Patron pulls gun and demands James Brown cover, band plays Popcorn, parts 1 & 2 I published my extensive history, Lost Live Grease: Recovering the Hampton Grease Band (including interviews with Glenn Phillips, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, and others), on Aquarium Drunkard in December 2020.įall ’67 William Franklin Dykes High School, Atlanta, GAįall ’67 Poison Apple Room, Stables Bar and Lounge, Atlanta, GA Except for circulating tapes (7/5/70, 5/7/72), all setlists are approximate.Īlso including dates for spin-off bands the Stump Brothers (Glenn Phillips, Mike Holbrook, Jerry Fields), Avenue of Happiness (fronted by Mik Copas with Bruce Hampton on guitar), and the Starving Braineaters (Harold Kelling’s post-Hampton Grease Band project). Tons of further info & stories about the Atlanta ’60s-’70s music scene available via The Strip Project. Notes: Dates & setlist information from Great Speckled Bird archive, Glenn Phillips’s fantastic memoir Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks, and elsewhere. Hampton Grease Band: Harold Kelling, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, Glenn Phillips, Bruce Hampton (please comment with all corrections/memories/additions or email!)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard & Lee Pockriss) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals) Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric) (with WE & Amy Rigby on vocals) Outside Chance (The Turtles) (with Wreckless Eric on guitar & vocals)
I Heard You Looking (with Ivan Julian on guitar)Ība Dabba Do Dance (The Tradewinds) (with Todd Abramson on vocals) More Stars Than There Are In Heaven (acoustic version) Smile A Little Smile (The Flying Machine) It's no "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" of course, and its problems are evident, but it does have merits, and if for nothing else it deserves a look for Boone's excellent performance.Benefiting: National Independent Venue Association Yet with the photography suitably keeping the landscape arid and harsh, and the mood around the base one of impending death or boredom (even the levity of a drunken sequence only enforces what little joy is around), the film has much going for it by way of psychology. While Chamberlain and Eddy are in it to look nice and play the banjo respectively. Pickens is hardly in it and Bronson has a character that could be any number of things someone who it's hard to know if we should dislike or cheer on. There is no point in saying that it's well cast because it isn't, Boone is immense and intense and gets the best dialogue of all, but Hamilton is miscast and Patten totally unconvincing. Sure there's action, including a well staged battle in the final quarter (check out those Apache suddenly appearing from the rocks like ghosts!), but this is a film that is being propelled by dialogue, well written dialogue. Newcomers to the film should prepare for a talky picture, but it is a very good talky picture. And there's the crux of the matter, the film is more interested with character dynamics than breaking out into an action packed B ranked Western. This coupled with the threat imposed by the Indians puts strain on all involved at Fort Canby. Thomas Gresham's (James Douglas) lady, Tracey Hamilton (Patten). He needs experienced men, not fresh faced kids, and McQuade isn't helping himself by being involved in a love triangle with Lt. The company consists of tough grizzled Captain Maddocks (Boone) who carries around a burden from his past, his ire further inflamed by the arrival of greenhorn Lt. From here we are placed into the lonely and fretful life at a cavalry fort in the Southwest. The film begins with a pre credit sequence of suggested savagery, a real attention grabber, then the credits role and the colour and vistas open up the story.
It's proved to be a divisive film amongst Western aficionados, and it's not hard to understand why. "There are three things a man can do to relieve the boredom of these lonely one troop posts: He can drink himself into a straight-jacket: He can get his throat cut chasing squaws: Or he can dedicate himself to the bleak monastic life of a soldier and become a great officer." Spencer and music scored by Harry Sukman. It's filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor, with cinematography by William W. Out of MGM it's filmed on location at Old Tuscon & Sabino Canyon in Arizona, and also at Vasquez Rocks, California. It stars Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Pattern, Arthur O'Connell, Charles Bronson, Richard Chamberlain, Duane Eddy and Slim Pickens. Bachelors make the best soldiers, all they have to lose is their loneliness.Ī Thunder of Drums is directed by Joseph Newman and written by James Warner Bellah. Learn More About A Thunder of DrumsIt's not my advice, Mr, it's the rule of the game.
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