Bands: Mesilla Valley Lo Boys -> Capt. Beefheart & The Magic Band -> Big Sonny & The Lo Boys
[Note: Background Colors = blue: rehearsing/recording; = pink: bad event; = lilac: good event] |
Date | Country | City | Venue | Comments / Sources |
1974-1979 | USA | |||
Mesilla Valley Low Boys: | Formed around late 1974 | |||
October | El Paso |  | Bulldogg Bar, N. Mesa Street | |
1975 | 1st of 4 Semester in Music School [paid for by Vet. Bill] | |||
FZ & MOI: | With guest vocalist Cpt. Beefheart; [CD released - Bongo Fury in El Paso] | |||
May 23 | El Paso | County Coliseum | Invited to sing two songs [JCB] [..."sat in with the band for a 15 minute doo-wop set that took me straight back to the earliest days of The Mothers." - Marc W. McCord 2015] | |
Cpt. Beefheart & the Magic Band: | Skip next semester to do this tour [JCB] | |||
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| JCB says 6 weeks of rehearsals but it could only have been 4. The whole involvement with Beefheart covered a 7 week spell from the El Paso gig |
End of June | Chicago | In Chicago for Don's interviews and recording a TV Show for "Sound Stage" [JCB] | ||
July 2 | London | 3 days in London before festival [JCB] | ||
July 5 | Knebworth | Festival | ||
July 6 | Return to US [JCB] | |||
July 14 | LA | Roxy | ||
July 15 | LA | Roxy | ||
Mesilla Valley Lo Boys: | (Originally the Mesilla Valley Low Boys) | |||
Late July | Randy Russ has been replaced by Jeff Littlejohn, this line-up lasts about 18 mths [JCB] | |||
1976 | 2nd & 3rd Semester in Music School? | |||
Early '76 | Ruidoso, NM | Buckaroo | 3-night gig; Tom Leavey joins band | |
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| After 3 mths with Tom, record single Play Your Music |
(FZ & MOI: | ||||
Mar 5 | El Paso |
| Plaza Theatre El Paso [Poster: courtesy of Jeane Fowkes] | |
Mesilla Valley Lo Boys: | The end: | |||
late '76 | All but 2 of band leave; Randy Russ returns briefly: next 2 gigs | |||
1st gig | Near disaster [JCB] RRuss rat-arsed | |||
2nd gig | Roswell | Panama Red's | ||
1977 | ||||
Big Sonny & The Lo Boys: | Mesilla Valley Lo Boys metamorphose into Big Sonny ... Together for about 3 years | |||
1978 | JCB - 4th Semester at Music School? | |||
Big Sonny & The Lo Boys: | ||||
mid - year | El Paso | Kings - X | ||
1979 | JCB files for divorce this year | |||
Big Sonny & The Lo Boys: | In Heat LP album released; 7" Single also released | |||
July 04 | Anthony Gap Saloon? | Anthony, N.M. | As reported by fan Stuart (Maniac) - JCB bio [unitedmutations.com] | |
Dec 31 | JCB plays last gig with band and quits, moving up to Albuquerque | |||
