George Klein's Memphis Sounds with Black Oak Arkansas
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Filmed May 2012
In the year 1963, some high school pals decided to get together to form a group because of their love of music. After 43 years, several dozen albums… three of which became gold, one of which became platinum, and one gold single from a song known as "Jim Dandy To The Rescue," which was told to them to record by none other than Elvis Presley himself (!), this group of friends still manages to stay together. (After talking to Elvis, Black Oak Arkansas was told the following week by their producer Tom Dowd and by their label president Ahmet Ertegun that these two industry giants were also about to ask BOA about recording that same tune! Ahmet himself only personally signed 5 groups to recording contracts in his long, long recording history… and Black Oak Arkansas had the honor of being number 5!) Many testimonials and awards have been presented to this band by everyone from Bill Graham, (who founded and ran Winterland Ballroom and both the Fillmore East and West), to Wolfman Jack from the Midnight Special; from First Lady Betty Ford to President Bill Clinton!
With an original homespun musical flavor, Black Oak Arkansas has been presenting their music and their life to the worlds’ public now for almost half of a century, and with a still active touring and recording schedule… there is presently no end in sight! June of 2007 found them performing at the Sweden Rock Festival along with Aerosmith, Scorpions, Motorhead, REO Speedwagon and many more! In 2012 BOA were in Brazil playing for more than 4 millions people. You can also find them this year in the studio working on their newest planned release entitled "Memphis Mean Tymes," and continuing to book concerts through the 21st century touring season.
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, the blond dynamo of the center stage, has been the lead singer and front man for BOA since their conception in junior high school with guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds. Jim has been heard to say that one of his proudest moments was when Johnnie Carson asked Mick Jagger on the Tonight Show that of all of the new and up-coming groups… "Who was his favorite Front man?" Mick quickly said, "Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas!’ On the first U.S. tour, Bad Company was a special guest on a tour of the BOA boys, and David Coverdale was known to have given the same response. Once at a birthday party in New York for Ahmet Ertegun, none other than Mr. John Lennon came over to personally meet Jim Dandy… put his hand on Jims’ shoulder… and told Jim that he thought Jim was "ahead of his time!"
Jim has been said to be the role model for famous singers in bands such as Guns and Roses, Van Halen, Motley Crue and many more. In 2004, Jim was elected by Classic Rock magazine as being number #36 in the top 100 front men of all time! His live-show antics and verbal fire snatching on stage, along with his unusual vocal style and instrument of choice, the scruboard, have made him into the Rock and Roll legend that he is today.
Along with Jim Dandy, BOA these days consists of Rickie Lee Reynolds on guitar, (lifetime pal and original founding member of Black Oak Arkansas), Johnnie Bolin on drums… an incredible drummer with the longest BOA stage-life in history…(and whose brother was Tommy Bolin, legendary guitarist with several great albums of his own… and also of James Gang and Deep Purple fame before his tragic death in 1976), George Hughen on bass, (Long-time Arkansas friend of the Black Oak Arkansas Wild Bunch… who was recruited from another part of the BOA family from Ft. Smith, Arkansas called The Judge Parker Band), and Mr. Hal McCormack on the slammin’ lead guitar, (another long-time friend and guitarist for such bands as Survivor and Tora Tora).
Black Oak Arkansas’ live show has been described as, " They come gallivanting out onto the stage like a bunch of escaped lunatics from a Dogpatch Insane Asylum!" Though many albums have been put out over the years on this bunch of guys, they were always known best for their live shows. On Jim’s 25th Birthday, Bill Graham presented them with an award for playing 320 one-nighters in one year! (That night, BOA legend has it that the BOA road crew wanted to get Jim Dandy 25 girls so that he could "run the line!" But luckily, the road crew only found 16!) Wolfman Jack called them the hardest working band in Rock and Roll history! There was never a middle ground for Black Oak Arkansas… you either loved ‘em or ya hated ‘em!
These two gentleman are both legends of the beginnings of southern rock and need to get their credit as well as be in the Hall of Fame!!!
Rest in peace, Rickie Lee Reynolds.
Good to see rock stars live to an old age...a lot of them died way too young.
Glad the guys are still around. God bless 'em
Black Oak Arkansas great southern band. Im a fan of this band and I have all
of their albums.
Respectful men..glad I listened to them all these years
Keep on rocking Jim from the ky hillbilly your fan for 52 years
I listened them a lot when teen, realy like them a lot, Strong enough to be gentle it is WONDERFULL!
Unfortunately my english is not so good to get their acent in this interview.
RIP Ricky
RIP Jimmy Henderson
Great singing great playing great show great guys the ole burnt down Bob Bo's horn lake ms
Love these ole boys!
Luv from the widefield ruybals.
Dang! Did Rickie eat all of BOA's opening acts??!! Holy Moly the man is the size of an Arkansas county!
These guys are so much fun! Talk about rock stars getting old and fat! Hope they keep playing!
i saw em in the day . ruby star was dynamite with them also /
David Lee Roth had to get his chops watching him. seriously
thx GK for this
We get it Ricky...you're breathing.
The fist bump was a thing in 2012?
fist bumps were being done in the early 70's
david lee no match for jim or rickie lee
Ah, Diamond Dave put forth a good effort, and was loads of fun live.. Shout out to the Tommy Aldridge fans out there!!
They're eating well.
Black Pork Arkansas
They in some rough shape these days
It's amazing they are still alive. It appears a new B.O.A. studio l.p. is coming out in a month or so!!! The first in something like twenty five years!!! Holy shit!!! FINALLLY!!!
ole Ricky is struggling with breathing...wouldnt hurt to lose a couple of pounds!!!
Oh my,I wouldn't of even recognized him &Jim use to be sooo hot in those tight white pants😉
A couple of pounds? Try a couple hundred pounds!
Go to rock music
The only rescuing that they're doing is at the Golden Corral.
Boys don't miss a meal.
Yeah , but they were bad in their day ! I saw them twice in Evansville Indiana and once in San Antonio . Always a great stage show , they would always smash their guitars at the end but in Evansville , they did three encores and we kept saying , "This is it !" but they never "smashed " manager was stealing them blind
No se ingles..pero eso de" golden corral"..??
rickie must be 500lbs
Yeah hes a biggen
They decided to get fat together.
Good grief - getting old doesn’t mean you need to gain 200lbs. Insane.
O excuse for looking like this, if your in show business
You need to stay in shape to be presentable
Being loaded with excess weight ruins your lungs