left to right: Larry Holmes, Frank Tanton, George Cheshire, Kenneth Griffith, Lamar Alley.
This was the house-band for the Flamingo Club in Dothan back in 1972.
[HEY FRANK! How 'bout shooting me that pic of the version of BEAVERTEETH with Kenneth in it. Where it went is a mystery to me. I suppose it went straight from your email to the Internet and then into oblivion. It sho' didn't end up in no file.Sorry to trouble you.]

From : Kenneth Griffith
Sent : Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:28 PM
To :
Subject : A year in the life




Hi, Robert.

I'm enjoying reading you blog and looking at the great pictures. I never have found a copy of that first Atlanta Rhythm Section album on CD. Rodney Justo probably knows where some are, but I don't know how to get in touch with him.

http://www.atlantarhythmsection.com/

Some of the things you've posted recently reminded me of things in my past. If you'll indulge me for a few moments I'll tell you about it.



I was barely 19 in the fall of 1970 when my parents took me to the Greyhound bus station in downtown Dothan where I boarded a bus for Muscle Shoals. A job was waiting for me there as the staff bassist in a little second-tier studio named "Widget." The studio was not far down the street from Muscle Shoal Sounds studio. The house band at Widget was to work on projects for the studio plus cut demo tracks with the Muscle Shoals Horns, which was then comprised of Harrison Calloway, Ronnie Eades, and Harvey Thompson. In my time there I recorded a fair amount of material that never saw the light of day as far as I know, and remember recording one demo for Harrison Calloway that was later recorded by Z.Z Hill. Joe Cocker and Leon Russell were recording at MSS while I was at Widget. I didn't meet Eddie Hinton but he was there, and I heard he had recently sold his Lincoln to pay for strings to be put on his record. I met all the Swampers: Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins. I also met Donnie Fritz, whose grand piano was used on a lot of Widget recordings. There was also buzz in MS about a band from Florida that had recently been there but had move on: Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were still a few years away from hitting it big.

http://www.great-music.net/wyker.htm
[wwwwwwwwwwyker & Court Pickett also recorded at WIDGET.-ed.]

Despite being at the fringe of all these great things, Muscle Shoals was very cold for a boy who'd grown up in the milder weather of the Wiregrass, and I got homesick. When David Adkins called me in the spring and told me that he and John Rainey were putting together a new band that would also be the staff band for Playground Studio in Valparaiso, I was ready to come home. That band became the original Beaver Teeth. The lineup was David Adkins on drums and vocals, Lamar Alley on vocals and guitar, Larry Shell on vocals and guitar, John Rainey Adkins on guitar and vocals, and me playing my Hofner bass. Larry Shell was a great singer/songwriter who later went on to some success as a song publisher in Nashville. Beaver Teeth was named by John Rainey because of Larry's prominent buck teeth. That was a good band, and was to my thinking the most unique of the several Beaver Teeth incarnations, though later versions of the group may have been better. I recorded quite a few sessions at Playground Studios with Larry, David, and John Rainey. That was a great time for me, but it didn't last. Late that summer when I just turned 20, Larry and Lamar left the band. We had made a couple of trips up to Atlanta to see the new studio Buddy Buie was building in Doraville. Me being on the chubby side, several people thought it would be a good idea for me to see Dr. Rankin, whose office was in the building housing the Buie/Cochran offices and the old Mastersound studio, where the Classics IV and Candymen had recorded. Actually a lot of hits of the late 60's came out of that Mastersound Studio. (One aside about Playground Studios in Valparaiso, Findley Duncan operated that studio for years, and he had old tapes of the Allman brothers (just the brothers, not the band) when they'd recorded there.)

photo courtesy of http://paulcochran.com
The '77 version of BEAVERTEETH
L TO R: Jeff Cheshire, David Adkins, Rodney Justo, Larry Hunter, Mike Turner, John Rainey Adkins


On one trip to Atlanta, I remember cutting a couple of songs for Wilbur Walton when Studio One was new. David played drums, Paul Goddard, the great ARS bass player, played rhythm guitar, I played bass, and I think Dean Daughtry played piano. I bet Wilbur still has those tapes.

image courtesy of James Hodges
The Japanese version of 24hrs. features a psychodelic Wilbur sporting a deep tan.
He be done bleached out by now.


After Larry and Lamar left Beaver Teeth, David moved to guitar, Frank Tanton was added on keyboards, and Charlie Silva came in on drums and lead vocals. Charlie was a great drummer and singer, but his biggest talent was that he could do something called the "helicopter" with a certain part of his anatomy. This also made him quite popular with the ladies. That version of Beaver Teeth only lasted a couple of months, but we did record some sessions at Studio One, with Ronnie Hammond as the engineer. Frank and I then left the band. I was replaced by Jack Lane, who had to have been the best bass player in the world--he was phenomenal. Clark Craits took over the keyboard job. Jack Lane was the bass player for several months, and when he left Jimmie Dean, another really great bass player took over that job, keeping the bass chair for several years.


