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DonCarlos

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Hey All,

 

As I have been working on my EpiCasino I spent a bit of time at the Epiphone forum. After seeing a picture of a guy and his band from long ago I thought it might be interesting and fun to see others; so I started a thread there.

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/69192-post-your-old-band-picture-or-your-old-self-picture/

 

So why not start one here at Gibson Acoustic as well, since I know most of you.

 

So I am asking members to contribute to this thread with a photo of their Old Band or Old self. You can add whatever comments or dialogue you want. Please include the Stage name and instruments displayed. The word "Old" is pretty relative, so show us something when you were younger.

 

 

" Nerds? Nope. Young,? Yup. I see faces of people that were feeling and looking pretty confident and cool and happy about their music. [thumbup] Nothing wrong with that. Forget the laughter of your kids and spouses and friends when these pictures fall out of a desk drawer or shoebox. Here, you are recognized again for swinging an axe, playing a song, when others simply bought the record".

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PR picture in spring of 1967, for a career that never went anywhere. Wasn't sure if I was going to be the next Ricky Nelson, or the next Bob Dylan. Turns out I was only the next Nick Nicholson.

 

I had just turned 20. The guitar was a year younger. 44 years later, I still have that J-45. Plus a bunch of others, or course.

 

Fortunately, that guitar case is long gone.

 

That was my first "real" guitar, and it's still the one I love best.

 

" Ah, but I was so much older then..... I'm younger than that now."

 

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from 1971. Not sure what the acoustic was, but it was some off brand thing I picked up in Toronto during a summer of traveling the country from SD to to the east coast (as many many did back in the old days). Played a few of the street corners on Yonge Street that I can recall. Holes in jeans, guitar n hand and hair pick nearby. Right Brother Right On !!!!!

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Forty Years and Forty pounds later.... the 'Fro is still there and thinning and under wraps in this photo.

Resized to 80% (was 888 x 812) - Click image to enlarge

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Carter U.S.M (that stands for Unstoppable Sex Machine)..in 1998 I think...the final year...promo shot for the last tour of Canada and U.S

 

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That's me botton right with the shaved head!

 

And the cover from the last album I did with them...a parody of a Calvin Klein advert at the time...

 

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Still with the shaved head so the photographer thought it would be "hilarious" for me to hold a hair dryer...yes..I know...Played a strat, can't remember what exactly, I was young and high lol..

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Almost forgot these..

 

Reading Festival in 1998 with Drugstore...I was their TM but ended up playing a bit of bass for them...Gibson SG as you can see...

 

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And in the Yoda t shirt...before I turned to the Darkside!!! Whooo haaa haaa..

 

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Wish I'd been in a proper band - this is the closest I've got, winning "Band Scramble" in week 2 of Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp in 2007 (I'm the lefty). Oh well, being in a band for one day beats none at all I guess......

 

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The Undergroeth in 1966. Back in my college years. I'm on the right.

 

 

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The Bottom Line in 1987. I'm on the left.

 

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1968, Minot Air Force Base playing in the Hi Tones.

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Carter U.S.M (that stands for Unstoppable Sex Machine)..in 1998 I think...the final year...promo shot for the last tour of Canada and U.S

 

341_A-27546-1172192697.jpeg

 

That's me botton right with the shaved head!

 

And the cover from the last album I did with them...a parody of a Calvin Klein advert at the time...

 

Carter_The_Unstoppable_Sex_Machine_-_I_Blame_The_Government.jpg

 

Still with the shaved head so the photographer thought it would be "hilarious" for me to hold a hair dryer...yes..I know...Played a strat, can't remember what exactly, I was young and high lol..

 

bloody hell!! [scared][thumbup]

 

Your band were HUGE here in the U.K. Loads of people loved you.

 

Matt

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bloody hell!! [scared][thumbup]

 

Your band were HUGE here in the U.K. Loads of people loved you.

 

Matt

 

SSsshhh...it's a secret.. [smile] The US and Canada weren't quite so keen....

 

We made a lot of enemies with the UK press and the music was of it's time I guess...Jim Bob and Fruitbat (the original 2) play reunions every now and then...

 

I now live in Australia and work in an office where nobody has even heard of them..fun times though..lot's of mad tour stories, but as the old saying goes

 

"What happens on the road, stays on the road" [biggrin]

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Good Stuff.... [thumbup] ...great band names....great stories. .I will keep an eye out too for that Nick Nickolson guitar case..

 

.......keep it coming folks. and where did I put that Neru jacket?

 

 

 

"What happens on the road, stays on the road"

So thats where we got that expression from. I always knew our mayor wasn't that bright.

