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Re: Follow The Buffalo
Posted on: 06/25/2013 10:14 PM
Not to make things even more confusing, but here's what the late Ian Samwell told me in 1998 (referring to Daze, not Follow The Buffalo):
I thought they [America] were enormously talented. How it happened was that someone came into my office at Warner Bros., and my job at that time was looking for talent. I'd already brought in Rod Stewart and The Faces and a girl called Linda Lewis, who went on to have tremendous success in Britain. But this guy came in. His name was Dave Hawson. And he had some group that he wanted me to hear [Daze]. I was kind of sitting in my office, and he said, look, "They're up at the Roundhouse Studios right now, can you come?" And it's only about a mile and a half or something. So I said, okay, I'll come up and listen. And when I got there, they had equipment problems. So instead of actually playing me something, they played me a tape. And in the middle of this tape was this guitar solo. So I said, "Well, who played the guitar solo?" And they said, "Well it's this friend of ours, his name is Gerry, uh Beckley." And I said, "Well, I wish you luck with your group. I don't really think they're anything that I would be interested in at this moment. But I'd love to meet the guitarist." And then he started to tell me that Gerry was already in a group with a couple of friends [Dewey and Dan]. And I said, "Well have them come up to my office and we'll talk about it." And then I had them come over to the house and play and stuff. I arranged with my friend Jeff Dexter, who was my roommate, to get them some gigs so that they could get some experience playing for an audience. And he agreed to do that. Eventually he became their very first manager. It took about a year from the time that I first picked up on Gerry's guitar solo to the time when Warner Bros. actually agreed to sign them. They were very slow to respond to it. They didn't… get it.
Edited by johnc on 06/25/2013 10:18 PM
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