How many of you have expereinced this?

[13th Floor Garage]

I seem to have better luck meeting relatives of garage band members than actually finding their 45's. Just curious if any of you have had such cool experiences?
Here's mine:
Several years ago, I'm on a date with this gal. Granted, the mention of "garage music" isn't going make the avg gal swoon, but it's in our blood. I bring this up and she tells me that she was the fan club president and future wife of a late Cynics member (the TX group featured on Fort Worth Teen Scene). She also mentioned that Alec Palao was quite ethical and professional when speaking to her about the groups inclusion.

Just yesterday, I'm having lunch with a recently hired co-worker and he tells me about his brother being in a band called "The Scribes." He said he had an extra 45 that he's going to give me. I told him that I'm sure that it has value. In good conscience, I suspect that I'm going to be treating him to quite a few meals. Apparently, someone from Ohio contacted his brother about extra copies and for $1,000, purchased the remaining.

Anyone else here met (by chance) members or relatives of garage band members?

 

[Laurent Bigot]

Not direct member or relatives, but when I was in my 20's my mom used to work for a company based in Minneapolis and a co-worker and his wife from the HQ were visiting France and came home for lunch. I mentioned I was into US local 60s rock'n'roll bands and the wife said "Have you ever heard of a band called TC Atlantic, their drummer is our next door neighbor".

 

[greenfuzz]

One day my brother was going through my CD collection and stopped at Kenny & The Kasuals. A guy he worked with told him he had a band in the '60s but never mentioned the group's name. My brother looked at the CD cover and then to me and asked, is his name Kenny Daniel? And of course it was.

The same brother lived in Hawaii for 6 months and used to throw a frisbee with Sky Saxon. He had no idea who it was until a bartender told him the guy was the singer for the Seeds.

I've had zero encounters, other than the guys I've actively seeked out.

 

[Frantic]

I could write a book based on my run ins with band guys but here's a quick one. When I was the night manager of Peaches Records in Cincinnati, Ohio back in 1978, I worked with Bob Knave keyboards in the Lemon Pipers. He was a total jerk. Thought he was the shit, but I made more than him...ha!

 

[Heitkotter77]

I have a nice long story (heard by MTM, but no one else here) of how I discovered that 3 out of the 4 members of P.J. Orion & the Magnates were clients of the accounting firm I worked for in the late 80s/early 90s.

 

[Frantic]

I have a nice long story (heard by MTM, but no one else here) of how I discovered that 3 out of the 4 members of P.J. Orion & the Magnates were clients of the accounting firm I worked for in the late 80s/early 90s.

I guess your company was keeping track of the tens of dollars they made on their LP...

 

[Heitkotter77]

I guess your company was keeping track of the tens of dollars they made on their LP...

No, they were keeping track of the hundreds of millions of dollars they made from shipping and real estate.
Aristotle Onassis tried to arrange a marriage for his daughter Christina with Peter John Goulandrous, the older of the two brothers both named Peter. His family rejected his proposal because they thought she wasn't good enough for him.
Nobody spoke to PJ, who kept a private office in the penthouse of a building on lower Broadway in the Manhattan Financial District. Only partner and manager who handled the account spoke to him (when spoken to) and addressed him as Mr. Peter.
I was friendly with the manager and freaked him out one day by showing him the album and seeing if more copies coule be hadat the source, which I was willing to pay handsomely for. It was at that point he explained that each brother was worth over 400 million dollars (this was in 1987 or 88, so figure the values now). Still, he said he thought PJ might find it interesting to hear this, said he'd try to mention it to him at some point. It never happened though (not surprising).
The group name came from Peter J (PJ), their family shipping company (ORION & Global) and the fact that 3 of them were sons of shipping MAGNATES. George Embiricos was a cousin. The fourth member was the son of one of the senior partners in one of the most prestigious NY law firms, Milbank, Tweed, et. al.

And by the way, it's called a firm, not a company.

 

[Rich Strauss]

Both of my close encounters have been through baseball.

25 years ago, two of my buddies and I had season tickets to the San Francisco Giants. One guy hardly ever went. So, Chris or I would invite friends to go. One such friend of Chris's was named Dave Wilkie. At one game, Chris casually mentioned that Dave had been in a garage band in the 60s. "Oh", I said, "Which one?' "You've never heard of them", he said. "Try me", I replied. "The Bethlehem Exit", was the answer. "I've heard of them & I have your record" was my response. Of couse, Dave was astonished. Dave is one 60s guy not ashamed of his roots. He has regaled me with many tales from the day. We share a house most every year in Arizona for Spring Training.

20 years ago I was at a Spring Training game in Arizona. I got to talking to the guy seated next to me. Turned out, he was Ron Petersen who had been a founding member of the Frantics & was later in the Night People & the Accents. He had retired to Arizona but still had a small combo that played gigs at retirement homes (of which there are many in Arizona). I have his card somewhere.

 

[Rich Strauss]

Oh, forgot one. This had nothing to do with baseball. I told this story on the old GaragePunk forum.

I graduated from high school in 1965. That summer, I got a job selling encyclopedias door to door to earn money for college. While on a road trip with my sales crew in eastern Washington, we stayed at the same motel as the Liverpool Five. We shared a few beers and tales of the road. Right chaps.

 

[Frantic]

And by the way, it's called a firm, not a company.

really?!

 

[Heitkotter77]

Really. Professional entitles (lawyers, accountants, etc.) are called firms. Their organization tables are a little different from regular business companies.

 

[Frantic]

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Really. Professional entitles (lawyers, accountants, etc.) are called firms. Their organization tables are a little different from regular business companies.

I almost didn't respond with REALLY because it has lots of different meanings based on how you say/speak it. I was right to think that because your response was based on the wrong reality. HUH!!! What did I just say?

 

[Heitkotter77]

I think you just said really.

 

[Frantic]

I think you just said really.

I think you're putting the em-fos-is on the wrong sil-ob-al

 

[Heitkotter77]

Really?