The FAHS and Frankfurt Music Scene

Rolling Stone list of "Greatest Artists", "Greatest Albums" RS, "Greatest Songs" RS, "Greatest Guitarists"

		Many more links to '60-'72 videos like these on the FAHS Timeline
9/16/64 - 1/8/66	1/12/65 - 8/29/66
	Music TV Hullabaloo

See Mike Calloway's (71) new band 002, David Lee Howard, Antony Brown (71) and more in

FAHSers Today

Listen to some of Mike's Music here: http://www.myspace.com/tus137

New section - Listening to AFN - please add your recollections

I spent a lot of time listening to music on AFN, and would like to collect everyone's
memories on that for a page section. I remember we could listen to shows
of almost any type of music -- I remember "the Many Faces of Folk Music" and
in 69/70 there was one very late Friday or Saturday called "Underground" - I have
a reel tape recording of one of those shows I need to get converted into digital
so I can put it on the website. - Bruce 70

,,,I remember listening to AFN a lot and of course I listened to the "American Top 40" with Casey Kassem. And I remember there was a Latino music show simply called "La Musica." I can't remember when it came on.

Who else remembers listening to the radio serials on AFN, mostly on Sunday nights after the TV stopped broadcasting? I grew up listening to The Shadow, Our Miss Brooks, and many many other shows from way back.

I don't remember high school kids working as DJs at AFN in the late 70s. It could have happened but I don't recall. I was part of a choir that recorded a session at AFN in either 75 or 76. We were called "Joyful Noise" and we did the recording on my birthday that year by some coincidence. ...

I also remember "It's 5:05 and time for the Frankfurt Sports Scene" which was a brief wrap up of local sports on AFN. They always mentioned the Rhein Main Rockets when it was football season. I don't remember any other teams they mentioned.

BTW, you can still read Stars & Stripes at www.stripes.com and their archive can reprint specific issues and you can get the details here: http://www.stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=23. ...

- Jon Saxon

----

From: gregfields1975
To: FAJHS@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: [FAJHS_FHS] Music and more

I liked the Beatles from way back, and The Who, Hendrix, and for most of my early teens in Franfurt, I liked Grand Funk. Neil Young and CSN&Y, Ten Years After. Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull.
We used to listen to the Top Forty on AFN every Saturday, I think it was, so we heard a lot of pop music along with the heavier stuff we had on 45s and LPs. I had a little battery-powered phono I would take with me, even in the field between Hugel and Steuben and listen to records all the time. Me and my brother Mike got cassette recorders for Xmas in '71, so the little phono became unnecessary and forgotten.
Ahem...speaking of music, I have several new songs at soundclick.com if you're interested. Click the 'Links' button in the FAJHS home page to find it. Or myspace.com/ gregfields1 if you prefer that site.
Someone asked about the location of the Teen Club recently, and I recall the if you went out of the Idle Hour, turned right then right again towards the I.G. Farben bldg., there were a couple of roads on the left, the Teen Club was right down there. I seem to remember a veterinary clinic there, too.

back to top

<< < > >>

1963 - 1966

The Strangers

From: fhs63-66@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Frank Holroyd (fsholroyd@gmail.com)
Sent: Sat 9/19/09 12:24 PM
Let's go to the way back machine . .

The Kinks played at the Officer's club in 65 0r 66. There was also a get together in 64 of English bands that were touring - in Frankfurt - The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Searchers, and the Kinks again. I remember the German Nationals being surprised when the Drummer of the Searchers mentioned the Isley Brothers first did "Poison Ivy" as they started the song.

Frankfurt was the place to be for live music. Although Storyville did not have the top acts, they did bring in some english bands as well as American Touring bands (anybody ever hear of the Kentuckians?). The Teen Club used to have a house band (Germans) in 64 and 65 that used to really rock as well.

Skip

---

Could the Teen Club's house band have been "The Strangers"?

Fred
----

Hey Fred,

I think that's the one - give the man a cigar.

