AVB – Part 2
We got the gig at the Ground Round for the following month, every Friday and Saturday for the whole month. That opened up the other Ground Rounds in the greater Cleveland area, plus Warren and Canton, OH.
Jubal
The band did very well, and we played dinner clubs, concert halls, outdoor festivals, and bars in northern OH for the next 3 years. About halfway through that time, we changed the name of the band to Jubal. It was just easier than trying to explain what an acoustic vocal band was…
Our only ‘claim to fame’ was opening for the National Act, Brewer and Shipley (of ‘One Toke Over The Line’ fame), one show at the Cleveland Music Hall and then in a similar venue In Columbus, OH, the next night. Brewer and Shipley didn’t want to work with us after that. I suspect that it was because we received a better response in Cleveland than they did. And that probably due to the fact that much of the audience there consisted of fans of ours from the Ground Rounds and other venues around Cleveland (we had advertised our participation in that performance heavily in advance). In Columbus, not so much. Our so-called ‘agent’ at the time, Carol K., had not promoted us in any way in Columbus. Needless to say, we dropped Carol after that. The audience there had come specifically to see Brewer and Shipley, not us (didn’t know us, probably never heard of us).
To be Continued
–LE
Guy – right, me – left at the Deja Vu – photo by Annie – Monochrome-Madness
CynOp 
4 responses to “AVB – Part 2 – Memoir Continued”
So you were a rock and roller in your youth…that doesn’t surprise me one bit. 😁🎼
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Well, kind of… no heavy metel, though… Most of our stuff was folkrock with a little blues for contrast…; -)
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Back in the day, I think folk music was sort of lumped together with rock—pop music, I believe, which covered a wide variety of sounds. Heavy metal was never one on my favorite genres. There was one exception, though, Blue Cheers cover of “Summertime Blues”.
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Yes, and for us in ‘the rock and roll capital of the world’, Cleveland…acording to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame there, what you refer to as pop was refered to as top 40 in Cleveland. That included Motown, Pat Boon, and the Beach Boys, etc… Folkrock, blues, and alternative genres, including heavy metal and ‘acid rock’, had to be heard on FM. Am was for the top 40. But perhaps I’m being overly pedantic. I also liked that version of Summertime Blues…; -)
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