Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Rockats - Live At The Ritz LP 81 & Make That Move MLP 83


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

from Duncanmusic@frontiernet.net: These guys were my 'friends' back just before the Ritz LP...they played The Red Creek Inn in Rochester a couple of times and Smutty Smith their bass player and Artie the guitar man helped me apply my first dose of 'Nu Nile' on my hair to pomp it up. I still have that half used can somewhere. Bought one of my own and used it all up...a time full of ab out a cup of petroleum jelly and perfume mix that was usally amrketed to Afro Americans wioth kinky hair. You needed to use DISH Soap to wash it out but MAN did it make your hair stand straight up! (and I was in a Rockabilly band myself at the time). They were fun, I played cool old and new records of note and we all had the drapes and jackets and bolo ties that showed you knew hwere it was at with REAL Rock and Roll. One of the waitresses in the club went down to The Ritz that weekend it was recorded and got me one of the initial copies that were released on Island Records 24 HOURS after the gig! WIsh I still had it...at least I can listen again now, thanks to you...oh yes, the RCA follow up (before they changed their name to Secret Hearts and signed to MCA doing 'Pop') rocks pretty hard too. Smutty Smith ended up with The Havelinas on elektra and Tim Scott signed to Sire and did a pretty hot LP or two; NOW he's known as 'Ledfoot' and has a couple recent solo+ CDs out...Artie had an Americana/Cajun band who's name escapes me at this point (something to do with cards?), but they were cool also. Great group great musicians. Whatever happened to Levi Dexter, their original lead singer? I had one Lp of them billed as Levi Dexter & The Rockats Live at the Lousiana Hayride...

Viacomclosedmedown on youtube said...

Hey thanks for the 'Up'a'State scene report, you jostled a fuzzy recollection in the stacks and I found Levi..The Fun Sessions a MLP with vocals from your boy, then Danny B. Harvey at gits, Bobby Brennan bassmaster and Pat Brown drums drum drum drum. Tunes are "Other Side Of Midnight (M. Barry/L.Dexter), Victim Of Kool (D. Harvey), I Get So Excited (P. Brown/D. Harvey), Let 'Er Roll (White) and Jitterbop Baby (H. Harris). Recorded in London and NY in 1981. Well how about that, he thanks Rodney Bingenheimer on the back along with Leee Black Chiders, Pleasant Gehman, Laurie Jay and Alice Wolfe also.

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