Skip

---

1965 – 1968

Played lots of gigs in clubs, schools and town-halls in and around Frankfurt, recorded 2 more singles with “The King-Beats”, and 2 pseudo-Live albums under the name “The Ad-Libs”, which were called “Beat Party in Stereo Vol.! And Vol.2”. Recorde 32 songs within 2 afternoons at the Walldorf Studios, added applause from a gig, and that was it.
Also recorded under the name “The Strangers”,” Ray Textor and The Strangers” and Malepartus II.

http://www.juergen-zoeller.de/English/main.shtml
http://www.juergen-zoeller.de/English/biography.shtml

...if we could ever get hold of Jack Tossman, he has tapes of just about every Teen-Thirty program that we ever produced in high school on reel-to-reel at his house in California. If we could get in touch with Jack and get him to release those tapes and our organization could pay to get them digitized, we could all enjoy them. - Gary S. FAHSAA 63-66

Teen 30 Recordings from Darl '67 and Gary '65 Sams

(each part is around 15 minutes - click on the link to play, or right click and save to your computer)

Jan. 65 - Teen 30 Show

Part 1 (click to play)

Part 2 (click to play)

You Really Got Me -

Send in Your Requests

Program Intro - John Moore

Downtown - Petula Clark

Love Potion Number Nine -

Variety Show, Winter Ball - Liz

Ugly Bug Ball w/ the Kingbeats - Liz Greenfield

Mr. Lonely - Bobby Vinton

Come See About Me - Supremes

I Feel Fine - Beatles

Sports News - Ed Bear (sp?)

My Girl Theme - George Martin

Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

John Parrish, Bill Moore - Producers

Frank Pendleton, Jack Tausman - Engineers

Stephanie O'Hernan(sp), Jan Circan(sp) - Directors

Nov. 65 - Half Hour Homecoming Teen 30 Show

Part 1 (click to play)

Part 2 (click to play)

Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys

Homecoming Fri. Nov. 5 Bonfire Announcement

Who'll Be the Next in Line - The Kinks

You Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes

Sports Scene - Mike O'Conner

A Thanks to German Listeners

Secretly - The Lettermen

Action (Where the Action Is) - Freddy Cannon

My Town, My Guy and Me - Leslie Gore

Wipeout - Surfaris

June 66 - One Hour Final 66 Teen 30 "Senior Spectacular" Show

Spec. Rick Scary(sp?) and FAHS "Teen 30 Goodguys" DJs Pat Krol, Eva Koya, Charlotte Stebbins,, Mike Malone, Mike O'Conner, Doug Haines 66 Teen 30 Yearbook Page 154 155

Part 1 (click to play)

Part 2 (click to play)

Intro

Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

You Were On My Mind - We Five

Leaning On The Lamppost - Herman's Hermits

DJs Intro

Help - The Beatles

Wooly Booly - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

End of first half music

Junior Senior Prom and other Announcements

Pat Krol

Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders

Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys

65-66 FAHS Year's Sport Review - Mike Malone

Part 3 (click to play)

Part 4 (click to play)

2nd Half Intro - Mike O'Conner

Announcements

Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

Good Lovin' - The Young Rascals

Announcements

Groovy Kind Of Love - The Mindbenders

I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher

(to Wiesbaden) Catch Us If You Can - Dave Clark Five

You're My Soul And Inspiration - Righteous Brothers

Sloop John B. - The Beachboys

back to top

Beat! Beat! Beat!
On Frankfurt Hessischer Rundfunk & AFN

Beat Beat Beat at the HS Gym, late 66 (put cursor over image to see names) photo by Jack Trost

It's a little too far away, but... The blond girl, center left with her hair flying is probably Linda Reese. Girl in plaid dress (center) is likely Melinda Holm. Guy in the very center, wearing a tie, is probably Steve Smith. Dark hair, plaid shirt behind BB net is Greg Eaves. recognize others, but it's too hard to single them out in such a crowded picture. Also, there are a lot of German students in this photo. - Mary Ilseng Greg Zunich, Greg Eaves, Pete Witt, Tom Pagett, Steve Jedlicki, & Chris Riche also - Stuart

Lots of Info: http://www.furious.com/Perfect/beatbeatbeat.html

Originally on: Syndicated (45 min.)
Status: Ended Premiered: January 1, 1966 Last
Aired: January 1, 1969
Show Category: Variety Shows
Welcome to the Beat! Beat! Beat! guide at tv.com.