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This is me when I was about 21 (14 years ago). Ages - 20 to 23 I was making a living out of busking and through busking I used to get weddings and similar stuff often. That little Yamaha battery amp was taken everywhere I played and was pretty loud too! I think this picture was at a garden party or something similar (hense the shirt and tie)

 

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Hey, Im from Australia (originaly) and I even bought one of the singles back in the day ! :-)

 

I was really into Carter USM and Neds Atomic Dustbin ... great days !

 

SSsshhh...it's a secret.. [smile] The US and Canada weren't quite so keen....

 

We made a lot of enemies with the UK press and the music was of it's time I guess...Jim Bob and Fruitbat (the original 2) play reunions every now and then...

 

I now live in Australia and work in an office where nobody has even heard of them..fun times though..lot's of mad tour stories, but as the old saying goes

 

"What happens on the road, stays on the road" [biggrin]

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Christmas 1970 at 14 years old and learning to play barre chords on my '63 Hofner 172 strat copy.

 

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... singing in a band in 1974:

 

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Now with my 2004 Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster.

 

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... and my SWD:

 

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I'm guessing late 1964 or early 1965: (me with Jag)

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1965: (Photo of picture on a TV screen....I'm still with the Jag)

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Teen Fair in San Francisco, 1965:

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Publicity Shot @ 1966 (me in blue shirt):

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Publicity Shot, 1966: (me with Jazz Bass)

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Us with THEM, 1966: (me standing next to Van Morrison with dark suit on)

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Show with Big Brother & The Holding Company:

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2007 Reunion Concert:

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2009:

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Awesome pictures everyone –

 

uyasgali gone for himself. Looking into the some dreamish future, singing tunes about it.

 

The sensitive poetry about the black'n'white – seen before – J-45Nicholson.

 

That a-perm is the real thing Carlos - you were there !

 

Hsech's Bottom Line kinda quoting The Notorious Byrd Brothers and getting away with it. And how about that air-base beat-guru in spe. Peace !

 

But my favourite has to be the veteran car Peter Wheat and The Breadmen shot. I just looove the bootwear. Had several pairs of brown suede Chelseas in my time. Yours Bob, have higher heels though, totally cool. Was it the band that got close to opening for The Fab 4. . .

Shine on brightly you ancient beat-heads. . . .

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I have to say this is one of the coolest threads ever in this forum. It is really funny to see a lot of geezers my age (64) or thereabouts, and realize that we all went through a lot of the same changes in the 60s and 70s.

 

The changes seemed most pronounced between '65 (Rubber Soul) and '69 (Woodstock).

 

What a great flashback!

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Awesome pictures everyone –

But my favourite has to be the veteran car Peter Wheat and The Breadmen shot. I just looove the bootwear. Had several pairs of brown suede Chelseas in my time. Yours Bob, have higher heels though, totally cool. Was it the band that got close to opening for The Fab 4. . .

 

 

Em7, yeah... that was the group. We would have been a trivia question. Those boots were gold suede, (you can see the color in the photo).

 

Truck was an original 1913 Peter Wheat Bread truck, owned by the then-owner of the company, (Mr. Friedrich), at his home.

 

The color version of that photo was lost until about 6 months ago.

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I have to say this is one of the coolest threads ever in this forum. It is really funny to see a lot of geezers my age (64) or thereabouts, and realize that we all went through a lot of the same changes in the 60s and 70s.

 

The changes seemed most pronounced between '65 (Rubber Soul) and '69 (Woodstock).

 

What a great flashback!

 

Nick, loved your publicity photo....cool stuff...... since we've been around longer than most on the forum, we can go back the farthest!

 

Bob

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Nick, loved your publicity photo....cool stuff...... since we've been around longer than most on the forum, we can go back the farthest!

 

Bob

 

For better or worse......

 

And I have no lingering after-effects from all that 60s stuff (except that I STILL love the music).

 

Reality check: in how many formats have you owned Rubber Soul?

 

vinyl LP?

8-track?

cassette?

CD?

MP3?

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For better or worse......

 

And I have no lingering after-effects from all that 60s stuff (except that I STILL love the music).

 

Reality check: in how many formats have you owned Rubber Soul?

 

vinyl LP?

8-track?

cassette?

CD?

MP3?

 

 

Didn't you just LOVE it when the 8-track changed tracks right in the middle of a song?

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Reality check: in how many formats have you owned Rubber Soul?

 

vinyl LP?

8-track?

cassette?

CD?

MP3?

 

RubberPaul-.jpg

 

If you're asking me, I still have my first vinyl ex. from when I was a kid in the late 60s. And it is in good shape, in stereo and absolutely playable.

 

Recently I got the CD remastered stereo version. They did a good job.

 

Check this shot of Paul from when the album was just out of the factory press. He's obviously pleased.

 

Btw do you Americans know the original album at all. Thought you mixed the songs differently up till Revolver (and even cancelled 2 titles on that too).

 

 

 

 

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