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Group ReviewsBy RICK BOLSOMSitting here, typewriter humming, waiting to have its keys punched and to tell a story about this band, the mailman rings the bell and delivers, naturally enough, the mail.Now the guys in Goose Creek Symphony knew that I was writing a bio of the group, but they didn’t know when. I might have had it finished by now. I would have too, except for a case of food poisoning.So there I was, getting ready to write when the bell rang.In the mail was a letter from the Appalachian Applepackers Assoc., a Goose Creek Symphony front organization.The letter, printed with a particularly lurid purple magic marker, in the finest tradition of kidnap notes and obscene suggestions was anything but.The pickers in this banK aren’t writers. Not in the sense of prose. Their bio forms, the fact sheets that every musician must fill out one time or another, are filled with scrawls. They are as shy on paper as they are foreward on stage.Shortly after settling in Georgia the band assumed the form it now has:Charlie Gearheart...lead singer, acoustic guitar and tromboneplayer.Paul Howard Spradlin...singing and playing electric guitar.Bob Henke lll...harm#nies, electric guitar and keyboards.Pat Moore...bassFlyin’ Fred Weisz...fiddling andsingingJim Tolies...fiddle, mandolin, banjo and vocals Chris Lockheed...drums and vocalsand Randell Bramlett and Harold Williams...horns.It’s nine months since the band moved to Georgia*Nine months covering a little over 100,000 miles in trucks and buses. 100,000+ miles over the roads of Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri...you get the idea.Goose Creek Symphony has hecome the house band of the
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Jacksonville Chanticleer
Jacksonville, Alabama, US
Mon, Sep 18, 1972
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