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paper as iney are iorewara onstage.That was part of the shock.There were two main sections to the note, here’s the first: Write what you saw Write what you seeBut don’t make the mistake once or twiceof writing a thought That isn’t Right!If you’ve never written a bio under the request to make it good-make it interesting-make it up,,..you can only imagine how refreshing that note made the whole process.Here’s what’s Right!Goose Creek Symphony is a traveling carnival of musicians, road managers, and electronics genius, friends, clowns, a unicycle rider, old ladies, kids and more friends. Out to pick, have fun, and play some more music.On the historical side, the first incarnation occured a couple of years ago in Phoenix.The band played all over the southwest and along the west coast. Recorded two albums “Goose Creek” and “Welcome to Goose Creek” both good records.Last July (1971) they moved, a caravan of trucks, buses and wagons, across the south of America and settled in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In April of ’72 they relocated in Gain-sville, Fla.They moved to the south out of curiosity, after getting the information that there were lots of places to play there.Goose Creek Symphony has become the house band of the south. Playing colleges that no one from outside has ever heard of. Playing bars and discotheques and assorted clubs scattered in the cities and towns down there.Playing high school gyms and civic auditoriums.Layed out in the back of the van playing Goosepoker to pass the miles. After dark Bleeping, unless it’s your turn to drive. Everybody drives sometime.Last night, as I write this, the band finished recording their third album. It’s called “Words Of Earnest” and it’s the first one that represents the Goose Creek Symphony that has evolved out of those nine months and those 100,000 miles.It’s a proud album. Every bit of it Droved on the road. Played over and over, how many hundreds of times.It’s the essence of all their years of pickin’, thinkin’ and raising hell.It’s the collective personality of a proud band. A band that has never failed to be booked back into any college, club or gym they have played.Goose Creek Symphony isn’t complicated. Not the mysterious or ethereal. It’s not the psychic experience that the world has waited for and it doesn’t care to be.So what is Goose Creek Sym-phone?A bunch of pickers.Drink a little wineDrink a little boozeSit on the back porchPick y liillc blues
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Jacksonville Chanticleer
Jacksonville, Alabama, US
Mon, Sep 18, 1972
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