Tag: The Checkmates
[This is from a collection of scenes, stories and little chapters that were left on the cutting floor now that Things We Lost In The Night is complete.] In early 1965, before the guys in…
The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today Source: Summer of Love: The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today http://blog.freepeople.com/2015/08/summer-love-history-san-francisco-music-1960s-impacted-music-festivals-today/#ixzz3hyEI1g3i A look back…
NIGHT PEOPLE Book 1 – Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves ON SALE NOW for the next week – July…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]N AUGUST OF 1966, CAESARS PALACE, the most incredible casino/resort/hotel of it’s time, opened its doors to the public. A few months later the most improbable event imaginable happened when Trish Turner, a talented R&B…
When Dave, Mac and I first met Les, we didn’t realize what a good singer he was. He had an instrumental guitar band called the MG’s, who were highly influenced by Nokie Edwards and the…
Pleasant Hill to Hayward, California via Crow Canyon Road networkedblogs.com When Stark Naked and the Car Thieves were still called The Checkmates, and were newly arrived in California, most of us lived inland around Pleasant…
Back when our band, then called The Checkmates, came to California, most of us lived inland around Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek because the first club we worked in was in Pittsburg, CA a few…
The Indianapolis Times My last job in Indianapolis was at the Indianapolis Times. I was hired in 1963 to sell classified advertising. I didn’t realize it at the time but it was a dead end…