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1969: Bloodrock

Orb — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:56:09 +0000

Biography Bloodrock was an American hard rock band, based in Fort Worth, Texas, that had considerable success in the 1970s, and was one of the earliest of a number of significant bands to emerge from the Fort Worth club and music scene during the early to mid-1970s. Bloodrock initially formed in Fort Worth in 1963, […]

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1966: The Original Caste

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:01:29 +0000

Biography Songwriter and guitarist Bruce Innes formed the group in Calgary, Alberta in 1966. Initially, Bruce Innes, Graham Bruce and Bliss Mackie worked as a trio and Dixie Lee (Stone) Innes joined the group in 1967, contributing rich vocals. At that time, Dixie Lee Stone was a secretary at Pacific Petroleum in Calgary and she […]

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1965: The Rugbys

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:05:20 +0000

Biography The band was formed in 1965 in Louisville, doing mostly covers. But as competition among Louisville groups to write and record original music increased, the Rugbys recorded and released two singles in 1968, “Walking the Streets Tonight”, written by Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet, later included on the compilation album Highs […]

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1969: Motherlode

Orb — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:52:39 +0000

Biography As an offshoot of the massive nine-piece Grant Smith and the Power, the four original members of Motherlode (guitarist Ken Marco, saxophonist Steve Kennedy, keyboardist William “Smitty” Smith, and Wayne Stone on drums) split the funky corridors of Toronto and its teeming Yonge Street strip for relatively staid London, Ontario. There, the band got […]

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