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K.L. G.Nov 5, 1999
Last night's show with the "NEW" APB was awesome! I heard from just about
everyone about Artimus and the guys going the radio show Southern Fix At Six
with Mark Samanski hyping the band and some new material the band has been
working on, notably a song called "You can knock me down, but you can't
knock me out!" which was written about their collective experience with Gary
Rossington's new band and the troubles some of these guys went through. Tim
Lindsey also had a hand in the song's creation and had something to say in
it as well as those on stage last night. The radio show really helped to
pack the place with loads of great people wanting to party, have a great
time and rock and roll with a great band!
I made my approach down Michigan Ave. from I-4 and immediately ran into
trouble as the road was backed up for about a mile. You could not see why at
first and about all you could see up the road towards the club was the
flashing blue lights of lots of cops. A wreck maybe? Nah, APB is in town
man! I bet there must have been about 30 cop cars up and down the road! Time
for a U-turn and let's go the back route right to the club. More cop cars in
that direction too! We soon found out the cops had nothing to do with APB
fortunately... seems there was some problem on the railroad tracks at the
crossing which attracted all the police and it happened to be right next to
the club we were heading to.
Townsends is a classy place. More like a wharf restaurant that you would
expct to find pirates hanging out in making plans to loot some British
sloop. A great atmosphere for a show like this! Bars in the front and back
and upstairs and a private room for the band next to a huge open library
where we did some band photography later on at the end of the evening. In
the band's room hanging on the wall was this huge display with a pirates hat
and swords and pistols and Artimus posed under the hat as though he were
sitting there wearing it while some of the other band members fell in along
side of him. Should make an intersting photo for their website which will
soon be updated.
Upon entering the club Greg Baril was already hanging out at the bar meeting
fans and friends while the rest of the band had yet to arrive. He was in
good spirits and it is easy to see why, but that subject is taboo! I think
it has improved his performance as well and put some steam in the stride! He
is a new man with a new plan! Soon the rest of the band arrived and quickly
got ready and did not mess around. They got right down to business after
loosening up a little bit.
Somewhere in here Patti and John Seitz arrived
with a troop of people destined to cause trouble! The soundman for the club
did not seem to know the name of the band and when he introduced them he
called them the ARTIMUS PYLE BAND. I noticed it and I am sure others did as
well, especially Artimus. He motioned me to the microphone for another band
introduction using the correct name and off and running the band went.
Exploding into their set with intensity. The new bass player, Bird, as he
likes to be called, real name is Frank _________, and he is Italian and from
Youngstown, Ohio and no one speaks his last name or like one band members
jokingly said, "If you mention his last name we would have to kill you
because he is in the mafia."
You can not miss this guy. He looks like a
member of MOTLY CRUE from LA with hair that stands up like Rod Stewart - and
this guy is from Nashville? You have got to be joking? Him and Greg Baril
were having some sort of a contest seeing who's hair sticks up the highest.
Greg Baril also likes his hair to scrape the roof. Go figure. Since this was
Bird's first outting and performance with the APB band, he got directed
quite a bit from the other guys most notably from Mike Estes and to a lesser
degree from Greg Baril. Bird was performing cold! No practice. No rehearsal.
And not really even knowing what he was playing being only vaguely familiar
with the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. At his feet was the only set list on the
stage and on it each song was written and after it the key in which it was
played. That was all he got in the way of instruction except for Mike and
Greg's directions on the spot as the music was being played. Bird really had
no trouble with it at all and he fit in very well. Much more so than did
Buzzy Meekins who may be on his way back to the Hatchet scene. See you later
Buzz man. Don't think you will be missed much, but I am sure we have not
seen nor heard the last of him. He may more than likely fill in from time to
time.
By all accounts in and out of the band and around Jax, poor Buzz man
has been losing it and seems his reputation is on a downslide. Shame what
not being in control of one's own actions can lead to. And by some accounts
he is a solid bass player, but tonight Bird was the man and getting on it
matching this band's natural intensity and looking more the part than good
old Buzz man has been.
And as expected, since Mike Estes is back in the line
up, the band came back around to doing a lot more Skynyrd and judging by our
conversation later on after the show we can be expecting even more Skynyrd
in the form of this band working up new arrangements to some of Lynyrd
Skynyrd's more obscure songs such as COTTONMOUTH COUNTRY was the first
mentioned, and others mentioned were: AM I LOSIN', RAILROAD SONG, GIMME BACK
MY BULLETS, I NEVER DREAMED and others.
