These were the words spoken to a very good musician from our area many years ago from someone very near and dear to my heart who is also a musician from the area going way back... Now the guy these words were spoken to is doing very well in our area but I often wonder, had these words never been spoken would things be better or worse for this guy? Something like this can tear you down quick or give you the drive to do it all....
But I've been curious.... how many musicians in the immediate area, 100 mile radius, have made it or gotten close enough to sink their teeth into it for a short while?
Songsmith always has some pretty cool tales... The Hurricanes have played with some pretty big names... Mark Middleton was there playing with all the big names in the 80's, and making it big I remember reading an article in Guitar magazine or something where Vernon Reid from Living Color was quoted as saying something along the lines of "you want to hear someone play guitar, there's a white boy from Pennsylvania by the name of Mark Middleton that knows how to play guitar" or something like that..... and there isn't a song today that you can think of that he can't play if he heard it at least once... and I'm sure if you hummed it, he'd play it!!
So... who else has been there?
because not very many bands could or will ever hold a candle to the power and tightness that Stix and Stones had when playing songs from that era. Bold statement, yes, but ask around. As cool (or hot) as it was, though, it was just never meant to be. I will also take this opportunity to mention the other bands that I thought were as killer and that I looked up to at that time and now: Wrench/Stept On (I have yet to see IN), I-Enemy, Wake Up Screaming, and Creep (Pittsburgh). If this thread stays alive, I'll add any more that come to mind.
