Bobby Gregg & Friends (1962)
It's fascinating how people can drop in and out of the music scene & do wonderfully exciting things and leave lasting impressions, yet not be known for their accomplishments. I was going through the 1962 Billboard songs yeasterday and ran across two singles from Bobby Gregg & Friends and was immediately blown away. Wow! I had to look several times to be sure I was in 1962 - the guitar playing was something I didn't think would exist till 67. I assumed it was Bobby Gregg on guitar, since that seemed to be the featured instrument. Whoever it was was doing a lot of fantastic guitar theatrics without the benefit of a foot pedal.
Thanks to the internet and av.com, I was able to find out a wee bit more. Turns out Roy Buchanan is the guitar player - that explains a lot! Good stuff. Want to track down more from these guys, if possible. Has been released on a rhino compilation: Legends Of Guitar - Rock: The '60s, Vol. 2 - but only the one song. Also appears on Cameo Parkway 1957-1967 [Box] , which seems to be a much more interesting collection to me - Some rare Seger included. Again, only the A side is included. Potato Peeler, apparently the first release, is cool, but more pedestrian than Jam - still, some really interesting sounds teased outta the guitar for 1962! Found evidence of an album released. Bobby Gregg was the drummer, and apparently played on several Bob Dylan albums. His big moment in 1966 was to start off "Like A Rolling Stone" with his drum.
That's it - all I found out. Was he a session musician playing on hundreds of hits? Probably. Just can't find a bio on the guy, though I found two bios on Roy Buchanan that were repeated hundreds of times over and over - seems like copying and pasting information from one web page into your own web page is kosher enough; but a royal pain for someone like me trying to find the sources.
In my travels, I came across some cool resources:
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1960s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1970s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1980s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1990s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-2000s.txt
http://www.gramble.com/music/60speak.html
http://www.critterbob.net/top40/top40.htm
Thanks to the internet and av.com, I was able to find out a wee bit more. Turns out Roy Buchanan is the guitar player - that explains a lot! Good stuff. Want to track down more from these guys, if possible. Has been released on a rhino compilation: Legends Of Guitar - Rock: The '60s, Vol. 2 - but only the one song. Also appears on Cameo Parkway 1957-1967 [Box] , which seems to be a much more interesting collection to me - Some rare Seger included. Again, only the A side is included. Potato Peeler, apparently the first release, is cool, but more pedestrian than Jam - still, some really interesting sounds teased outta the guitar for 1962! Found evidence of an album released. Bobby Gregg was the drummer, and apparently played on several Bob Dylan albums. His big moment in 1966 was to start off "Like A Rolling Stone" with his drum.
That's it - all I found out. Was he a session musician playing on hundreds of hits? Probably. Just can't find a bio on the guy, though I found two bios on Roy Buchanan that were repeated hundreds of times over and over - seems like copying and pasting information from one web page into your own web page is kosher enough; but a royal pain for someone like me trying to find the sources.
In my travels, I came across some cool resources:
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1960s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1970s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1980s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-1990s.txt
http://www.top40db.net/Downloads/Hot100-2000s.txt
http://www.gramble.com/music/60speak.html
http://www.critterbob.net/top40/top40.htm
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