B.J. Thomas with BEAVERTEETH when they played The Bitter End in New York City
l. to r.: Rodney Justo http://www.teddwebb.com/showcase/where_are_they_now/rodney_justo.html, David Adkins, John Rainey Adkins, B.J. Thomas, Jimmy Dean, Charlie Silva, Jon Stroll http://yourmusicconsultants.com/



After I left Beaver Teeth, I played with almost every band in Dothan: Norman Andrews and the Concrete Bubble, Wilbur Walton, Jr. and Blackhawk (we played one summer at the Hang Out in PC), Strawdawg, MG and the Capers. In my mid-twenties I went off to school at Auburn to study agronomy and have never played professionally again, though I still play and try to keep up my chops.



This is a long letter, and somewhat self-indulgent, but my life has crossed that of a lot of the people's whose stories you've been posting here, and I think I may have filled in a few details.



Thanks for reading. I still wish I could find that ARS CD!



Kenneth


From:
Jdean
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:31:22 EST
Subject:
Re: "Cuba, Alabama" Solicits Your Feedback Before Composing Tonight's Post!
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com

It's great to hear from my ol' buddy Kenneth Griffith! He's given a good history of Beaver Teeth, reminding me of things I either have forgotten or didn't know. Kenneth doesn't do himself justice though---he was a truly fantastic bass player who we all loved to listen to. He played a fretless bass, which blew my mind. I tried playing one of those things and just couldn't handle it, so I stuck with my old Fender Jazz.

I didn't know Jack Lane and don't remember him--I took over the bass job in Beaver Teeth from Claude Bell. I stayed with the group for several years. It was during this period that the group became, thanks to Rodney Justo, B. J. Thomas' backup band. The line up was Charlie Silva, John Rainey Adkins, David Adkins, and me. Rodney would come on stage with B. J. as backup singer and guitarist.

After Charlie Silva got sick, Rodney came up from Tampa and became lead singer. At about that time, disco music was taking over, and after several months it became clear that to keep working we would have to change from our mostly Southern Rock-style to the disco format, which I intensely disliked, so I chose that time to quit music.

It's good to hear from Kenneth (who Farley Taylor once introduced on his radio show as "Little Kenny Griffin!").

Jimmy Dean

From:
"rodney"
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: "Cuba, Alabama" Solicits Your Feedback Before Composing Tonight's Post!
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:10:16 -0500

Kenneth, it's great to hear from you.(I guess it's called hearing,even though I'm reading)
I found a copy of the original ARS on CD in California recently.( I had another one that I bought on the internet but I gave it to someone) if you'll send me your address I'll burn you a copy.
By the way it's kinda' crazy that you no longer play.I have memories of you being an OUTSTANDING player.
Best Wishes......Rodney

f
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: "Cuba, Alabama" Solicits Your Feedback Before Composing Tonight's Post!
Date:
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:38:28 +0000

ROBERTO,

I REMEMBER CHARLIE SILVA. HE WAS A GREAT SINGER/DRUMMER/GREAT GUY. JOHN RAINEY REALLY LIKED WORKING WITH HIM. HE AND THE LEGENDARY ROADIE, MACKIE WHATLEY BORROWED ONE OF MY ZICKO SNARE DRUMS WHILE THEY WERE RECORDING 'BEAVER TEETH' AT STUDIO ONE.

I'D TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE DRUM. MACKIE SENT ME A NEW SNARE AND A KICK PEDAL LAST YEAR AFTER ALL THIS TIME.

GOD BLESS GREAT ROADIES!!

ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DOOOOO!!!!

ROBERT NIX/ALISON HEAFNER...............................................

A little bird told me that ARTIMUS PYLE will make the cover of BMI's trade mag, BMI MusicWorld
From what I understand only '73 - '77 members of Skynyrd will be inducted March 13
As such, here are the members scheduled for induction March 13:
Bob Burns (drums)
Allen Collins (guitar)
Steve Gaines (guitar)
Ed King (guitar)
Billy Powell (keyboards)
Artimus Pyle (drums)
Gary Rossington (guitar)
Ronnie Van Zant (singer)
Leon Wilkeson (bass)

FRONT CD COVER


BACK CD COVER http://p220.ezboard.com/flimestoneloungefrm7.showMessageRange?topicID=241.topic&start=81&stop=89

And Last But Not Least, Babbs Let's Us Know He Don't Need No Stinking p'bits:

Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:03:08 -0800
To:
"robert register"
From:
"capn skyp"
Subject:
Re: HEY HOPPER! Kesey's buddy, Babbs,THAT CD TRADING FOOL, is disappointed 'cause polderbits only works on windows...

actually, not having plderbits is no big deal for me because I go
straight from the turntable or the cassette deck or the reel to reel
or the microphone or the musical instrument or whatever right into my
mixer and into the sound card in my audio editing pooter, capture on
the hard drive, go into my audio editing program and when I'm happy
with the results start burning, baby burning.
kb
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://www.skypilotclub.com/
skypilotclub
81774 Lost Creek Road
Dexter OR 97431

Date:
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:24:42 -0800
To:
"robert register"
From:
"capn skyp"
Subject:
Re: polderbits

went to get polderbits but found it only works on windows. Get lots
of those messages.
kb
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://www.skypilotclub.com/
skypilotclub
81774 Lost Creek Road
Dexter OR 97431


photo courtesy of Pete Carr http://playthatguitar.com



best live performance ever,,only one that comes close with the allman brothers is AR studios live in ny 8.26.1971...i highly suggest this as well as the fillmore,,if you can find it
stan , georgia, usa

