Fact #16014
When:
Short story:
Dave Guard announces that he is leaving The Kingston Trio, mainly because of disagreements within the group about the type of music they should be playing.Full article:
Bob Shane (Kingston Trio) : Dave was a peculiar fellow. He insisted on telling us how to live, what songs to record, and how to sing. Frankly, if he hadn't left we would have dissolved The Kingston Trio and the multi-million dollar proposition … it is.
Voyle Gilmore (manager, The Kingston Trio) : Things looked pretty black there for a while. Guard wanted to keep the name of the group for himself. Said he owned it. And without that the other members, Shane and Nick Reynolds, would have been ruined.
Bob Shane : I think it was because we didn't share the same philosophies about music. Guard wanted us to be only folk tune singers. And myself and Reynolds felt we shouldn't limit ourselves to just that.
We worked well together from 1957 until 1959, but then the friction started. We argued between ourselves and frankly, if something hadn't happened we might have wound up having nervous breakdowns. Three of us, simultaneously.
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Voyle Gilmore (manager, The Kingston Trio) : Things looked pretty black there for a while. Guard wanted to keep the name of the group for himself. Said he owned it. And without that the other members, Shane and Nick Reynolds, would have been ruined.
Bob Shane : I think it was because we didn't share the same philosophies about music. Guard wanted us to be only folk tune singers. And myself and Reynolds felt we shouldn't limit ourselves to just that.
We worked well together from 1957 until 1959, but then the friction started. We argued between ourselves and frankly, if something hadn't happened we might have wound up having nervous breakdowns. Three of us, simultaneously.
(Source : not known)