The Nashville Ramblers
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"Rock & Roll band, harmony trio, Beat group; born in 1985. SF gig summer '08?"
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23 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
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| General | We were always interested in after-gig visits to Aetna in San Diego for that bizarre super-sweet pizza and occasional sightings of "Chuck Berry Guy". In San Francisco our equivalent was getting a booth at North Beach Pizza. Ron liked El Indio on India St. in SD, and in NY we went to "The Hat" on the Lower East Side, back when it was the only lighted place at night for blocks around. Ron doesn't talk about it much, but he knows a lot of baseball history, and has quirky interests of the "Americana" type, maybe partly owing to a hidden Kerouac influence; he's a good one to bring along on a day at Coney Island. We would all enjoy meeting at Caffe Trieste, only maybe not each other, if we only could. I hope Gene Pitney and Gianni Franco are still on the jukebox. I hope there is still a jukebox! | | Music | The Dovers, Kenny & the Kasuals, The Everly Brothers, The Hollies, Ral Donner, Scott Walker, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Impressions, The Golden Earrings, The Shindogs, The Wrecking Crew, The Who, The Kinks, The Easybeats, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, Love, The Leaves. The Remains. Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Shane Fenton, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Joe Brown, The Big Three. Phil Spector, Jack Nietzsche. See also "Heroes". Nico, "Chelsea Girls". Bob Dylan, esp. backed by Robbie Robertson et al. i.e. The Hawks. Simon Dupree & his Big Sound; the Five Americans; We The People; The Easybeats; The Black Diamonds (Australian originals); the Four Just Men, The Grassroots, The Ides of March. The Escorts (both of them). | | Movies | The T.A.M.I. Show; The Big T-N-T Show; Gonks Go Beat; Charlie Is My Darling; Pull My Daisy. Let's All Make Love In London.
Scopitones and other musical short subjects. | | Television | "It's Happening"; Hullabaloo; Shindig; Ready Steady Go! | | Books | MAD LOVE, Andre Breton; THE WATERCOURSE WAY, