
in Great Speckled Bird, 11/18/68: “The band was working under at least one handicap (a new drummer)… Everything considered, Grease was very together Friday night - I particularly remember several tripartite guitar improvisations that transcended the dimensions of stage, band, instruments, performers and audience. Piedmont Park Be-In with Celestial Voluptuous Banana, Strange Brew, Danny & Jim, Toni Ganim, Guerilla Theatreġ0/xx/68 University of the South, Suwanee, GAġ1/8/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAġ1/9/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAġ1/15/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GA Summer 1968 (left to right: Harold Kelling, Glenn Phillips, Bruce Hampton, Charlie Phillips) Patron pulls gun and demands James Brown cover, band plays Popcorn, parts 1 & 2 I published my extensive history, Lost Live Grease: Recovering the Hampton Grease Band (including interviews with Glenn Phillips, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, and others), on Aquarium Drunkard in December 2020.įall ’67 William Franklin Dykes High School, Atlanta, GAįall ’67 Poison Apple Room, Stables Bar and Lounge, Atlanta, GA Except for circulating tapes (7/5/70, 5/7/72), all setlists are approximate.Īlso including dates for spin-off bands the Stump Brothers (Glenn Phillips, Mike Holbrook, Jerry Fields), Avenue of Happiness (fronted by Mik Copas with Bruce Hampton on guitar), and the Starving Braineaters (Harold Kelling’s post-Hampton Grease Band project). Tons of further info & stories about the Atlanta ’60s-’70s music scene available via The Strip Project. Notes: Dates & setlist information from Great Speckled Bird archive, Glenn Phillips’s fantastic memoir Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks, and elsewhere. Hampton Grease Band: Harold Kelling, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, Glenn Phillips, Bruce Hampton (please comment with all corrections/memories/additions or email!) My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard & Lee Pockriss) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals) Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric) (with WE & Amy Rigby on vocals) Outside Chance (The Turtles) (with Wreckless Eric on guitar & vocals) I Heard You Looking (with Ivan Julian on guitar)Ība Dabba Do Dance (The Tradewinds) (with Todd Abramson on vocals) More Stars Than There Are In Heaven (acoustic version) Smile A Little Smile (The Flying Machine) He remains a hugely influential guitarist.Benefiting: National Independent Venue Association His final work was music for the cartoon Space Ghost. His 1987 album Seize The Rainbow (with rock bassist Melvin Gibbs) brought heavy metal into the music and his Ask The Ages album (with Elvin Jones on drums) was a late classic.
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He could also be found with the Japanese punk band The Stalin, Ginger Baker, Machine Gun, Pheeroan Aklaff, duo albums with Brotzmann and Nicky Skopelitis, plus a solo album. He laid low for much of the '70s but resurfaced with a vengeance in the '80s thanks to Bill Laswell, who worked often with Sonny in Material and especially the MONSTER free-jazz/hardcore outfit Last Exit (with Peter Brotzmann & Ronald Shannon Jackson). He was most visible on several records by Herbie Mann (note the live album Hold On, I'm Coming which allows Sharrock some freedom to go off) and collaborations with his vocalist wife Linda Sharrock. His own masterpieces Black Woman (Milford Graves on drums!) and Monkey Pocky Boo are bonafide classics. He also appeared on Wayne Shorter's Super Nova in '69, Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson (uncredited), the band Brute Force, Steve Marcus, Don Cherry, Roy Ayers and others. He got into jazz and made his early records with Pharoah Sanders ( Tauhid and Izipho Zam), Marzette Watts, Byard Lancaster's classic It's Not Up To Us and even played with Sun Ra and Olatunji in the '60s. Warren Sharrock hailed from Westchester County NY and sang doo-wop as a teenager. (He claimed that asthma prevented him from playing a horn and that he thought himself "a horn player with a really fucked up axe".) His sound & style contained elements of hard rock, doo-wop, funk, bop and soul, and he claims to model his playing after jazz saxophonists and John Coltrane in particular.
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Sonny Sharrock came around 'bout the same time as Jimi Hendrix and brought a fast & heavy string-shaking style into free jazz, with massive chords and rock energy.
