THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! Freddie Krc ( Peter Lewis of Moby Grape, Sal Valentino of The Beau Brummels, and Al Staehely of Spirit). and Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Company) JUST ADDED TO THE BILL DARBY GOULD!!! ( LEAD SINGER JEFFERSON STARSHIP) — with Sam Andrew. play the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center August 23,2014 Art House Gallery & Cultural Center! 2905 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley CA 94705 510-472-3170 ALL AGES and Wheelchair Accessible Door is 7pm Show is 7:30 - 10PM $10-$20 Donation Please Support the Arts! JUST ADDED TO THE BILL DARBY GOULD ( LEAD SINGER JEFFERSON STARSHIP) Sam Andrew Bio. Janis Joplin may have been the most famous member of Big Brother & the Holding Company, but she wasnt the only one in the group central to its sound -- guitar/singer Sam Andrew also wrote songs for the group, and he ended up with one of the longest careers of any of the members. Andrews career in music began in 1959, at age 17, on the island of Okinawa. The son of a career military officer, he was living on the Japanese island with his family, and leading his own rock & roll band, which earned a regular gig at a locally broadcast American Bandstand-type program. His fathers transfer to northern California made it possible for Andrew to attend college in San Francisco, where he became part of the citys folk scene, which evolved into folk-rock underground in 1964 and 1965. His chance hearing of the sounds of a jam going on at the home of Peter Albin led to his joining the circle of musicians hanging around Albin, and precipitated the formation of Big Brother & the Holding Company in 1965. The group started out as a quartet, with Andrew and Albin handing the vocals, in addition to guitar and bass, respectively, and James Gurley and David Getz on guitar and drums. In June of 1966, in the course of trying to attract a bigger audience, the group added Janis Joplin to their lineup as lead singer, which greatly altered their sound. Andrew and Albin still sang, usually as backup to Joplin, and wrote songs as well. By the time of their appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967, they were being courted by every major record company in America, and ultimately signed with Columbia Records. The group only recorded one official album with Joplin, Cheap Thrills, and at the end of 1968 she announced that she was leaving them. Andrew was the only member of the band that she took with her, into the Kozmic Blues Band, with which she toured and recorded for nine months in 1969. At the end of the year, that group split up and Andrew returned to a re-formed version of Big Brother & the Holding Company, with a lineup that included Nick Gravenites. That version of the group only lasted into the early 70s, after which Big Brother began a period of on-again/off-again activity, re-forming every so often for concerts and occasional recording. Andrew used his time away from the band in the 70s to pursue a formal music education in New York, at the New School For Social Research and the Mannes College of Music, where he learned to play the clarinet and the saxophone. He has continued to play guitar with Big Brother & the Holding Company into the 21st century. FREDDIE STEADY KRC BIOGRAPHY Austin Music Awards Hall-of-Famer Freddie Steady Krc comes by his name honestly. This singer / songwriter / guitarist / drummer / renaissance Texan has plied his musical wares around the world the past few decades. A charismatic live performer, Krc wins over any audience with his captivating original songs and engaging stage presence. He also enjoys capturing the spirit of his favorite cover songs. Krc (rhymes with search) landed in Austin at the moment that a musical revolution was getting started at a stylesdon’t-matter joint called the Armadillo. The kid and the town were a perfect match. His first love was rock and roll, which had first found its way into his native Southeast Texas by way of the Beatles. By the time he hit Austin, he was also passionate about the Tex-Mex mix of the Sir Douglas Quintet (his first concert), the psychedelic sounds of rock innovators like the 13th Floor Elevators, and the soulful folk of singer/songwriters like B. W. Stevenson and Jerry Jeff Walker. Freddie Steady would eventually work as a band member with each of these artists, all while fueling his own musical ideas. Krc appeared on dozens of national and international television shows and films. He had a role as a session drummer in the movie Outlaw Blues, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Saint James. He also did a voice-over in the UK animated film, When the Wind Blows. Krc has appeared on Austin City Limits three times, the first of which was in its first season as B.W. Stevenson’s drummer, and he would soon begin a long run as the rhythmic foundation with Jerry Jeff Walker, with whom he would write songs, work on a dozen albums and log thousands of miles. From psychedelic rock to punk to country, this jack-of-all-genres plays it all with a panache reminiscent of the late, great Sir Doug.—Rob Patterson, Texas Music Magazine Session drumming includes studio work with everyone from the Sir Douglas Quintet’s Augie Meyers to Carole King, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to The Faces’ Ronnie Lane. Freddie’s greatest stage memories include performing for Presidents Clinton and Ford, “one-off” drumming gigs with Big Brother and the Holding Company at the ROT Motorcycle Rally in Austin and with legendary San Francisco’s Charlatans at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’ll never forget performing with Jerry Jeff at Willie Nelson’s 1985 Picnic when Neil Young joined in for a set. His dozens of credits as a record producer include Peter Lewis of Moby Grape, Sal Valentino of The Beau Brummels, and Al Staehely of Spirit. His published original songs number around a hundred and have been recorded by artists around the globe. He also had a song featured in the film, Purpose, and another that served as the theme for television music series, All You Can Eat Café. With his power pop trio, The Explosives, Freddie Steady set his drums right up front next to his band mates. In 2005, The Explosives helped bring Texas legend Roky Erickson out of retirement, serving as his band for several years, just as they had years earlier. Roky and the Explosives enjoyed great success with the release of the Freddie-produced Halloween, on Freddie’s own SteadyBoy Records label. Krc took front and center on the guitar with his country band, Freddie Steady’s Wild Country, and his Western folk rock outfit, The Shakin’ Apostles, but his earliest and purest rock and roll tendencies all come together in his latest and greatest incarnation: The Freddie Steady 5.He also performs solo and duo acoustic (with Cam King).THIS
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