Beat! Beat! Beat! was a West German rock music series. It was produced in Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main), by the Hessischer Rundfunk network. Beat! Beat! Beat! premiered in 1966. (This series should not be confused with Radio Bremen's Beat-Club, which premiered a few months earlier.) Mal Sondock was the host of Beat! Beat! Beat!. The American-born Sondock first became well-known in Germany as a DJ with the US Armed Forces Radio network. He then worked in German radio and TV. Other Beat! Beat! Beat! regulars were organist Cherry Wainer and drummer Don Storer. In the late 1950s, the two were regular performers on the British TV series
Oh Boy.

Beat, Beat, Beat wurde als öffentliche Veranstaltung
(oft in der Offenbacher Stadthalle) mit jugendlichem Publikum aufgenommen. In den sechziger Jahren konnte die Redaktion zahlreiche internationale Stars für die Sendung gewinnen. The Kinks, The Searchers, Eric
Burdon, Julie Driscol, The Yardbirds, Tom Jones und viele andere heute legendäre Gruppen und Solisten waren bei Beat, Beat, Beat zu Gast. Leider strahlte nur das dritte Fernsehprogramm des Hessischen Rundfunks diese Reihe aus, daher konnten die meisten Zuschauer in der Bundesrepublik die Sendung damals nicht sehen. Die Sendezeit war in den sechziger Jahren häufig Dienstags oder Freitags, um 20.15 Uhr direkt nach der Tagesschau. Häufig wurden auch bereits ausgestrahlte Folgen im gleichen Jahr wiederholt. Glücklicherweise hat diese Reihe im Archiv des HR überlebt und wurde nicht wie andere, weit aufwendiger produzierte Pop - Sendungen von ZDF, BBC oder den US-amerikanischen Sendern gelöscht oder vernichtet (4321 - Hot and Sweet (ZDF), Top of the Pops (BBC), Hullabaloo (NBC)).Von diesen damals sehr teueren Produktionen gibt es heute in den Archiven entweder keine Folgen mehr oder nur wenig, bzw. beschädigtes Sendematerial aus den sechziger Jahren. Für viele Musiker, die bei Beat, Beat, Beat auftraten ist ihr dortiger Auftritt einer der wenigen noch erhaltenen Fernsehmitschnitte ihrer Laufbahn. Deshalb ist heute Beat, Beat, Beat sogar in den USA (bei den Fans dieser Musik) bekannt. Bei einigen Folgen moderierte auch der damals sehr populäre Radio-DJ Mal Sondock die Sendung.
(B. Badurina)
-jzody

Hey, if you're really digging all this Beat, Beat, Beat stuff, be sure to pick up
"Clapton" - it's his autobiography and he chats about growing up and all the
bands he was in...very interesting and nostalgic since we were all very close to
his era...funny how he talks about bar hopping with Jimi and jamming with the
the local bands in London...there's also a double CD (extra) that contains songs
from all his past groups to present. Will always remember Paper Sunn playing
"White Room" in the Eagles Nest.
Mikey '69

Short clips of many Great Groups on Beat Beat Beat -- Cat Stevens - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - Mindbenders - Searchers - Tremeloes - Kinks - Hollies - Herman's Hermits - Small Faces - Yardbirds - Spencer Davis Group - Eric Burdon & New Animals

See See Rider - Eric Burdon & The New Animals

Beat, Beat, Beat Videos on YouTube

----------

While websurfing "Beat Beat Beat" for the FAHS Timeline
and Music pages, this gem turned up on YouTube. Dig
those mod fashions -- high collars, long sideburns,
Beatle haircuts, and the lead singers shoes?!?

The Thoughts If You Don't Come Back

singer (Peter Beckett) 10 years later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUadzVa0fc

and a "little" later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvI3jhf2t0

From the Timeline Page -- click each image for Video



	Beat, Beat, Beat of Frankfurt 66-67 at FAHS

More BBB videos
Ernestine Anderson - Moanin (BBB 1967)	http://www.plastiquemonkey.com/tag/cherry-wainer/ or
Cherry Wainer, Don Storer	http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xurk7_ernestine-anderson-moanin-bbb-1967_shortfilms

A fan's Cherry Wainer page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=335452938



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYnmKTxi_6U&eurl=http://all-pop.blogspot.com/2008/06/cherry-wainer-pt-3.html	"I met Cherry Wainer last week in Las Vegas. She works in a shop near the Stratosphere Hotel. She is a very nice lovely lady, and she is still full of fire and passion. She is still marvelous and impressing! " - cJan09 Alan Ripley (from video viewer comments)

