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The band became good friends with Question Mark and years later they toured around the country as? Benny and? The band went through several names before finally settling on The Jets.
Benny and several of his buddies played with them for a while and then splintered off to form The Jets. By , The Jets were playing five nights a week and the band members were making quite a bit more money than any of their classmates at Plymouth High.
At the time, Speer was not even old enough to be in a bar. His teacher used to let Benny slide from his first hour class once he discovered Speer was literally playing every night. The Jets were made up of "Slick" Rick Khorn, who went to high school with Benny and was there at the start. Khorn has played off and on with the band over the years. Like Khorn, a lot of guys get married, quit the band, get divorced and then come back.
Part of the problem was the amount of traveling the band did. In , they did , miles of travel in one year. Therefore, a lot of musicians rotated through the band over the years. The original bass player was J. He went to Plymouth High, and he was replaced by Khorn. The original drummer, Bill Hamil, has passed away.
Hamil later played in a band with Marshall Crenshaw. Patlow was the Jets agent and manager, and he was the one who got them onto the auto show circuit. He found a niche in the classic oldies circuit. Earlier on, Patlow was a promoter at the Eastown and several other small theatres in Detroit that specialized in psychedelic rock and roll bands. In their very earliest days, Brownsville Station was a 'greaser' band. When Benny Speer was young, he wanted to be Cub Koda.
Because of their music choices, Brownsville Station played a lot of car shows. They filled the void that Brownsville left. They basically tried to be Brownsville Station on their first album.
Whatever city they played, their name would be on the billboards, TV commercials, and on the tickets. Benny with Autorama model Nikki. A fellow high school student had some recording experience at United Sound studios in Detroit and then started his own Goodsite Studio.
They recorded the album so that they had something to sell at the large auto shows that they were playing. They moved a lot of vinyl at the car shows.
It was a nice souvenir for the attendees and they could meet the band and have it autographed after the shows. The albums were issued on the Butterscotch record label owned by Jerry Patlow.
Over the years, there were stints where the band used a saxophone and times when they added a piano player. Typically, they would be both the opening act and then backing band for the stars. If Cannon or Diddley wanted additional instruments, they would augment the band according to what was demanded.
Benny Jet. It was located about a mile or two north of where the Military Inn once stood. The first time they opened for him, it was like opening for Elvis — they were told the backstage had to be cleared, no one was supposed to talk to him, and they were instructed not to ask for an autograph.
After they played their set, Benny was asked to go back out and introduce Nelson. The promoters told told him not to shake his hand, look him in the eye, or touch him. How did Rick Nelson get to know about a young man and his band from Plymouth, Michigan? Rick Nelson. Today, Benny Speer says that all the money they spent on advertising in the union paper was worth it just to have Rick Nelson say that he always wanted to meet him and his band.
Lyricist Bernie Taupin -- the man who wrote the words for Elton John -- talked about how he turned such phrases into solid gold rock'n'roll. If I come up with a really good title, then I'll build a song around it. I'll be walking down the street, or in the bath, scrubbing my back. I'll think of a line and say, 'Now that's good. I'll have to build a song around it. In , there was one subject that Bernie and Elton could hardly keep from thinking about, and that was the worldwide record industry.
As the hottest single performer of the seventies, Elton got to witness and experience far more of the multifaceted music scene than nearly any other participant. The live effects were part of the song's narrative. As Dudgeon explained on Elton John's website , that famous, weird first chord, coming in one bar before the song actually starts, caught his ear and made him think of a live band signaling the crowd that the show was about to start — which is perfect for a song about a futuristic band.
So Dudgeon spoke with his sound engineers and decided it would work to "fake-live" the song. According to Ultimate Classic Rock , when it came time to add in the audience claps, Dudgeon made sure they occurred on the "on" beat instead of the "off" beat, despite the fact that this drives him and performers crazy because it can throw the band off time.
But that was how English audiences always did it in concert, and he wanted to remain true to life. Wikimedia Commons. It's a satire of the music industry Wikimedia Commons. It's about a futuristic all-girl punk band Wikimedia Commons.
It's engineered to sound live for a reason Wikimedia Commons.
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