11 thoughts on “Walk away”

  1. joel hanes

    The James Gang were the house band at Big Daddy’s in Kent, Ohio.

    Just today, Dave Adams, secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan, opined:

    I’m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution protest stopped after only one death,” he posted on Facebook on Thursday. “They do it because they know there are no consequences yet. … One bullet stops a lot of thuggery

  4. Countme-In

    Funny that dentistry has raised it’s ugly head.

    I loved the James Gang back in the day and was a freshman in college that horrible Spring just a few miles down the road from Kent State in Ohio. A little sidelight was that Devo was just then stirring on the Kent State campus and nearly 35 years later after my marriage ended I had a relationship with a woman who, incredibly, I had met at Ohio Wesleyan in 1974 AND whose brother-in-law was a founding member of Devo way back in the day (never met him), but who quit the band before they hit it big and did the sue me/sue you calypso for years with his former band mates to successfully claim a lifelong revenue stream from several of their early songs he co-wrote.

    Anyway, dentistry. Many years ago, I was reading an article about how the James Gang was discovered. An agent/music producer showed up at a concert somewhere to get a load of the headlining band, the name of which went unmentioned, and the three Jamesgangers opened. The guy said he had never heard so much glorious coherent noise coming out of just three people in his life and among his observations, which included the obligatory “they blew the roof off the place” he said his TEETH were rattling out if his head.

    That’s long way to go for a joke.

    When the James Gang finished their set, the guy didn’t even stick around to see the band he came to sign up, but left his seat, found Joe Walsh and company backstage, and signed them up.

  5. Countme-In

    One other coincidence with the former Devo guy was that at the time I was dating his now sister-in-law, he was an infrequent contributer to DKos.

  7. Jewish Steel

    Nice pairing. Now someone needs to dig up a blistering power trio from 2011 to round it out.

    I’d sure love to know why KC was shouting Roger Taylor at the end.

    1. cleek Post author

      i can’t think of any current power trios (except Belew’s “Adrian Belew Power Trio”, but that doesn’t count).

      I’d sure love to know why KC was shouting Roger Taylor at the end.

      one of the show’s hosts was engaged to Duran Duran’s drummer.

      https://books.google.com/books?id=rNNC1BXi_XwC&pg=PT161&lpg=PT161&dq=cobain+%22roger+taylor%22&source=bl&ots=9X6KjTRpnG&sig=X4lhErTqyXdY02-c_K5GGdgD2uI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbze6w6_7RAhWjIpoKHd2XB3A4ChDoAQgfMAE#v=onepage&q=cobain%20%22roger%20taylor%22&f=false

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