Friday, April 06, 2007


I lost a lot of things in my life but I miss my mind the most.

I'm telling you blood, these Yankees had more money than it'd take to burn TWO ASBESTOS MULES!
BILL REGISTER

ALISON WON!

SHE'LL BE PERFORMING SATURDAY AT THE OVERTON SQUARE CRAWFISH FESTIVAL!

11th Annual Overton Square Crawfish Festival

Saturday, April 8th from Noon-6pm in the parking lot behind Bayou Bar & Grill. .

Free Admission. Live music all day by local and regional bands. Planty of Crawfish, BBQ, and Cajun food. Plus 30+ arts and crafts vendors. Proceeds benefit the Alzheimer's Associaton. To reserve vendor space, call Ron Bobal at 901-281-6468

I heard Harlan's playing.

Come say hello.

Posted by Rachel http://www.rachelandthecity.com/2006/03/11th_annual_overton_square_cra.php

Subject: Great Unsigned Battle of the Bands

Hey Everyone,
We'd like to say a special THANK YOU to each one of you for participating in this year's Great Unsigned Battle of the Bands! Dennis, Ric and I are HUGE fans of each and every band that took part in the contest and we are so proud of all of you :))
Thanks for rallying your fans and driving them to the site to vote and thanks for becoming members of the Great Unsigned!!
The 3 bands with the highest number of votes are:
Alison Heafner
Dova Grove
Early Maxwell
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! These three bands will join us at the 2007 Overton Square Crawfish Festival and duke it out on stage in front of industry professionals for a chance to play at the Beale Street Music Festival plus about $5,000 of prizes.
We hope to see you all there :))
Thanks again for participating and sharing your music with us!
Luca


So here's a montage of Tippy, Wyker and then a group shot of Wexler, Wyker, Duke & somebody else. http://myspace.com/tippyarmstrong

Wow.
Great, Robert.
By the way, that's Tommy Talton with Mike Duke, John Wyker and the late ultra hip Mr. Wexler. Thanks for the pic. I'll add it to the collection.

Rick H

Going back in time…really some of the best days of my life.
HP

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

I remember playing that show and also remember we played some other auditorium in B'ham with the Newbeats. And yet another one with Lou Christie.
I will put my thinking bucket on (ref. Gomer on the Andy Griffith Show) and see what I can recall about any of it.
Jimmy Dean


Good Shit, Robert!

Thanks,
Jerry


http://wvok-memories.tripod.com/id21.html
Please click here to see all of the WVOK Advertisements for the shows


Now you cats are gonna have to tell us about what it was like to perform at the Birmingham City Auditorium on the evening of
November 27, 1965-The lineup included The Dave Clark 5, Ian Whitcomb, Ronnie Dove, Billy Joe Royal, Donna Loren, The Barbarians, The Bill Black Combo, and a new southern group called The James Gang

or the VOK Show at The Temple Theatre
Dec 10, 1966. One of the few shows held outside the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium. This one was held at the Temple Theatre. The line up included The Byrds, Roy Orbison, Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs, Sandy Posey, David Houston, The McCoys, ? & The Mysterians, Billy Joe Royal, The Rubber Band, The Newbeats, and The Webs.

Something I was gonna tell y'all but I forgot it. I made a mental note but I moved my head like that & sloshed it around & washed it off the wall.

I can think of everything I did 40 years ago but now I can't tell you when I got up or what I had for lunch.

Best,
RR
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com


Gotta check out these French websites http://www.radiosblues.com/

& Check out Jeff Carlisi's website http://www.jeffcarlisi.com/



& speaking of .38 Special, here's the website of the French magazine, BANDS OF DIXIE,
http://perso.orange.fr/bands-of-dixie/cadresindexold/indexold.htm


http://wvok-memories.tripod.com/id21.html

This website has everything you wanna know about B'ham's WVOK, sister station of Montgomery's WBAM & Jacksonville's WAPE.

Monday, April 02, 2007

I'll contact Bobby Dupree. Thank you for that. Also, wondering if you have a current email addy for Greg Hughey. He sent a couple of very obscure MP3's of Tippy singing some originals. Is he related to John Hughey? Same person? Thanks,
Rick

Sunday, April 01, 2007

EMPLOYEES IN DOTHAN'S MEXICAN RESTAURANTS COMMITTING IDENTITY THEFT!
> > >
This is the 2nd notice I have gotten about some of these restaurants in

