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Old 04-06-2012, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by IndianaDave View Post
Brownsville Station was a great live rock and roll band. They would put on some of the best shows I've ever seen back in the early 70's. They played at a small club here in NW Indiana and used Marshall stacks. I'd be deaf for a week.

Crummy quality recording, but the spirit is there.

Brownsville Station-Mister Robert 1972 - YouTube
That brought back some memories! The BS crew were great showmen, and I'd forgotten that Tony was part of the band at some point, but as I recall, they mostly performed as a trio without him. Cubby, as we knew him, was something of a sinister practical joker ... The band had some recording equipment, and Cubby would mismatch players and instruments, and record crazy songs, the one I remember being The Stairway to Heaven Polka --- imagine it, if you can. Cubby would produce phony labels for 45 RPM singles, such as "Casaba Melon Records", and, while they were touring, slip these records into the jobber racks and collectors corners in record stores, no doubt driving to madness collectors trying to find nonexistent references in the Swan catalogs and etc.
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