Saturday, February 09, 2008

Hey y'all:

PLEASE MARK FRIDAY, JULY 25 & SATURDAY, JULY 26 ON YOUR CALENDERS.

I am now planning a short vacation around those dates because our Dothan High School Class of '68 RHGN Reunion will be held at The Basketcase
http://www.basketcasecafeandcatering.com/rentalrules.html
on South Oates Street Saturday night, July 27.

I wanna leave Tuscaloosa before Wednesday, July 23 and I MUST
be back in the office before 8 A.M. Friday, August 1st
or my property manager, Karen,
will order that I be skinned alive
& that my unfortunate light skin hide
be tacked up on the front porch of Pake Realty Company.

During my week off I plan to visit some of my old buddies between Bayou La Batre & Apalach.

I really want to have a big time while I'm in Dothan on Friday, July 25 so I need y'all to help me encourage someone to book a big act at Cowboy's or The Civic Center or anywhere else around Dothan on Friday night, July 25.

When we had our 30th reunion in the summer of '98, somebody booked the Swingin' Medallions http://www.medallions.com/
at Poplar Head Mule Company & ,man-OH-MAN!
IT TURNED INTO A NIGHT TO REMEMBER.

The Medallions are already booked for July 26 at the kingfish tournament in Jacksonville
http://kingfishtournament.com/
so they're probably not available for a Friday night gig
but
I'd still love to help in any way in planning A LARGE TIME
for that last weekend of July
IN THE GOTHAM CITY
so I'm
ENCOURAGING ALL UV Y'ALL TO RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL WITH ANY SUGGESTIONS OR OTHER UNWANTED COMMENTS.

As always, THE DHS SENIORS OF SIXTY EIGHT
NEED ALLZZZZZZZZZZ
THE HELP THEY CAN GIT!

Boy, am I gonna have trouble staying on a budget over the next few months.

I definitely want to go to Mobile to see Our Body.
http://www.al.com/entertainment/press-register/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1199727904326040.xml&coll=3
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
http://www.exploreum.net/

I wanna go to the beach next month & I want to give myself a 58th birthday gift of tickets to the Alison Krause & Robert Plant show at the BJCC on Saturday, April 26.
http://www.robertplantalisonkrauss.com/site.php

Then there's a three day music festival in June in Enterprise with Hank Jr., ZZ Top, Skynyrd etc., etc.
http://www.bamajamfestival.com/

Whew, where in the hell i$
the time & the money when ya need it?

The Brazilian Kid went with Christopher to see Yonder Mountain String Band http://www.myspace.com/yondermountainstringband
in B'ham Thursday night.

He told me Christopher was up in front of the stage with the band
& a guy in the band asked Christopher what he wanted to hear &
Christopher requested some song with "THE DEAD" in it.

anywayzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

The Brazilian kid was absolutely amazed that the band asked Christopher to choose the next song.
That ain't unusual for Christopher.
That boy grew up on a barstool.

He looked up & said "Yes, sir!" to Wilson Pickett.
The first sound check he ever went to was for Widespread Panic & it was so loud he had to leave.

Now he's been to 9 Panic shows.

Don't talk to him about Steppenwolf.
Been there. Done that.
& waiting to do it again!!!!!!!!!!!

Willie Nelson tossed Christopher his hat during his show at City Fest in Tuskaloosa
& B.B. King did the same thing with picks.
The only person he threw guitar picks to was Christopher.




Ya know The Beatles were like 4 ELVISES!

Us folksizz at ZERO, NORTHWEST FLA.
GOT a little of THE DOPE
on George & John wid a teenie weenie bit on Paul.
(how come no rumors came out of N.O. when WINGS recorded)

& absolutely nothing on Ringo.
What up wid dat?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT ABOUT A FREE MUSIC SITE FOR OLD FARTS:

B:

Just hit me & I thought you might be able to do something about it.

best,
rr http://snakedoctor.blogspot.com

RR

FREE? How bout...$2 for all songs that cause semi-erections thinking bout former girlfriends....
$5 for sad songs that still make you cry cause you got shafted...

