Great shots... before I read your post I was thinking that those tables were looking a little precarious.... And was your HH "doing a runner" as was often the case back then??CheersJohn
Oh yeah. Rickety ass "drum stage" that the venue provided. That Hi Hat was, indeed, doing the slip and slide for guy with short legs.
Great photos. Takes me back a long way. I would have been 14 and possibly in your audience if I didn't live way out on the East Coast. I could wish I had been older because we got stuck with the era of Neru jackets. Never got to your level though, and I recall Mr. Dieingly Sad very well. Nice Camco's!
The band with that record spelled their name with a "C". It really didn't matter that we had the name first. We just gave it a few months with minimal conflict before the other band slipped back into obscurity.
Amazing amazing! So you still have the Camcos? Great. And the Association? What a huge gig for you. Their timeless hits includeWindyNever My LoveCherishAlong Comes MaryHave any music clips to share? What songs did The Kritters play? Thanks!ps I really see no need for that homemade riser either, but it's quite funny. And dangerous! :)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjVtwzmTGw[/ame]
I traded in the Camcos a few months after that gig. The Kritters grew out of a band called The Exports. The bass player and I left The Exports after our record (yes...a record record with a hole in it and everything) had its life cycle. We recruited two guitar players younger than us to form The Kritters. Then, we added a keyboard player. The keys player and one guitar player sometimes played various brass or woodwinds on gigs. The Kritters underwent many personnel changes due to band members either being drafted or required to go on active military duty for an Army Reserve unit. We had no records that ever got released. We were a damn good cover band, and consequently got lots of bookings for one nighters and concert opening act. We also worked a lot with the DJs from the two big rock radio stations in Chicago. Here's a link to the local two-sided hit that Exports had. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twz3aGCeg5E"]The Exports - Car Hop - YouTube[/ame]
Great sound and production. I like Car Hop a bit better. Nice little drum solos peppered throughout.
The band with that record spelled their name with a "C". It really didn't matter that we had the name first. We just gave it a few months with minimal conflict before the other band slipped back into obscurity.
Oops, sorry for the mistaken ID on that. A second look at the bass drum head gets me back going in the right direction.
Those are truly era sounds. Were they recorded using the Camcos?
Those records are great! The drums sound fantastic, and the production is excellent. Even though it has that 60s sound to it, it could've been recorded yesterday.
Love to have seen you guys live, but that was one year before I was born!
Those songs were recorded when I had my 1961 Rogers Holiday (12-16-20) Black Diamond Pearl set with matching snare (mounted on the bass drum). I became aware a few years ago that I share something with Ringo Starr. We're both left-handed guys playing righty drum sets. Almost every run I play around the drums in the set leads off with my left hand, and starts to my right working back to my left. Here's a shot of The Exports with my Rogers drums. This picture was taken in 1963 at one of the classic ballrooms from the big band era--Madura's Danceland--on the Southern shore of Lake Michigan. The ballroom was right across the state line on the Hammond, Indiana side with Chicago a couple of blocks to the West
Those songs were recorded when i had my 1961 Rogers Holiday (12-16-20) Black Diamond Pearl set. I became aware a few years ago that I share something with Ringo Starr. We're both left-handed guys playing righty drum sets. Almost every run I play around the drums in the set leads off with my left hand, and starts to my right working back to my left. here's a shot of The Exports with my Rogers drums. This picture was taken in 1963 at one of the classic ballrooms from the big band era--Madura's Danceland--on the Southern shore of Lake Michigan. The ballroom was right across the state line on the Hammond, Indiana side with Chicago a couple of blocks to the West
And no rickety tables!!
Awesome thread! The photos are great but those recordings are killer! Major kudos all around! Bowing