Basically, this band will take a
look at what the "new skynyrd" is playing a intentionally choose songs they
are not covering. Good choice guys! Look forward to hearing some of these.
And I tell you, one of the most refreshing things about this band doing the
songs of Lynyrd Skynyrd is all in the way they play them. What I mean is
this: we hear the songs on record, then when a band using the Skynyrd names
picks them up to play they generally use the exact same arrangements and
shoot for a mirror image in reproduction of the song and content.
Not so
with APB! These guys do not attempt to play them verbatim and note for note
like the albums. they intentionally re-arrange them and change the parts all
around in various ways making for an interesting delivery of some of our
favorite tunes! And the really neat part is that they never play it the same
way twice! I don't think they could if they wanted to! Greg Baril really
improvises his parts and just fits them in and around the song basics in an
amazing way. Mike is the one who really hacks out the song's shape and Greg
Baril just falls into it and flows around Mike. A very strange way to
experience the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Now as for Artimus and his drum
parts, they are pretty much verbatim, except now he can get away with adding
his own extras outside the traditional arrangements. The fans really seem to
dig Skynyrd this way. Some of the Skynyrd songs we got to hear last night
was SIMPLE MAN, WHAT'S YOUR NAME, SWEET HOME, and FREE BIRD. And in Sweet
Home Mike changed the lyrics a little bit, instead of say "Watergate" like
Ronnie always did, Mike changed it to "Clinton-gate" for amusement.
Also in
the set was one of my favorite ALLMAN BROTHERS songs called ONE WAY OUT and
they did some Muddy Waters and several other blues-rock songs that Greg
Baril can really get off on. Mike was having a good night of it as well and
the interaction between him and Greg was incerdible. Oh, and before
FREEBIRD, Artimus came out and said the song was dedicated to Walter Payton,
Wilt Chamberlain, and Payne Stewart, all men who had just passed away
recently and to anyone else in each of our hearts who we had lost in our
personal lives.
When the lead part came, Mike had to move Bird out of the
way so he could have room to do his thing on that lead part, but he wanted
to be where Bird happened to be standing. And Bird was in the middle of
smoking a cigarette when FREE BIRD got rolling along on the fast part and he
completely smoked his cigarette until it was nothing more than a butt
hanging out of his mouth not lit anymore. He could not stop to remove it,
though he could have spit it out if he had even noticed it was still there,
but the funny thing was that Greg Baril did notice it and he went over and
forcibly removed it for Bird's mouth! That was funny if you happened to
catch that part. I got a good photo of Blender Babe, Patti Seitz, torching
her Bic during the song before she caught wind of what I was doing and sent
me her own version of a Free Bird!
APB is definitely a tight band even with new members coming and going. The
band we saw last night will more than likely become the "NEW" APB's line up
and it looked and sounded like APB is BACK! Definitely a band worth seeing!
I forgot to mention that when they performed their own new original song
"You can knock me down..." that it was one of the highlights of the show.
This is a kick ass song and sounds very much like a Skynyrd tune. It also
brought a lot of people to their feet to get moving, shaking, and dancing.
Can't wait for the CD!
After the show, it was a quick load-out and then more partying and photos.
We finally got the whole band together in the library upstairs seated at a
table in front of a huge wall of books and we pulled out a book for each
band member to pretend to be getting intellectually motivated. Greg Baril
insisted on Tom Sawyer which we never did locate so he had to settle for a
book on Florida law concerning stocks and stockholders. I don't think any of
them read one word!
After this scene broke up the night was basically over
and time for everyone to go their own way. It had definitely been a great
show and great night to remember and I think with having shot up about 4
rolls of film it will be remembered! Mike Estes surprised me last night by
informing me that one of my photos of him from the House of Blues has been
used by a tube manufacture called Sveltlana or something like that for an
endorsement! Thanks Mike! Glad you liked it!
Watch out Club Moore and those in the Clearwater area! APB is on the way!
Should be another great night and another great show down there! Ya'll have
fun and Calicia I do hope you get it all on video tape! Take a tri-pod and
set it up and just let it roll for the entire show! I want a copy!
