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Lazy River Live at Oak Street Pub on 1976-08-15

by Lazy River

Publication date: 1976-08-15 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Lazy River, live music, SBD, Vince Gill, Bill Millet, Bob Briedenbach, John Jump, John Bieser, Monte Barry, newgrass, bluegrass

Collection: LazyRiver

Band/Artist: Lazy River

Lazy River band

John Jump, Robert Pool, Vince Gill, Bill Millet, Bob Briedenbach

Vince Gill
lead vocals, electric mandolin, fiddle, guitar, frontman

John Jump
lead vocals, accoustic and electric guitars, frontman

Bob Briedenbach
lead vocals, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro

Bill Millet
vocals, banjo, guitar

John Bieser
electric bass

set 1
You Don't Love Me
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I Know What it Means to be Lonesome
Ground Speed
Good Woman's Love
Dixie Blues
One of These Days
Salty Dog
Panhandle Rag
Louise
Uncle Pen -> Sally Goodin'
Big River
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Beaumont Rag
Milk Cow Blues
Hey Good Lookin'
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

set 2
Las Vegas
You Won't Be Satisfied That Way
Orange Blossom Special
Sitting on Top of the World
I Gotta Get Drunk
Wheel Hoss
Sweetheart of Mine
That Promised Land
Cotton Patch Blues
Take Me Back to Tulsa
Tennessee Blues
Why You've Been Gone So Long
My Window Faces the South
Cowboy Song
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Uncle Woodrow
Up That Lazy River

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— Monte's Taper Handbook —

Notes

Monte the Taper archives
thank you largely eTree and Internet Archive

-- peace from Monte --

Lazy River band
Vince Gill - lead vocals, electric mandolin, fiddle, guitar
John Jump - lead vocals, accoustic and electric guitars
Bobby Briedenbach - lead vocals, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro
Bill Millet - vocals, banjo, guitar
John Bieser - electric bass

Sound System by Monte Barry and Lazy River
Monte Barry is the Soundman

Notes:
-- banjo is mic'd inside / under the resonator
-- That Promised Land, Cowboy Song, and Uncle Woodrow are originals by John Jump

Monte's Newgrass Music taper and soundman experiences

please help find my lost 1985 Video Tape Recordings
we TAPED for the entire Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1985
everything was video taped in Broadcast Quality on one-inch VTRs
The 12th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival -- June 21-23, 1985

Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band • John Hartford • Seldom Scene • Tony Trischka and Skyline • Hot Rize • Tony Rice • Nashville Bluegrass Band • Chris Daniels and the Kings • New Grass Revival • Doc and Merle Watson • The David Grisman Quintet • Peter Rowan and Crucial Country • Mark O’Connor • Bryan Bowers • Alaska’s Hobo Jim

Lazy River

The Lazy River band was based in Louisville, KY in 1976. Vince Gill and John Jump were the frontmen. Vince was the main lead vocalist. He played electric mandolin, fiddle, and accoustic & electric guitars. John Jump sang lead vocals, wrote original songs, and played guitars. Lazy River band's soul, energy, creativity, and charisma were built around this powerful duo. The diversity of Lazy River's songs depicts the many influences that the band had adopted as its own: bluegrass, newgrass, western swing, Hank Williams, country rock, Grateful Dead, and jazz... and a Hippie Soundman.

All the Lazy River band artists were formerly members of the Bluegrass Alliance band at the same time, with Lonnie Peerce. They all left this band together when they formed the Lazy River band in 1976. Similarly, Sam Bush and founding members of the Newgrass Revival band were also members of the Bluegrass Alliance band together in 1971, with Lonnie Peerce. Sam and the other artists all left the Alliance together when they formed the Newgrass Revival band. It shold be noted that Tony Rice and Dan Crary were former members of Bluegrass Alliance. We have a YouTube clip of Bluegrass Alliance with Tony Rice and Sam Bush performing One Tin Soldier.

Monte Barry was soundman for the Bluegrass Alliance in 1975 & 1976. Band members and Monte were roommates together at Harry Bickel's place. It was a musical jamming house in Louisville. Monte also worked as a videotape operator at a TV station in Louisville. When the Lazy River band formed up, they asked Monte Barry if he would quit his full-time job at the TV station to become their soundman full-time. Monte agreed and he became the Lazy River soundman. Monte designed and built some custom-made wiring assemblies, and he built several stage boxes for the PA system and the monitors. Monte invested his life savings, and he purchased a sound mixer and some PA amplifiers. He already had some studio quality Electro-Voice mics that the band used, along with a pair of his Bose speaker arrays. Besides being a Hippie, Monte was also a very successful live music taper. These taping follies and sound system skills all began with Monte taping Grateful Dead shows in 1973. This is how the Lazy River sound system was born. This is why these tapes are here.

