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Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:23 am
by Ron Saueracker
What an insane night! These guys don't just stand on the stage and play...they are all over the place. The actually even played a few songs outside on the streets in downton Ottawa, a block from Parliment.
The hotel screwed up and I had to billet these crazies at my house that night. I had just moved a week earlier. Easy cleanup.[:D]
http://robinedgar.homestead.com/Fleshtones1.html
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:23 am
by Ron Saueracker
Can you tell I'm waiting for a turn?[:D]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:26 am
by Ron Saueracker
I even made "Blue Whales" for them, their signature drink of choice from their early days in Brooklyn. Bad Hangover. They had not seen one in years and I made pitchers of the killer juice.[;)]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:25 am
by fabertong
Are they still going?!?!?!?!?!.......I saw them play when I was at Uni........some years ago..........
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:20 pm
by Ron Saueracker
ORIGINAL: fabertong
Are they still going?!?!?!?!?!.......I saw them play when I was at Uni........some years ago..........
Yepper, still playing now. Good thing too considering the lack of good music commercially.
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:38 pm
by BLUESBOB
Playing in the streets is nothing odd or new. Blues legend Buddy Guy used to play with a 100' extension cord. I have a book with a picture of him playing in the ladies room at a club. There's a line of women watching him play while waiting for a stall. It's funny...but they only look slightly amused.
Long John Hunter played with a 150' extension cord. He cut his teeth at a blues club in Juarez, Mexico. He used to play his entire gig in the street out front of the club.
I saw Guitar Shorty at a blues festival. He played most of his set wandering through the crowd.
Bluesmen have been doing these things since the 50's.
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:50 pm
by mogami
Hi, I was about to delete this thread thinking the "Fleshtones" were some joke where the "flintstones" went XXX.
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:32 pm
by Ron Saueracker
ORIGINAL: BLUESBOB
Playing in the streets is nothing odd or new. Blues legend Buddy Guy used to play with a 100' extension cord. I have a book with a picture of him playing in the ladies room at a club. There's a line of women watching him play while waiting for a stall. It's funny...but they only look slightly amused.
Long John Hunter played with a 150' extension cord. He cut his teeth at a blues club in Juarez, Mexico. He used to play his entire gig in the street out front of the club.
I saw Guitar Shorty at a blues festival. He played most of his set wandering through the crowd.
Bluesmen have been doing these things since the 50's.
Yep, and it is refreshing to see a non blues band do it once in awhile. All but the drummer went outside. The guitarist from the Humpers wandered outside too (much earlier show) and I had to talk my way past a cop intent on busting him for pot.[;)]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:22 pm
by Kwik E Mart
ron, that wouldn't be you coronating the "king" in the first picture, would it? [;)]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:52 pm
by m10bob
Bluesmen have been doing these things since the 50's.
Uhhhh....Robert Johnson....Clarksdale Mississippi.....1930's.......
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:20 pm
by Ron Saueracker
ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart
ron, that wouldn't be you coronating the "king" in the first picture, would it? [;)]
Nope...[:D]
I'm not in the pics I don't think...don't like to spill my pints in the mob.[:D] I have some pics of the Demolition Doll Rods too but they are kinda disgusting. Unattractive band members in thongs...[X(]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:05 pm
by Tom G.
Oh, wow. The Fleshtones. Saw these guys everytime they came to San Francisco. Was one of my favorite bands. I had all their albums (yes albums) (even the other bands Peter was fronting), but needed some cash in college to go on a wild spring break so I sold them to a used record store thinking I could get them on CD. Bad, Bad Bad. Now all I have is a few songs downloaded from napster days. Once partied with band when I showed up with two bottles of Jack Daniels back stage. they let me in. Peter was already three sheets to the wind and rambled on about Kung Fu this and Kung Fu that.
Does anyone have more music they can email me from this band? One of the better exports to come from the UK. They do rock, colony style. [:D]
RE: Found some pictures of the Fleshtones at my bar a few years ago...
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:17 pm
by Ron Saueracker
ORIGINAL: Tom G.
Oh, wow. The Fleshtones. Saw these guys everytime they came to San Francisco. Was one of my favorite bands. I had all their albums (yes albums) (even the other bands Peter was fronting), but needed some cash in college to go on a wild spring break so I sold them to a used record store thinking I could get them on CD. Bad, Bad Bad. Now all I have is a few songs downloaded from napster days. Once partied with band when I showed up with two bottles of Jack Daniels back stage. they let me in. Peter was already three sheets to the wind and rambled on about Kung Fu this and Kung Fu that.
Does anyone have more music they can email me from this band? One of the better exports to come from the UK. They do rock, colony style. [:D]
I have it all buddy. Let me figure out how to do it and I'll send you some.