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Frank
India’s Biography
Part: 1
A little bit about me…I started out life as a normal person in Brooklyn, (no small feat), and would have been content to remain so, but the forces of life were to conspire against me. I received a prophetic message from some deeper part of myself very shortly after my birth, and then my parents, who I suspect were sending one another messages of a different sort, split up. So I went to live with my grandparents and played punch-ball in the streets with the ‘big kids.’ I got to sit on the laps of cute high-school girls on the corner of Barbey St and Blake Ave because they thought I was cute, or maybe because they wanted kids of their own.
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The latest
on the Who, well known MMs: From Rolling Stone
What’s Next for the Who? “We’ve Done Enough Already,” Says Daltrey
This Saturday the Who are playing a 40-minute
set at the VH1 Rock Honors - where their music
will be celebrated by Pearl Jam, the Flaming
Lips and more bands - but plans beyond that are
murky. Four Japanese dates are on the books for
November, but Roger Daltrey tells Rolling Stone
that nothing is confirmed beyond that.
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Garage
Bands
Everyone knows what a garage band is (or was). The idea was to get your friends together and play versions of popular tunes in the family garage after (high) school before your father got home from work and needed to park the car. Of course it’s always nice to remember garages that had room for cars. About MMs we like to say, “We played in the garage; now we own the garage and we still want to play”. I wonder how many MMs still play in their garages. If you have a picture of your garage set up for practice, send a picture to editor@maturemusician.com and we’ll put it on the site.
I’ve found some garage band web sites that might be of interest to MMs. One site is called www.60sgaragebands.com It has a lot of information about the local garage bands that many of us remember. Some of us were even members of one or more garage bands, I was a member of three garage bands on the 60’s and had great time playing all the music. We even practiced dancing on stage (so we wouldn’t run into the musician next to us with our instrument). Ah yes, I remember the shows fondly. They provided an outlet and opportunity to play music and many MMs went on to gain national fame or just have a good time.
Another garage band web site is www.garagehangover.com. Go to the site and then scroll down to the article on “The Chessmen”. Photos of the band really show how many (if not most) bands dressed the instruments they used and the amps they used. The pictures of the blonde fender amps and the Shure Vocal Master system might bring back memories for some MMs.
In this issues Interview section, the featured artist is Jeb Brady. Jeb not only sings and plays, but is a fine watercolorist and oil painter. To see him perform some of his songs from the Mature Musician Show, go to the Mature Musician channel on You Tube. The address is www.youtube.com/maturemusician.
If you would like to add your musical performance to the Mature Musician you tube channel, just let us know.
Yours in Music,
Michael Husser
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