Almost immediately, Robert Pool quit his bassist job with Lazy River. He moved back to Austin. The band was putting together their promo kit for getting gigs. They made another appointment with their photographer to get their new bassist in their photo spread. The new bassist, John Bieser, was still in St. Louis. The band almost convinced Monte to pose with them in a new photo, even though he was just the soundman. After an argument, Monte ran off to his girlfriend's place. That left Lazy River no choice but to use their original photo. John Bieser plays bass on these tapes, but Robert Pool is shown in their photo.

After a couple of months, Vince Gill and John Jump left Lazy River band at the same time. This was the beginning of the end of the band. It never really got going. We never had enough paying gigs to keep everyone interested. New band members Eric Weber, Frank Heyer, Pat O'Conner, and Bruce Cromer joined the band. Now the band had 8 members and a soundman. We have them recorded on Monte's tapes playing bluegrass, swing and jazz music with violin and guitar virtuoso Mark O'Connor, at age 15, on one of their tapes. The gypsy mode was taking hold. A few months later it was over.

Addeddate: 2008-04-02 21:15:06

Audio_type: Music

Date_created: April 2, 2008

Identifier: MonteBarrylr-vg1976-08-15-SBD

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Lineage: MR > Nakamichi 550 > Samplitude > CD Tag > Flac-16

Location: Birmingham, AL

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Source: SBD > Nakamichi 550 w/ Dolby NR > TDK chromium dioxide C-90 cassettes

Taped by: Monte Barry

Transferred by: Monte Barry

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Reviewer: oarman2 - - February 26, 2023
Subject: Oaks' Street

This was a delight to run across a few years ago on a P2P torrent site and then to see it on Archive. I was there. A correction, the actual name was Oaks' Street Banjo Parlor. The place was a dream come true for a bluegrass lover in Alabama. The house band was the original version of the Front Porch String Band, where Claire Lynch got her start. They alternated gigs there with national touring progressive bluegrass bands. I had the honor and joy to see bands like Lazy River, The Dillards, Byron Berline and Sundance with Dan Crary, the Newgrass Revival among others forgotten in the ensuing years. Five night runs, and I was there every freaking night.

Lazy River was just exactly as the other reviews said. Showmanship, set list, and talent, all exceptional.

I wish the other four nights Lazy River performed at Oaks' Street were available. (Also wish I would see other bands that played there show up, but I guess that's a pipedream.)

Side note- "Oaks' " is not a spelling error or typo. The owner's last name was Oaks.

Reviewer: njpg - - September 28, 2011
Subject: Undeniably awesome bluegrass band,

super-clean recording, great performance.

Reviewer: ABeam - - June 20, 2011
Subject: Photo Rights

Hey great stuff! I was wondering if you own the rights to the photos?

Reviewer: dawhip - - February 5, 2011
Subject: More than one !!

I've listened to this set several times and never thought to check if there were other offerings from them. Just learned this evening that there are others and now the fun begins. As for this set, I did say several times, solid five.

Reviewer: YossarianHunter - - February 5, 2011
Subject: dayam...

this is just outstanding... incredible performance, great setlists, wonderful recording... does not get any better...

Reviewer: surffrozenwaves - - November 27, 2010
Subject: What a blast!

This just made the last hour of my graveyard shift infinitely more bearable. If this recording doesn't have you grinning ear to ear and stomping your foot you probably hate music (and life). Fantastic renditions of Americana classics. These guys tear it up and have a fantastic sense of showmanship to go along with it - I bet they were a lot of fun to see. Recording quality is also great which always helps! Grab this one and don't let it go.

Reviewer: high flow - - May 6, 2009
Subject: Beautiful.

There are many songs here which are timeless American classics. This performance displays these wonderful songs with honest-to-goodness, old-fashion American flair.

I sense vaudeville showmanship paired w/ a certain innocence. Truly delightful.

This music, along w/ Blues and American Jazz, should be played in classrooms.

Reviewer: gratefuldeadinmyhead4evr - - August 3, 2008
Subject: Diggity...

WOW,what a GEM!!!! Thanks for sharing the music!!!

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