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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
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I was asked to ID the guys in the band.
The cool young turk in the shades is Eric-on bass.He's now our music director. He helps to make us old guys be a bit more up to date. The handsome bald headed ace is Rick-my brother. We started playing together in 1963- that was the year we started 'SomethingNu'. We fancied ourselves the answer to the British invasion. We did a lot of R&B- four of us sang-just guitars/no horns, as was the norm in those days.My God, we gigged constantly in those days. We even released a ridiculous surfin' single that got a little regional air play.It was great fun going up to LA and recording at Sunset Studios( two 4-tracks and a record cutter for demos( state of the art)
The dapper fellow in the back( With Hair) is Bob- our drummer. A great friend and a man with an ideal life style. He's a photographer and whines terribly if he can't take 5 vacations a year.
The fat old man with the hat on is me.
I have graced stages from all up and down the west coast, down in Texas, and a few desert hot spots. Most I don't remember very well- but that is a common ailment for those of us who lived at that time.My son busted me on a little excursion we made to put Bill Graham to rest out in the desert.It was a little fuzzy- it seemed like a good thing to do at the time. I even had a short bout in the big leagues-put I doubt many would remember me.Opening acts were politly recieved and quickly forgotten unless their record took off.I have been writing and performing for over forty years.And it is still a blessing to be able to do it.By the by,I was pretty ill when this picture was taken/ I miraculously healed and am down to 200 pounds and too pretty to stand.'cept I'm an old guy.Thanks to all for having a listen. Any one wanting us to come and play drop a line- We are gigging again, though southern California is pretty rough for finding stages to play/ not like the old days.This pay-to-play thing sucks.We are going to start another project this year, so we will post new stuff.
God Bless you all,
The old man/ Ken Lehnig
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| Posted By Burning Sage Band @ 9:29 PM |
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