Notes of a Young Drummer 1966-1969 (Free PDF Digital Download)

Notes of a Young Drummer 1966 – 1969

By Michael Welch

Copyright 2013

Michael Welch Publications

Springfield, Ohio—1958

Why Not Me—Where’s Santa?

Rural Free Delivery on Old Columbus Road That’s Different

Elvis—Mania

The Piano

All Skate

Just Say Yes

Television

Bang Blink Crash Boom

Smilin’ Bob on WBLY Purple People Eaters February 3, 1959

May—1959

Geneva, Florida — 1962

LL-RR-LL-RR WLOF-Channel 95

February 9, 1964

Are You In A Band?

“A Really Big Shoe

1965

Louie Simmons

Tindal’s Gas Station

1966

The Truant Officer

9th Grade Dropout

The Juvenile Delinquent

My First Drum-set

Lefty or Righty

Beating Those Skins

First Gigs

Willie at The Club Diamond

The Set List

Jimmy Head—Discount Music Center

The British Invasion

Smile

Barfly’s

Playing In a Beatles Band

Professional Musicians

Legal Guardians

Underage

Central Florida Teen Clubs

Brittany Room-Tiki Club-Peggy T-Jack Kerouac

60s Groups

Leaning against the wall

The Tropics

Little Black Egg & My Brother The Man

Sam Rivers—The Tiki Club The Allman Joys

Bobby Caldwell

1967

Old People

Discount Music Center

Sylvan Wells

Bobby Cash

Moe’s Missile Lounge

Volvo 122S

$100 A Week

Enter—Diane Diane’s Sister

1967 Summer Of Love

Harlem Shuffle—Moe’s The Right Stuff

LarryD - The Cork Room - Mawd Hooker

Ken Lathe

Ken’s Couch

$125 A Week

Jim Morrison

Young Blood

The Show Band

First Car

Speed

Live Music

The Guilloteens at The Vanguard

Underage

Jam Sessions

Buckwheat

The Gamble

Ideals

Starving Artist

New Music

Paying Dues

From The Outside

Melbourne Civic Center

Mitch Ryder

The Yardbirds

My First LP’s

Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page

British Blues & Psychedelia

1967

Day Gigs

November - 1967 - Geneva

December - 1967

I Need A Gig

Oh No

$630.00

The C-Room - Tommy Cashwell

Tommy’s Band

Shure Vocal-Master

Jim Anderson-Billy Joe-Jim Ramsey

The Go-Go Room

Bowling

Anderson & Bill Lowery Agency

Exit-Jim Ramsey

1968

The Scene-Daytona Beach

Warren Deveroux

Keith-Ginger-Carmine-Dino

1958 Chevy Belair

Keyboards - Military Cities

American Federation of Musicians

January - Exit – Warren Enter-Bob Love Enter-John Rakestraw

Naive Teenage Kid

Jazzers! - They Play Weird

First Rehearsal - In Stitches

Hendrix-Wes Montgomery-Roy Buchanan

Ginger -Syncopation

New Look

I-75 North

Jim Anderson - Flatulence

M80s - Look at Bob

It was the 60s - Paisley In Public

Jim’s Groupies aka-Bearded Lady

The Photo Shoot - Gossip

What Is Hip - Long Hairs

Crowd Pleasers

Band Rehearsals

Just Like The Record

The NiteBeat—Key West

Louie’s Brother Andy

Feedback

The Blenders

From Where I Sit

1968

Band standing

Freak Out

Girls In Day-Glow

Jimi and the Hookah

Penny Lane

When The Music’s Over

The Rastaman

Head Shops

Mixed Bag

Turned On

Ace Music & The Pekinese

The Armpit Grill

The Fight-Round One

Round Two Round Three

You’re Out

Terror On Duval Street

Saturday Night

The Equalizer

Revenge

Gigs Over - Time To Go

Joe Guinn

The Coffin USS Alabama

Double Booked

Clermont Motor Hotel-789 Ponce De Leon Avenue-Atlanta, Georgia

The Parking Lot

The Neighborhood

The One-Pound Rocket

Hit the ditch

M80 in the Clermont Lobby

Layout Joe!

Do The Gig

Plug & Play Mentality

Rake’s Progress

Original Music

Atlanta 68

Camp Lejeune

1968

Spinning Doughnuts

Lay Out Joe-Look Happy & Dance Around

April 4, 1968

C-Room Jam Session

Enter-Jimmy Head & The Head Lyters

ASAP

Anxious Limbo

Goodbye

Jim Anderson & The Blenders

Hoi Polloi Like Rake & Me

Columbus, Georgia –

April 1968

Enter-James Gardner - Like “The King”

Hello Mr. Rakestraw

Practice - It’s New York

$200 A Week

Sly 1968-Dance To The Music

Harmony Tunes - The Nehru’s

Bob n Weave - Money Bags

Don’t Open That Door

Draws -- Albany to Biloxi

Impressions

Fiesta at The Fiesta

Cassie & The F-Bomb

Tropical Special --- Two Rooms

Cecelia and the Mountain Oysters

The Mysterious Balcony

The Drum Riser

Days & Nights

Searching for a Heart of Gold and I’m gettin Old

The Bel-Aire Motel

Our First Night

The Echoplex

The Urine Troughs and The Toupee

The Biloxi Strip

Good ol’ boys

Sons of Tyme at The Beach House

Vapors & Sandpiper

1968

The Chocolate Papers at Chez Joey

Under The Radar

Merry Pranksters

Bunny & Frankie

Band Breaks

Watch Out For The Swinging Door

James-Behind The Curtain

Butt Dancing

Improvisation

The Crowd Loved It

Exit Head Lyters-Enter-Sons Of Tyme

Wayne Sharp & Don Garrett

The Sons of Tyme—Franks Beach House

John “Jabo” Starks

Owsley’s Lab

He Drank The Kool-Aid

“My Hendrix Experience”

The Hippie Van

September 6, 1968

One - Niter In The Hattiesburg Jail

Enter-Fact-O-Bake

Sons of Tyme—The Fiesta

Enter-Pete Schaffer

The Record Deal

Moss County

Eternity’s Children

Playing Trio

The Woodchuck Festival

EMC

1969

Hippie Dippies

Enter-Led Zeppelin

February 1969-Enter-Bonita

March-1969-Biloxi

Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner

Exit-Moss County

Re-Enter-The Go-Go Room

Riding the Dog

May-1969-Riviera Beach

Exit-Jim Ramsey-Enter-Tommy Cashwell

Tommy’s Beach Club

Off Season Rate

Comfort Zone

Led Zeppelin

The Sideman

Tommy Cashwell

Enter-The Pink Pussy Cat

Honeymoon for 2

Paiste Formula 602

The Rakestraw’s

Exit-Pink Pussy Cat

November-1969-Riviera Beach

Enter-Johnny’s Back Door

Enter-Vic Waters & Donny Gregory

Soul City

Vic Waters Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud

I’m White I’m Alright

Backdoor Santa Claus

Soul Food

December-1969-Saint Petersburg

The Blue Room

Morrison’s Cafeteria

Horn Band

Christmas - 1969

Sleazy Motel—Orange Blossom Trail—OBT Goodbye 1969—West Palm Beach

January—1970