This record is called
Danny Joe Brown and the Danny Joe Brown Band. That would be like Bob Seger and and the Bob Seger Band. DJB left
Molly Hatchett (not sure why, but it was a mistake), to form this group in 1980. I played bits of the record and though it has a southern rock feel - there is nothing on it any good, and nothing close to anything with Hatchett, like the classics Gator Country, Dreams, and Flirtin'. The DJBB had Bobby Ingram in it as one of the guitar players and both later went back from whence they came - probably due to the typical inner band issues of either money or more money. Hardly worth the effort to leave and go back to MH just to make this album. Sadly, BJD died in 2005. I was asked by my pal Skooter to "build" my
all-star/all-'70's fantasy rock band. Without any hesitation - he'd be that group's lead singer, not Bon.
Going "free-agent" back then was common and rarely worked, in an artistic sense. Maybe you have already or soon could pick out your favorite 5 LPs by "free-agents"?
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Free agents, Spencer - that's a very cool idea.
ReplyDeleteFor example - Phil Collins solo albums he did w/o actually quitting Genesis?
Yeah, that'd be the example of really hitting it big. Before that we had Peter Frampton and Neil Young, whose solo careers were notable. It seems, though, that there were many who did not do so well, like wasn't the Joe Perry Project kinda feeble?
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