> > >Dothan. Thought I would pass it on. I received it from a couple of bank
> > >employees.
> > >
> > >JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH ALL OF YOU....I KNOW THAT SOME OF US LOVE
> > >OUR DEBIT CARDS BUT BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU USE YOUR CARD.
> > >
> > >LaBamba, Rodeo's & Ole Mexico
> > >
> > >I just wanted to let all of you know to be careful when eating at LaBambo,
> > >Rodeo's &Ole Mexico . We are see ing a lot of fraudulent charges off of
> > >debit cards from these three restaurants. One of our employees has been
> > >taken for over $1000.00 and another for over $500.00 and it was brought to
> > >our attention this morning that we have a customer that had been taken for
> > >over $1500.00. We have also talked to some employees at other banks who are
> > >also seeing this type of fraud. All of the people that have been frauded
> > >against have eaten at one of the restaurants just a couple of days prior to
> > >the charges being made against their account and all of the fraud charges
> > >have Mexico addresses. I just wanted to let you know, if you eat at one of
> > >these restaurants, you may not want to use your debit card.
> > >
> > >Also, the authorities have been contacted and we were told today that they
> > >were watching these three restaurants but, there really wasn't anything
> > >that they could do to them. Go figure huh.......
> > >
> > >Cristi L. Dean
> > >
> > >Customer Service Representative/Loan Processor
> > >
> > >MidSouth Bank

HEY Y'ALL:

You have no idea how wonderful it was to copy & paste the new stuff destined for http://myspace.com/tippyarmstrong
& post it at ROCK PILGRIMAGE!!!!
http://rockpilgrimage.blogspot.com
IMAGINE THIS!

We could put a myspace site up for each & every one of those dead cats listed at the top of ROCK PILGRIMAGE! Same thing goes for the gahzillion customers of the CHUKKER http://www.thechukker.com/
who, unfortunately, are no longer with us. Like Rick Hirsch said, myspace.com is the perfect medium for a memorial page.
It allows the page to grow.

The BAMA QUEEN from Dothan http://www.myspace.com/fiddledeedeeme
sent us a ton of Beaverteeth stuff via photobucket. I couldn't figure out how to save it and now I can't find it. {I got the email with the links but they're no good on photobucket now}

NEW RULE! Try to download stuff right of yo' own computer, attach it to your email & shoot ole ROBERTOREG a web ready jpg. & evahthang will be awzzzzzzzzzrite!

Y MUCHAS A NOS AMIGO Whitney Telle!
Whitney rilly helped us out with this link that includes all of the ads for the WVOK SHOWS!
http://wvok-memories.tripod.com/id21.html
Now you cats are gonna have to tell us about what it was like to perform at the Birmingham City Auditorium on the evening of
November 27, 1965-The lineup included The Dave Clark 5, Ian Whitcomb, Ronnie Dove, Billy Joe Royal, Donna Loren, The Barbarians, The Bill Black Combo, and a new southern group called The James Gang

or the VOK Show at The Temple Theatre
Dec 10, 1966. One of the few shows held outside the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium. This one was held at the Temple Theatre. The line up included The Byrds, Roy Orbison, Sham The Sham & The Pharoahs, Sandy Posey, David Houston, The McCoys, ? & The Mysterians, Billy Joe Royal, The Rubber Band, The Newbeats, and The Webs.



Group Picture from Capn Dean's Wedding:
Tippy is third from left,followed by his wife,Nancy Derrington,Fluker, THE NOTORIOUS Crockett Roberts and Eve Owen
[photo courtesy of Dean White]


Left to Right:
MY OLD BUDDY FROM LIVINGSTON, THE LATE GREAT GEORGE FLUKER,FORMER HEAD OF D.U.D., CAPN DEAN, AND TIPPY
[image courtesy of Captain Dean White]


this is a Polaroid taken at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA when Tippy played with the Heart band.
Left to right: Ed Sanford – B3 Hammond, Johnny Townsend – vocals, Bobby Dupree – drums, Keith Brewer – bass guitar, and Tippy – guitar.
I got some tapes with Tippy playing I’d like to get to Rick.

BOBBY DUPREE

& last but not least I am gonna write out my recipe for Oyster Robertoregafeller.

OYSTERS ROBERTOREGAFELLER

Shuck a bunch of oysters and put 'em in a bowl inside a larger bowl filled with ice.

Take the big shells that lay flat and wash 'em good.

But a piece of rilly superb homemade butter in each shell.

Fill the shells with oysters. Two, three, however many the shell can take.

Sprinkle some Paul Prudhome Seafood Magic or Blackened Redfish Magic on the oysters along with some black pepper, lemon juice and little Tabasco.

Put a little gob of what I call "Gulf Coast Pesto" on top of each shell. You make this however you want but the best way is to put spinach, artichoke hearts, celery, mustard greens [whatever you want!] thru a food processor.

Crumble up some microwaved bacon on each shell and sprinkle 'em with Parmesan.

Dredge all of the shells with the crumbs from crushed garlic butter croutons. {homemade is the best}

If ya got extra $, stick a little crab meat on 'em, slice off some good cheese to put on top of em
& stick 'em on the grill!

Best,
RR http://snakedoctor.blogspot.com