I think we got a business plan.
B

As many of you know
I have been reading CATCH 22
& I relate to it a lot because it reminds me of what my Daddy went through with the 446 Bomb Squad of the 321 Bomb Group of the 12 Air Force of The United States Army Air Corps.
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2007_08_05_archive.html

Here are a couple of excerpts from CATCH 22:

image courtesy of http://www.answers.com/topic/catch-22-film?cat=entertainment

A conversation between Dunbar & Dr. Stubbs from Chapter 10 of CATCH 22:

The silence seemed bottomless when he stopped talking. Night fell. There was a sense of vast isolation.

"Turn on the light," Dunbar suggested.

"There's no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway."

"Oh, there's a point, all right," Dunbar assured him.

"Is there? What is the point?"

"The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can."

"Yeah, but what's the point, since they all have to die anyway?"

"The trick is not to think about that."

"Never mind the trick. What the hell's the point?"

Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. "Who the hell knows?"

I love the hell out of this quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Daneeka

Chapter 17

  • They couldn't dominate Death inside the hospital, but they certainly made her behave. They had taught her manners. They couldn't keep death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. People gave up the ghost with delicacy and taste inside the hospital. There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about dying that was so common outside the hospital. They did not blow up in mid-air like Kraft or the dead man in Yossarian's tent, or freeze to death in the blazing summertime the way Snowden had frozen to death after spilling his secret to Yossarian in the back of the plane.
"I'm cold," Snowden had whimpered. "I'm cold."

"There, there," Yossarian had tried to comfort him. "There, there."

They didn't take in on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done. They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter. They didn't drown or get or get struck by lightning, mangled by machinery or crushed in landslides. They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children, or die summarily by some other act of God. Nobody choked to death. People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent. There was none of that tricky now-you-see-now-you-don't business so much in vogue outside the hospital, none of that now-I-am-and-now-I-ain't. There were no famines or floods. Children didn't suffocate in cradles or iceboxes or fall under trucks. No one was beaten to death. People didn't stick their heads into ovens with the gas on, jump in front of subway trains or come plummeting like dead weights out of hotel windows with a whoosh!, accelerating at the rate of thirty-two feet per second to land with a hideous plop! on the sidewalk and die disgustingly there in public like an alpaca sack full of hairy strawberry ice cream, bleeding, pink toes awry.

All things considered, Yossarian often preferred the hospital, even though it had its faults. The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome. Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good. He was forced to admit that the hospitals had altered steadily for the worse as the war continued and one moved closer to the battlefront, the deterioration in the quality of the guests becoming most marked within the combat zone itself where the effects of booming wartime conditions were apt to make themselves conspicuous immediately. The people got sicker and sicker the deeper he moved into combat, until finally in the hospital that last time there had been the soldier in white, who could not have been any sicker without being dead, and he soon was...

  Furtrader,

Dothan Eagle Sat. Feb.9,2008,page 8A,article
"JUST A LITTLE
OFF THE BOTTOM" by Greg Bluestien,Associated Press.
http://www.gulflive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1202512770273220.xml&storylist=miss_news
I do not have a
scanner or I would send you this article.
It is about the 35th
parallel.
You would find it very entertaining,since you knew A.Ellicot
and G. Washington and a squaw from the Ride-a-ho tribe.
If you can't
find this article, e-mail me and I will save it.
Bud



image by Buddy Henry
WATER HAS RETURNED TO THE HOG FARM!!!!

Roberto,

That memory cell is at least partially damaged, but I
think Lou Christie was at all of the Big BAM shows I
attended, maybe a hundred of them.

OK, I told you that
memory cell was damaged.

JH


--- robert register <robertoreg2003@yahoo.com> wrote:

D.J.:

I'm not sure if it was you or Sidney Clark who
turned me on to Sgt. Pepper's but when I read this
email today from Tommy Mann, founder of Tallassee's
The K-OTICS, I thought about you.

