FANTASY AIRLIFT 1980 - Live at the Country Pub - Patton, PA

homerski · Post by **homerski** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

FANTASY AIRLIFT was based in Tyrone, PA and was active from 1979 til 1981.

Sometime in the Spring of 1980, we played at "The Country Pub" in Patton. Bob Helbig (musician and entertainer extraordinaire, now with "The Boomers") recorded our performance live on a Teac 80-8 (8 Channel 1/2 inch reel to reel tape recorder), and engineered a set of 6 songs entitled, "Fantasy Airlift Live at the Country Pub - Patton, PA". We have no video of the band, only a very few pictures, so I started to create a video presentation for each of these soundtracks. If you've never done this, let me tell you, this is a lot of time-consuming, tedious work! Each of these took me about a week to complete, but it was a labor of love. So, for Fantasy Airlift fans everywhere , here I offer the first two of the six tracks.
Enjoy. John H.

#1 - What's Your Name http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_sr2Ffq5rY

#2 - My Sharona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srJJpuAEw44&NR=1

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

I saw "Homers Army" and thought you guy's were just freakin' phenomenal.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

John,

That was really good. It is always very cool to go back and listen to some of the regional bands from years gone by and how good many of them were. I never got to see and hear Fantasy Airlift when the band was together and this was a great treat. I have lots of audio and video of some of my old bands too.

So, when are you going to wear that outfit agian?

By the way, what instrument did the St. Pauli girl play?

homerski · Post by **homerski** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

Thanks Duaine,

That outfit was lost to the ages a very long time ago. And the St Pauli girl? what instument? You don't even have to ask.. of course, the flute.

John H.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

That is an old one. My uncle Joe looks like a hill billy with those suspenders lol. They were cool.

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

f.sciarrillo wrote:That is an old one. My uncle Joe looks like a hill billy with those suspenders lol. They were cool.

Your Uncle Joe was NO HILLBILLY. Trust me! He was the "Detroit Kid". Drank Stroghs Beer and called it "De-Troit Kool-aid". I imagine he's still drinking it.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

Andy, did you cover any Byrds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhI09XO ... re=related

(RP needs a Byrds link every now and then)

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

RamRod 1 wrote:
f.sciarrillo wrote:That is an old one. My uncle Joe looks like a hill billy with those suspenders lol. They were cool.
Your Uncle Joe was NO HILLBILLY. Trust me! He was the "Detroit Kid". Drank Stroghs Beer and called it "De-Troit Kool-aid". I imagine he's still drinking it.

I never said he was, Andy. I just said he looked like one lol.

He still lives in Detroit as well. They are talking about coming down for a visit this summer. I hope they do, it has been a couple of years since I seen him.

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

undercoverjoe wrote:Andy, did you cover any Byrds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhI09XO ... re=related

(RP needs a Byrds link every now and then)

No Joe, "Airlift" never covered any "Byrds". The only time I've ever done any Byrds was with the "RamRods" in the mid "90's". Did the earily stuff with the "Rickenbacker" 12 string.

I saw that "Byrds" line-up of the youtube vid you just posted about 4 months later than that vid. They played Junieta College in Huntington the winter of "70-71". I was a senior in High school. What an expirence! I was so young and backward. 1st there was a "warm-up" band, then a long wait because the Byrds plane was late. It was general admission and I had wormed my way right up against the stage on the Mcguinn side and we were sitting on the floor of the gym. Everybody there except me and my high school buddy starts lighting up "joints". I mean everybody! There's cops standing around on the landings and nobody's saying nothing. They offer joints to me but being the all American Boy from a "Leave it to Beaver " family, I politely refuse. Roadies of the Byrds are frantically hooking all the stuff up but peroidically leaning over the stage and hitting joints from people in the audience.

Finally the "Byrds" come on and it's just like your video.

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Sunday Apr 10, 2011

That is an amazing job there! Thank you for posting that.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Monday Apr 11, 2011

RamRod 1 wrote:
undercoverjoe wrote:Andy, did you cover any Byrds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhI09XO ... re=related

(RP needs a Byrds link every now and then)
No Joe, "Airlift" never covered any "Byrds". The only time I've ever did any Byrds was with the "RamRods" in the mid "90's". Did the earily stuff with the "Rickenbacker" 12 string.

I saw that "Byrds" line-up of the youtube vid you just posted about 4 months later than that vid. They played Junieta College in Huntington the winter of "70-71". I was a senior in High school. What an expirence! I was so young and backward. 1st there was a "warm-up" band, then a long wait because the Byrds plane was late. It was general admission and I had wormed my way right up against the stage on the Mcguinn side and we were sitting on the floor of the gym. Everybody there except me and my high school buddy starts lighting up "joints". I mean everybody! There's cops standing around on the landings and nobody's saying nothing. They offer joints to me but being the all American Boy from a "Leave it to Beaver " family, I politely refuse. Roadies of the Byrds are frantically hooking all the stuff up but peroidically leaning over the stage and hitting joints from people in the audience.

Finally the "Byrds" come on and it's just like your video.

You the man. What a great concert story. The Byrds played at the U. of Scranton, the very first weekend (Sept '72) of my college career, and I think for the next 4 to 5 years, we went to a concert every weekend. Boy do I miss those days.