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Rick Martin And The Showmen Featuring Nickey Reynolds are playing at Jay's Disc-Au-Go Go, 913 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA. The group includes Tim Bogert and Mark Stein, both of whom will achieve greater fame as founder-members of Vanilla Fudge.Full article:
Mark Stein : The bass player got drafted, and all of a sudden he was gone. So it was like, 'Well, there's a fella named Tim Bogert that I used to know', you know? We had no choice, we had to go get this guy without any audition, right? I didn't know him. Rick knew him. So we're in the car going to this gig in Jersey, we have no bass player, but we're all gonna pick up this guy named Tim Bogert at his house. He's gonna play. I remember this guy comes, like a bebop dude, you know, walking out of his house with one of those fedora hats, and he's like [in a geeky voice] 'Hi, I'm Tim Bogert' [laughter] or 'I'm Timmy', yeah, 'Timmy'.
So that was it, he came in the car and we shook hands. We started talking about what songs we were gonna be doing and what keys they were in. It was weird. It was like on the spot. It was some club in Jersey somewhere. Where, I've forgotten, but that's how I met Tim Bogert. So if he ever reads this, 'Tim, I had no choice!' [laughter] It was alright. Timmy was great, he didn't know a lot of the songs but he was faking it.
But you know, after that night we had a whole bunch of gigs up and down the East Coast, so we practiced a few times. He was just a natural, you know? A hell of a good bass player.
(Source : interview with Russell H. Tice, November 21, 1992)
Tim Bogert : I was a sax player. Played the horn for 6 or 7 years with high school bands. We played rock and roll and stuff like that, but initially, having left high school I went to work for the phone company, and I was playing evenings and weekends. I started going smitten with bass I started to get the feel for it and started getting serious about making it a career, so I quit my job and I started haunting local bars in the area, seeing who was playing and what was being played, contacting people and letting as many people as possible know I was available for work I finally found work with a professional band called Rick Martin and the Showmen and they were a commercial band - society music - they had a chick singer up in the front … and we played standards. It was kinda like a Vegas night club routine and we would play night clubs where your clientele would be your 40-year old age bracket and I wore a tuxedo and bow tie, the whole bit.
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So that was it, he came in the car and we shook hands. We started talking about what songs we were gonna be doing and what keys they were in. It was weird. It was like on the spot. It was some club in Jersey somewhere. Where, I've forgotten, but that's how I met Tim Bogert. So if he ever reads this, 'Tim, I had no choice!' [laughter] It was alright. Timmy was great, he didn't know a lot of the songs but he was faking it.
But you know, after that night we had a whole bunch of gigs up and down the East Coast, so we practiced a few times. He was just a natural, you know? A hell of a good bass player.
(Source : interview with Russell H. Tice, November 21, 1992)
Tim Bogert : I was a sax player. Played the horn for 6 or 7 years with high school bands. We played rock and roll and stuff like that, but initially, having left high school I went to work for the phone company, and I was playing evenings and weekends. I started going smitten with bass I started to get the feel for it and started getting serious about making it a career, so I quit my job and I started haunting local bars in the area, seeing who was playing and what was being played, contacting people and letting as many people as possible know I was available for work I finally found work with a professional band called Rick Martin and the Showmen and they were a commercial band - society music - they had a chick singer up in the front … and we played standards. It was kinda like a Vegas night club routine and we would play night clubs where your clientele would be your 40-year old age bracket and I wore a tuxedo and bow tie, the whole bit.
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