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From: cottrell%nbs-vms@sri-unix.ARPA
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Subject: Dead Bands
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 11:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 11:39:00 1985
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I was going to bring this up myself, but it someone beat me to it.
Simply 

stated, `How many bands out there play mostly Dead?'
D.C. has (or had) at least four:
	1) Milton Freewater (76-82) The best of the bunch. They fiddled
		with national (regional?) exposure, playing Ocean City,
		the Jersey shore, & Pa. as well as D.C. & Baltimore,
		their home town. They wrote some originals & recorded
		a 45 which (still?) is on the jukebox at the Purple Moose.
	2) The Rock Creek Band - Pretty good, altho more restrained than
		Freewater. They lasted two or three years.
	3) Crazy Fingers - Several incarnations. Originally a Dead band,
		they mutated into a Little Feat/Steely Dan kind of thing.
		Every summer the originals get together for a few parties.
	4) New Potato Caboose - a bunch of kids from D.C. or Northern Va.
		I only saw them once. Pretty good imitations, but short jams.
	5) Shoes for the Dead - If you recognize these guys, you must
		know me personally. We did a few free parties. While being
		the most amateur, we were the most outlandish, with the
		longest & weirdist jams, feedback, & space.
		Mostly a basement band tho.

Has anyone out there heard these bands? If so, drop me a note, or share it
with the group. Describe any deadly bands you know. Can anyone figure out
where Milton Freewater got their name? I know, so locals need not answer.

	As Allied Chemical says:	`Kepone Truckin'

		jim		cottrell@nbs
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