Los Angeles Blues

[loupop13]

Since there still seems to be a lot of interest in this long defunct band, I decided to start a new thread here. . .

You can read all of the previous posts under "General Blues/Lost and Found" at http://www.losangelesblues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16

For those of you who are curious about who these guys are/were, here is a photo of them (one of many incarnations...), contributed by Steve F'dor, and probably taken in the courtyard of the Comeback Inn in Venice, CA.



A posed shot from 1974, photographer - Bob Wold.
L to R: John O'Leary, Bobby "Mandocello" Liepman, Steve F'dor, Mike Kirchner.
Seated: "Hook" McGuire, Butch "Mudbone" Blauser


This is the best I can do for now. I will post some of my pics when I can find them.

Hmmm..... Maybe it's time for a Canaligators "tribute" site?

If anyone out there has anything to contribute, please let me know!
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[loupop13]

Since my last post here, we have been able to locate and reunite most of the surviving members of the Canaligators, in one way or another. I tried to start this new thread here last year, just for the band, but "Lost and Found" still seems to be the place most people go to first.

I stumbled upon a site recently that has more people reminiscing about the band, so if you are interested, here's the link:

http://able2know.org/topic/39461-1

It's titled "Venice in the Seventies".

(I have posted this info, plus more, on the old thread, too)

LP
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
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[dodgeone]

Clyde 'HOOK' McGuire was a friend of mine, for a moment in time. I knew him back around 86'-88' or so......He was living in King-City at the time with Norma and Shauna. If i remember it right, i met him in a honky-tonk outside of town, playing in a pick-up band situation with a guy he called "Crack-John"{!} Ole Crack-john was playing a shiny chrome spanish neck duolian and Hook was blowin'{harp},Bellowing, and stompin' up a storm! I had to buy him a drink! I was driving a 51 Plymouth at the time...we had LOTS to talk about. And could he tell a story.....We became pretty good pals for a couple a years there. He really enjoyed blazing away at 'Squeaks' {ground squirrells} up in the hills with our 22 pistols! And getting LOADED afterwards too! He was such a colorfull character, and So full of Human failings......you just could not hold it against him though. He was like getting to hang out with Jack Kerouac/Howlin' wolf/and Willie Nelson all rolled up into something very unique. He had a encyclopedic knowledge of all the best American music.....he literally helped form my musical sensibilities to this day.
"Red.....It's the 1st, the 4th, and the 5th!"{Shuffle}
Mose Allison, JJ Cale, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Charlie Daniels, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mighty Mo Rodgers, Marty Grebb, Jerry Jeff Walker..........Ya Know?
I still have HooK's 66' Ampeg reverberocket amplifier he sold me all those years ago.....i have restored it and it stills sings through the original Tubes and Jensen concert speaker that Hook sang and played Harp through.
I also have a 63' Gibson J-45 he sold me in a very delapidated state, Had it restored too.....a wonderfull acoustic guitar.
He was a good bit older than i, and i have to say....kind of like a father figure to me, as i was still trying to figure it all out. I still haven't really....but many of Hook's insights have stayed with me to this day.
"It ain't the Caboose that kills ya, when ya get hit by a train"
"This car drives down the road like a fat woman on skates"
The way he would just say "HUh"......when he KNEW you were trying to Bull-shit him.
That loud HA HA HAAAAAAh HAA !!!!! of his when he got on a laughin' jag. Crazy arched eyebrows, Eyepatch, and sometimes swingin' a prosthetic arm.....and sometimes not. Genuine duck-taped snake skin cowboy boots, and Stetson hat.......a little vain too! Un-forgettable visage of a man.
Hecklin' the band at the Wild-Flower festival by waving his Harp in the air till they let him get up on stage and play "Oh Well"......and he blew every-bodys Mind Too.
Hangin out in Venice one weekend and checkin' out all his old stompin' grounds....with his one eye CONSTANTLY on the lookout for a very pissed-off Biker Gang!
Chaffuering Him and Norma out to Kern County for his 50th birthday party, in my old 1962 Chevy Corvair.......getting to meet the Canaligators! And here them play.....what a treat! MAN!
I knew Hook and Norma and Shauna towards the End of Hooks life......I moved on in 88 and never saw them again. I heard a few years later from Norma,that Clyde.....was gone........
Anyway.....I hope some of my reminices here will bring a smile or maybe even a tear to those that remember Hook. I will never forget that guy.

And Norma....{or Shauna} or anyone able to contact them......please get in touch.....I can't tell you both how wonderfull it would be to here from either of you 2. With love and affection, RED aka: Steve Humphrey

[coyoteredhawk]

Butch Mudbone is a Native brother of mine, and I can reach him for you.
If anyone wants to reach him please contact me here or email me at hurtzlot@yahoo.com
I will have a facebook site up for him soon so, just look for "Butch Mudbone and the Wolfpack" fansite. I also will have a personal site for him that only people he wants to add will be allowed there. I will come back and leave the information when I have it completed, or again you can look for yourselves under "Butch Mudbone".
If anyone have any pictures of him, the band, or anything to do with that time back in Venice, or anytime Butch remembers please find it in your heart to find them and send them to me.
Thank-you and have a great Day

Coyoteredhawk aka Debbie J.