Today’s Ken Hoffman Chronicle column brought back a lot of memories. I emailed him back with the following: Maxine Messinger wrote a very nice column, with picture, of John and Bill Pickering after they had recorded in Nashville in 1969 as “The Pickering Brothers” and had the first country version of “Proud Mary” playing on the local country stations. (D.J.’s Bill Bailey, Arch Yancy, Jim Black, and a host of others). It was a very good article, in fact, so good that the oil company where John was a full-time geologist/paleontologist for his “day job” didn’t think it was such good publicity for one of their employees, (it might imply that he wasnt being paid enough by them and needed a second job) so they invited him to resign his job. Which he promptly did and never regretted the decision. He went to work for another company for a lot more money and they approved of his music career “night job”. [Note: Bill suffered an anuerism a few years later and delayed their singing together for 10 years]. John and I and our son were happy to meet John Fogerty in 1987 at the Austin City Limits filming of the “Buddy Holly and the Crickets” tribute show. Well, off to lunch with John’s Reagan High School Class of ’51 grads lunch bunch. Fifty or so 80-year-olds get together to talk about high school in the Heights in the early 50s. Talk about a lot of memories. I am just a younger spouse since I graduated from Lubbock High with Buddy Holly.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:11:48 +0000
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