A Band Poster from a Black Oak Arkansas group triggers good memories and is a sure thing for Divine Intervention or moments of extreme coincidence for me. I have come close to all but The California Jean Joint.
Let’s see if I can explain. I photographed Black Oak Arkansas when I was a Junior or Senior in High School. Years later Black Oak Arkansas and Atlantic Records AJ Deprimo picked a few of my photos for a BOA webisode. I got my name on a Rock and Roll Album!
Come back because there is more.
Somewhere between High School and College I photographed The James Gang with Tommy Bowlin before his Deep Purple gig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gang
From The Tommy Bolin Facebook Group
James Gang with Tommy Bolin on Don Kirshner‘s Rock Concert .
A 21-minute special presentation of when the James Gang with Tommy Bolin were on Don Kirshner‘s Rock Concert.
The director of the series, back in this year, in particular, was very lazy in how unprepared he was in terms of knowing the songs, thus he was incapable of really showing an accurate essence of the band.
That being said, it was the first time Tommy had had a national TV platform on a major network – but it’s not one of the greatest documents ever. He was nervous and I think that shows. When they went on to be on Midnight Special, he was ready! But don’t get me wrong, anytime Tommy can be seen on a TV show performance, it is intrinsically cool!”
Years later at an Amusement Park in Conneaut Lake Park Pennsylvania where I was paid to Play Frisbee for two summers , Rick Ploski gave me a backstage Pass to a Peter Frampton Concert.
The main man for the Tommy Bolin History groups liked my photo of Tommy and Roy Kenner.
https://www.facebook.com/TommyBolinTheUltimate
Come back and visit my pages after you Surf Tommy’s page.
On this ticket is a band that @Bill Scott turned us all on to from a Club in Concord called SGT. Peppers from 1979ish Called Razz Ma Tazz. Bill is still in touch with a member of the band. The band member is now a Doctor. I have a few slides from a Razz Ma Tazz show at Peppers.
Razz Ma Tazz had smoke, Neon lights and a choreographed show. I can’t remember if it was Razz Ma Taz or RazzMaTazz.
I love this stuff!
This brings Rich Bartle to mind and how cool it would be to watch his life as a promoter. Rich just happens to be a World Class World Champion Freestyle Disc Player. This is beyond this thread but I can’t help but mention that Rich mentioned our friend @Bill Scott’s band when he was doing a video. The video showed gold albums and guitars from bands he hosted. And he built a stage for Bill Scott’s band when Angelina Jolie hosted Bill’s band for Billy Bob Thornton’s Birthday party. Billy got flown out to LA for a surprise party and met people like Tom Petty! Talk about runnin’ down a dream!
Rick Nielson mentions my friend Bello Nock!