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Learned to dance to these guys when they came to Columbia, MO a lot in early ’80s. Bar would fudge a year on driver’s license D.O.B. if had a college I.D. Looking back, it was weird that a retro/rockabilly band actually eeked out a full time job, as it was the furthest thing from popular at the time.
Lou Whitney died a couple yrs ago, and was a fairly successful smalltime studio owner/producer.
He grew up playing bass for do-wap & R&B bands in the Carolinas/Virginias where he actually wore blackface. Rough joints and didn’t want to stick out as only white guy in band/bar.
Sorry this is not the “real” stuff, but about the beginning of my exposure to it played live.
Short local TV feature story…
The only “music video” I think they did. The diner hadn’t changed from the 50’s, 30 yrs earlier…
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Awesome and thanks for the post. I wonder if COF is familiar with them? I’m not – as I’ve never heard about them.
I’m also not sure if the forum section has any bugs. Please report anything you might find, features you might want, and things like that. The site’s still really new and we haven’t had any forum activity to test with.
I do see that video embedding works! That’ll save me some time!
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I hadn’t heard of them. They look like they would give a great time at a dance. Love that pistol guitar, what a hoot. I have a diner like that in my city still. It’s been there for years and looks a lot like that, except they have the walls covered with 50’s and 60’s musical stuff. Everything from Elvis dolls, 45’s, Beatles pics with Pete Best and up to a signed Kiss guitar and a signed Stray Cats guitar. It’s small and serves down-home cooking (chicken fried steak, real mashed taters) at a good price.
Thanks for posting this. It’s just the kind of personal experiences that we seek.
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Indeed. If someone wants to maybe edit it so that I can see the raw URLs then I’d be more than happy to toss it into the queue and push it out as an article.
The queue is pretty full, so it’d be a while before it gets published – but it’s possible to post more than one article in a day. That “limit” isn’t actually set in stone – we can publish as many articles as we want in a day.
I’ve simply set it as one per day to keep the load down (as I lack time) and to make sure the content will last for a while. It’d be pretty damned awesome to have fellow-user generated content, constant new content, and things like that.
When I first started this project, I considered using the same software that Wikipedia uses. But, the amount of effort that entails would be far more time than I have free. So, I’m familiar with WordPress and figure it makes a fine CMS (Content Management System) as well as a blog. I also knew that it had this whole giant plugin architecture that’d enable me to add the forum and make a community out of it.
And, a reminder, I’m pretty much just the admin/tech guy. The stories come from you and (ideally) the community. I’m not the boss – I’m just the guy that pushes buttons. Y’all are pretty much in charge.
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