Retro: Kimmer

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SRC REUNION SHOW WAS FANTASTIC! Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:09 AM PDT Kim's Hair by Rhonda I began looking at the possibility of getting SRC to reunite two years ago when I had a house guest from Australia named Mark Sisto (vocalist of The Visitors). Mark is from Detroit but transplanted to OZ. He is the world's biggest SRC fan. Mark wanted to meet Gary Quackenbush. I had just met Legendary guitarist Gary Quackenbush and so... for fun... we got Gary, Mark, Chris Box Taylor, Al King and Kimmer to film an impromptu session. We ended up with one video of "Up All Night" and one cover of Radio Birdman's "Hand of Law" You can see them on Retrokimmer's Youtube Page if you like... Steve Lyman We met Steve Lyman next and began having long discussions about the history and legacy of SRC. Then a few weeks later... Patti Quatro introduces me to Scott Richardson. Through Scott I met Glenn Quackenbush keyboards and arrangements too. I purposely stood behind Glenn to film last night. I wanted to watch him play. Glenn really was fabulous. Scott Richardson band leader/vocalist/songwriter Scott has had a vast career since SRC broke up. He went to Hollywood, became a successful author and screenwriter. Scott married Robert Mitchum's daughter and that was a huge education for him as he will tell you! He wrote books, produced films and much much more... Richard Blondy's Photos of SRC from last night are fabulous! Guitarist Ray Goodman who took over after Gary Quackenbush's accident, took over the booking and production of this show. I did not produce any of it. I did hugely promote it however for two months at least and hammered it a lot in the past two weeks. The show itself was just so much fun... Haven't heard those songs live since I was in the 8th grade. I did shoot 2 songs before the video police made me stop.... Got some great photos and we had 3 other great photographer friends of mine there as well. So check back to this story as I will add more photos this week. Set List of SRC Gig Set List of Concert: Bad Az Shuffle Checkmate Heatwave I'm So Glad Who is that Girl Get The Picture After Your Heart One Simple Task Eye of the Storm Up All Night Midnight Fever Black Sheep Hall Mt King/Bolero Gypsy Eyes Encore: Eliza Green the Shimmie Queen Memphis Checkmate/Heatwave Here are a few Retrokimmer fans that I finally got to meet in person! Kimmer and Alan Goode Kimmer and pal Joe Ruffner Dave Evans (thanks for the tshirt) with Kimmer Kimmer Facebook buddy Gerald Jerry Kimmer and Skid Marx Kimmer Cathy Stoner Carrie Marx Eric Rasmussen my first RK fan! Rick Mills and Kimmer I'll load the rest of my out-takes on Facebook later ok? Had a gas not a show to miss so grab your tickets early for the SRC Saginaw gig!

CRISPIN CIOE: THE UPTOWN HORNS AND RADIO KINGS Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:57 PM PDT Crispin Cioe Kim: You should check out Crispin Cioe's whole site! . This is the guy, along with Richard Dishman (now w/George Bedard) from RADIO KING & HIS COURT OF RHYTHM. I'm REALLY surprised you weren't hip to this incredibly popular band from Ann Arbor, MI in the early 70s... (By the way,Crispin Cioe's last name is pronounced See-Oh) Jon Campbell Well folks we did check out Crispin's whole site! Wow! What an amazing career this sax man has going on... We did a lot of checking... Crispin Cioe (pronounced See-o) grew up in Chicago near legendary Maxwell Street, an outdoor mall which attracted late night impromptu jam sessions by Blues greats ranging from Muddy Waters to Willie Dixon. After a brief year in New York City, his family moved to Motor City. "In the early '60s, Detroit was a center of rock 'n roll. Cioe's dad worked at one of the top 'rock' stations and he would spend hours looking through their record collections and hanging out in the studio while the deejays were spinning. One of the jocks also had an 'American Bandstand' type of TV show that I would hang out at with my friends." (Robin Seymour perhaps?) Crispin does the fabulous sax solo in Living in America with James Brown.... "I knew I always wanted to be a writer, so I studied journalism at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. After my third year of college I realized what I really wanted to do and quit with only one semester left. I spent my money on a sax and music studies at Wayne State and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. When I ran out of cash I moved back home and joined a soul band called Radio King & His Court of Rhythm." During the glam rock era of the early '70s recalls Cioe. "A local producer liked the Radio Kings and kept booking us to open for wildly inappropriate rock acts such as Aerosmith, REO Speedwagon and The Stooges. We were a soul band in satin basketball uniforms playing before a rock crowd of 3000. The promoter thought offering a "sacrificial lamb" made the crowd appreciate the headliner just that much more. Being regularly booed off the stage was unbelievably brutal. New York Dolls "One time we opened for the New York Dolls. David Johansen was watching us get pummeled by the audience from the side of the stage. As we abandoned the stage he said with this burning cigarette hanging from his mouth 'Tough luck, kid ….' The funny thing is, 8 years later, he walks into The Uptown Horns Party at Tramps and in that deep gravelly voice of his, shouts 'Detroit!' I couldn't believe he remembered." And now almost 15 years later, The Uptown Horns are part of the house band and wrote the theme song for VH-1's new weekly comedy show "Buster's Happy Hour" starring Johansen as Buster Poindexter. "Life is funny that way," chuckles Cioe. Crispin Cioe, Alto & Baritone Sax; Arno Hecht,Tenor Sax; Larry Etkin, Trumpet; Bob Funk, Trombone. Led by saxaphonist, Crispin Cioe, The Uptown Horns have recently made major contributions to The Driver's recordings and performances, as they have for these musical greats: James Brown / The Rolling Stones (Steel Wheels & Live To The Max) Ray Charles / Buster Poindexter / Run DMC /Ohio Players / Joe Cocker / B.B. King / Robert Palmer /Lou Reed Bonnie Raitt / J. Geils Band / Howard Tate & so many more. Check out The 'Horns at: THE UPTOWN HORNS Crispin's New Band is Cracked Ice....

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