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Last Edit 7/3/2008 9:35 PM
Status Single
Hometown Virginia, IL
Occupation construction
Interested In Finding Friends
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Smoke No Answer
Drink No Answer
Kids one daughter college age
Pets none
Cars Chevy truck
Ford Crown Victoria
interests
General
family history, collecting music
Activities
fishing, watching Nascar,
Music
A little bit of everything of all types, from Vernon Delhart to Holly Bakehorn in country, from Bobby Darin to Iron Butterfly in pop and rock and everything in between. Sometimes there are groups I like that dont fit in a bin as to the type is it rock, folk, or country such as the group Mason Proffit of the late 60's. Were their songs: indian rights movement songs, war protest songs, bluegrass, rock or just straight forward country. Whatever you called them I know that I hunted down every album they released on Happy Tiger, Ampex and then Warner Bros. The article below says it all.....
Mason Proffit is widely considered by obscure rock aficionados to be one of the best bands who never made it to the big time. Although they are mostly overlooked today, along with the Byrds, Michael Nesmith, and others, they helped to invent country-rock.
The band was formed in 1969 by members of the recently disbanded Sounds Unlimited, a tough Chicago garage band with a well-developed melodic sense. John and Terry Talbot were the main movers behind Sounds Unlimited and in Mason Proffit they took the vocal harmonies they had developed in Sounds Unlimited and went in a folk and country direction. They were among the first to combine the energy and instrumentation of rock with the subject matter and twang of country. Perhaps the reason they were not hailed as visionaries at the time is that their first three records came out on small labels and didn't sell many copies. 1969's Wanted! Mason Proffit and 1971's Movin' Toward Happiness were released by Happy Tiger and 1971's Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream was released by Ampex. The band's fortunes took a positive turn in 1972 when they were signed by Warner Bros. and released Rockfish Crossing. They used their Warner Bros. connection to tour with the Grateful Dead but it didn't help them with the record buying public. In 1973 they released one last album, Bareback Rider, and then broke up. In 1974 Warner Bros. released a two-record set of Mason Proffit's Happy Tiger recordings. This has been reissued on CD by One Way and is a great place to start if you want to discover the roots of country rock.
In the years after the breakup of Mason Proffit, the Talbot brothers shifted their attention to Christian music, recording albums for Warner Bros., Sparrow, and other labels. ~ Tim Sendra, All Music Guide
Movies
romantic comedies, some action films like the Die Hard series and Independence Day. Like Groundhog Day, and Train Planes and Automobiles.
TV
usually watch A & E, History, PBS and some CMT
Books
Books on the Civil War, and books about music artists
Quotes
" True emotions are the overflow of excess thoughts when there are no words or way to fully express how you feel at the moment. Deep thoughts can be happy, sad, or a combination of both" I wrote this one day when I was thinking about a dear friend and a woman I love very much, Kelly, she is someone I miss very much and she always makes my emotions run high
Food
LOL now I love food lots of food
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