It was kinda like a Vegas night club routine and we would play night clubs where your clientele would be your 40-year old age bracket and I wore a tuxedo and bow tie, the whole bit." "What happened was the bass player got drafted, and all of a sudden he was gone," Mark Stein also recalls in an interview with Russell H. I started going smitten with bass I started to get the feel for it and started getting serious about making it a career, so I quit my job and I started haunting local bars in the area, seeing who was playing and what was being played, contacting people and letting as many people as possible know I was available for work I finally found work with a professional band called Rick Marin and the Showmen and they were a commercial band - society music - they had a chick singer up in the front with… and we played standards. "We played rock and roll and stuff like that, but initially, having left high school I went to work for the phone company, and I was playing evenings and weekends. Played the horn for 6 or 7 years with high school bands," Tim Bogert recalls. Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Simi Valley, California, after a long battle with cancer), formerly of The Chessmen, The Belltones, and high school orchestra. John Voorhis Bogert III, Sunday, August 27, 1944, Manhattan, New York City, New York - d. Joey Granelli was replaced on bass by Tim Bogert, aka 'Timmy', aka 'Spock' (b. We were making money, having a great time, and it was a great education in those days."ġ965: unknown venue, unknown city, unknown county, New Jersey You know, it lasted about a year and a half. I was playing six, seven nights a week, six shows a night." "I was singing too," Mark adds. We just started playing all these gigs in New York City, we started getting a following, and it was a great time because I learned a lot. It was a single keyboard and that was it. I got this small Hammond organ, it wasn't a B-3, whatever it was, I don't remember - an M-1 or something. He called me up and I went down for this audition. There weren't many people doing original material in those days. It was playing Top 40 music, you know, because when you were a kid that was really cool. In the early to mid-sixties, those were the real happening places to play. "He had connections in New york City and he was playing all these places like The Peppermint Lounge, The Wagon Wheel, the Headliner. "I got a call from this guy named Rick Martin," Mark recalls in an interview with Russell H. Tuesday, March 11, 1947, Bayonne, New Jersey), formerly of The Fantastics, Mark Stevens and The Charmers, Mark Stevens, and the Milt Grant Rock 'n' Roll Show. The unknown keyboard player was replaced by Mark Stein, aka 'Bear' (b. Also on the bill: Ruby and the Romantics, the Chessmen, the Do-Wells, the Colleagues. One show, from 8:00pm to 12 midnight, sponsored by the Bergen County CYO. Saturday, February 1, 1964: 'Winter Wonderland Dance', Lodi Armory, Lodi, Bergen County, New Jersey Tice, Village Voice, Helix, Butch, Chuck Negron, Jim Parrett, Susan Grimes, Dave Lawrence, Ron Domilici, Gary Stromberg, Paul Vasey, Judy Allen, Jim Sasser, Jeff McCurdy, Quicksilver Times, Northwest Passage, The Seed, Great Speckled Bird, San Francisco Express Times, The Herald-News, New York Daily News, Asbury Park Press, San Antonio Express, Rockin' Houston, Jane Merrill, Oakland Tribune, Newport Daily News, Independet Press-Telegram, Naugatuck Daily News, Spokane Chronicle, Broadside, The San Francisco Examiner, The Leader Post, Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Windsor Star, The Daily Record, Los Angeles Times, The Ottawa Journal, Star-Phoenix, The Evening Sun, and Nashua Telegraph. Warburg, The Concert Database, Rock Tour Database, Tommy Garelick, Brad Kelly, Howard Schenker, Berkeley Barb, Michael Limnios, Lance Kovar, Rob Frith, Dave Tothill, Sounds, Billboard, Blurth, Mike Shanley, John McDermott, Bernie Daquila, Dave Lewis, Simon Pallett, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, The East Village Other, Fred Mills, Russell H. Finger, Christopher Hjort, Charles Ulrich, Los Angeles Free Press, Pete Bremy, John H. So, I would like to thank all the people who, in one form or another, contributed to this timeline: Carmine Appice, Vinny Martell, Ross Hannan, Corry Arnold, Jeff Olson, The Newport Daily News, Cactus, Gerard Daily, Logan Janzen, Nick Warburton, Greg Vick, Randy M. This day-by-day diary of Vanilla Fudge's live, studio, broadcasting and private activities is the result of three decades of research and interview work by Bruno Ceriotti, but without the significant contributions by other kindred spirits this diary would not have been possible.
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