re: Post your favorite picture of some of your favorite musicians.

The Amboy Dukes, Theodore Nugent second from left.

Le Cinema du Elvis

Very rare pics of Buddy Holly

1967



Smiley Anders: Night Of The British Invasion

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Tommy Teepell, who was there, says his son Taylor found a poster promoting the British bands' visit 50 years ago.

It was headlined by Herman's Hermits, with The Who billed second (go figure …). The Blues Magoos and The Inn Crowd also performed.

Tommy says Dr. Mike Montalbano told him his dad and uncle (Mickey and S.J. Montalbano, of Montel Records) put on the outdoor concert:

"If I remember the story correctly, The Who agreed to play for $500. I will never forget how shocked we (Mike, Dr. Bill Welch, Barry Bloomberg and others) were when Peter Townshend, of The Who, finished by grabbing his Fender guitar by the neck and swinging it into their Vox amps until everything was on fire.

"Not sure how you can afford to do that when you only made $500. But hey, they were kids; what did they know?

"I think we paid $5 a ticket.

"Mike told me later that he, his dad and his uncle spent the next day on False River teaching Peter Noone, lead singer of Herman’s Hermits, how to water ski."

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I would guess this is 1978-9

Merle Travis met machinist and steel guitar enthusiast Paul A. Bigsby at a motorcycle race track in Los Angeles and struck up a friendship based on their mutual love of motorcycles and music. Travis handed Bigsby a drawing of a guitar he’d done on a napkin and asked Bigsby if he could build it.

Bigsby finished the guitar on May 25, 1948, which is now considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Merle Travis, however, quickly became dissatisfied with the sound of the solid body he helped invent, and returned to hollow body guitars for the rest of his career.

Levon Helm