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Dave Mason’s early musical career as a member of the band Traffic operated on the cutting edge of the late-sixties music scene at a time of rapid and remarkable evolution, and expanded rock’s sonic palette with songs such as Mr. Fantasy, and Traffic, among the more remarkable albums of the sixites.
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| High octane, turbo, high performance, supercharged MITCH RYDER & The Detroit Wheels didn’t need to hail from the Motor City for those adjectives to be tossed their way, but it was certainly appropriate that they called Motown home. It was Mitch and The Wheels who served as the musical bridge between the Motown soul factory and the high energy, take no prisoners rock ‘n’ roll that would roar out of Detroit via Iggy & The Stooges, MC5, Ted Nugent and Bob Seger. With Ryder, it wasn’t attitude or public outrage or politics that generated the charge you could simply hear it in the music. |
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| Mark Farner is the heart and soul of the band Grand Funk Railroad, having written and/or sung their most famous songs from the majority of their ’70s hits: “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home),” “Bad Time,” “Footstompin’ Music,” “Rock & Roll Soul,” the number one remake of the Little Eva classic “The Loco-Motion” ( which is everything creatively that a remake should be), a cover of “Some Kind of Wonderful,” along with a multitude of well-known album tracks, including “Hooked on Love,” “Mean Mistreater,” “Heartbreaker,” to riveting versions of the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” and Traffic’s “Feelin’ All Right.” |
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| As America’s baby boomers moved into their mid teens, Gary began his professional career. For his first hit, “New Orleans,” attention was brought to the record by having promotional copies sent to radio stations in sleeves inscribed “Buy U.S. Bonds” – hence at age 19, Gary Anderson became Gary U.S. Bonds. |
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| DeWayne Jessie was part of Universal Studios’ stable of character actors when he was offered the role of Otis Day, the roadhouse rhythm -and – blues singer in “Animal House” – National Lampoon’s occasionally raunchy but – unfailingly- funny tribute to college fraternity life. Now he’s Otis – for life. “He’s taken over,”Jessie admitted. “He’s taken over as far as performing goes. But when I get my bills, it’s DeWayne Jessie.” |
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| Peter Rivera is the original drummer and lead vocalist behind all of the hits. Wherever these classics are played people inevitably say something like: “I’d know that voice anywhere” . . .Peter’s story is one of those all-American classics; a kind of “rags to riches” tale in which an obscure white boy, growing up in a red- brick row house of Detroit, Michigan, finds his way out of the grimy bluecollar neighborhood that spawned a whole generation of factory workers, dock hands, and “tough-guy” bar brawlers to the big time glitz and glam of the pop music industry. |
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