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May 6, 2013
At Summerfest in Milwaukee on July 25, 1977, Steve Miller and his band played the main stage. Also, on that night the band Mountain played with great guitar player Leslie West.
Love Steve Miller's rare vintage Ibanez Artist 2623 guitar! It's just beautiful!
During Steve Miller's show we were given a treat when Steve brought out Leslie West to play a few songs with him! Wish I could remember what songs they played but I do remember it being very good and very windy as you can see in the attached photos.
The great Norton Buffalo is on stage left. He was awesome and miss him.
This gives us a nice look at Summerfest in 1977 and some of the greatest guitar players around.
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Enjoy and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
April 29, 2013
This week's blog is hard to do because it's finally nice in Wisconsin and I want to be outside! That means bike riding, fishing and of course, Spring house chores.We have been cleaning the outside of the house and cleaning all of the windows! Hard work, but it's done now and it looks great.
Other than talking about Spring cleaning chores, our blog is about one of the best country rock bands to ever come about. That would be Loggins and Messina, shown here in 1974 at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh. In 1974, they played a lot of college shows and were very popular on FM radio.
Jim Messina, after being in the bands Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he met Kenny Loggins. The two recorded some songs in Jimmy's living room in Colorado and Loggins and Messina was born. The teacher/apprentice duo had a great following and Kenny Loggins had to put his solo career on hold because they were so successful. This was a very good thing.
Their debut album, Sittin' In, was released in November of 1971 and five more albums would be released before Kenny Loggins went on his own to become a solo act.
They have done a few tours since the old days. One in 2005 and another in 2009 and I missed them both unfortunately!
Enjoy the photos and if you would like a copy for your walls at home or office, an 8 X 10 limited edition print is on sale this week for $50.00.
Have a great week and don't do too many Spring chores!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
April 20, 2013
My blog this week, that I have been working on for a while, is about a little blues band from Boston called the J. Geils Band. After a bad week in Boston, I felt it was rather fitting that we talk about some good people of Boston. John Geils and most of the band are actually from Worcester, Massachucetts.
John Geils, the guitar player and founder, started the band in the 1960's. He went through a few versions before getting it right in 1967 to form the band we are all familiar with.
Peter Blankenfeld, who we all know as vocalist Peter Wolf, was an ex disc jockey before joining the band.
Richard Salwitz, became the harmonica player and is one of the best in the world. He became "Magic Dick", and known for his "licking stick", on stage.
Danny Klein, known as "Dr. Funk", was the bass player of the band and Stephen Jo Bladd, was the drummer.
More people came and went with the band but this was the core and this band that I photographed at Summerfest in 1972, which is what you see here.
They got the crowd moving and everybody had a good time!
Enjoy a few photos from 1972 and if you would like some copies for your walls at home please contact us today.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
