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| Here we are backstage somewhere circa 1989 with
Keyboard player Bob McBain in back next to Guitar player Kevin Russell and Drummer
Cedric Wilmont- lots of hair in those days! |
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This is the billing we got opening for Dwight Yokam
and Buck Owens at The Concord Pavilion. My Grandma Parker got to see
this show which always made it special for me. |
| This is Rob and I with great blues singer
Angela Strehli and her husband Bob Brown . Bob gave me my first
publishing deal with his company Bobbalou we are backstage at the Mystic Theater
in Petaluma, CA. Angela heard a tape of mine back in the late 80's
and called the record store I was working at from her home in Texas
and told me she loved the tape and the songs. This came at a time
when I was totally depressed about the music buisiness and was gonna
quit, her call kept me in the game. |
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| Our first big gig at the Warfield in San Francisco I
almost walked back down the stairs when they introduced us I was so
nervous. |
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Two of the best looking men in Rock Rob and Chris
Issak . We have played a ton of gigs with Chris over the years, a
very nice guy and a great bunch of guys in his band drummer Kenny
Dale Johnson comes to mind. This is circa 1988. |
| At the Fillmore opening for my childhood hero Peter
Green of Fleetwood Mac. Peter Young on the far left and Drummer Dean
Johnson both great players. Peter died of a heart attack just a few
years later he was 48 , I wrote a song on "Four Chord Wonders"
called 'Everything's gonna be all right" and the first verse is about
him. |
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This is a photo taken at Prairie Sun studios in their
live room which is painted like a corn field in Iowa. Rob, Steve, Vinnie , and me. |
| Here we are Backstage at the Concord Pavilion with one
of my all time heros Buck Owens. We opened the show and when we were
back in our dressing room Buck knocked on our door and asked if he
could come in and have a beer! the nicest famous guy I have ever
met. There won't be another like him ever , the best! |
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Here we are backstage at the Mystic Theater with
Vinnie on drums , my friend of many years Steve Barbieri on guitar
and Rob .This was probably between the first cd and the second. |
| Here is one of my favorite all-time songwriters,
Graham Parker. I think his 'Squeezing Out Sparks' record is one of
the top ten all time. One of the most under-rated songwriters.
I had the opporutnity to open for him at the Mystic Theater in
Petaluma, CA. |
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Here we are backstage at
the Warfield Theater, getting ready to open for Bob Dylan.
Instead of the normal dressing room, we were put in the janitor's
cubicle so that we wouldn't have eye contact with Bob. I can still
smell the Pinesol. Pictured left to right, me, Rob, Ian Hoffman and
Howard.
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| We opened for the Bacon
Bros. a few years back. They were very nice guys, and here is
Rob, Zero degrees of seperation from ..... |
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Here is me and Bill C Farlow, my mentor and tormentor.
Billy recruited me when I was a young lad for his band in 1979. I
was the youngst guy in the band by ten years and I learned a lot
from al of the other musicians in the band. At that time, it
was basiclly David Bromberg's touring band, so they were all steely
veterans, including Billy. Billy C is the real deal.
Although I was only in his band for a little over a year, I still
carry the emotional and musical scars to this day. Here we are
backstage, 25 years later, and we are still friends today. The
Sorentinos opened up for Billy C and Bill Kirchen that night in
Fairfax. |
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Here is Rob and I with drum legend and orginal Beatle member Pete
Best. In the early ninties, I wrote a song called Pete Best
Blues, which we released on our Love and Haight cd. At the time of
this photo, Pete was out touring with his All Star Band.
You gotta give it to him for hanging in there.
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Here we are, our first tour of England. This was
at the Mean Fiddler in London. We were on the bill with 2
other English bands. The lead singer of one of the other bands
introduced us as 'those poofters from California.' A very
funny guy... and a good introduction to English humor. Back on drums
is Dave Ball, who was from London, and is a friend of a friend of
Rob's |
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This is a great picture of me and one of my all-time heroes, Sal
Valentino. Original member of 2 of my favorite bands,
the Beau Brummels and Stoneground. Sal is one of the all-time great
rock singers, with a very distinctive voice. And there was not a
better live band on the bar circuit in the early 70's than
Stoenground. saw them many times at the Inn of the Beginning
in Cotati, great shows that I will always remember. The apex
of hippie rock. Here we are at Rancho Nicasio after my show.
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