MorrisrownSal Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 My college band was named Sinister Footwear (Frank Zappa reference). We played everything from the Pretenders, Squeeze, Robert Palmer, The Doors, Genesis, and The Allman Bros... to Chuck Mangione (wait what?) That's me in the center... this was a picture for a promo poster that was pasted on cheap paper around campus. Ahhh. Mullets and cutoff shirts. Was there ever anything classier? Let's see yours folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PickitPaul Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Guess the year....1986 am i close? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyd Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Not quite age 20. This was about 1973 and I was about 24. :) I sold that telecaster to buy a 1974 J-50 that I still have. If I had kept the telecaster, it would be worth a lot more than the J-50 is today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 c.1968; I'm on the far left... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Facebook didnt exist 20 years ago. My pics dont go that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Maybe 24/25? I'm second one from the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Not a great pic and part of it torn away. I had not yet hit 20 years of age and was still in High School. 1967 or maybe early 1968. Just on the verge of going from acoustics with Dearmond pickups slapped across the soundhole to electrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 High school band in 1974. Age 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Great pics so far! Here is our own RichG's contribution - I am helping him post it. Rich is on the left; Jay Geils is on the right. Pretty cool - 1966, and a nice J50 to boot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 This is really good!Hope I can find something. Has anybody ever seen 1974 Drathbun and 2015 BBG in the same room !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Hysterical! At 20? How cruel do you need to be? Luckily, they hadn't invented cameras when I was 20, or nobody knew how to turn one on. I think I was in a band that started out doing Status Quo covers and then moved to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin covers. We had the hair, but the music choice may have been a bit ....err....ambitious, shall we say? I had a photo of a band I was in at about 25, when a girl had blonded my long hair and it had grown out about a 3 inches, looking good, plus the band manager wouldn't let me wear my stock standard black T-shirt and had me wear this ludicrou Chammy leather shirt that was 5 sizes too big........that pic got burned, but some mongrel from that band will have copies I need to burn... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubengal1954 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Well, I was only 13, but...I'm the kid wearing the Bob Dylan/John Lennon cap. My band mates had a Fender Strat (Howard) and a Mustang (Tommy). Howard later got a bass and took up that position in the band. I had a Vox Hurricane. As we know, the Vox amps had great street cred, the guitars not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 This is really good!Hope I can find something. Has anybody ever seen 1974 Drathbun and 2015 BBG in the same room !! My thoughts exactly!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 OK, I'll play. A photo from the Carter administration years. I AM the person your parents warned you about. To quote Jerry, Bob, Phil and the boys,.... "What a long strange trips it's been". And to quote me, "I ain't done yet!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passthej45 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 That's me....Batman, with a Fender Musicmaster or something ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passthej45 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 And then last Friday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 passthej45 - Awesome! Isnt it amazing how some things stay with us for a lifetime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Well, I was only 13, but...I'm the kid wearing the Bob Dylan/John Lennon cap. My band mates had a Fender Strat (Howard) and a Mustang (Tommy). Howard later got a bass and took up that position in the band. I had a Vox Hurricane. As we know, the Vox amps had great street cred, the guitars not so much. Geez, you must have had some extremely generous parents. We used to be really jealous of you guys because we had to dig up every after school job and summer work we could find to scrounge up enough cash just to buy used cheap gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 " ... But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubengal1954 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Geez, you must have had some extremely generous parents. We used to be really jealous of you guys because we had to dig up every after school job and summer work we could find to scrounge up enough cash just to buy used cheap gear. Zomby--I was very lucky. My parents were not wealthy by any means, but my Dad was a classically trained violinist (he played part time in the local symphony but always had day jobs) and both of my parents realized the importance of music. So most Birthday presents or Christmas gifts that came my way were of the musical variety. I was expected to and did work summer jobs to learn the value of a dollar, and that has stayed with me to this day. I am very grateful to them on so many levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse_Dylan Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Get ready to laugh as I cry! Couldn't find any when I was 20, but I got... 19 21 22 I look worse now, believe it or not! The guitar was my first really good one, a Guild... uh... D-55 maybe? Purchased from Stan at Mandolin Bros. on Staten Island, August 2001 (same month the photo is from, I'd imagine). Nice guitar, but I never quite clicked with it. At the time, I was deciding between a used Martin HD-35, that Guild, and a Gibson J-185. (I wanted an SJ-200 or Hummingbird, but they were way out of my range! Not sure why I didn't have a J-45 on my radar... One big regret in life is that I didn't get the Gibson, because I'm sure I'd still have it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dotneck Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Trying to impress my girlfriend (now wife of 35 years!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 This is really good!Hope I can find something. Has anybody ever seen 1974 Drathbun and 2015 BBG in the same room !! Whoever this BlindBoyGrunt fellow is, he must be a handsome SOB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Whoever this BlindBoyGrunt fellow is, he must be a handsome SOB! dad? DAD!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I've been away for some time on my boat in the out islands of Maine, but I couldn't pass this one up. It's nice up here in the land of lobsters and osprey. Early spring of 1967, and I had just turned 20. Still have that old 1948 J-45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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