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The Soundmasters with me as baritone did the tune below at a sorority house at a college in Trenton way back in the day. The girls went crazy as soon as we started this one, and we were almost this good as those guys. Smokey loves these guys.

Human Nature below in the video

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Great tune DBM and Smokey is a great guy in promoting these wonderful singers that "blew him away"...they definitely deserved the standing-o and blew the audience away. Brings back many good memories of your Soundmasters group I'm sure... :cool:
Take care, Larryz
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Great tune DBM and Smokey is a great guy in promoting these wonderful singers that "blew him away"...they definitely deserved the standing-o and blew the audience away. Brings back many good memories of your Soundmasters group I'm sure... :cool:

The days I sang with The Soundmasters were the most fun musical days of my life. Later on after I left the group they continued with other guys up until almost lately. I did sing with them about 10 years ago (or so) at a party at my sister Patty and Jim Smiths house, they had the group over to sing, and they asked me to sit in. It took a few tunes for me to get back in the groove but it was fun.

 

And that night at the sorority house at Trenton State Teachers College we did one of our best shows ever, and the girlies were swooning all over us, & when we did Ooh Baby Baby they flipped out. We did this thing we called close harmony, and our blend was as good as those guys in the video up top.

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That's cool DBM! I wonder if there are some guys/gals in your area that would form a similar singing group and bring back one of the musical things that you had so much fun with? :cool:

 

The Soundmasters were with lifelong friends. I have known Ken and Jim Smith since they were 4 or 5 years old, and Hooder since 7th grade. That kind of closeness does not come easy with strangers.

 

The late Kenny Smith was one of my very favorite people I have ever met on this Earth. He was the hippy that came back from Height Ashbury and turned us all on to the hippy trippin times. Jim Smith is now married to my sister, and turned out to be the best husband to my sister, and great father to my 2 nieces and nephew. Rod Hood was my best friend all through the hippy years and onward till about 35 years ago when we quit hanging out. I have not seen him in 30 years although he still lives in the same town he has lived in since childhood. He lives on the mainland and when I go back there, I stay on the Island and visit family and I do not interact with Rod because he stole something of value of mine that I had hidden on his lot.

 

So In conclusion the Soundmasters no longer sing together, as Rod is on the outs with the rest of the guys, and the rest have drifted away into other groups. The reason we were so good was because we knew each other so well and really liked each other as friends.

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My Caskets band were/are my life long friends and we started our 1st 3 piece Ventures band back in '65. We played together and added a bass player till we graduated high school as 2 of us got drafted in '69. We all lived in the same town and had many a fun beach party surfing and playing music to include adult parties and a few clubs. Lots of memories for a tribute band before there were tribute bands LOL! Then we all moved away but within a 3 hour drive and would still get together. Lost track of our bass player but added my harmonica player and harmonizer and got into vocals with our instrumentals falling by the wayside. Now 4 of them live up here with me, moving up from the bay area, in the last 5 years or so and we still get together and have fun...

 

My drummer and I go back to 4th grade in 1959 but didn't start playing till our 2nd year of high school when we formed a band with my 2nd buddy in '65. Met my 3rd bud in '72 working at a winery till about '79 playing duo and harmonizing...so we go back a few...in '79 I moved up to the foothills and played in bands, till they all moved up and we could play more together (about 5 years ago). We all live in the same town again. I don't know how far apart your Soundmasters are spread out or how often you get together. So I was wondering if there are any singers close by that you could still meet up with? :cool:

 

ps. I was editing and posted just ahead of your update DBM, so I'll catch up on my questions... :thu:

Take care, Larryz
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So I was wondering if there are any singers close by that you could still meet up with? :cool:

 

I am not interested in pursuing my musical odyssey any more truthfully. I am at the end of my interest in performing out. And I don't really want to interact with other musicians. Not since I got good enough to create nice real sounding backing tracks. I do not have to negotiate any music with other folks. I could go out and play live with my 3 + finished sets of backing tracks, but I no longer have the desire to perform.

 

The only way I would do that is if someone who I know and played out regularly in a traveling concert band, and be their opening act for three or 4 grand a show and all expenses paid. (and that ain't gonna happen), so........

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I think I've mentioned this before, the 4 of us, 3 guys and me, grow up together within a block. We've been togethe since the playground to graduation. We even had our own language. It made everything so natural, we always know what everyone was going to do. Never say never, but I don't think i would want to play with anyone else.

Loved the video, loved the Motown and Philly groups.

We played a frat party before the pandemic and I would surf a 50 ft wave at pipeline before I play another one.

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My Caskets band were/are my life long friends and we started our 1st 3 piece Ventures band back in '65. We played together and added a bass player till we graduated high school as 2 of us got drafted in '69. We all lived in the same town and had many a fun beach party surfing and playing music to include adult parties and a few clubs. Lots of memories for a tribute band before there were tribute bands LOL!

The Caskets! I love it! What a great band name! Cool.