STUDIO SESSION: August 26, 1971 A & R Studios, WPLJ, New York(recorded August 26, 1971 at A & R Studios for live WPLJ broadcast) (tape 90 minutes)
Statesboro Blues
Trouble No More
Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
Done Somebody Wrong
One Way Out
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Stormy Monday
You Don't Love Me/Soul Serenade 19:26
You Don't Love Me
Hot 'Lanta

Subject: Question: 1970/71 WPLJ concerts from A & R Studios
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:35:20 ESTA

question for any old timers who listened or recorded concerts off WPLJ inNYC in the early 1970s.In late 1970 sometime, WPLJ began simulcasting live concerts from within A & R Recording Studios at 112 West 48th Street. The Singer (sewing machines,etc)Company sponsored these live simulcasts[7up sponsored the 8-26-71 Allmans simulcast-ed.]. I was told this series lasted one year total and the simulcasts occurred once a month. (This is confirmed by announcements made on some of the broadcasts.)
The following are the six broadcasts that I like so much and got me so interested in this series:
December 1970(?) Butterfield Blues Band (listed as Sept 1971 in some places)
March 30, 1971 Seatrain
April 12, 1971 Procol Harum
June 30, 1971 Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
July 22, 1971 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends [friends included King Curtis, Gregg & Duane Allman-ed.]


photo courtesy of Pete Carr http://playthatguitar.com

August 26, 1971 Allman Brothers Band

All six of these are great performances and outstanding quality, especially for that time. They invited great bands who were off the beaten path, so I'm extremely curious-- Who else did these A & R simulcasts circa 1970/71? The other six simulcasts are a complete mystery. Does anyone here know of or actually have any of the others? Knowing what they are seems like a good place to start looking. Any information welcome!
Stu [WPLJ DJ Dave Herman introduces the Allmans and describes the concert series. The simulcasts also included A&R Studio performances by Elton John & The Incredible String Band along with two Fillmore East concerts. One included Spencer Davis, Peter Jamison, Taj Majal and The Chambers Brothers. The other was the last Fillmore East concert by The Beach Boys, Country Joe & The Fish, Mountain, Albert King and The Allman Brothers Band- ed.]

THIS EULOGY FOR KING CURTIS WAS PLAYED ON DUANE'S ELECTRIC GUITAR
There's a cd that's heavily traded in Allman Brothers Band trading circles that was recorded August 26, 1971 at a radio station appearance by the Allmans in NYC.
Before the tune "You don't love me" Duane Allman stops ; talks about the loss of King Curtis; how beautiful the recent funeral was-apparently he went. At this point the ABB decide to do a little homage to King Curtis, so after about a half a second of thought,
Duane goes "oh, I know where we'll do it" ;
charges into the introduction of "you don't love me" w/ the rest of the band chugging along with him.
In the middle during the very extended solo bit (this is the ABB we're talking about!!) Duane breaks into what I presume is "Soul Serenade" (I must say I'm ashamed to admit I have never heard it before) ; plays more than just a few bars of it.

It's kinda neat, but not a surprise really, as those who know the ABB know that for all intents purposes they are a jazz band playing rock n' roll instruments (that's how I describe them anyway).

Paul Surdin http://www.homestead.com/musicunlimited/MusicUnlimited.html from Toronto is trading these Allman CDs:
**The Allman Brothers Band Macon Bakin' Rehearsals: Studio Outtakes 1969-1970 features studio rehearsals and outtakes of the original Allman line-up, with Duane & Berry 14 tracks

**The Allman Brothers Band Peach Pie recorded live in Pittsburgh at the Syria Mosque on January 17, 1971 features the original line-up, with Duane & Berry, doing 7 tracks, plus a bonus home recording of Duane playing solo bottleneck!

**The Allman Brothers Band Peach Gumbo recorded live in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 20, 1971, and featuring the original line-up, with Duane & Berry 12 tracks

**The Allman Brothers Band The Closing of the Fillmore East June 27, 1971 with the legendary Fillmore East closing, Bill Graham himself proudly saves for the last-ever performance "the best of them all ... the Allman Brothers!" a superb show, with the original band line-up at their fiery best, Duane most especially includes the complete set, plus the encore

**The Allman Brothers Band Eat Your Georgia Peaches the WPLJ radio broadcast, recorded on August 26, 1971 at A&R Studios in New York features the complete 60-minute show with the original line-up!

**The Allman Brothers Band Our Favorite Things: Rare Studio Sessions part 1 features over 30 minutes of acoustic guitar studio rehearsals by Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, relaxing & talking & playing part 2 features the full,original band working in the studio on multiple takes of Dickey's "Blue Sky", John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", plus a 12-minute jam session these great behind-the-scenes studio sessions are from circa 1971




ROBERT NIX,drummer for ROY ORBISON & THE CANDYMEN

From: "Sheila Mayo" <sheila.mayo@nara.gov>
To: <growinnotes@comcast.net>,
"Carter Library" <carter.library@nara.gov>
Subject: Re: THE ATLANTA RHYTM SECTION AND PRESIDENT CARTER AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:58:11 +0000

Dear Mr. Nix:
Thank you for your inquiry about any records or photos of Pres. Carter with the Atlanta Rhythm Section at the White House. Attached are three (3) letters and a contact sheet with images of Pres. Carter and the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Should you desire a photographic print or digital image file of any of the enclosed images, we will be happy to fill your request.

