Jon, we played out of Kansas City. Southwest MO would have been the ranch in Galena, KS. Probably played there 5-6 times a year if not more. Skip and Kenny would fire another band to give us a gig for the week end. What a rocking place. Always packed. Yes, the smell of cigarettes and beer, fighting in the parking lot, and the other 'things' that we did in the mid-late '70s
Later, Hammonds Arena at SW Missouri University.
Any other Alembic owners in the KC area? Sounds like a party to me...

Eligilam - It now belongs to my brother.  Great instrument in many ways.
 
John

Vote: Elmo Nails Band:  best picture, on a truck bed? quick escape?
Oldest band pic: Steppin' Stones, 1967
Other?

An 'Other' category I forgot:
Best clothes; Fable

Mid '90s; so not as old as some of the others.
 

Hey David,
 
I see you played with Weird Al Yankovic (the guy to left in the 1st picture)

Me doing a Bass wiz

 

  this is around 1979 or 80  [moderator's edit: stacked pictures vertical]  (Message edited by artswork99 on February 08, 2011)

Me doing a Bass wiz
 
 
this is around 1979 or 80

Here are a couple from 1992 when I was touring in the USA with a reggae band. Pic 1 is in orlando florida

 That guitar was a casio midi guitar controller MG510, and the pickups were pretty noisy when I got on a big stage so during my tour I picked up the strat.    Pic 2 is in the bullring in Tijuana where we opened for Santana for two shows.

 The second is my trusted Fender Strat Ultra with an ebony board and lace pickups. A wonderful guitar.  Me on guitar and Elias on bass. around 1978/79

  Cimar (Gibson Marauder Copy) I loved that guitar, it had clear plastic see through pickups and later became the my pickup and wiring and switching explorations.

  Last one with my new(at the time) Ibanez SA400WN semi acoustic oh and that was my first car two door Ford Cortina 1300gls

 I was a big fan of the Blackbyrds at the time hence the dungarees.  Jazzyvee

That's me with my Pan Bass back in 79!
 
This Fender Jazz copy,  
sounded better than the real thing.  
I talked much about this bass  
on past threads, so when one  
of my lady friends had sent  
me this picture, I was happily  
surprised to show this on  
this thread.
 
The way we were... WOW!
 
What a trip!
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 

 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on February 04, 2011)

The Elmo Nails pic has me smiling everytime I look at this thread. Check the speaker cabinets, it looks like the band is playing AT each other (battle of the band?)  
Mike

Mike, that was our on-stage monitoring system..

jazzyvee..J reg Cortina GLS that would make it 1969 model and looking at the pic I would say around 1974 or 75 whan that pic was took..maybe even 1976.

to jon_jackson, went back and re-read your question and my former posts and decided I gave a lame answer. In the 60s, I was playing in Higginsville, 20 miles north of Warrensburg, 50 miles east of Kansas City. WTF geography lesson for most posters, but that's the correct answer. Still very cool to see all the posts. How many thousands of hours of music have been produced by all us bass players? Congrats to all of you.

Terry, I think it was a 1971 Cortina and I bought it for my birthday in 1979 and sold it late in 1981. I bought that guitar in 1980 so that kind of dates the picture to between those years. I was still at school during 1974 -1976 and not an ASBO,  joyriding, truant teenager posing with a stolen car hahaha.
 
 (for our non UK friends, ASBO = Antisocial behavior order)
 
Jazzyvee