Talk about your SOUTHERN ROCK or SOUTHERN FRIED MUSIC HALL OF FAME! These boys from my family's home territory of North Arkansas are just not your Mommy's band. Meeting in Jail after stealing and joy riding on a State Road Grading machine, they are often credited with having started the Southern Rock Revolution. They also may have been the first group ever to have albums banned or rated "X". Their high energy and sexual content may offend some, but for me, these wild Ozark hill boys seem like family...
IF YOU DARE, take a listen and a view...
JIM DANDY TO THE RESCUE, This piece featured tiny Ruby Starr...( how to say this delicately?) whom I KNEW, she died of cancer a few years ago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPsaGPzCHkQ&feature=related
HOT -N- NASTY (nuns, former nuns and FBC members might want to skip this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAPhLK8qdk
HEY Y'ALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuK3HDDTJTQ&NR=1
Enjoy, I'm just waiting for them to show up at 9Th and Main! hee hee
Ocklawaha
The Old Hippies roots are in the Ozarks... Hillbilly ROCKERS RULE!
I believe BOA , and Labelle, opened for the Who at the Gator Bowl, late
summer, in 1976 (hard to remember dates for much of the decade).
during what was called the Who's "Whirlwind Tour" (Hurricane bent palm trees on the advertising poster).
Your boys did Bob Seeger's "Ramblin Gamblin Man" for an encore.
When Labelle did "Lady Marmalade" they invited from the crowd some longhair with a massive legcast and crutches on stage to dance (was that you?). He almost clocked Patti Labelle doing his whirlybird, cast hopping, crutch twirling gyrations across the stage.
The Who, who according to urban legend, had demanded to be paid in cash, in advance,the night before the concert. (Won't Get Fooled Again?)
Angered at the low turnout, they gave what has been cited as one of their best shows ever.
Nope wasn't me, my mountain boyz (although THAT really isn't true) grew up around family farms and properties in SE Missouri and NE Arkansas. Black Oak (the town) had about 300 people in it and was in the St. Francis / Mississippi flood plains just before one climbs into the Ozarks. Thus one of their songs "10,000 gravel roads". In those days I was tall and skinny as a toothpick, go figure. My hair was somewhere between David Koresh and Jimi Hendrix. Most of the late 1960's - 1970's, were spent in Washington, Oregon, CALIFORNIA, Brazil (Dad's ranch), and the Ozarks. Only once in a while did I drift back home to taste Jacksonville's scene. But make no mistake, it was always home.
Gotta love that S**T kicking Southern Rock!
Ocklawaha