Please let us know the Contact Sheet number, the frame number and what format you would like the images in.

We can e-mail you 300 color dpi jpg ($25.50).

If you require tiffs we will have to scan them to a CD.

8x10 Color images cost $25.50; b&w images cost $20.50.

We require prepayment and will accept a credit card or a check made out to the National Archives Trust Fund.

Please send payment to:
Jimmy Carter Library & Museum
Audiovisual Section
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

If we may be of further assistance, please let us know.
Kindest Regards,
Sheila V. Mayo Archives Specialist sheila.mayo@nara.gov Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

STAY TUNED Y'ALL FO' MO' TO COME FROM "CUBA, ALABAMA"!!!!
FROM THAT STAR OF STAGE, SCREEN & RADIO
ADIOS!
robo reg http://rockpilgrimage.blogspot.com


buddy & jimmy

J.R. COBB & BUDDY BUIE ,photo courtesy of http://dothanmagazine.com

J.R. COBB & BUDDY BUIE , photo courtesy of http://dothanmagazine.com



Subject:
writing
Date:
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:35:32 -0600

Roberto,
Dean Daughtry,J.R. Cobb, and I just ended a three day writing session
on Lake Eufaula. We worked in my niece's house which sits on the piece
of land
where the old trailer use to sit where we wrote so many ARS songs.

We
had a blast and wrote a new song which we are all proud of.
The three
of us together
again brought back
an old vibe which I didn't realize I had been
missing.
Can't wait to do it again.
Buddy




"Put on your dr. hat."
Now you know you 'bout to get some loaded queerchunzzzzz!!!!

[axe "cuba, alabama" http://robertoreg.blogspot.com]


Maggie wrote:
It's not about worrying. It's all about some kind of chemical imbalance that no one believes because I don't know what it's called.

Subject :
Re: put on your dr. hat

Trust me.
You really don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
YOUR PROBLEM IS WORRY!!!!

Once you conquer that, you will never hear those voices in your head.
The voices in your head will sound just like white noise 'cause Maggie ain't studying the devil no mo' !
She sanctified!

AIN'T WASTIN' TIME NO MO' 'cause it's time to organize, supervise and DEPUTIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZE!!!! http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/stop-worry.html

BEST,
ROBO http://cottonkingdom.blogspot.com


THE HANGOUT AT THE LONG BEACH CASINO
http://www.jdweeks.com/LongBeachResortHx.html

NOW I WANNA AXE YOU, IS LAJUANA NOT A CHICK OR WHAT?!!!!!!!
From:
"LaJuana"
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Ohhh, Robert, did you want me to have a copy of that???
Date:
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:35:57 -0600

... I'd be glad to send CD's!

I've been trying to think of the perfect "thank you" to send you from PC for my Buddy Buie collection but would be helpful to know what you like ... other than good music, obviously. I bake a mean pound cake, but some folks would be hesitant to consume baked goods sent from someone they've never laid eyes on ... and probably with good reason. Wonder how boiled peanuts from Mr. Trawick's peanut truck at the corner of the Ross Clark Circle and Hwy 84 in Dothan would ship?

Today Mean Gene McKinley, My Guitar Slinging Postman, brought me a 73 minute long CD of an early Allmans tape recorded live in New York City at A&R Studio a month after King Curtis was murdered [DOOWANG describes Curtis' funeral on the tape] in '71.


"OH YEAH, EVERTHING THAT HAPPENS,YOU KNOW I AM TO BLAME"
ELMORE JAMES

HEY Y'ALL:
I swear that every day, in every way, dis ole life just gets better and better.

Yesterday Gellerstedt mailed me an autographed copy of Wayne Greenhaw's MY HEART IS IN THE EARTH:True Stories of Alabama & Mexico.



http://www.southernscribe.com/

This collection of stories includes vivid descriptions of the days Greenhaw spent with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsburg during the summer of '58 when they visited the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende.

Today Mean Gene McKinley, My Guitar Slinging Postman, brought me a 73 minute long CD of an early Allmans tape recorded live in New York City at A&R Studio a month after King Curtis was murdered [DOOWANG describes Curtis' funeral on the tape] in '71.

photo courtesy of Pete Carr http://playthatguitar.com




and this afternoon I came in from work to find an email from a total stranger inviting me to the premiere of a major documentary on Old Dutch legend EDDIE HINTON entitled DANGEROUS HIGHWAY.

Looks like I'll be heading for The Shoals to hang out with The Swampers next Saturday, March 4. If any uv ya'll wanna hitch a ride on my Ford EXPLODER and share a cheap motel room while we attend the George Lindsey Film Festival, let me know.

