM, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA


SECOND AMERICAN TOUR

These bands toured with the Beatles: the King Curtis Band, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Brenda Holloway and Sounds Incorporated.

15 AUGUST, 1965: SHEA STADIUM, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

With 55,600 in attendance, this was, at the time, the largest crowd ever assembled for a concert in the US. The show was filmed for a TV documentary, which was first broadcast on 1 March, 1966.

17 AUGUST, 1965: MAPLE LEAF GARDENS, TORONTO, ONTARIO

18 AUGUST, 1965: ATLANTA STADIUM, ATLANTA, GEORGIA



THIRD AMERICAN TOUR

The Ronettes and the Cyrkle accompanied the Beatles on this tour.

The third American tour was the last straw for the Beatles as a touring band. An interview published in Britain without incident five months earlier, was picked up by a US teen magazine called Datebook. In it, John was quoted quite accurately: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink… we’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.”

The furor in America, particularly in the south, was dramatic. Radio stations banned Beatles music, churches sponsored record burnings, record stores stopped reordering and newspapers went out of their way to condemn John, Paul, George and Ringo as individuals. At press conferences John was inundated with demands for an apology. When he tried to explain, he was shouted down. (The government of South Africa even went so far as to ban the broadcast of Beatle records in response to John’s comments. His solo records are banned there to this day.)

The Beatles were also physically threatened, most notably by the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. When a firecracker exploded onstage during the Memphis concert, each Beatle looked around to see who had been shot. It was clearly time for the madness to end.

For some time thereafter, John seemed to take pleasure in rubbing salt in the wounds, proclaiming “they’re gonna crucify me” in the “The Ballad Of John And Yoko”. Years later, however, he expressed gratitude for some of the more thoughtful reactions he received. “Lots of people sent me books about Jesus,” he relates in Hunter Davies’ biography, The Beatles. “I read a lot of them and found out things… I don’t know. All I know is that I am being made more aware by it all. I just want to be told more.”

1

19 AUGUST, 1966: MID-SOUTH COLISEUM, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

THIS IS A SUPERB ARTICLE DESCRIBING THE BEATLES IN ATLANTA ON AUGUST 18, 1965
http://earcandy_mag.tripod.com/rrcase-beatlesatlanta.htm

Subject:
[MFV] Re: Eddie Hinton

Keith:
I was in Mobile week before last. Wish I could've talked to ya.
Glad to hear about the release of Eddie's stuff. The John Curry article was published in Old Tuscaloosa Magazine in ' 97. I'm gonna forward this email to the publisher, Herb Neu ,and he can work out the details with John who lives here in Tuscaloosa. That article has Eddie's high school graduation portrait in it which would be a good one to publish.
Johnny Townsend sent me a picture of him and Eddie with the Tuscaloosa High State Champs Basketball team from about ' 61. They were the managers. It's a cool picture too.
The comment about Eddie hollering was what I heard from Bruce Hopper down at the Chukker. He also passed along the story about Eddie telling Tippy to tie weights to his fingers at night while he was sleeping as he went through puberty. Don't know whether Eddie did that to himself.
The Wallace book was a bargain! I believe that the name is "Pierre Pelham". Seems like John Tyson, Sr. knows him . I'm pretty sure he was a notorious Mobile politician. Seems like I heard he spent some years in Europe while the heat was on over here.
Let me know about your progress and here's the quote from my blog about Eddie and Tippy.
best,
roberto


TIPPY ARMSTRONG
The late guitarist, Tippy Armstrong, is a legend in Tuscaloosa. It is said that the great Eddie Hinton told Tippy to tie weights to his fingers on his left hand during sleep so they'd grow longer at night during puberty. They did!Tippy played with the Rubber Band and later with SouthCamp.


TIPPY ARMSTRONG WITH JOHNNY WYKER IN THE BACKGROUND AT THE OLD HICKORY ON PANAMA CITY BEACH IN THE SUMMER OF '65. WYKER AND JOE SOBOTKA CO-WROTE "LET LOVE COME BETWEEN US".



