The Velvet Whores |
In 1980 after 6 drug overdoses, 85 gold records, 100 top ten singles, 78 divorcees, 5 Grammies, 2000 arrests the band that defined the 70's called it quits after a show in front of 78000 fans at The Tokyo Dome in Japan. Most say music died that cloudy day we had to say good-bye to the Velvet Whores it would be the better part of 19 years before the rock anthem machine would grace a stage again and since their return, Worcester has not been the same. Dynamo formed the whores in 1969 after accidentally attending a Grateful Dead show. To his disgust the show did not rock, in fact it sucked, it sucked so bad the innovator of all that is funky gave up his quiet country ways for the rock & roll lifestyle. His first recruit was his old friend Johnny Heartbeat. The amazing drummer had been in jail after driving the Indianapolis 500 drunk. Heartbeat had a friend named Mitch Britches, who he claimed was not only the best bass player of all time but that he had by that time slept with over 200,000 women. With out another word being said Mr. Britches was in. Next up they went to an old piano bar where they found some one who would change the way we looked at piano forever, his name was DUKE Honeytouch, and for three grams of coke he was their new keyboard player only one part was missing and Habeeb new what it was Rob Rockly had been playing on rolling stone and Led Zepplin albums for a few years when he went out on tour to play under the stage for Jimmy Page (page was already to drunk to play by 69) the three approached him, and without hesitation he was on board for the next ten years, full of the rock, the drugs the women and the booze. The fivesome had hit after hit "I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (AT LEAST MORE THEN YOU WANT THAT GUY OVER THERE)" "DIRTY DEEDS (DONE IN JEEPS)" and of course "RUNNING CON EL DIABLO". There was a bit of tragedy occurred when a week long acid trip went wrong and the legendary Duke Honeytouch disappeared. The band thought about quitting, but tour obligations and love of booze kept them going, until...... well you read the end already, Habeeb waited a while, formed the DEADITES and built another rock dynasty. But he could no longer stand to have his songs destroyed and worst still, have other folks making money off them (a bad management decision lost them the right to all their songs) so he reformed "The Whores" and every year at his birthday show they return to rock the stage and keep there legacy alive. This year the 5 kings of rock (duke returned last year not knowing he had left at all) promised to turn it up a notch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I'm friggin' pissed!
Someone ate my last half gallon of vanilla bean ice cream that I had in the sub-zero walk-in freezer. It was clearly labeled "TINY WIGHT's VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM, ASSHOLE. NO TOUCHY."
I just got back from the grocery store with all these sundae fixin's and now I'm standing here with MUD on my face. Whoever took that ice cream, I swear to you "I will punch your fucking lights out".
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