(ADDED- I do not recall if I was video taping this show or not. I know I have photos... might have a tape laying around somewhere)
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K.L. G.Nov 5, 1999
Last night's show with the "NEW" APB was awesome! I heard from just about
everyone about Artimus and the guys going the radio show Southern Fix At Six
with Mark Samanski hyping the band and some new material the band has been
working on, notably a song called "You can knock me down, but you can't
knock me out!" which was written about their collective experience with Gary
Rossington's new band and the troubles some of these guys went through. Tim
Lindsey also had a hand in the song's creation and had something to say in
it as well as those on stage last night. The radio show really helped to
pack the place with loads of great people wanting to party, have a great
time and rock and roll with a great band!
I made my approach down Michigan Ave. from I-4 and immediately ran into
trouble as the road was backed up for about a mile. You could not see why at
first and about all you could see up the road towards the club was the
flashing blue lights of lots of cops. A wreck maybe? Nah, APB is in town
man! I bet there must have been about 30 cop cars up and down the road! Time
for a U-turn and let's go the back route right to the club. More cop cars in
that direction too! We soon found out the cops had nothing to do with APB
fortunately... seems there was some problem on the railroad tracks at the
crossing which attracted all the police and it happened to be right next to
the club we were heading to.
Townsends is a classy place. More like a wharf restaurant that you would
expct to find pirates hanging out in making plans to loot some British
sloop. A great atmosphere for a show like this! Bars in the front and back
and upstairs and a private room for the band next to a huge open library
where we did some band photography later on at the end of the evening. In
the band's room hanging on the wall was this huge display with a pirates hat
and swords and pistols and Artimus posed under the hat as though he were
sitting there wearing it while some of the other band members fell in along
side of him. Should make an intersting photo for their website which will
soon be updated.
Upon entering the club Greg Baril was already hanging out at the bar meeting
fans and friends while the rest of the band had yet to arrive. He was in
good spirits and it is easy to see why, but that subject is taboo! I think
it has improved his performance as well and put some steam in the stride! He
is a new man with a new plan! Soon the rest of the band arrived and quickly
got ready and did not mess around. They got right down to business after
loosening up a little bit.
Somewhere in here Patti and John Seitz arrived
with a troop of people destined to cause trouble! The soundman for the club
did not seem to know the name of the band and when he introduced them he
called them the ARTIMUS PYLE BAND. I noticed it and I am sure others did as
well, especially Artimus. He motioned me to the microphone for another band
introduction using the correct name and off and running the band went.
Exploding into their set with intensity. The new bass player, Bird, as he
likes to be called, real name is Frank _________, and he is Italian and from
Youngstown, Ohio and no one speaks his last name or like one band members
jokingly said, "If you mention his last name we would have to kill you
because he is in the mafia."
You can not miss this guy. He looks like a
member of MOTLY CRUE from LA with hair that stands up like Rod Stewart - and
this guy is from Nashville? You have got to be joking? Him and Greg Baril
were having some sort of a contest seeing who's hair sticks up the highest.
Greg Baril also likes his hair to scrape the roof. Go figure. Since this was
Bird's first outting and performance with the APB band, he got directed
quite a bit from the other guys most notably from Mike Estes and to a lesser
degree from Greg Baril. Bird was performing cold! No practice. No rehearsal.
And not really even knowing what he was playing being only vaguely familiar
with the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. At his feet was the only set list on the
stage and on it each song was written and after it the key in which it was
played. That was all he got in the way of instruction except for Mike and
Greg's directions on the spot as the music was being played. Bird really had
no trouble with it at all and he fit in very well. Much more so than did
Buzzy Meekins who may be on his way back to the Hatchet scene. See you later
Buzz man. Don't think you will be missed much, but I am sure we have not
seen nor heard the last of him. He may more than likely fill in from time to
time.
By all accounts in and out of the band and around Jax, poor Buzz man
has been losing it and seems his reputation is on a downslide. Shame what
not being in control of one's own actions can lead to. And by some accounts
he is a solid bass player, but tonight Bird was the man and getting on it
matching this band's natural intensity and looking more the part than good
old Buzz man has been.
And as expected, since Mike Estes is back in the line
up, the band came back around to doing a lot more Skynyrd and judging by our
conversation later on after the show we can be expecting even more Skynyrd
in the form of this band working up new arrangements to some of Lynyrd
Skynyrd's more obscure songs such as COTTONMOUTH COUNTRY was the first
mentioned, and others mentioned were: AM I LOSIN', RAILROAD SONG, GIMME BACK
MY BULLETS, I NEVER DREAMED and others.