Looking forward to seeing you in Dothan in July.

best,
Robert Register
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com
>
> http://myspace.com/robertoreg


Friday, February 08, 2008

ROBERT,

I HAVE A POSTER OF THE MARCH 25, 1966
WBAM SHOW IN WHICH LOU CHRISTY WAS A PART
OF. THE STARS THOUGH ,WERE PAUL REVERE/
RAIDERS AND MITCH RYDER/DETROIT WHEELS.
JAN AND DEAN WERE SCHEDULED BUT ONE OF
THEM HAD A WRECK THAT ALMOST KILLED HIM.
SO A DUET CALLED PETER AND GORDON WERE
THERE INSTEAD. I BELIEVE THAT PETER WAS
PAUL MCCARTNEY`S BROTHER - IN -LAW AT THAT
TIME. ASHER WAS THE LAST NAME? IT WAS A
THRILL TO BE ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH THEM
AFTER THE SHOW.

WE WENT TO A MOTEL IN
MONTGOMERY WHERE THEY WERE STAYING AS
WELL AS OTHERS FROM THE SHOW. WE TALKED
ABOUT PAUL, THE BEATLES AND WHERE THEY
WERE GOING WITH THEIR MUSIC. I THINK PETER
MENTIONED THAT THEY, THE BEATLES, WERE ALREADY
SHOWING SIGNS OF FATIGUE AND WOULD HAVE
TO SLOW DOWN THEIR WORLD WIDE TOURING.

I REMEMBER TALKING WITH MARK LINDSEY OF PAUL
REVERE`S GROUP AND I ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS
DOING WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY WERE MAKING. HE
SAID HE WAS BUYING PROPERTY IN SOUTHERN CA.
I SAID , HOW MUCH? HE SAID ONE HOUSE A WEEK!!
WITH ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THAT PART OF
THE COUNTRY SINCE 1966, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE
WEALTH. PROBABLY LIKE GREG HAYNES!

ANYWAY, THE
WHOLE THING WAS A BLAST!

IF YOU WERE GOING TO
HEAR TWO GUITAR PLAYERS FROM THAT ERA, THE TWO
YOU WOULD WANT TO SEE AND HEAR, WOULD BE
JOHN

THE PICTURE OF THE K-OTICS IS FUN TO LOOK AT. I HAD
FORGOTTEN WHAT A HANDSOME GROUP WE WERE!!
JUST KIDDING!

TOMMY "SWAMPMAN" MANN
IF YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THE 1966 SHOW, LET ME KNOW.


Now playing at THE ROBERT REGISTER THEATRE.....
"The movie of your life"

Thanks for the memories. BB

Buddy Buie



Thursday, February 07, 2008

A message from Charmin' Sharmon:

Isn’t it wonderful that we are at a time of life where we can work together, recognizing and building on each other’s talents. Rick has volunteered to help put this “montage” together. He does this as a part of his photography business. It is simply “meant to be” that the two of you collaborate on this venture. I have also asked Mary Ann Howell Spann (and a committee) to help us gather these pictures. She has worked with Dothan City Schools for many years and you know what a wonderful, warm personality she has. She and her committee (that includes you and Rick with your technical skills) should be able to help us get together lots of wonderful pictures. This could be one of the best parts of the evening with your reminiscence and commentary added to the music and pictures. Wow!

Through your blog and those who read it you certainly have the ability to reach lots of folks.



Images from THE SIXTIES
posted at ZERO, NORTHWEST FLORIDA
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com


DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS entered the American Top 40 chart in July of '65.
Billy Joe Royal had another hit with HUSH in September of our Senior year.


The CANDYMEN'S first album from 1967


1967 photo of The Candymen in a London studio with Graham Nash. DHS grad John Rainey Adkins stands on the right. Jimmy Page gave John Rainey the first Fuzz Box that was ever brought to America. Before they returned to America, Jim Marshall gave The Candymen the first Marshall amplifiers ever brought to this country.


The Candymen in Miami during November of 1965


The Candymen in Miami during November of 1965


Robert Nix and Rodney Justo from April of '67


The Candymen in Miami during November of '65


WBAM's Bill J. Moody from an article in the December '67 issue of WBAM SCENE magazine which also included a shot of the Dothan High School cheerleaders posing inside the Big Bam studio.


Bill J. Moody with some Flower Children from Eclectic who visited the Big Bam studio in December '67


Nip's ad from the Gargoyle. Page 93 of the '67 Gargoyle has a interior shot of Nip's with Ray Hutto and Diane Barnes sitting at a table.