Bremen Beat Club - The other "Beat" Show

Beat Club YouTube Videos Channel

Ken et al., FYI there were seven episodes of Beat Beat Beat taped at the Terrace club that aired between Jan. 7 and Sep. 23, 1966. Two more taped at the High School also shown on Hessiche Rundfunk Oct. 21 amd Nov. 21, 1966. Next show was taped in Wiesbaden; after which, the remaining were filmed at, I believe, the Stadthalle in Offenbach.
cheers!!!
zody


*The band on stage is The Small Faces. -zody -*photo by Jack Trost (thanks John N.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Faces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Faces_%28Decca%29
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marriott_All_Too_Beautiful
	Small Faces on YouTube
The Small Faces, German TV show "Beat Beat Beat", 1966 Pt. 1
The Small Faces, German TV show "Beat Beat Beat", 1966 Pt. 2
Tin Soldier 'sha la la la lee' 1966 Whatcha Gonna Do About It If I Were a Carpenter

	Beat Beat Beat - Various Artist 1966 Vol.1 (4CD)

	Episode Lists: Season 1 Season2 Season3 Season4 ??

	You may be referring the Beat Beat Beat Episode Number: 4 Season Num: 1 First Aired: May 6, 1966 --Sten & Stanley - "Girl, Those Where The Good Old Days" (or "Good Old Days, Girl") --Sten & Stanley - "Nur der Silbermond" --Tawney Reed (or Tanny Reed) - "Needle In A Haystack" (playback) --Sten & Stanley - "Wiggy Woggy" (or "Rock 'n' Roll") --Tawney Reed (or Tanny Reed) - "I've Got A Feeling" (playback) --Freddie & The Dreamers - "Run For Your Life" --Freddie & The Dreamers - "You Were Made For Me" --Pete Lancaster - "Baby Baby Baby" (another source listed the song as "You Got to Love Me") --Freddie & The Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now" --Freddie & The Dreamers - "If You've Got A Minute, Baby" --Pete Lancaster - "Stupidity" --The Searchers - "Love Potion No. 9" (live) --The Searchers - "Sweets For My Sweet" (live) --The Searchers - "C.C. Rider" (live) --The Searchers - "Jenny Take A Ride" (live)
	Hey Bruce: This one is not on the list below: Freddie and the Dreamers performed at the Terrace Club on Beat, Beat, Beat the summer of '68. About 50% attending were German teens. Wish I'd known about the other groups performances. My step-mother worked at the Terrace Club, so I had an "in" there. I remember standing right at the stage looking at his pointed patent-leather boots and thinking they were so cool...so much for taste at 16. Ken http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5000396.stm Freddie & the Dreamers -jz

(larger image)

SOUNDS
INCORPORATED

Got this when they played on Beat Beat Beat, 1966

-Zody

autographs (larger image)

Sounds Incorporated - Shea Stadium '65 - Opening for the Beatles


there's no mention of the 'Blue Diamonds', I believe that was what they named their band. They were in the high school band and formed a group that played at the teen Club. Do you have any info on the group? Most members were in the class of '66 - Mark Stinson
Blue Diamonds
?

1. DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER A BAND CALLED "JET BLACK" THAT PLAYED IN GERMANY AND EUROPE BACK IN THE DAY? MY BROTHER WAS AT A PARTY WITH SOME MUSIC FOLKS THE OTHER NIGHT AND THIS GUY TOLD HIM THAT HE PLAYED IN A BAND WITH THAT NAME THAT TOURED GERMANY AND MENTIONED FRANKFURT. I GUESS I'M TO DAMN OLD TO REMEMBER, SO I THOUGHT I'D SEE IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER THEM. I TOLD MY BROTHER I'D LET HIM KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THAT BAND. THANKS. CYA GUYS LATER, -TOMMY

*JET BLACK*

X-iles

photo from jmzody
The X-iles -- John Osborne (g), Craig Heldobler (v) and Phil Bepko (g)


X-iles photo from John Osborne via jmzody
Here is a picture of the X-iles (c. 1966) I got from John Osborne. You have l. to r: Skip (d), Craig Heldobler (g), Phil Bepko (g), John Osborne (g), and Don Huber (b). -- cheers!!! zody


The Details

Beatchers


		flyer, photo -Zody	(larger image)	(autographs)


	The Details 45, circa 1965-66 from Walter Alvin


2 Yes, they played with the X-iles at the Coppling Haus once. They played Teen Club and with The Details. (circa 65-66) Good band and quality people. Zody

3. Help me here folks: but I think one time they and the Beatchers played the Teen Club on the same night. And for some reason I am thinking it was maybe New Year's Eve?? Maybe I dreamed it.

