Texas Garage 45s The Dawgs&Bob and Gaylon Pic1&Ventural

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Here are 2 (I think) RARE Texas Garage 45s from the 1960s.Also some text I pulled and inserted off of GOOGLE about these guys and the Garage scene in the '60s.Pic1 119 Won't You Cry For Me/Shy in Strong VG condition (play graded and visual) with the labels wol, torn and alot of ring wear.Ventural 722 Don't Go In My Room Girl/It Belongs To You in Strong VG condition withthe labels having wolon both sides, ring wear and bleeding color apparently from a red label.If you are into Texas music, then this is for you for sure. It is not common to find a group of these with such history and in these conditions » content Gaylan Ladd, The Dawgs and Bobby Sharp Submitted by Chas Kit on May 20, 2008 - 12:26am. Bobby Sharp | Dawgs | Gaylan Ladd | Silvertones | US | Texas | Houston | Waco | Epic | MGM | Pacemaker | Pic 1 | TRC | Ventural Huey Meaux and Doyle Jones behind the console, the Dawgs in front, from right to left: Bobby Sharp, Freddy Arechiga, Gaylan Latimer (in the striped shirt) and Jimmy Rogers filling in on bass. "This photo was taken at 2 AM, at Gold Star Studios in the summer of 1965" - Freddy Arechiga Updated and rewritten, January 2011 Fred “Freddy” Arechiga wrote to me about the origins of the Dawgs:I met Bobby Sharp in Waco, TX (1963-4). Bobby was dating my cousin Paula, and she put Bobby and me in touch, so we could form a new band for him.At the time, I was 14 years old and playing drums with Ramsey Horton and the Silvertones. Ramsey Horton formed the original Silvertones, while he was attending Baylor University, in 1961. Horton had put together a big band, with a horn section, and black lead singer, Bobby Bradshaw. We were playing that new stuff called, Motown, and that other stuff called, Soul Music, ala James Brown.I had a close friend, Tommy Nash who played bass, he was only 13 years old and sounded like he had been playing for 20 years. He was also one of the best jazz guitar players I’d ever run across in my life (and I’m old). Tommy became the third Dawg. Bobby, Tommy, and I began rehearsals of Bobby’s original songs. The three of us immediately knew we had something worth pursuing. However, Tommy and I didn’t sing, so we needed on more singing Dawg. Later, when we went into the studio, Tommy Nash could not make it; the fourth person behind the console in the photo was a bass player that the record producer brought in the night we recorded our album.It was during this time that I had first started growing my hair long, and every time I looked at myself in the mirror, I thought I looked like a long-haired dog. I told Bobby this story and he said, “I like it!” I asked, “You like what?” “The name of our band.” At first, Bobby wanted the band to be called, “A Band of Dogs.” After some discussions and some time had past, I wanted to call the band, Bobby Sharp and the Dawgs; I originated the spelling of Dawgs; some how this spelling didn’t make me think of the animal, when I read it in print. Bobby agreed.After playing a frat party one night, (I was still gigging with the Silvertones as well) I stopped by a Waco beer joint called the Branding Iron, on the edge of town, to hear a childhood friend, who was singing and playing guitar in a rock band there. I walked in and saw Gaylan Latimer and his small cover band. Mickey Sharp (no relation to Bobby), was on drums, Wallace Pelton on bass/keyboards/vocals, and Gaylan Latimer, lead vocal/rhythm guitar/lighting director.The first thing I noticed was Gaylan had rigged up his own lighting system. He had taken colored, flood lights, and put them on to the end of their boom microphone stands, operated by a footswitch. When I walked in they were between songs, and were on a dark stage. When Gaylan started singing, he would turn on the flood light and it would only light up his face, and while the solo was being played, he switched it off, then back on when he started singing again. Gaylan looked like he was getting a tan, while he was singing.<... read more

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