Dave Morgan
Productions Presents
Afternoon Of Rockabilly, Classic Country, John Denver, and BBQ
To
Benefit The Herkimer
County Humane Society
Ask not, what your dog can do for you, ask what you can do for your dog!
Sunday Sept. 18, 2011
Doors open 2p.m. Music Starts 3p.m.
Herkimer VFW
129 Mohawk Street Herkimer NY
Phone: (315)
866-9353
ADMISSION: $10.00 Per Person Plus PET FOOD DONATION
ALL PET FOOD
FROM THE DOOR
GOES TO:
Herkimer County Humane Society
( Chicken BBQ and drinks Sold Separately by: VFW.)
Music
By:
The Moss Back Mule Band
Moss Back Mule Band, enriched by diverse musical influences and great group chemistry, continues to maintain the ensemble that formed in the early 1970’s. Although there have been a number of noteworthy lineups, the current group is composed of four founding members along with various guest musicians.
Steve Quenneville, Bob Fleming, Hal Kent and Dave Liddy re-unite the group that led to Moss Back’s widespread success while playing Western Swing, Classic Country, Boogie and Blues for nearly four decades.
Since their inception, the band has played concerts with Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd , Hank Williams Jr., Pure Prairie League, Commander Cody, the Subdudes and other national acts but their appeal is in large part due to their inclusion in the Central New York music community. This deep well of talented musicians and enthusiastic fans has a rich history of freely interacting to create a memorable event for all who attend.
All of the original musicians still play consistently in various settings but as the Moss Back Mule Band welcome each new select concert and are excited to be performing with the Tichy Boys & Bryan Dickenson. This is the second time the Moss Back Mule Band has done a benefit for Dave Morgan Productions. They played a successful benefit for the Stevens Swan Humane Society in May 2011 with the Nighthawks.
Dave Liddy & his BEAUTIFUL dog Emmy
The Tichy Boys
...The senior Tichy, John, is of course a founding member of the legendary Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, the pioneering group that swept out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and lit up the early 1970s musical scene in San Francisco with its brand of barroom country, western swing, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues. The world soon took notice, and Tichy and his bandmates helped change the face of popular music with their diverse Americana blend. The group’s albums would go down in history as some of the most noteworthy of the era.
Guitarist-singer Tichy was a key player, offering up memorably soulful vocal performances on songs such as the classic country tearjerkers “Cryin’ Time” and “Family Bible.” After confusing the heck out of the hippie generation while nonetheless ensuring their place in the annals of rock-and-roll history, the original group parted ways in 1976. John Tichy, Ph.D. in hand, embarked on a whole different path, becoming a professor in the department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, where he would eventually serve as department chair—a seemingly long way from the days of packed arenas and sharing stages with the likes of the Byrds and the Grateful Dead.
But while this could have been the end of one story and the beginning of another, the music simply lived on. In 1978, Tichy’s son Graham arrived, with the genetic rock-and-roll code already locked in. Reared in a house in Rensselaer County, NY, where blues, country, rockabilly, and other such raw and genuine forms of music were omnipresent, Graham sponged it up. As he grew older, he evolved into a formidable guitarist in his own right, first with his youthful rockabilly group Rocky Velvet and then with a host of other nationally notable rock-and-roll and rockabilly groups.
From his beginnings as a local sensation—consistently winning “best-guitarist” nods in his native region—he soon broke out into wider arenas, touring Europe, playing guitar for Wanda Jackson (the legendary 1950s “Queen of Rockabilly”), and even assuming the lead guitar spot (subbing for Bill Kirchen) during the long-awaited San Francisco reunion shows of Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen in 2004. The Commander himself, George Frayne, was moved to tell the San Francisco Chronicle, “[John’s] got a genius son, Graham Tichy. . . . He’s become the new rockabilly whiz-kid guitar player. He’s out on the road with Wanda Jackson as we speak. [He’s] just off the road with Robert Gordon. He’s Tichy’s kid and he plays like James Burton used to play with Elvis in the ’60s.”
And now these two musical stories from different generations merge again, as father and son blend their collective musical histories into one entity, the Tichy Boys. They may refer to themselves as the “finest father and son rockabilly duo in all of Rensselaer County,” but it’s also much more than that. It is time for a much wider audience to take note. Again.
Bryan Dickenson
(John Denver Tribute)
Bryan Dickenson is a singer/songwriter born and raised in West Winfield NY and still living in central New York. Influenced by Jim Croce, James Taylor and John Denver, his songs are stories about life and our common experiences. He has been a professional musician for over twenty years playing everywhere from backyard parties unplugged to huge crowds like the Boilermaker after party with his horn band “Not For Profit”. Whether solo, in duos, or as a lead singer in a band Bryan always makes sure everyone is having fun. Mixing original music with cover favorites, time spent listening to Bryan will always leave you feeling entertained.
About this concert: This whole thing from May 2007 until 2009 has been about Hospice & my ole man. Hospice took great care of him in the end and I was glad to give back. But from 2009 until I stop doing this, it will be about me & my father's never ending love for dogs.
Forest Morgan was and will always be the original DOG WHISPERER. He had a magic with dogs that I've never seen or may never see again.
Forest and I, A.K.A. Pa, fought with each other, laughed with each other, and got flat on our ass drunk together. I still consider those times to be the best times of my life. He loved his dogs more than me, and I loved my dogs more than him, and in the end we had each others backs and loved each other and all those dogs with a passion that will never be matched. I think of him, and miss him, every day!
Dave Liddy
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Bob Fleminghttp://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000633321191
Jeff Baker
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The Tichy Boyshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/TheTichyBoys
Bryan Dickenson
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Duke
June 2000-Aug. 28, 2009
I will always be grateful to the beautiful people at the Rome NY Humane Society for giving us Duke.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.................Dave Morgan
Bandit with Dave Morgan & Liz and THE GREAT Doctor Jerry Kraus
Bandit is our new addition to the family. Jerry Kraus brought him to the benefit in 2009 and I immediately fell in love, and a week later he was ours. Bandit is a 4 almost 5 year old Rot/Shep mix. He looked out for Duke until the end and is a pal to our Newfoundland Moose.
Thank you Jerry I will be forever grateful to you for Bandit.
Harpo Marx Morgan
1981-1998
To the great Forest Morgan