Kglassal@aol.com wrote:
Hello Robert, enjoying all the postings. I'm in the process of putting together some liner notes on Eddie to go with a compilation album taken from all era's of his work under his own name commencing with a few of the Coleman-Hinton Project tracks. This will be a nice overview to suppliment and boost the existing albums (some of which remain elusive or out of print) it will be on the Australian label Raven which is available through distributors in Europe and US. The stuff on The Spooks was invaluable and I'd like to quote that (giving appropriate credits) and I was also going back through the blogs to find the exact quote and source of the stuff about Eddie attaching weights to his fingers and yelling out of car windows to build up the rasp in his throat - be great if you could locate that for me. We will have some unpublished or seldom seem photos on the album too - it should be out early next year. I've just finished work on a Wayne Cochran and The CC Riders set for same label, that info is a little sideways from your blog but I'm sure they played the area covered by it (and recorded at Muscle Shoals of course.)Finally here in Mobile found at a garage sale two weeks ago a hardback copy of the book 'The Wallace Story' (author Bill Jones) autographed by George Wallace and also 'Pierre Palham' (any info on the latter?) - it also has inside a how to vote form to elect Lurleen as Governor - cost me $4 and goes nicely with my 'Souvenir' album of the Wallace's on American Liberty records I got at the Waterfront bargain center - that is not signed but is in mint condition, haven't played it as yet. Thanks Keith Glass, Mobile

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Left to right: Pete Best,Lennon,Delbert,Bruce,Paul and George
Subject :
BRUCE AND LARRY

ROBERTO,
BRUCE AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR MANY YEARS. DELBERT McCLINTON PLAYED HARMONICA ON ' HEY BABY' AND TAUGHT JOHN LENNON HOW TO PLAY IT ON 'LOVE ME DO' BY THE BEATLES! LARRY HENLEY AND ME GO BACK TO THE TOURING DAYS WITH ORBISON. WE, THE CANDYMEN, BACKED UP THE NEWBEATS AND BILLY JOE ROYAL AND THEN CLOSED THE SHOWS BACKING ROY. WE ALL TRAVELED ON A TOUR BUS TOGETHER AND HAD SOME INCREDIBLY GREAT TIMES PLAYING POKER AND VARIOUS OTHER ROCK 'N' ROLL GAMES I'D BETTER NOT MENTION RIGHT NOW!!! I'VE HAD A FEW COCKTAILS WITH BRUCE AT THE SUNSET GRILL IN NASHVILLE THE PAST FEW YEARS AND HE CAN TELL SOME GREAT JOKES AND ROCK WAR STORIES!!! I WAS THE BABY OF THE BAND IN THE CANDYMEN DAYS AND LARRY HENLEY LIKES TO SAY HE HELPED TO RAISE 'BIG BOB'! (THAT'S WHAT ROY ORBISON CALLED ME!!!) HE REALLY HELPED ME TO RAISE A LOT OF HELL!!! GIVE BRUCE AND LARRY MY PHONE AND EMAIL IF YOU HEAR FROM THEM!!!
THANKS,
RENEGADE ROBERT NIX!!!
GROWINNOTES@COMCAST.NET
Visit Alison online!

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Kahuna:
Greg got Paul Hornsby's permission to use The Minutes photo.

I would really love to meet all those guys but especially Joe Gilchrist. The last time I talked to Trader Jon at his bar in Pensacola he told me to look up Gilchrist. Ya see, I am an expert on all the legal definition of Alabama's boundaries. I wrote a paper which was published in the May 1997 issue of The Gulf Coast Historical Review on Ellicott's 1796-1800 survey of the first U.S. Southern Boundary. A portion of the boundary now serves as our Alabama-Florida line between the Perdido and the Chattahoochee. Anyway, in 2002, I testified against Alabama Constitutional Reform in an Alabama Senate Committee hearing because of the stupid way Venable tried to redefine Alabama's boundaries and I worked on a retracement of the Camak Stone where Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia intersect near Nickajack in 2003. The Flora-Bama is the perfect venue for discussing the mysteries of the Alabama State Line.
I just got back from Dauphin Island week before last and I have access to a nice place down there. I can get a senior citizen discount for a round trip ferry ride for $3 so maybe someone could come down to The Happy Hooker at the Ft. Morgan Marina and give me ride to the Flora-Bama.
Thanks for the info and I really enjoyed the Channel, Henley and the Festival websites.
I'm gonna forward this to Bob Nix, former drummer for Roy Orbison's Candymen. I'm sure he's got some great memories of Channel in Europe.
best,
robertobiggkevkahuna@aol.com wrote:
Roberto, I was looking at the heybabydays site. It made me think about Bruce Channel, Mr. Hey Baby himself. I met Bruce thru Joe Gilchrist, the owner of the FloraBama. He and Larry Henley of the NewBeats come to the Frank Brown Songwriters Festival every year. So I get to party with them at Joe's bay house for the 11 days of the Festival. I bet I heard Bruce sing "Hey Baby" a hundred times at least. Man, what a killer song. Larry sang "Bread and Butter" for the NewBeats. Man, I couldn't hit those notes if you stood on my balls. He also wrote "Wing Beneath My Wings." They are best friends and stay at Joe's house usually with Hank Cochran and Red Lane. There have been some great guitar pulls at this place. I've watch the sun come up there too many times and paid for it later. If you or Greg would like to get more information on this dudes, make the Festival this November. I'd be glad to take you to one of the late night pulls and introduce ya'll. It's usually the 2nd week in Nov, for 11 days. KAHUNA

