Here's to a band very few people like

[Bluzmann57]

and it's likely a lot of people who are not of a certain age have never heard of these guys. But here's to the old time Hillbilly Metal band, Black Oak Arkansas. I love these guys. I admit I am biased as this is the very first Rock band I ever saw live, but damn those guys were good. None other than David Lee Roth has stated pubicly that he patterened his act after Jim Dandy Mangrum. And for any doubters, try and find the song,"Lord Have Mercy on my Soul", where Jim Mangrum questions fundy faith. Rock on BOA!

[datasuspect]

1. i thought you were going to say gg allin and the murder junkies

i SHOULD have known about BOA, but only found out about them way later.

i'm amazed they weren't bigger than they were.

go jim dandy!

[Droopy]

2. Fuck, man

You know you are obligated to post a link to one of their songs when you say something like that.

[Bluzmann57]

7. Sorry man

I'm not sure any links to their individual songs exist. See, they had one and only one top 40 tune and that was "Jim Dandy", which was ok, but still a cover tune. BOA was all about live and partying. Google 'em sometime.

[Bennyboy]

3. I saw them once....

And they were kind of cool. In that Texas rock kind of way......I think they opened for Slade.....at Winterland.....

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Slade headlined Winterland?

I know they played SF a coupla times, but I don't remember them headlining. :shrug:

I could never understand why they didn't make it in the U.S. when they were huge in Europe. Guess the mid-'70s just weren't their time here because everybody was into bands like Black Oak Arkansas. :D

[Bennyboy]

11. I think Mott The Hoople headlined....

maybe 73 or so I know I was still in HS......BOA was brand new and hardly looked old enough to even be thee......

[blockhead]

4. it was my first rock concert also.

Savoy Brown was the opening act.

[Dystopian]

6. Getting to the point?

;)



peace~

[blockhead]

8. Fall River

Nov. 30th - ready to go?:hippie:

[Dystopian]

9. Really?

I didn't know...wow! Awesome...That CD has been in my player for years as i live in the past.....I've got to check this out! I'm getting the chills just thinking about it....You're going??

peace~

[Dystopian]

10. Oh. This is too much.

Also playing the next night in Shirley....so close to me...and that's on my birthday...
I'm freaking out, and should be doing paperwork....
So distracted am I.

peace~

[blockhead]

12. if you go

and you remember, let me know how it went.:toast:

...and have a happy b-day!

[evlbstrd]

13. I'm one of those many who don't like them.

Wasn't "Smokin' in the Boys Room" also a marginal hit? Or was that another band?

edited for speeling, dammit

[vogonity]

14. I heard of BOA on one of the Christian TV channels...

I think it was TBN, the one with purple-haired Jan Crouch. They used to have one of those 'experts' on rock music on who played songs backwards and informed us about the eeeeeviiill Satan messages on hidden in the music. Me and my friends used to get baked and watch it for laughs. I remember the guy playing a track from a live BOA album and claiming the singer said "natas, natas, natas" which is Satan backward of course. Good Times...