 

I think I've mentioned this before, the 4 of us, 3 guys and me, grow up together within a block. We've been togethe since the playground to graduation. We even had our own language. It made everything so natural, we always know what everyone was going to do. Never say never, but I don't think i would want to play with anyone else.

Loved the video, loved the Motown and Philly groups.

We played a frat party before the pandemic and I would surf a 50 ft wave at pipeline before I play another one.

Here's to more of the good times with your good friends and bandmates, and more and better and better gigs!

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We played a frat party before the pandemic and I would surf a 50 ft wave at pipeline before I play another one.

 

:laugh::cheers:

 

I would love to surf backdoor at 6 feet. Anything bigger and I am on the beach......Or out at another break, preferably a beach break with no rocks/coral on the bottom. I was petty good until it hits a few feet overhead, after that I would be a bunch nervous. I have never surfed anything bigger than a lip at 6 feet overhead. Where I come from it does not get any bigger than that.

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So I was wondering if there are any singers close by that you could still meet up with? :cool:

 

I am not interested in pursuing my musical odyssey any more truthfully. I am at the end of my interest in performing out. And I don't really want to interact with other musicians. Not since I got good enough to create nice real sounding backing tracks. I do not have to negotiate any music with other folks. I could go out and play live with my 3 + finished sets of backing tracks, but I no longer have the desire to perform.

 

The only way I would do that is if someone who I know and played out regularly in a traveling concert band, and be their opening act for three or 4 grand a show and all expenses paid. (and that ain't gonna happen), so........

 

I was thinking more along the lines of getting together with like minded singers (sans instruments) to get back to that motown sound, just for fun...but +1 my gigging days are behind me now along with negotiating with "other folks" LOL! :thu:

Take care, Larryz
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My Caskets band were/are my life long friends and we started our 1st 3 piece Ventures band back in '65. We played together and added a bass player till we graduated high school as 2 of us got drafted in '69. We all lived in the same town and had many a fun beach party surfing and playing music to include adult parties and a few clubs. Lots of memories for a tribute band before there were tribute bands LOL!

The Caskets! I love it! What a great band name! Cool.

 

Thanks Caevan, I came up with the name at our very 1st gig. We were playing a private party for our dentist and his fellow dentists. He asked what we call ourselves as he wanted to put us in his dentist's magazine. My buddy said we don't have a name yet as we just sound like death warmed over (an expression he liked to use). So, I said then why don't we just call ourselves the Caskets? And we got printed up in the magazine like we were some real big professionals as opposed to 3 snotty nosed 15 year old teens LOL! I wish I had saved that magazine article in case we ever made it big LOL! This was back in '65 pre-Goth. I'm sure some of the Goth bands in the 80's probably used the name LOL! :thu:

Take care, Larryz
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We played a frat party before the pandemic and I would surf a 50 ft wave at pipeline before I play another one.

 

:laugh::cheers:

 

I would love to surf backdoor at 6 feet. Anything bigger and I am on the beach......Or out at another break, preferably a beach break with no rocks/coral on the bottom. I was petty good until it hits a few feet overhead, after that I would be a bunch nervous. I have never surfed anything bigger than a lip at 6 feet overhead. Where I come from it does not get any bigger than that.

 

I would imagine those frat parties get a little too wild...we had a secret beach south of Rio Del Mar we called Beer Can. The waves were only 4 feet but we had them all to ourselves. We surfed and slept all day every chance we got. Then we would build a fire and stay up all night drinking beer and playing music...those were the days! :2thu::cheers:

 

ps. we always picked up our beer cans

Take care, Larryz
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I tried surfing Steamers in Santa Cruz but the water was black with wet-suits, so I never even tried to paddle out. It was breaking nice however, so I went to the O'Neil wet-suit factory and got me a new full wet-suit, which someone stole off of my side view mirror on my van (a year or so later) while I was inside sleeping in the van, this was at San Elijo State Beach campground in Cardiff By The Sea in North San Diego County. I never left my new wet-suit outside my van after that.

 

I stayed up later the next night to watch and I did see someone walking down the campsite road late at night walking so silently I was amazed. That next morning I saw a guy transferring a bunch of towels and other items into a car, I took the license plates of that car and gave it to the park rangers. But then never did anything but accept my complaint. To this day when I camp over there I never leave anything outside and unlocked, Everything stays in the car or tent with us at night or when we go down to the beach.

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Steamers is one of the great surf spots in the California Santa Cruz area and that's why I never surfed it. +1 on overcrowding and a sea of black wet suits that all know each other. They are great local surfers but they can be real ass wipes LOL!

 

Camp thieves are in every campsite throughout the state and have ruined camping for me...I stay in the casino hotels now and cruise around in the day time and take in the shows at night. I have friends that camp every year in Lake Tahoe, and I join them for playing music in the RV park. Last year some a-hole stole their BBQ! But, they still enjoy camping. Motion detector alarms work pretty good and running a cable through all your stuff and locking it up really helps too. Yeah, wet suits left drying on the side mirror can disappear real fast... :cool:

Take care, Larryz
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