Roberto,

Thanks,

Do I have the name incorrect? Minutes or Men-Its? It would be great it
you could take a minute and look over the BANDS page at our web site
www.heybabydays.com especially Alabama bands and see if we have made any
errors, misspelled band names, etc. We are adding the band rosters that
we have obtained and putting them in a PDF format. A good example of
what we are trying to accomplish with ALL the bands can be viewed by
clicking on King David & The Slaves.


We are also hoping to add any bands that we have overlooked whose'60s
play list was 50% or more R&B. WE hope to have as many as 100 pdfs in
the Bands directories within a week. We will be asking for help in
identifying all the individual members of the bands that we have included in
each of the bands. Thanks for your continued help.

Regards,

Greg Haynes
http://heybabydays.com

Well, Greg, according Paul Hornsby, The original name was The 5 Minutes and later it was changed to The Men-its
THE FOLLOWING POSTS INCLUDE A PUBLICITY PHOTO FROM HORNSBY'S WEBSITE

MY GUESS IS HINTON,HORNSBY, SANDLIN,MCKENNY
http://www.paulhornsby.com
While living in Tuscaloosa, Al. in the mid 60's, Paul played in numerous college rock 'n roll bands. He eventually teamed up with Eddie Hinton and Johnny Sandlin and formed "The 5 Minutes" , playing R&B and Beatles cover songs. By this time he was now playing Hammond Organ as well as guitar. With this band, Paul did his first recording in a professional studio. "We went up to Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals and cut a custom record which got a lot of local airplay. This was my first taste of being a 'recording artist' " He continued to play occasional sessions in Muscle Shoals, Birmingham, and Nashville during this time, but had no aspirations of being a full time studio player or engineer. "I just wanted to be one of the"Beatles" .

The band name was later shortened to "The Men-its" when they decided to go on the road. In 1966 they signed with a booking agency in Nashville and toured the southeast and mid west, playing clubs with mostly copy material . Ironically, the song list included "Stormy Monday " , "Dimples", "Turn On Your Love Light" , etc. It was during this time that the band met and became friends with Duane and Gregg Allman. They had a band called "The Allman Joys" who played the same club circuit and "we chased each other all over the midwest".

In early 1967 Eddie Hinton decided to quit the road and become a session guitar player in Muscle Shoals, leaving the "Men-its" without a lead guitar player & singer. At the same time, the "Allman Joys" broke up and needed players. "One day Duane came up to me and asked 'why don't we join forces?' We thought it over at least three minutes and took him up on it". The new band now consisted of Paul , Johnny Sandlin, Mabron McKenny, Duane, & Gregg Allman. The first gig they played , after a couple of weeks of rehersal, was a month long engagement in St. Louis, Mo. in the historic "Gas Light Square" district. The band was still unofficially named at this time. One night at the club, the "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band" along with their manager Bill McEuen ,entered and caught the band's set. McEuen immediately went to a pay phone and called someone at Liberty Records in Los Angeles and announced that he had discovered "the next Rolling Stones". He decided to stay over the next day to meet with the band to convince them to come out to California and promised a record deal. "This was a big step, so this time we thought it over for at least five minutes, and decided to go".