4. John, Thanks for the info. My brother said these guys were from Sheffield, England and they were here promoting a book that they had wrote. He could not remember the name of the book.
He's going to try and get the guys names, he couldn't remember that either. He's older than me, so I can't say anything about bad memory . Ha! Ha!
I'll let you guys know if I find out more about this band.
Thanks again. Tommy

The Nth Derivative
From: Ken2toU@aol.com To: Frankfurt_HS_67-71@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [Frankfurt_HS_67-71] 40-Year Anniversary of Martin Luther King's Death
It was a trying time for all of us, especially the African-American/Blacks in our school; whichever is preferred. I remember many of them went home that day. A sad day indeed...that day and for the next couple of weeks one could cut the tension with a knife. Soon afterward I walked into the auditorium and encountered a play being rehearsed. It was to be called "Life on the Block". It was about a reporter who went into the hood to conduct interviews being conducted by a racial relations club. When I asked what was going on and whether or not I could be of some assistance; they asked me to take on the part of reporter "Kent Clark" and MC of the program. I had one day to learn my lines before dress rehearsal, because whomever was going to do the part dropped out for some reason. It was only two days until production...whew. I had been in some plays with my mother when we still lived in Hollywood, so learning lines was easy for me and I looked forward to the limelight--he, he.. This was great fun, despite the reason it was being done in the first place. But this wasn't about me; it was about social issues of the time and much bigger than any of us. There was a live band on stage - "The Nth Derivative" Jack Gerrard and Skipp Pettit's band who played in between skits. Sorry, I don't remember anyone else in the bands name. We had three sessions in the Idol Hour Theater. Opening and closing the show was the theme song "Dancing in the Streets". The first assembly was the sophomores who danced a little at the end. Next came the Juniors, who were a little looser and the isles had more than the first assembly; next the class of '68 filled the aisles to capacity. It seemed everyone was on their feet dancing up a storm - rocking! The Seniors knew how to party! Anyway, this is what I remember about those difficult days. We did the best we could with a difficult situation. Ken - '69
	Charles "Skip" Pettit 68 - Drums Rick Bullen 70 Vocals "Mickey" Duhman '66 Lead Guitar Chuck De Coste '68 Lead Vocals Pablo Zamora '68 Rhythm & Lead Singer Wolfgang "Wolfie" Sieglier Rhythm Guitar Steve "Beaver" Holcomb, '68 Keyboards Dave Lee Howard '69 Guitar (anyone got pics?)	PRECISION IN SOUND *PRECISION IN SOUND* An American Rock & Roll Band 1967-1968 From Steve Denmark's great website http://www.giessenuberalles.com/skip.htm

From: Steve 68 To: Bruce Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:36 PM Subject: GREAT SITE-FHS uber alles ....I have some photos from when the Monks played at Frankfurt and some of their footage is available on You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwO71Jfz0Z4 They are in our cafeteria after the show enjoying our cuisine. (Former all GI band.) I have a contact who could write about his meeting with the Small Faces and Rod Stewart. Skip Pettit FHS '68 went to the PX to buy white levis with/for the drummer of Freddie and the Dreamers John Bray traded his field jacket for Manfred Mann's hat and I have the pic of him wearing it and may know the guy who inherited it. I have, as you know always tried to offer the personal side to our FHS history to make it more meaningful... Steve Denmark, FHS '68
From: Michael Calloway To: Bruce Garner(fhs) Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:23 AM Subject: The Monks Hey Bruce ... Just curious if anyone in our group came across the Torquays or The Monks among their musical collections or influences? I just connected with the bass player Eddie Shaw ... They started in Gelnhausen near Hanau and have a very interesting history that follows the Beatles path to Hamburg. And they even put out a Black album BEFORE the Beatles White album. CHECK THEIR WEBSITE OUT:http://www.the-monks.com/index.htm YIPIKIYA, Mike

