Big Name Rock Bands Before We All Knew Them

[ChileMass]

Originally Posted by augidog

........this is a completely groovy thread, btw.......

And augidog - it is a stone groove to have you aboard here on AZ.com.............welcome!!!

[teachski]

Originally Posted by augidog

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anyhoo, teachski, are you a cheney tech alumni by any chance?

No, Quabbin Regional High School in Barre, MA. Must have eaten 10,000 sticks of carefree gum then. The school actually lifted the ban on gum chewing and one of the clubs was selling the gum at lunch. We would stay after school to scrawl Carefree Gum on 3x5 cards and then bundle the cards in groups of 100. There were contests in the school for getting the most wrappers or hand written cards. Every classroom had a box full of blank 3x5's that we could write on after we did our work.

Also - Summer of 1980, I worked in a small factory in Brookfield, MA. After work another girl and I would go to the tennis courts at North Brookfield High School. At the time the Rolling Stones were recording at Long View Farm. Mick Jagger and a few of the gang would come down to play tennis and jog the track there. We were invited to a couple jam/rehearsal sessions which as I recall started late at night and went through the night.

[augidog]

cool, i've been looking around and figured there were a few contests, apparently the grass roots were involved in some of the shows, but we got rick springfield in a caveman getup. the contest allowed for substituting 3X5 cards w/"care-free gum" hand printed on them (most schools missed that detail), we bribed another hs's print shop to cut our paper, the whole school, 450 of us, wrote "care-free gum" all day every day, the winner was the school with the most per student, we had hundreds of thousands, making our per student total more than some schools submitted altogether.

raspberries even gave a custom volkswagon away, one of those "rolls-royce" jobbies, in another contest... http://www.ericcarmen.com/press/730700.htm

neat news about the stones...saw them in hartford early eightie's.

edit: ok, i'm gonna do this, if it breaks a rule, de-edit this...all u peeps who like the good ole days should check out www.9412.com for internet classic rock, live dj's & 15000 searchable songs to request from...tellem augie sentcha.

Originally Posted by ChileMass

And augidog - it is a stone groove to have you aboard here on AZ.com.............welcome!!!

ty, chilemass...hey, peeps, u got a cool (pun intended) community here... 'nother edit: i posted an intro, this might be a good thing for me.

[deadheadskier]

Mark my words

Ryan Montbleau Band

he's from Boston and a ridiculous talent. Get the chance now while you can to see him in smaller clubs in the area. It won't be long before he's packing arenas.

www.ryanmontbleau.com

[augidog]

the moddy @ ericcarmen.com found this...cool, huh?

[teachski]

Yes! It does! I think ours was sponsored by the Gum Company and WAAF or one of the Worcester/Boston stations back then.