The Mar Teks performing at The Farm Center. I have a CD of their recordings.


The Mar Teks


The Lorraine Motel in Memphis where MLK Jr. was shot


The Lorraine Motel


The Lorraine Motel


Gargoyle photo of Jimmy Parkman



THE PROMOTIONAL POSTER OF THE WBAM, BIG BAM WINTER SPECTACULAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1967!
Subject : WBAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAPE-AM
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/radio-tv2.htm
Click here to hear Dan Brennan do a rock 'n roll show promotion!: http://www.birminghamrewound.com/listening_room.htm
This is an unbelievably GREAT Lou Christie in Alabama page:
http://www.geocities.com/antlion7/LouChristieAlabama.htm
Tons of WVOK SHOWER OF STARS Photos on Harold Brown's WVOK Memories:
http://wvok-memories.tripod.com/

The following BIG BAM posters courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/antlion7/LouChristieAlabama.htm








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".


THE MAGNIFICENT 7 {later renamed THE RUBBER BAND}
IN FRONT OF THE OLD HICKORY ON PANAMA CITY BEACH DURING THE SUMMER OF '65


THE RUBBER BAND: seated on couch: second from left, Johnny Wyker,then Tippy Armstrong and Joe Sobotka . On the right is Johnny Townsend sitting on top of the couch.



THE OLD DUTCH



THE OLD DUTCH


The "K-Otics" from the Sixties
L to R: Glen Griffin[A SR. '66 DOTHAN HIGH TIGER!!!!] on his Vox organ, Tommy "Swamp Man" Mann, Kim Venable
Marvin Taylor (seated) and Ray Goss

http://www.fivefeathers.com/MarvinTaylor.htm




THE LONG BEACH RESORT AT PCB IN THE '30s


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

photo courtesy of Dean Smith

GREGG ALLMAN IN '66
"THE ALLMAN JOYS"- 1965 TO 1967

photo courtesy of Dean Smith
THE ALLMAN JOYS!!!!
GREGG ON KEYBOARDS, DUANE ON GUITAR, BILL CONNELL ON DRUMS AND BOB KELLER [thanx,johnny] ON BASS


S



YOUNG JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, DUSY STREET, DOTHAN, ALABAMA

rto at 4:55 PM



http://www.heybabydays.com/photos_01.htm


ed by roberto at 6:17 PM


Tuscaloosa's own, Bill Connell, at Fort Brandon Armory with the Allman Joys. Notice the tie.

http://www.wtbc1230.com/history.html

GREGG AT FORT BRANDON


DUANE ALLMAN PLAYING AT FT. BRANDON ARMORY IN TUSCALOOSA
[photo courtesy of Ronnie Quarles of WTBC]http://www.wtbc1230.com/history.html



Here's a picture of 19 year old Duane Allman "apeing it up" at the old Hotel San Carlos in Pensacola, Florida taken by my sister (Linda Tietjen) in August, 1965. She was dating Duane at the time and took this picture with her Brownie camera. He would come by our house in Myrtle Grove to pick her up. I was only around 5 years old at the time and don't remember seeing him but my brothers do (just my luck!). Very few people have ever seen this picture!

She remembers hanging out with them and trying to help them come up with lyrics! Pretty cool!

Hope you enjoy it.


Gary Lockwood
Web Master
Boyden Amplifiers



This came off the Boyden Amplifiers site and was posted by their webmaster Gary Lockwood

Duane Allman- guitar
Bob Keller - bass
Gregg Allman - keyboards
Bill Connell - drums

Here's a promotional picture taken from the Sahara Club in Pensacola Florida from the early 1960's. My sister (Linda Tietjen) was a waitress there and would sometimes get pictures of the bands she liked. She became friends with the Brothers and would often hang out with them.

The Brothers were surely in their teens here and it appears that Greg had not yet switched to his signature Hammond organ.

Hope you enjoy it.


Gary Lockwood
Web Master
Boyden Amplifiers
http://www.boydenamp.com




'66 BAMA HOMECOMING PARADE!