From: frankfurt_hs_67-71@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Rick Hutchings Sent: Wed 9/09/09 12:00 AM To: Frankfurt_HS_67-71@yahoogroups.com
All, I thought I would never hear of this band again in my life. Leslie Speare introduced me to them at Storyville one afternoon. She knew them all. Truly a small and ironic world! -Rick 69

From: frankfurt_hs_67-71@yahoogroups.com on behalf of John Zody Sent: Wed 9/09/09 5:12 AM To: Frankfurt_HS_67-71@yahoogroups.com
All, Rick is absolutely right about Leslie. She talked me and Skip P (?). to going down to K-strasse one Saturday morning. She told us she had a band she wanted us to meet; The Monks. The only thing was that it was around noon and they were still asleep. She was able to get their manager to get one of them to come out and visit with us. cheers!!! zody

From: frankfurt_hs_67-71@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Tmh0074 Sent: Thu 9/10/09 9:04 PM
I remember the Monks coming and playing in our gym in 67 or 68. They worn brown robes and had the weird square shaped hair cuts.

The Monks at FAHS YouTube search for "The Monks" Videos	The 5 Torquays (early Monks) 45 cover - image sent by Waler Alvin




back to top

The Daze of Knight	These are some pictures of the two bands I was in as a junior in high school in Darmstadt, Germany, 1967-8 (by Buddy Lerch)	The Amber Bottle
	PLAYING THE CARNIVAL BEER TENT Darmstadt, Germany Mike Kumjian (bass), Cookie Mooney (lead guitar and vocals), Buddy Lerch (rhythm guitar, vocals), Jim Moore (drums, vocals), Arthur MacDonald (guitar, vocals)
	OUR REGULAR GIG AT THE DARMSTADT OFFICERS CLUB (upstairs in our practice room) Cookie Mooney, Jim Moore, Buddy Lerch, Jerry Parkhurst, Mike Kumjian
	PRACTICE IN MY PARENTS' DARMSTADT QUARTERS, Santa Barbara Housing, Darmstadt, Germany --- Rod Barnett (keyboard), Buddy Lerch, Ed Schoen (lead guitar, saxophone), Jim Moore, Mike Kumjian, Junior Ruggs (lead vocals)
	BAND PRACTICE POSE FOR STARS & STRIPES PHOTO SHOOT

Destruktive Sidewalk
Ron Michaels '68 (lead singer) Mark "Bambi" Benson '68 (keyboard) John Marciniek '70 (lead guitar) Mark Heppner '69 (percussion) "Indian" Ed Eugenio '68 (bass)	(Here I go replying to myself, again. The sign of senility...) Bruce, "Indian" Ed Eugenio was the DS' bass player, and it was Mark HEPPNER (not Hoffman) who drummed for them. I got these two pictures of the band from our Groups Photos section (I had put them there years ago). There are other band pictures on there: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Frankfurt_HS_67-71/photos/browse/aebf
	Bruce, the page is filling out! Good work! To answer your question about the Destruktive Sidewalk, they were a Darmstadt band comprised of FAHS students Ron Michaels '68 (lead singer), Mark "Bambi" Benson '68 (keyboard), John Marciniek '70 (lead guitar, my duplex neighbor in D-Stadt's Santa Barbara housing), Mark Hoffman '69 (percussion, used to go with Kathy Tynan '69), and Ed "Indian" ___?___ '68. They had a cool black VW van with their name spray-painted on both sides in yellow. I hung out with them the day they took off the Contac Paper template they masked the letters with and even helped peel some off. They were the best American band in Darmstadt and our friendly competition (to our face, anyway -- HA!). They were in mucho demand on the dependent AYA circuit and many other venues. I have pictures somewhere... -- Buddy '69
Mark Heppner Ron Michaels John Marciniek Ed Eugenio	This is a serious picture a bunch of fun-loving cutups -- the Destruktive Sidewalk minus keyboardist Mark Benson -- from left, Ron Michael, Mark Heppner and John Marciniek, with "Indian" Ed Eugenio sitting on the floor (what's up with THAT?) photos by Buddy Lerch

back to top

Stones from Musik Parade Magazine and Bravo Chart from the week of July 4, 1966 -Zody

(larger image)	(larger image)

