Gainesville and Regional Bands Known In Gainesville
This list is by no means complete and will probably never be...but these are some of the many bands on the scene in Gainesville from the mid '60s
to the mid '70s.
Archer Bank
Archer Road Band
Autumn
Beloved
Blackfoot
Bouquet
Blue Water
Breeze
Brouhaha
Celebration Alberto De Almar guitar, Gerry Greenhouse drums, Steve Margulis bass Bill Sabella organ
Chautauqua - Tim Donaldson, David Nelson, Ted Ramsey Mike Fender
City Steve and the Okeefenokee Swamp Gas Band
Continentals
Cowboy
Dark Star Al Hospers
Dixie Desperados
Flight--Laurence White, Robin Gould and David Darlington Later, Bob Gardner replaced David on bass, Gerry Greenhouse (Celebration)
replaced Robin on drums and the band was renamed Gardner, Greenhouse and White.
Froggy & the Magic Twangers -- Pete Murphy, Carl Sokol, Al Hospers, Marty Stinger
Frosted Glass
Gardner, Greenhouse and White
Gingerbread - Don Felder, gtr, John Winter, organ, voc, Chuck Newcomb, bass, vocal, Michael Barnett, drums
Harkonnen
Henchmen
Helix
Hog Town Creek Tom Holtz, Mark Pinsky, Mike Branch
Homer-- Pinsky, McNellis, Tom Small, Bob Harris
Lizard- Bruce Bush, Mark Scarborough, Tom Holtz, 1974
Maundy Quintet Don Felder, Boomer Hough, Bernie Leadon, Tom Laughon
Midnight Machete
Mixed Company Ron Thomas bs, Ginnie McCullough, Duke Clark gtr
Mr. Moose Archie McCoy, Stan Bush, George Mixson, Richard Tedder, Bill Lee
Mudcrutch
Noah's Ark
Philman Family Band
Pink Panthers---Don Felder/Sol Veron, Bernie Leadon, Boomer Hough, Tom Laughon
Powerglide- Nancy Luca, greg mcmillan, Guffy Crampton and Steve Nelson
Prairie Dogs
Purlee Bob Harris, Marty Stinger, Al Hospers, Mike Barnhart, Zeke Zirngable
RGF - Jeff Jourard, Carl Patti/Ron Blair, Doug Damico, Randy Williford, Tom Patti, Michael Hitchcock
Riff- Robert Crawford, Trantham Whitley, Mike Branch, Jon Rhoads and Herbie Bohannon
Road Turkey- Marty Jourard, Stan Lynch, Steve Soar, Carl Patti
Rosewater Blue
Sam- Bruce Brashear, Larry Rankin, Steve Flake, Ted Ramsey and Mike Fender
Soal Blues
Southpaw
Marty Jourard, Charles Chesnut, Tom Anderson, J.R., Ned Phillips
Styrophoam Soule
Tangerine
Unicorn
The Airemont Classic_Gary Gordon, Glenn Anton, Steve Soar, Tommy Freeland, Joe Folsom
The Allegros
The Archer Road Band
The Barracudas -- Barry Baumstein, Whit Springfield, Greg Ray, Hal Wright and David Wright
The Better 1/2
The Bitter End
The Bouquet
The Centurys
The Certain Amount
The Cobras
The Continentals Steve Stills, Don Felder
The Controls
The Cool Tooles
The Coyotes Michael Boulware, Tom Leadon
The Dimensions-Sandy Stringfellow, Benmont Tench, Mike Harper, Lockie McGinnis
The Druids-Paul "Lefty" Wright, drm; Paul Ashdown, rhy gtr; Mike Meeker, ld gtr; Bill Feaster, bs, David Mason, org
The Epics
The Essex Tom Holtz, Tom Leadon, Mike Fender, Mike Branch and Chip Grant
The Ghetto Gang
The Henchmen
The Highlanders
The Hustlers
The Incidentals
The Independents
The Jades -- Chuck Newcomb, Dana Klees, Mark Scarborough, Ron Blair, Tom Holtz, Mike Hitchcock, Mark Pinske, Kenneth Green
The Jazz Project
The Jules Verne Band
The Limits of Persuasion
The Lords
The Melodettes
The Mildew Brothers
The Movers
The Nation Rocking Shadows
The Odd
The Playboys
The Primitives
The Rare Breed
The Secret Agents Trantham, Jack Nettles, circa '64 '65
The Shadows of Night
The Southgate Singers
The Sundowners Tom Petty
The Taxmen -- David Mason, Dean Lowry, Larry Lipham, Jimmy Forsman
The Tel Stars
The Tyrovian Reef Beasts -- Richie Bertone, 1972
The U.S. Males- Jim Conner, Bill Crawford, Bruce Brashear, Tom Derrick, and Larry Rankin
The Uniques5/64
The Whitfield Union 1967, Larry Ratliff, Bruce Bush, Mike Ewing, Harold Dawkins, Pete Bascombe
Uncle Funnel and the Push-Gary Gordon, Steve Soar, Tommy Freeland, Joe Folsom, Marty Jourard
Unicorn -- Peter Einhorn, Al Hospers, Anne Lampert
Us -- Rick Doeschler, Ronnie Van Zandt
Weston Prim and Blacklash