Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

A Little Classical Music There, Kids

Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, the guitarists, get all the accolades for this one, but a Canadian fellow from Bombay named Prakash John is the bass player. Listen to the bass player.

21 Comments

  1. Spencer

    I’m lucky enough to have met Prakash on a few occasions, classiest man in Rock&Roll. He played with Lou reed, Alice Cooper (in his prime), Parliament…..Gretzky’s wedding, and he is a teetotaler so his stories aren’t so foggy. Cool looking mofo also… https://youtu.be/p2l-jCADEgY

    • Spencer

      https://youtu.be/2ORrntrVU0w

    • SmokingLeather

      Wow. This is the prototype for Punk Rock. Also I don’t think heterosexuals were legally allowed to have that hair and mustache combination after 1976.

    • Luther Von Baconson

      toronto soul connection, played with George Olliver

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaRhVjjA10

      there is a gold 45 of this on the wall in my Mom’s simulated woodgrain paneled basement.

      • Spencer

        Nice,didn’t Bush(not the 90s alt rock one for the younger enthusiasts) for out of the ashes of Mandala? he plays around Toronto with The Lincolns, they are a great funk/soul band.

        • Spencer

          Apparently auto correct doesn’t recognize the word form.

        • Luther Von Baconson

          yes & I think it really comes back to Etobicoke where I believe most of them were from. Mimico for the Older Enthusiasts.

          we can’t forgot the Hamilton connection. Jackie Washington, Harrison Kennedy
          ..
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqWY90slpQ

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8eCjqWRec

          • Spencer

            Mimico next stop, Mimico…. 19 and older for the younger enthusiasts.

          • Luther Von Baconson

            stand clear of the folding doors please.

            i have friends in Bronte, when i’m in town to visit, i always go past this joint on the train. wonder what the stories there are? anyone live above it? if i lived nearby, i’d probably be a regular.

          • Spencer

            Bronte nice! My cousins live in Oakville and when we were young we used to score hash in Bronte and paddle up and down the crik and down by the pier.

          • Spencer

            I’ve never been in the Blue Goose but it’s been there for 100 years.

          • Luther Von Baconson

            there’s Steelhead in the crik. near impossible to catch here on the west coast, but thicker than flies in Lake Ontario. maybe it’s the Hash that ended up in the crik.

          • Spencer

            The steelie run is great in the Bronte and 16 mile crik, there’s brown trout too (although not as plentiful).

      • Spencer

        https://youtu.be/08PIUT2oDQ4

  2. JES

    If you were writing a book about a rock band and you gave them all these names . . .

    Lou Reed – vocals
    Pentti “Whitey” Glan – drums
    Steve Hunter – guitar
    Prakash John – bass
    Dick Wagner – guitar
    Ray Colcord – keyboards

    . . . then your editor would say “That’s ridiculous, no one’s gonna buy that . . . . Go try again, with a believable combination of real world names . . . “

    • Spencer

      I am still a 12 year old at heart…..Dick Wagner hee hee hee

  3. Harry the horse

    I saw Prakash a few years back at the blues fest on our little isle, and I even drove by gretzkys wedding by accident when he was coming down the steps. Fella from me hometown Regina by the name of jack Semple was the fantastic guitar player in the band (whatever they were called, the Lincolns?) back then for the weddin but sadly not when I saw them recently.
    The whole shows from rock and roll animal have recently come out in the right order if you know where to look.

    • Spencer

      I think his son is playing guitar for them now. Lincolns are a great band.

      • Spencer

        Wrong, his kid plays drums I guess.

  4. Harry the horse

    https://youtu.be/Uc26EFI1_nw

    Lou reed live in Paris 1974!!!
    It’s great.

  5. Harry the equus

    And you can look at the bass player playin! Sweet Jane.

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