Paper Sunn	Mark Heppner (drums), Pat Hardman (Capt.Fat) (lead singer), Larry Stracqualursi (bass), Dave Howard (lead guitar)

69 Yearbook Page	Will always remember Paper Sunn playing "White Room" in the Eagles Nest. Mikey '69, "Ditto", Jane '70

Rick Nelson http://www.ricknelson.com/bio.htm	1970 visit to Frankfurt
Dutch Meeker's Autographed Photo	http://wc08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ifwxq8gldje~T1 RN1 RN2 RN3 RN4 RN5 RN7 RN8 RN9 RN10 EN1

Images from Ricki Menard

CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC
2007 Band Reunion - Images from Mike Calloway on classmates.com

Fred Weems '70	Bob Schneider '69	Gary McGill
MikeCalloway '71		Aschaffenburg JH '67-'69
An mp4 file is available as email attachments. You will need Qucktime or iTunes (free) (or another mp4 player) to play these. Send me Bruce70 an email to have the files emaied (as attachments) to you. This is...our band Crosstown Traffic playing our Hendrix Theme song… recorded at the Hanau AYA on our last Gig and this recording was the last song we played together until we started having regular reunions in the late 80’s.- Mke
Crosstown Traffic (Hendrix) 4.2 Mb

George and the Rockets
	George & the Rockets '70 By: carydrum71
	Bob Passerlli - vocals Cary Lunsford - drums Jay Marciano - guitar David Bach - keyboards Lee Whistler - percussion Eric Etnire - bass

George & the Rockets '71 By: Mike Calloway
From our last gig for the Jr. High Prom spring '71 at the O club between the School and the IG Farben Bldg. G & R had a number of line ups -- this one was:
Sach Jarrman(sp?) - Vocals, Cary Lunsford - Drums, Jay Marciano - Guitar, David Bach - Keyboard, Lee Whistler - Percussion, Mike Calloway - Bass
Playlist: mp4 files will need Qucktime or iTunes (free) (or another mp4 player). Black Magic Woman (Santana) 5.3Mb Soul Sacrifice (Santana) 7.2Mb Wring That Neck (Deep Purple) 5 Mb I'll Keep on Trying (Uriah Heep) 5.9 Mb Teddy Bear (Elvis) 1.7 Mb Somewhere I have a few more on cassette that will need to be converted to a digital format. Later & YIPIKIYA Mike
from Dutch Meeker

	Also I saw Elton John at the Jahrhundrethalle in 1972. Here are the particulars. The tour poster I attached was not the one for the Frankfurt show. I used to have it, but must have lost in moving. Mar 12 1972 GERMANY CONCERT - Frankfurt +Tiny Dancer *Rock Me When He's Gone* *Susie (Dramas)* *Levon* *Border Song* *Can I Put You On* *Your Song* *Holiday Inn* *Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters* *Rocket Man* *Honky Cat* *Country Comfort* *Madman Across The Water* *Take Me To The Pilot* Thanks for the super job on the web site. cheers!!! zody June 01, 2008



John Zody's Concert Tickets

Chris Stimson's ('69) 1982 Trip to Abbey Road Studios for Capitol Records on the 20th Anniversary of the First UK BEATLES Single Release.

	(The pictures) came from a trip to England in the early Eighties that I (and five others, each "plus 1") had won for an in-house competition at Capitol Records from Iron Maiden...long story. It happened to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the release of the very first Beatles single in the UK.
...with the "Americans"...yeah..that's me on the right.
	Since Capitol is owned by EMI, and EMI also owns Abbey Road Studios, we got the VIP tour, just as Abbey Road and EMI were preparing for the first-ever "open to the public" tour of the Abbey Road facility
The ACTUAL 2-inch Master Tape of The Beatles "Let it Be."
...See All Chris' Pictures Here
related links:
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You" Release date: 10-05-1962
Great facts: http://oldies.about.com/od/britishinvasion/a/lovemedo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography#Singles
http://www.jpgr.co.uk/r4949.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records
A Beatles timeline with pics and quotes: http://onabbeyroad.com/time.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records_discography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Cocktail_Party

History Site Map		Alumni Website	Yahoo Group	FAHS Links

	Submit photos, comments, links to Bruce70

	Development Web space hosted by BayAreaHeroes

Mar 12 1972