Bring your old vinyl to share and Lemuria will give you a free beer.

Bobby is bringing his horn and we hope he’ll blow. Lemuria is encouraging all fans to bring old records he has played on to share. Bobby said he would be glad to sign them.

Last Sunday, I hunted through my records and found two with Bobby playing. Both are gems to me.

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Just a kid in elementary school in 1961, I purchased a 45 by Dion which I’m sure juiced up my “need to be cool” fantasies at the time. “. . . Tear open my shirt I got Rosie on my chest . . .” sure lit me up at eleven-years-old. Listening to this 45 now, it still sounds good. Fifty-one years later this record seems in better shape than me.

Here’s some fun trivia from Bobby in Every Night’s a Saturday Night:

” . . . I ended up recording the sax part, solo and everything, for “The Wanderer.” Now here’s the kicker: Unbeknownst to me until very recently, during my take of “The Wanderer” I was slightly out of tune, so they had somebody come in after me and copy what I’d done, but in tune. Well, I always thought that it was me because the solo on the record was exactly what I’d remembered playing. The licks were exactly the same. And it sounded really good. But it wasn’t really me playing. After forty-five goddamn years, I found out it was somebody else playin’ my solo. . . And no one thought to tell me I’d hit the cutting room floor.”

The other gem I found is from 1970: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on Tour with Eric Clapton. At that time on the west coast, Delaney, who was born in Mississippi, led the only band playing original music with a very Southern Stax Record-like sound. Bobby fit in just right.

It was a helluva band backed with the great chic vocal power of Bonnie and Rita Coolidge. Clapton, Delaney and Dave Mason on guitar. Bobby and Jim Price blowing horns driven by a strong rhythm section, this record still screams.

The cover art with two feet sticking out the window? Bob Dylan’s.

Bring your vinyl, meet Bobby and share memories you’ve had listening to Bobby play.

JX//RX

More details about the event here.

See our other blog on Bobby Keys here.

Every Night’s a Saturday Night: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys

by Bobby Keys and Bill Ditenhafer

(Counterpoint, 2012)

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