Bill Connell, Gregg Allman, Bob Keller, Duane Allman

http://heybabydays.com




Bobby Peterson, Billy Gilmore, Bob Nix, John Rainey Adkins and Rockin' Rodney Justo at Roy Orbison's house before it tragically burned killing two of Roy's sons.
Photo © Rodger Johnson (long time road manager of the Candymen). See more of Rodger's photos in the book http://heybabydays.com


Rockin' Rodney
check out more of Rodger Johnson's CANDYMEN photos at Greg Haynes' "Hey Baby Days of Beach Music" website


John Rainey Adkins and Rodger Johnson on the road!


The CANDYMEN with Mama Cass Elliott at Steve Paul's THE SCENE IN NYC photo by Rodger


'67 Rodger Johnson photo of DEAN DAUGHTRY


ROY ORBISON AND THE CANDYMEN arriving at London's Heathrow airport.
photo by Rodger Johnson ROBERT NIX, BILL GILMORE & RODNEY JUSTO in the background



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!






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

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

http://www.spectropop.com/Sandpipers/200%20Sandpipers%2005.jpg
These are the Sandpipers from Pensacola


special "Cuba, Alabama" gracias goes out to Jeff Lemlich {aka JeffMiami} http://limestonerecords.com

Here's a crazy old bald head lighting up a fag right in front of Gregg's organ while the "Allman Joys" back up the Sandpipers in '66.


Muchas gracias go out to Ray Hutto and debbieseesU2 who both sent me the link below to an excellent article by THE DOTHAN EAGLE'S Peggy Ussery concerning the uncertain future the historic Dothan Rec Center.


Rockin' Gibralters,
photo courtesy of http://tuscaloosabeachmusic.blogspot.com/
Seated: Sonny Grier and Bobby DuPree. Standing: Rusty Crumpton, Ronnie Monroe, Ed Sanford and Keith Brewer.



This album was big with my crowd our Senior year.


The History Channel was hitting on all eight this afternoon.
Watching Forrest Gump again really got me going...

Jimmy Carl Black http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carl_Black
called me Forrest Gump when he met me back about '95 when he played drums for Eugene Chadbourne at The Chukker. In fact, he autographed his "in drag" photo on the cover of The Mother's of Invention's WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY,
"To my good friend in Alabama, FORREST GUMP- Jimmy Carl Black http://www.jimmycarlblack.com/"

image courtesy of http://www.musicdirect.com



Posted by: Donnah at April 30, 2005 02:01 PM
Trying to begin the evolution of Southern rock in 1968 is foolishness.

In about 1960-61, Phil Walden was my older cousin's boyfriend. I watched him build a career with black musicians - first Otis Redding, who auditioned in my cousin's living room, Sam & Dave, and all the rest.

I was a few years younger - all of us white kids wanted black bands for our dances - The Tams, Joe Tex, The Miracles, Percy Sledge, even The Pinetoppers featuring Johnny Jenkins (teacher of Hendrix). While we listened to California surf music and the British Invasion, we also listened to the local black radio stations in the day time (many were daylight hours only) and to John R. on WLAC at night. We were steeped in soul music, and I've always thought that's one reason school integration was fairly easy for the kids - we had something in common - the cross cultural language of music.

By 1968, the idea of an integrated rock band in the South was not unusual at all. By 1970 when the Allman Brothers gained national fame, they were fairly common. I have not read the book, but it appears he's another Southerner taught to be ashamed of it - and is ashamed because he does not understand what happened. Beginning in 1968 simply cannot present a true picture.

Roberto
Thanks for your attempts with the Alabama curator BUT
his slight was not as glaring as Skynyrd's complete non-mention at
the R&R Hall of Fame.
My favorite slap-in-the-face was when Van Zant's widow got up
and thanked TOM DOWD for all the help he gave Ronnie before they
were famous. Dowd did not inherit producing Skynyrd til after the third
album - WAY AFTER Sweet Home & Freebird. I would venture to say that
in 1972, when I financed the band after their van got robbed
that Tom Dowd probably would have mispronounced their name if he
even read it BACK THEN....
Widow's Peak ?????

Unlike Rodney Dangerfield, I can live with this

Al Kooper


best

R