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Legend
has it that Gov't Mule's name came about one night when
Warren Haynes and the late Allan Woody were touring with
the Allman Brothers Band in Memphis. James Brown was on
the same show. The Godfather and his wife were dancing
and Allman's drummer Jaimoe joked to Woody, "Government
mule," a southern expression for a woman's big butt.
They named their group in honor of Mrs. James Brown's
posterior.
When
Allan, Mrs. Brown, and James all moved on to that great
gig in the sky, Warren inherited Brown's title of the
hardest working man in show business. There have been
recent years when he has toured as a solo artist, a member
of The Allman Brothers Band, guitarist with The Dead,
Phil Lesh and Friends, and of course, leader of Mule.
You
may think it's unlikely that he'd sit in with Kiss, but
nothing would surprise us when it comes to the incredible
Warren Haynes. (Shown here on the far right.) The great
areuonsomething.com Art Director, Brian "Agent Double-Oh-Soul"
McAlley, created this fantasy.
Speaking
of the hard working Mr. Haynes… Last year he produced
an amazing album of Dylan covers performed by Leslie West
and Mountain called "Masters Of War." Warren
and Ozzy Osborne guest on it, and speaking of Mountain….
From
our "You Thought He Was Heavy Then" Department:
The
ad for a Long Island New York club The Action House shows
an impressive line up for the last day of June and the
first couple of days in July back in the 60's. Who would
guess that Bit 'A Sweet would become the international
and influential rock group they became. No one ever heard
of the three other bands on the bill, but one guy from
the Vagrants (photo left) did ok.
Pictured
clockwise from top left, Leslie Weinstein (guitar), Larry
Weinstein (bass), Jerry Storch (Hammond organ), Peter
Sabatino (vocals), and Roger Mansour (drums). Of course,
Leslie Weinstein would go on to become Leslie West and
perform in Mountain and West, Bruce and Laing, but in
the mid-sixties The Vagrants and The Rascals were tearing
up the New York-Long Island rock club scene with soulful,
electric, and wild performances. Today there is a popular
band in Australia called The Vagrants (a few other groups
use the name as well) and a young group in Britain are
called The Rascals. If the trend continues it won't be
long before some German band will start calling themselves
The Lemon Pipers.
From
our "I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That
Now" Department:
This
is either a rare shot of a very young Afa who would go
on to form the wrestling tag team The Wild Samoans and
an equally young Steve Perry of Journey when they teamed
briefly in California Championship Wrestling as The Wild
Journeymen, or it's a shot of blue-eyed soul great Mitch
Ryder and the future areuonsomething.com webmaster Leon
Tsilis at My Mother's Place in Washington, D.C. in the
70's. We're not sure.
Another
areuonsomething.com founder Ray D'Ariano (on the left)
is pictured here with his doo-wop group The Shades that
also consisted of Lou Christie (center) and Ben E. King
(right) for their album "Joanie Went Out With Tony
and Eleven Other Tunes That Weren't Hits." In reality
it is a publicity shot from an oldies show Ray hosted
at Radio City Music Hall in the 80's. Ronnie Spector,
Paul Shaffer, and The Grassroots rounded out the evening.
Then again it may be one of the many combinations of vocalists
that made up The Drifters over the years. Again, we're
not sure.
And
finally, from our Moving Pictures Desk –
Imagine the Fabs doing Zep. It's easy if you try:
