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Bonzo was also a member of Terry Webb and the Spyders from 1963 to early 1964 (great background info and photos at the Brumbeat site ):
Nov 29, 63; Feb 19th, 64
May 30, 64.
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A good background on the Way of Life and the rotating list of personnel can be found at the Garage Hangover site. Bonham was a member from June -Sept 66, and Jan-Oct 67.
Evening Sentinel, Jun 5, 67; Birmingham Mail, Sep 1, 67; Birmingham Mail, Sep 9, 67
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There were several bands in the UK with the name "The Senators", so not easy to figure out which ads were for the band Bonzo was in. These were for locations in and around Birmingham:
Stratford upon Avon Herald, Aug 21, 64, Coventry Evening Telegraph, Aug 24, 64
Record Mirror, Mar 7, 64, Walsall Observer, Oct 2, 64
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Nicky James Movement (1965/66):
Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Aug 15, '65
Birmingham Weekly Mercury, June 13, '65
Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Oct 24, '65
NJM Stagger Lee, Nov 5, 65 (earliest JB 45 ?)
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It's amazing what is still out there. 12 secs of 8mm film of the Yardbirds playing at Dayton's in Minnesota on August 5th, 1966. Page and Beck. Page's first US gig. Hope this link works: https://www.facebook.com/gary.schwartz.7737/videos/1383672435827441/
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On 7/6/2023 at 4:26 PM, Autumn Moon said:
Thanks for the information, I´ll check that.
He actually talks about subbing for Blackmore in the video above starting after about the 8min mark...
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Haven't seen mention of this elsewhere. From Sounds, Feb 5th, 1972
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Great interview with Plant and Bonham in 1972 (Australia). (Did a quick search and couldn't find it here). Background
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11 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
Perhaps an ad for circa '88-'90 for this gig.
I don't think that will help. This is the exact quote from the book:
QuoteAnyway, I found a steady five-nights-a-week gig as a side- man at the Old Absinthe Bar on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter that I held onto for about five years. It was nothing to see world-famous musicians come through the door. Some of them would sit in, such as Cindi Lauper, David Clayton Thomas and Jimmy Page.
The date range is early 90s but not more specific than that.
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Sept 24, 1988 makes sense. He wore a similar shirt in 95.
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Benny Turner is the brother of Freddie King. These photos are from his book "Survivor: the Benny Turner story". I suspect they are from March 10, 1995, after the Page & Plant show:
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Available here
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So, Shel Talmy just posted this on Facebook:
BLUEPRINT OF . . . ONE THAT GOT AWAY!
I think most people who have been following my vignettes know of my early association with Jimmy Page-- how we met and, having recognized his excellence, how I booked Jimmy on guitar continually for sessions I was producing right up to when he joined The Yardbirds and eventually formed Led Zeppelin.
But I doubt you are aware of another connection I had to the biggest rock band of the 1970s!
I was reminded of it recently and felt it was worth writing about.
In the mid-1960s, I was exceptionally busy producing many different acts, along with running my own label, Planet Records.
I had so many people coming through the door at my offices in Greek Street in London’s West End that it would have been miraculous if I was able to recall all the hopeful acts and all the discussions that took place-- all miracles appear to have occurred elsewhere!
In early 1966, I was approached by a group from Wallsall, near Birmingham, looking for a record deal. They were called Listen, and were in the “mod” mode similar to other bands I produced such as The Who and The Creation.
Listen was a quartet and the members were as follows: John Crutchley on guitar, Geoff Thompson on drums, Roger Beamer on bass and, on lead vocals, Rob Plant, who turned out to be a terrif lead singer.
I liked what I heard and so I decided to sign them to Planet.
The songs that were to be recorded were an original by the band entitled ‘Everybody’s Gonna Say’, and ‘Two By Two’, composed by Jimmy Stewart and Gerry Langley, a songwriting team that I had under contract.
The group was excited and even announced to a local paper in Birmingham that the single would be released in May 1966.
I need to digress briefly here to say that, almost without exception, I never had problems with an artist, and have always had respect for musicians and creative talents.
That was not however the case with their management! Generally speaking, managers were not music people, but invariably they "knew it all", and were very forthcoming in informing all of us what we needed to do about everything they knew nothing about!
So their manager and I had a dispute that became heavy-duty and remained unresolved, with the result that Listen never recorded for Planet.
The group did later make a single for CBS, after which lead singer Rob went solo, under his given name Robert Plant. Robert had a couple more unsuccessful records, and finally was selected by Jimmy Page to sing for his new group, Led Zeppelin. And the rest as they say is history!
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NME, Nov 4, 67
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Melody Maker ad, June 8, 1968
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JPJ, Andrew Loog Oldham and Phil Spector (?)
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This deserves more views
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Awesome cover and for a great cause
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