Basically, this band will take a
look at what the "new skynyrd" is playing a intentionally choose songs they
are not covering. Good choice guys! Look forward to hearing some of these.
And I tell you, one of the most refreshing things about this band doing the
songs of Lynyrd Skynyrd is all in the way they play them. What I mean is
this: we hear the songs on record, then when a band using the Skynyrd names
picks them up to play they generally use the exact same arrangements and
shoot for a mirror image in reproduction of the song and content.
Not so
with APB! These guys do not attempt to play them verbatim and note for note
like the albums. they intentionally re-arrange them and change the parts all
around in various ways making for an interesting delivery of some of our
favorite tunes! And the really neat part is that they never play it the same
way twice! I don't think they could if they wanted to! Greg Baril really
improvises his parts and just fits them in and around the song basics in an
amazing way. Mike is the one who really hacks out the song's shape and Greg
Baril just falls into it and flows around Mike. A very strange way to
experience the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Now as for Artimus and his drum
parts, they are pretty much verbatim, except now he can get away with adding
his own extras outside the traditional arrangements. The fans really seem to
dig Skynyrd this way. Some of the Skynyrd songs we got to hear last night
was SIMPLE MAN, WHAT'S YOUR NAME, SWEET HOME, and FREE BIRD. And in Sweet
Home Mike changed the lyrics a little bit, instead of say "Watergate" like
Ronnie always did, Mike changed it to "Clinton-gate" for amusement.
Also in
the set was one of my favorite ALLMAN BROTHERS songs called ONE WAY OUT and
they did some Muddy Waters and several other blues-rock songs that Greg
Baril can really get off on. Mike was having a good night of it as well and
the interaction between him and Greg was incerdible. Oh, and before
FREEBIRD, Artimus came out and said the song was dedicated to Walter Payton,
Wilt Chamberlain, and Payne Stewart, all men who had just passed away
recently and to anyone else in each of our hearts who we had lost in our
personal lives.
When the lead part came, Mike had to move Bird out of the
way so he could have room to do his thing on that lead part, but he wanted
to be where Bird happened to be standing. And Bird was in the middle of
smoking a cigarette when FREE BIRD got rolling along on the fast part and he
completely smoked his cigarette until it was nothing more than a butt
hanging out of his mouth not lit anymore. He could not stop to remove it,
though he could have spit it out if he had even noticed it was still there,
but the funny thing was that Greg Baril did notice it and he went over and
forcibly removed it for Bird's mouth! That was funny if you happened to
catch that part. I got a good photo of Blender Babe, Patti Seitz, torching
her Bic during the song before she caught wind of what I was doing and sent
me her own version of a Free Bird!
APB is definitely a tight band even with new members coming and going. The
band we saw last night will more than likely become the "NEW" APB's line up
and it looked and sounded like APB is BACK! Definitely a band worth seeing!
I forgot to mention that when they performed their own new original song
"You can knock me down..." that it was one of the highlights of the show.
This is a kick ass song and sounds very much like a Skynyrd tune. It also
brought a lot of people to their feet to get moving, shaking, and dancing.
Can't wait for the CD!
After the show, it was a quick load-out and then more partying and photos.
We finally got the whole band together in the library upstairs seated at a
table in front of a huge wall of books and we pulled out a book for each
band member to pretend to be getting intellectually motivated. Greg Baril
insisted on Tom Sawyer which we never did locate so he had to settle for a
book on Florida law concerning stocks and stockholders. I don't think any of
them read one word!
After this scene broke up the night was basically over
and time for everyone to go their own way. It had definitely been a great
show and great night to remember and I think with having shot up about 4
rolls of film it will be remembered! Mike Estes surprised me last night by
informing me that one of my photos of him from the House of Blues has been
used by a tube manufacture called Sveltlana or something like that for an
endorsement! Thanks Mike! Glad you liked it!
Watch out Club Moore and those in the Clearwater area! APB is on the way!
Should be another great night and another great show down there! Ya'll have
fun and Calicia I do hope you get it all on video tape! Take a tri-pod and
set it up and just let it roll for the entire show! I want a copy!
(ADDED- I do not recall if I was video taping this show or not. I know I have photos... might have a tape laying around somewhere)