Photo: Lee Orlando (Sean Chambers & Pat DeSalvo & Garnet Grimm) The place: Chicago, City of Big Shoulders. The venue: Reggie’s Bananas Shack. The bands: Fun Parent and Sean Chambers and the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section. The occasion: a celebration of the music of Kim Simmonds and the release of his autobiography, “Street Corner Talking” […]
Little Richard / The Merseybeats / The Beatles / Fleetwood Mac (Live) Little Richard was born December 05, 1932. He made his recorded debut in 1951, releasing four 45’s on the RCA Victor label from November 1951 to November of ’52. He went to Don Robey’s Peacock label the next year and was teamed with […]
The Astronauts, ? and the Mysterians, The Candymen, Elmore James, Fleetwood Mac In the States, the first “rock” band to cover ‘Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday is just as Bad’, was a surf band from land-locked Boulder, Colorado, The Astronauts. Recorded live at The Club Baja under the title ‘Stormy Monday Blues’, their version […]
Part 1 – The Carousel Ballroom / Fillmore West recordings This was the last of six compilations of concert and / or BBC broadcasts from the Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac that were released in 2019 (see: https://smilingcorgipress.com/six-new-releases-of-vintage-peter-greens-fleetwood-mac-in-2019an-overview/ for an overview) All of the sets were drawn from the same source materials, but this collection […]
