Thanks for all for the great comments.
This is George Makrauer -- drummer, co-founder (with Stan, Si and Euge), and co-manager with Stan of The Original Torquays, with name changed to THEM, as explained on the ThemTorquays.com site. Mary Ellen Tanner and Steve Welkom's later joining the group made us sound, in retrospect, pretty damn good over an extensive repertoire, as shown by the Song Lists on the site.
I develop and maintain the ThemTorquays.com site with lots of memorabilia (at least those we can share, of course; nobody wants see a photo of Si mooning me from our second car driving back around 3:00am to Cincinnati from a gig at Ohio State <g>). I've been on a hunt for a photo or other documentation of one of our neatest gigs, at Miami University Ohio on, I believe, October 2, 1966 (I think was the year). We opened for the headline group, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It was one thing for us to be playing for the thousands of Miami U students and others in the audience. But, it was a completely different experience to be backstage watching Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons perform all their stuff. What an enlightenment! Also, what a hell of a dose of reality it was to watch and listen to those pros and then go back to being THEM.
Still on the hunt for any photos of that evening. If any Frankie Valli and FS fans out there know where I might find such an archive, I'd really appreciate it to put on the site.
Again, many thanks for the positive comments on our group and the site.
GAM
