Beatlemaniacs Club and Tribute Band of The Villages, Florida - Your Former Group(s) Before You Became a Villages Beatlemaniac

Brought to You by a Collaboration of
Impresario Dr. Winston O'Boogie, Jr.
and the Impressive Beatles Tribute Players
of The Villages, Florida

CLUB MEETS EVERY FRIDAY
10:00am to NOON
Odell Recreation Center
(Click for Map)

EVERYONE WELCOME,
EVEN

FANS

John Lennon Guitar

George Harrison Guitar

Ringo Starr Drums Ludwig

These images are part of a poster available from the Liverpool Shop, along with thousands of other Beatles memorabilia. Click here to contact the Liverpool Shop by email.

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Beatle Pre-Ringo

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YOUR FORMER GROUP
WHENCE YOU CAME TO
THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA

Several people have asked if the BeatleManiacsRock.com website could post photos of present Villages musicians (active now or in the past) showing them in their former bands or links to the websites of their former bands.

If those of us who play on Fridays are not reluctant to appear live, we'll gladly accommodate those who would like to appear virtually.

Just email your digital images or links of your band's website, MP3s, YouTube videos or other digital memorabilia , and we'll post as much as we can... assuming none of the content approaches any Ozzy Osbourne-type entertainments. (Click this link for images of Ozzy's arrest photos.)

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CLICK IMAGES OF BANDS BELOW FOR THEIR INFO

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"DRY ICE"

Jim Fraser's Band

Dry Ice was a Massachusetts band that had a great future.

(CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER)

They had made several unreleased recordings, and they were getting bigger audiences and record label attention.

As Jim describes it:

"Our rhythm guitarist joined the Air Force, because he saw the writing on the wall. He knew he was about to be drafted, and that if that happened, he'd become a grunt and get sent to the front lines. He joined the Air Force and became a photographer. He was replaced by another, actually, very good guitarist. We played together for several months, and I quit the band at the urging of my then girlfriend. The band fell apart after that."

This YouTube video, "Mary Is Alone," remained unreleased for decades, until psych collectors began circulating a bootleg of their unissued songs.

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"THEM"

(ORIGINALLY THE TORQUAYS)

George Makrauer's Band

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"THE COUNTRY CLASSICS"

Garry Long's Band

CLICK IN BLACK AND WHITE CONTENT BELOW FOR LARGER VIEW.
CLICK ON COLOR PHOTO OF ROGER (lower left) TO HEAR HIM SING.

Why is this image here:

Roy Rogers - King of the Cowboys

Two reasons:

Reason #1 - One of our club drummers (and our webmaster) was also born in Roy's hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Reason #2 - For Reason #2, ask our club band's Bass play, Garry Long. It's a short story about a Long brother.

....okay, okay - Got me. Reason #3: Roy Rogers also played guitar and sang, even while riding Trigger.

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CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE

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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, SONG REQUESTS,
SPECIAL PLEAS, BEATLE-HISTORY QUERIES OR OTHER BEATLEMANIAC THOUGHTS,
EMAIL THE GOOD DR. WINSTON O'BOOGIE, JR. BY FOLLOWING
THE SIMPLE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION:
(REGRETS, BUT UNFULFILLED YOUTHFUL DREAMS ARE BEYOND THE SCOPE OF OUR REGULAR MEETINGS)

This link will NOT work with AOL. Actually, not much works with AOL.

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