Within a few weeks of getting established in Los Angeles, they signed with Liberty Records and the name "Hour Glass" was arrived at for the group

Please Check Out Pete Carr's website PlayThatGuitar.com

LEFT TO RIGHT: PETE CARR,CHUCK LEAVELL, MRS. LEAVELL, JOHNNY SANDLIN, PAUL HORNSBY

CARR TOOK EDDIE HINTON'S PLACE IN THE FIVE MINUTES AND HE PLAYED ALONG WITH SANDLIN, HORNSBY AND MABRON MCKINNEY

From a Gritz magazine interview with Pete Carr:
Tell us about The Five Minutes.
Duane and Gregg told me about a band in Alabama that they knew who needed a guitar player. So I moved to Decatur Alabama in 1966 to play guitar for a band called The Five Minutes. Their guitar player, Eddie Hinton, was leaving the band to pursue studio work, and I was called in to be his replacement. Irony and fate have shown their faces to me many times in my life. I would later become the replacement for Eddie Hinton again when he left the Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section in a twist of fate. Johnny Sandlin, Mabron McKinney and Paul Hornsby were the other members of the band. I remember Sandlin playing me songs such as "It's All Over Now" by Bobby Womack and the Valentinoes. I already knew the Rolling Stones version of that song, which I loved, but I also liked Womack's version. Sandlin had heard Womack's version first and did not like the Stones version. They were both great recordings in different ways. Sandlin also got me to sit down with the classic B.B. King album "Live at the Regal." I credit Johnny Sandlin and Paul Hornsby as both being big-brother influences and teachers that helped me in my music career.

I first met John Wyker. A long time friend of mine, who is from Decatur, at Johnny Sandlin's house. John was in a band called the Rubber Band and had a hit single out. John Wyker recalls, "I remember the first time I ever saw Pete when Duane Allman brought him to Decatur in about 1965 when Pete was about somethingteen, (1?) 13 or 15 or 16, but not much older than that and he was so thin that you could barely see anything except long wild hair and big Beatle boots with stacked Cuban heels and he talked like the great baseball player Pete Rose, attitude and lightning fast and he was playing guitar like a cocky little mad genius and he was smokin' Duane Allman and Gregg loved his playing. I mean Pete was a kid, but even back then you just knew that Pete's brain was wired to be lightning fast. Computers were invented years later and Pete was one of the first ones to learn to play hot licks on them too! A few years later, as I watched in the recording studio, Pete and whoever would go back to the studio and take their places. Pete would pick up his guitar and instantly start playing EXACTLY what the song needed, intro, feel, EVERYTHANG and that's the way it went session after session, over and over and time and again."
http://www.gritz.net/inner_views/pete_carr.html

From:
"Alison Heafner" < growinnotes@comcast.net
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: Remembering Eddie Hinton & The Spooks by John Curry
Date:
Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:19:39 -0500

ROBERT, I LOVE HEARING GOOD STUFF ABOUT THE GREAT EDDIE HINTON. I WAS IN ATLANTA DOING MY OWN THING WITH SOME GREAT CATS, BUT I ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT THIS GUNSLINGER FROM ALABAMA NAMED EDDIE!!! PLEASE TELL MY GOOD BUDDY JOHN TOWNSEND TO GIVE ME A CALL OR EMAIL SOMETIME! KIM VENABLE LIVES ON A LAKE IN SOUTH ALABAMA. HIS PHONE NUMBER IS 8888888888. I LOVED THAT CANDYMEN PICTURE ON THE GEORGIA PINES SHEET MUSIC!! THAT PIX WAS TAKEN AT STEVE PAUL'S THE SCENE CLUB IN NEW YORK WHILE WE WERE PLAYING THERE!! EVERYONE FROM AL KOOPER, RICK DERRINGER, JIMI HENDRIX, TO BOBBY GOLDSBORO ( AIN'T THAT A HELL OF A MIX?) JAMMED WITH US. IT WAS A EUPHORIC, CRAZY TIME IN MY LIFE!!!
THANKS AND KEEP UP THE GREAT THINGS THAT YOU DO!!
ROBERT NIX; ROY ORBISON'S CANDYMEN; THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION; AND NOW THE SOUTHERN ROCK RENEGADES!!!!
P.S. CHECK OUT ALISON HEAFNER'S WEBSITE!!!
I'M LISTED UNDER COHORTS!!!
SOME PIX AND BRIEF HISTORY!!!! SEE YA!!!

http://www.alisonheafner.biz/

Hey thanks Robert,
I was just able to contact some old friends because of you. Much Obliged. Say, I really enjoyed the thang on Eddie Hinton a great deal. Made my eyes get all misty. Always been a sentimental fool.Say, if you'd do me another small favor I'd also preciate that. Please just confirm that this is the email address for Robert Nix that you passed on to me. growinnotes@comcast.net
Thanks buddy,Johnny Townsend
http://www.JohnTown.com
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer .