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Northern Minnesota Days
Here's a
picture of Pastor John Ylvisaker, pioneer in
the area of integrating rock with religion. He paid our town a visit
in 1966 while on tour promoting his live at Carnegie Hall album "Mass for
a Secular City". Besides doing a service at the local
Lutheran church, John did a teen dance... and that's me playing
bass in the background. The music wasn't very complicated
so we were able to put together a very nice dance band in a
couple of rehearsals.
The Durangos went through a number of iterations and personnel changes. This was my first "serious" band, and we covered about 50 Tijuana Brass songs. The goofy attire was due to this being Sadie Hawkins Day, on which people dressed up like goons for some reason that escapes me now. What are they doing today? From left to right... pastor, electrical engineer, grocery store manager, MD, US Forest Service, PhD in Education (drummer), internationally renowned physicist, and retired from the phone company.
Hudson Bay Fur Company
We kept busy playing the college circuit and doing promotional work for the new Junior College in our little town. This band did a lot of Guess Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin,and other bands of that era (1971).
I recall that it was ridiculously cold the day we shot this picture out at my girlfriend's house. I'm not sure what Dixie is doing these days, but the rest of us went the education route. Gary is a medical doctor and Dave has a PhD in Education. Who would have known?