BEST,
robo reg http://robertoreg.blogspot.com


REMEMBERING EDDIE HINTON & THE SPOOKS by John Curry
reprinted with permission from Old Tuscaloosa Magazine #31 [1997]

In the Spring of ' 65 an opportunity developed for the band that changed us and Eddie forever. There was a club down on Panama City Beach called the Old Dutch Inn. It was the college hangout. All the hot local bands and a lot of regional and national bands wound up being featured there from time-to-time. We were rehearsing one day when Eddie showed up, all excited. He said,"Aw, man, this is it! They want us to be the house band for the summer. They're going to pay us one hundred dollars each per week and give us free food and lodging! This is our break, guys! We're fixin' to bust out of here!"

Well, Chiz had just graduated and was also married and had a son. He had to do a tour in the army and was to report to Ft. Jackson as a second Lieutenant in August, having been in the ROTC. Viet Nam was also heating up. As for me, I had graduated in ' 63, gotten married, became a father, and we had just opened Curry furniture store that spring. We couldn't take the job no matter what.

Eddie was real disappointed and he said, "Well you just can't do this to me. I'm going to go down there and figure out something. I'll be back in the Fall." Fall was our "season". We played fraternity parties and clubs and we had booked a great number of jobs already for the coming season.

Well, Eddie went down to Panama City Beach and put together a band and took the job at The Old Dutch Inn. He called the group the Five Minutes. He never came back to the Spooks. Our band went through it biggest transition. David Reynolds moved to lead guitar, Mike Spiller was added as singer-keyboard player and Gene Haynes played bass. Later we added Jimmy Butts as vocalist and horn player Fred DeLoach.

FROM THE WEBSITE OF ZANE RECORDS WHICH SELLS EDDIE'S MUSIC:
'The Spooks' band existed in Tuscaloosa around 1961, and according to member and fellow AU student John Curry was " A simple little group that played a few old John Hooker tunes,The Ventures, Buddy Holly and others. We went through several evolutionary changes as most bands do, but we really needed a vocalist."

'The Spooks' had got word that Eddie Hinton was pretty good, Eddie told 'The Spooks' they were all crazy, he didn't sing and they didn't need him. Somehow they persuaded Eddie that they didn't mind if he learned on the job, which the shy seventeen year old did, and eventually taking up guitar and harp to make 'The Spooks' one of the most sought after fraternity bands of the area. During the Spring of '65 Eddie informed the band that the 'The Old Dutch Inn' a club and college hang out on Panama City Beach wanted the Spooks to be the house band for the summer season. Some of the members had other commitments that summer and could not go, so Eddie went alone and joined the band the 5 Men-its, which went through several line ups, but after one member left became 'The Minutes'. Members of the 'Minutes' included Johnny Sandlin - Drums, Mabron McKinny - Base and Paul Hornsby on keyboard.
http://www.zanerecords.com/artists/hinton/biog2.html

Now Pensacola's Papa Don Tells How THE 5 MEN-ITS & The Old Dutch fit into THE STORY OF HOW JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY[formerly known as THE DOTHAN SEXTET] CAME TO RECORD wwwwwwwwwwwyker's "Let Love Come Between Us":



CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST TO READ MORE FROM PAPA DON

How did you find "Let Love Come Between Us"?

A guy named Fred Stiles played in a band called the Five Minutes. The Five Minutes, out of Muscle Shoals. They were a great little band. And I had Papa Don Surf Stomps every weekend. I had them on Friday and Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoon. I rented this big huge place, a casino, right on the Pensacola beach. And I had Papa Don Surf Stomps. I mean, everybody from the Allman Joys (later know as the Allman Brothers) to the Five Minutes, Dan Penn & the Pallbearers, they all came down and played for me. And Fred Stiles and I got to be good friends…nice guy.
Fred Stiles brought me this song. He said, ‘Man, I found you a hit!’ I think a friend of his wrote it, and Al Gallico published it.
I always wanted to cut a song for Al Gallico’s publishing company. I just loved him. He was a great publisher out of New York. And Gallico did his little number as a publisher, and really helped promote it too.
I was cutting a beach song. I was cutting a Papa Don Surf Stomp song. A real good beach hit. It’s one of my favorite records that I cut on the Purifys.http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:7OyFcOvFH4wJ:www.sundazed.com/scene/exclusives/papa_don_exclusive.html+casino+pensacola+beach+papa+don&hl=en

& ONE LAST TALE FROM THE OLD DUTCH WHERE THE ROCKIN' GIBRALTARS' RUSTY CRUMPTON TELLS US HOW HE MET THE LATE RANDY LEWIS, THE LEGENDARY BASS PLAYER FOR MOSE JONES:

Haven't been to PC in a while, but the Summer of '65, I just graduated Lee HS in Mungumry & woke up the next day on the beech behind the Old Dutch. I heard some music, I think it was mid-day...& I peeped in (didn't have my fake ID) & saw a one-armed guy playing bass. A year or so later, I was playing with the Gibraltars in a sunday jam & the one armed guy came in & started jamming with us. He was good. I wish I could remember his name.



