I'm amazed by that article.
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?, I have briefly spoken to Kenny and Anthony Smith regarding Lone Star.
There is a full length article on the vastly under-rated band in this month's 'Classic Rock' magazine.
Saw them live at the Reading festival in '77. Classy performance.
Kenny has a great voice and surely should have been destined for something bigger. Saw his band play local places like The Royal Oak, The Claude and Old Iltydians quite a few times when I lived in Sunny Splott. I've seen a thousand and one bands cover Free's 'All Right Now', Kenny always nailed it perfectly, unlike so many vocalists I've seen trying to imitate Paul Rodgers.
Lone Star were a class hard rock band who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The musical climate was changing rapidly around 1976/77 and their sound just didn't fit in.
Had they emerged on the rock scene around 1973/74 things could have been so much different for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6UFjlQq5bA
[QUOTE=Lost Johnny;4625479]Lone Star were a class hard rock band who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The musical climate was changing rapidly around 1976/77 and their sound just didn't fi
I always thought that they had a good chance of making it and The Bells of Berlin still gives me goose pimples.
After spending time in Canada, I can't believe they didn't get it together to go to the US. They could have been huge.
[QUOTE=Taunton Blue Genie;4625483]Tony Smith fronts a local covers band called The Daggers, I was watching them in the claude a few years ago and Kenny Driscoll popped in, obviously they did a song together which, I captured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0Drh-dov8
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Turned up in my news feed this morning.