Europa Owner Musicians

[Sandyman]

I am not worthy. Wow! Think I will stick to rebuilding my Europa.

[surfguitar58]

Here's another one from the esteemed Prof. Madness. I challenge you NOT to have this song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ItEmCnP80
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[literarymadness]

BDA:  When Gloria went solo, none of the original guys were kept on.  So when the original band disbanded, I formed a blues band with another guitarist named Harvey Mandell who played with Canned Heat at Woodstock and was the intermittent guitarist for the Stones between Mick Taylor and Ron Wood.  Then a few years later I was producing and recording in Germany for a couple of years.  Then formed a local band that was quite popular regionally. All kinds of touring bands would sit in.  Everyone from Blue Oyster Cult to Spirit.  When I realized that music the scene was changing I went back to college and picked a couple of degrees.  Only I could pick two careers that seem glamorous but don't pay well LOL.  Of the three ex-wives I accumulated along the way didn't exactly help either LOL. It is a little sad that none of my college students would even know who any of those bands were.  For fun I play on the weekends with a group of musicians who all formerly played with famous bands.  One of the Vocalists (Ted Vernon) had his own classic car TV show called "South Beach Classics." The bass player was with the original O'jays and played  backup for the Temptations, James Brown, and Sly. The drummer played with Jimmy Buffet and the Keyboard player played with too many bands to even mention.  But live music is a lost art.  Not many local venues even have live music anymore.    Sorry this was probably way too much information

[BDA]

No, it's fascinating! It sounds like you've had a pretty colorful music career! I bet it was a lot of fun - maybe too fun (three x wives! ;-) ). I'm looking back and trying to remember any famous musicians I've known and I can't think of any. I went to high school with David Massengill who is a folk singer who once played with Joan Baez. I meet Berry Oakley's (Allman Brothers) New Orleans girlfriend (she was a high school kid and she had her mom's permission!). I also briefly knew a guy who good friends with the violinist for The Flock. That was a band in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s that cut two albums. The band petered out but Jerry Goodman (the violinist) went on to a fairly successful career including a stint with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and did a movie score as well as some solo albums. I never met Goodman or Oakley though I did hear them play - Oakley many times). So it seems like you're the most famous musician with whom I've come in "direct" contact! 

On the automotive front, I talked with Bobby Rahal before he was famous when I bought some parts from him for my Lola race car (I still have the canceled check!), I once met Harvey Templeton who designed and built his own Formula V and Formula Ford race cars. His Formula V cars were said to have revolutionize the class and at the time I met him, at least, his Formula Ford had the record for top speed at Daytona for a Formula Ford. I also met Amos Johnson who raced professionally and won his class in the Dayton 24 Hour five or six times. He and I both went to the same high school but at different times.

That HAS to be way more information than anybody here wanted to know. Now we all know who had the more interesting life!

[literarymadness]

Hey anybody who drives a Europa (let alone a BDA), plays the washboard and lived in New Orleans, and knows the name of any member of The Flock is pretty damn interesting to me. I would say that we are  Europa Brothers.

[BDA]