EDDIE HINTON'S SENIOR PORTRAIT FROM THE TUSCALOOSA HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com
From:
"Deryle"
Subject:
Eddie Hinton Documentary
Date:
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:36:48 -0700

Robert,
thought you and fellow T-Towners and fans/friends/family of Eddie
Hinton might want to know about this.
By the way, as a transplanted Alabamian and an alum of the U of A, I
really enjoy your blog.
Best,
Deryle Perryman

Dangerous Highway
Moises Gonzalez and I, are the principals in Impound Productions, a
two-horse video production company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose
first film "Dangerous Highway", is a feature-length documentary
about
Eddie Hinton.
"Dangerous Highway" was selected for screening at the George
Lindsey
Film Festival, our first submission by the way. FAME Studios is one
of
their venues.
We spent a little over two years in the making of the neglected
story
of Eddie Hinton, another of the great unknowns to grace the Southern
Soul scene, with over 50 days of location interviews including Eddie's
mother Deanie Perkins, Jerry Wexler, Donnie Fritts, Dick Cooper, David
Hood, Jimmy Johnson,John Curry, Bill Blackburn, Spooner Oldham, Dan
Penn, Chuck
Leavell, Johnny Sandlin, Paul Hornsby, John Hammond, Patterson Hood,
Jim Coleman, Zane Records honcho Peter Thompson and the inimitable
John D. Wyyyyyker.
Robert Cray narrates.
There are 27 of Eddie's song showcased in the film.
We are entering the film in select North American film festivals in
order to generate interest and distributors and will follow suit in
Europe.
We do plan to release a DVD as soon as a means of distribution is
complete. For those among you who have done this sort of thing, you
know the
"marketing of" isn't as much fun as the "making of"...
So, if you're in the Shoals area of North Alabama on March 4,
please
come over to FAME Studios and join us for the premier of "Dangerous
Highway"
We'd love to meet you and share our story of the great Eddie Hinton.


This from the George Lindsey Film Festival site
http://www.lindseyfilmfest.com/synopsis.html :
FAME Recording Studios 603 E Avalon AVenue, Muscle Shoals Alabama
12:00 and 3:20 pm Saturday March 3
Dangerous Highway (1 hr., 47 min.)
The world's greatest blue-eyed soul singer may have written,
produced,
arranged or played on one of your
favorite records. You may have heard his songs recorded by Aretha
Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Percy Sledge or UB40. His guitar is heard
on albums by Elvis Presley, Toots Hibbert and the Staples Singers. Or
you may have heard him conduct the London Symphony. You may not know
Eddie Hinton's name, but you won't forget his music or his story.
(Producer/Director, Deryle Perryman & Moises A. Gonzalez; Submitted
by
Deryle Perryman, Albuquerque, N.M.)
Join us for drinks and comaraderie following the 3:20 screening at
Swampers at the Shoals Marriott in Florence.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HOPPER from THE OMEN & Their LOVE Gets US HIP TO PUTTING OUR VINYL ON CD:

Subject: Phonos to CD
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:08:40 -0600

Robert,
I just read the email from the lady in Dothan who wanted to convert LPs to CD. It is easy and not too expensive. You will need a stereo with a turntable(ancient equipment from long ago) and this will need to be near your computer. If not you will need to get a turntable with pre-amp. It found one from a discount electronics web site for @$90. From the turntable or line out on a stereo reciever, you run a cord to the mike input on the back of your computer. You will need an adapter to change the phone plugs down to a mini jack that will go in the back of your computer. You will need to download the program Polderbits from thier website. You can try it out for free for 30 days or buy it for @$29. Just follow their instructions for converting the signal to your hard drive. Then using your CD burner on your computer, you make a CD. If your discs are scratch free, they come out great. Polderbits has a scratch remover as part of their advanced program that you buy. You can even do the above with a cassett deck and convert your tapes to CD. I have a real old tape deck that has a preamp built into it. The newer decks do not and will have to be run thru your stereo receiver.
Hope this helps anyone who wants to listen to their record collection in their car.

There is a great new website. A guy baught Bill Graham's warehouse and is selling off great stuff. But there is also a web radio station that plays cuts from the archives of every show that BG put on. It is the best web music station out there if you like vintage concerts from the Fillmores and other venues that BG used.
The url is
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com

great listening. I am currenty listening to Van Morrison recorder 04/26/1970 at the Fillmore West.

Hopper

FINLEY DUNCAN'S STUDIO IN VP http://playgroundrecordingstudio.com/index.html


tididit
Re: Thee Bugz
John Rainey Adkins has been dead for a lot of years. IMO, he was the only reason for Beaverteeth to exist -- and one of only two reasons for the Candymen to exist.

tididit
Re: James Gang
Hey, thanks for the photo!
Once upon a time, I was in the second-team staff band at a studio in the Panhandle. First team was the Adkins brothers, Jimmy Dean, and I forget their drummer's name at the time. They were real studio animals.

THE OLD DUTCH TAVERN, 2801 Hwy 98, W. Panama City Beach Fla. Phone 234-2102

Looking through the ads at the end of the '67 Corolla brought us this gem. If you remember C.F. Stiles or Betty Koehler, please contact "Cuba,Alabama" and please, please, somebody forward this to Mitch Goodson!




