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They tend to get lost in the shuffle of all the classic southern rock bands of the 70s, but they had a lot of good, underappreciated music, IMHO.

Are You Ready! is a really good live record to crank up. They're also a perfect band to just have on in the background when doing shit around the house and/or drinking some beers.

Heck yeah! Great band with some classic tunes!

Had the good fortune to see them live in the early 80s at some horribly set up fairground "festival" with Eddie Money headlining. The Grand Prix of Rock and Roll at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds horse track in Upper Sandusky, OH. Also on the bill was Peter Criss Band and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax. There was no fair happening, mind you. Just a bunch of Ohio rednecks with milk jugs full of beer. ARS and Eddie were great.

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:04 am Had the good fortune to see them live in the early 80s at some horribly set up fairground "festival" with Eddie Money headlining. The Grand Prix of Rock and Roll at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds horse track in Upper Sandusky, OH. Also on the bill was Peter Criss Band and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax. There was no fair happening, mind you. Just a bunch of Ohio rednecks with milk jugs full of beer. ARS and Eddie were great.

That's an interesting lineup...and setting

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:04 am and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax.

Trak. I just looked them up. They did a song called “Dancin’”. Holy fuck, are the vocals and video here just complete cheese or what?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtzTaZ9kSE

As for ARS, I dig ‘em. “Jukin’”, “So Into You”, “Imaginary Lover”, “Champagne Jam”, etc.—good stuff.

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:30 am

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:04 am Had the good fortune to see them live in the early 80s at some horribly set up fairground "festival" with Eddie Money headlining. The Grand Prix of Rock and Roll at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds horse track in Upper Sandusky, OH. Also on the bill was Peter Criss Band and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax. There was no fair happening, mind you. Just a bunch of Ohio rednecks with milk jugs full of beer. ARS and Eddie were great.

That's an interesting lineup...and setting

Haha. Yes, it was. It was the dead of summer. Hot and humid AF. Jugs of warm beer and drunk fighting. Interesting is one word to describe it. Side note: I met Pete that day and talked to him for a few minutes at the fence beside the stage, and he was a pretty nice guy that day.

dmbrocker wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:44 am

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:04 am and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax.

Trak. I just looked them up. They did a song called “Dancin’”. Holy fuck, are the vocals and video here just complete cheese or what?!?

That's them. Pointy guitars. Same 80s feathered haircuts. Bad outfits from Merry Go Round.

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:01 am

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:30 am

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:04 am Had the good fortune to see them live in the early 80s at some horribly set up fairground "festival" with Eddie Money headlining. The Grand Prix of Rock and Roll at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds horse track in Upper Sandusky, OH. Also on the bill was Peter Criss Band and some group of kids that won the MTV Basement Tapes contest. I think they were called Trax. There was no fair happening, mind you. Just a bunch of Ohio rednecks with milk jugs full of beer. ARS and Eddie were great.

That's an interesting lineup...and setting

Haha. Yes, it was. It was the dead of summer. Hot and humid AF. Jugs of warm beer and drunk fighting. Interesting is one word to describe it. Side note: I met Pete that day and talked to him for a few minutes at the fence beside the stage, and he was a pretty nice guy that day.

Drinking warm beer in the sun with humidity...throw in a fight or two...that's a recipe for a brutal hangover

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:27 am

TooOldToCare wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:01 am

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:30 am

That's an interesting lineup...and setting

Haha. Yes, it was. It was the dead of summer. Hot and humid AF. Jugs of warm beer and drunk fighting. Interesting is one word to describe it. Side note: I met Pete that day and talked to him for a few minutes at the fence beside the stage, and he was a pretty nice guy that day.

Drinking warm beer in the sun with humidity...throw in a fight or two...that's a recipe for a brutal hangover

1984, baby. Just graduated high school. The glorious summer before college. I sort of remember snapshots of the day. The first that comes to mind is exactly that. Two, drunk, sweaty fat guys guzzling flat/warm beer from milk jugs. One wearing wire rimmed glasses provokes a fight. The other dude smashes his glasses and face, and blood is running down like Dusty Rhodes in a cage match. I wish we had video cameras in our pockets back then.

I'm not so into them.

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:28 pm I'm not so into them.

Hehe

not too familiar with them aside from the "hits", but as I loves me some Southern Rock, I decided to take a deeper dive.

a couple of things I found interesting:

producer Brendan O'Brien was in the band for a second, it looks like. worked with them on the "Truth In A Structured Form" album in 1989, even had a co-write on one of the songs. the album itself is kind of a departure, more "Rock."

one of the guys from a later incarnation of Brother Cane, David Anderson, is in the band now.

Just ran across this:

The Early Days of Southern Rock with Atlanta Rhythm Section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU99OHuRXkc

Besides being a stagehand at a few gigs they were part of, I handled their rental backline at a fly-in gig.
One of the guitarists (can't remember which one) fried a transformer in a Marshall head that Roy Orbison had given him.

I am so into you is a jam.