Back in 1970, my friend Rob and I tried to put a band together. We were both 16 years old. A few years earlier, Rob’s older brother Jimmy was in a great local garage band called the Aggravations who were the neighborhood Rolling Stones. (Jimmy was the drummer for the first Zantees gig.) His drums were still set up in their den and so was Rob’s guitar amp. So we got a couple of other guys who we thought could play and tried out some tunes. Our repertoire was “Johnny B. Goode”, “Ramble Tamble” by Creedence, “Season Of The Witch” (the longer the songs, the better as we didn’t have to figure out endings), “Bristol Stomp” (Rob’s idea – he was the resident genius), some stupid blues jam and I think, “I Can’t Get No Nookie” by the Masked Marauders, which somebody else sang. But, we recorded two songs on a reel to reel tape – “Like A Rolling Stone” and “Sonny Boy Williamson” which we learned off this Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield album, though I don’t think we even knew who Sonny Boy Williamson was. We never even came up with a band name and I don’t think we got together more than twice before wisely abandoning the whole thing. I saw Rob a few years ago and he said his mom still had the tape, but by the time I went over to her house and asked her about it, she had thrown it out. Consider yourselves lucky…
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:07:40 +0000
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