Subject:
Re C.F. Stiles or Betty Koehler
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com

When I played there in the summer of '64, "Old Man" Stiles was the owner of the Old Dutch and lived in B'ham. He would come down once in a while but I never got to know him very well. Betty supervised the bartenders and barmaids and was pretty much "all business"; but, a really nice lady once you got to know her. I seem to recall that her husband was an avid scuba diver, perhaps he even did this for a living?[THE NAVY LAB WHICH HAS ALWAYS EMPLOYED DIVERS IS LOCATED JUST WEST OF HATHAWAY BRIDGE WHEN YOU COME INTO PCB: ed]

In 64, the club was actually run by a man with the last name of Trammel(sp). Trammel was okay, but had a bad habit of playing some pretty harsh practical jokes. For example, the butt of one of his jokes was a drummer from Dothan named Bruce White. I got to know Bruce through Wilbur Walton, Jr. when the two of them would come down to our gigs at the Dutch.

At that time at the Old Dutch, we were playing seven nights a week from 9 to 2, and two jam sessions on weekends. Trust me when I say that with this many hours on the stage we would welcome anyone to sit in. But, of course it was always a real treat to hear Wilbur sing, and Bruce was really an excellent drummer - very showey and had an strong, quick left hand.

Anyway, for those of you who remember Bruce, may recall that he was always after the young ladies. And, he also never seem to check I.D.'s although it may have been prudent to do so with the case of some of them?

Well, Trammel apparently had heard of this rumor during the time Wilbur and Bruce were playing the Dutch the year before us. Deviously, he arranged for a pal of his who was with state police or the sheriff's dept to show up at the band's door below the Old Dutch (Note - there was an apartment which was always provided for the bands since the pay was never that great).

The cop handed Bruce a fake warrant for his arrest, supposedly taken out by some girl's father, and put him in the backseat of the police car. Then, he actually drove Bruce from the Dutch all the way to the Hathaway bridge going into PC. There he turned around, came back to the Old Dutch, and dropped him off in the parking lot where Trammel had the whole place waiting outside and laughing. Did anyone really deserve a joke like this? Well, probably Bruce did.
But, did it teach him a lesson?
Now asking that question -- That's a real joke.




From:
"Ben Burford"
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Cliff Stiles

Cliff Stiles.
He used to own the Old Dutch, of course, and several other properties
down in P.C.
My father, Frank Burford, used to do architecture work for him, and had
done a renovation to the Old Dutch at one time, and to a buffet diner
he
owned (can't remember the name).
He had a big black mynah bird that stayed in the foyer of the
restaurant, and he would entertain the customers when they came in. His
famous line was "Birds can't talk."
Har har!
BENJI [alleged brother of the Brenda Burford] http://chevy6.com/


tididit
Re: Thee Bugz
John Rainey Adkins has been dead for a lot of years. IMO, he was the only reason for Beaverteeth to exist -- and one of only two reasons for the Candymen to exist.


From:
"rodney"
To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: Please Help Me To Blow TIDIDIT Completely Out Of The Water!
Date:
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:42:45 -0500

I guess that, even the uninformed have a right to a forum.
RODNEY


From:
Jdean
Date:
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:47:56 EST
Subject:
Re: Please Help Me To Blow TIDIDIT Completely Out Of The Water!
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com

Hi Roberto---
I have no idea who Tididit might be, but I appreciate that he/she came to see us perform as Beaverteeth . John Rainey Adkins was my best friend, from the time I was a brat hanging out on his stoop on West Main Street in the late fifties listening to the Webs practice (before they even had that name) until his death in the late eighties. He taught me how to play the bass in a commercial, usable way, and was really responsible for my being a part of a later version of the Webs, then the James Gang, and then Beaverteeth, which became B. J. Thomas's band in the mid-seventies. Finally being on the stage with him in Beaverteeth was an honor and a real opportunity for me to learn more about my craft. I went from fetching his cigarettes (Picayunes) from Northcutt's Drugs to standing next to him on stage. Before he died, I was doing political cartoons for our local paper, The Dothan Eagle, and since both of us loved to draw cartoons (see his Dothan High annual), it got so I would hear from him every night, almost exactly at midnight. The phone would ring, and I would pop a beer and kick back knowing I would hear that deep bass voice say "It's me." It's great that this writer thinks so highly of John Rainey. Sometimes I visit his grave in the Dothan City Cemetery, and I think about all those times and experiences and the things we went through and saw. So, I have my bona fides concerning my friend, John Rainey. As to this person's note, a diagnosis of tunnel vision might be in order. John Rainey had an incredible ability to listen to a record and pick out each note of each instrument. He used that ability to get the original Webs their job with Roy Orbison. He used it to make our group, The James Gang, a hit at the various venues we played. He also used it to make the Candymen successful. But that can't be used to subtract the contributions of the talents of the other musicians in those groups. Most especially the lead singers, which we all depended on back then. Rodney Justo, in the Candymen, Wilbur Walton, in the James Gang, and more to the point of this post, Charlie Silva in Beaverteeth. Charlie was what made Beverteeth stand out. I have never worked with anybody else who could grab an audience the way Charlie did. We were not close. Charlie was from New York City, and I was born and raised in the Wiregrass. But his talent and John Rainey's involvement is what got me back in the business after a brief stint in the newspaper business. Now, there is one more thing I want to say, and I don't want anybody to take this wrong about John Rainey. He was a mental tape recorder. He could hear and then duplicate anything he heard. An amazing ability, and he made a lot of folks a decent living with that talent. But as time passed, guitar playing became more liquid, more flowing and improvised and more fluid, as my mind sees it. Listen to Layla, and Reeling in the Years, to hear what I am talking about. John Rainey's younger brother, David, played those things in Beaverteeth, and handled most of the lead guitar work on other songs, unless he was doing keyboards. John Rainey could play what he knew and had played before. David could lay a lead against any chord change. He could also do that on the piano. But John Rainey always made us rehearse and was in charge that way. Well, I have gone on way too long, but this is what I had to say about that email.
Jimmy Dean


