Post by duckbarman on Aug 16, 2020 1:44:05 GMT
Buck - I think I probably know the answer in advance to this one, but does the following ring any bells with you...? I've just been sent the following obituary by Andy Winters for someone called Kevin Sheets:
obituaries.goshennews.com/obituary/kevin-sheets-1079706290
The passage that sparked his interest - and had him scratching his head - was this:
During their time in Bloomington, Kevin wrote for The Spectator, an independent newspaper, and as a lover of a broad range of music, played guitar. He was asked to go on tour as the guitarist for the band Soft White Underbelly (later Blue Oyster Cult), but declined due to having a young and growing family.
As he seems to have been living in Bloomington, Indiana during the time that the Underbelly were doing their thing on Long Island, I'm not seeing a LOT of scope for mutual interaction... plus, SWU didn't really go on "tours" as such, although I suppose SFG did "strings" of dates often at the same venue, so they were sort of mini 'static tours'... ish...
On the face of it, there are shades of the Krishna Das story here - but at least he was on the scene and actually crossed the Underbelly's path at one point... or that "Bone Jangler" guy who reckoned he joined over the phone but then declined :-)... actually, this seems to be more like that guy who died in the Florida air crash and whose obit said he'd once been a member of Blue Oyster Cult...
Not forgetting that there was also that Phil Grande claim that he actually joined the band... BOC seem to get more than their fair share of ghost members... weird...
obituaries.goshennews.com/obituary/kevin-sheets-1079706290
The passage that sparked his interest - and had him scratching his head - was this:
During their time in Bloomington, Kevin wrote for The Spectator, an independent newspaper, and as a lover of a broad range of music, played guitar. He was asked to go on tour as the guitarist for the band Soft White Underbelly (later Blue Oyster Cult), but declined due to having a young and growing family.
As he seems to have been living in Bloomington, Indiana during the time that the Underbelly were doing their thing on Long Island, I'm not seeing a LOT of scope for mutual interaction... plus, SWU didn't really go on "tours" as such, although I suppose SFG did "strings" of dates often at the same venue, so they were sort of mini 'static tours'... ish...
On the face of it, there are shades of the Krishna Das story here - but at least he was on the scene and actually crossed the Underbelly's path at one point... or that "Bone Jangler" guy who reckoned he joined over the phone but then declined :-)... actually, this seems to be more like that guy who died in the Florida air crash and whose obit said he'd once been a member of Blue Oyster Cult...
Not forgetting that there was also that Phil Grande claim that he actually joined the band... BOC seem to get more than their fair share of ghost members... weird...