From:
"Mike Dugo"
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com
Subject:
James Gang CD
Date:
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:50:34 -0600

Robert - Thank you for the kind offer to send me a copy of the James
Gang
CD. I really appreciate it:
Mike Dugo
190 W. Hickory Rd.
Lombard, IL 60148

I check out your Blog at least once a week and always enjoy the stories
and
photos you post on the great groups of the '60's.
Thanks again!
Mike Dugo
http://60sgaragebands.com



To:
"robert register"
From:
"Gloria Buie"
Subject:
justo
Date:
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:21:49 -0600

Robert,
I spent the weekend in HOTLANTA and didn't get your emails
until now.
Let's get one thing straight.
RODNEY JUSTO WILL SING IF WE ALL GET TOGETHER TO DO "GEORGIA PINES".
IF
I SING BACKGROUND HE WILL SING A VERSE OR TWO OR I'LL
HAVE THE OLD MAN http://paulcochran.com
WHIP HIS LITTLE CUBAN ASS!!!!!

We might have another
"CUBAN CRISIS'' on our hands.
Rodney will swear he's spanish but we all know Ybor City ain't
Barcelona.
Buddy


From:
Barnesgolf
Date:
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:38:18 EST
Subject:
Re: James Gang
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com

Roberto,
That's great, please send me one.

Your blog is outstanding!! I check it every day.

I particularly like the stuff on the local bands of those by gone days that you feature.
As a teenager growing up in Birmingham, I saw a lot of those bands, THE PREACHERS, JAMES GANG (Georgia Pines & Everybody Knows, I played the grooves off!), THIS SIDE UP, THE K-OTICS, THE ROCKIN' REBELLIONS, THE DISTORTIONS, etc. at the various
National Guard Armory's around Birmingham.

Thanks again for keeping the memories alive.

Take care,
Barney


From:
"debbieO"
To:
robertoreg2003@yahoo.com
Subject:
Georgia Pines
Date:
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:15:28 -0600

Hi Robert,
My name is Debbie and live in Dothan. I ran across your blog recently while looking up the obit for Lamar Alley. When we went to Young Jr. together I had such a big crush on him! His death deeply saddened me. I knew Chuck Bryan, as well.
I'm really enjoying your blogs...they bring back great memories of "my era".
The postcard of The Old Dutch is priceless. I remember patronizing there with a fake i.d. in one hand and a Hurricane in the other! I, too was at the Rec Center every Sat night to see Wilbur & the Gang! I knew John Rainey & David from then as well. When I went to college (Montevallo), I met & became close friends with Holly, who would later marry David. HER friend, Barbara, dated Lamar! Small world. After David & Holly were married, they lived down the street from my mother (near the stadium) & later moved next door to John Rainey & Oona Neal, who lived next door to Jimmy Dean. If I wasn't at a club with Holly & Oona Neal listening to Beaverteeth, I was babysitting John Rainey's kids! I was excited to meet B.J. Thomas when they played with him. I have such great memories of those times......which brings me to the purpose of this email. I would LOVE a copy of the James Gang cd. Is that possible? I still have my old Beaverteeth & Candymen albums and want desperately to get them on cd, but I called a studio here in Dothan and found out they'd charge me BIG BUCKS to transfer them to cd, so I'll have to be satisfied to having them on cassette. I did download "24 Hours of Loneliness" to my computer. Please email me about the cd.
I'll be glad to pay for it.
Thanks a bunch for the memories & photos that you post!
Sincerely,
Debbie
P.S. Oh, a long-ago Cloverdale neighbor & fellow Boy Scout of yours says HELLO. W........ K...remember him? Right now he is up near you at the Tuscaloosa V.A. Hospital for a little rehab (Post tramatic stress disorder). He & I have remained very close friends since the 7th grade (Young Jr. High once again!), even through his 4 wives & my 2 husbands!! It's good to have a pal for life!




James Gang
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Roberto,
There was another James Gang 45, which I have in front of me:

Need Your Love (written by Tommy Roe)/Talk About Hurting (written by Buie-Mulkey). It's on BBC Records out of Atlanta, produced by Buddy Buie.

I can probably get it converted to mp3 later this week.

Jeff http://limestonerecords.com

"Maintain your integrity and your ideals but realize with age, you lose the ability to frighten the old folks because you ARE the old folks."

B.J. Thomas with BEAVERTEETH when they played The Bitter End in New York Cityl. to r.: Rodney Justo http://www.teddwebb.com/showcase/where_are_they_now/rodney_justo.html, David Adkins, John Rainey Adkins, B.J. Thomas, Jimmy Dean, Charlie Silva, John Stroll http://yourmusicconsultants.com/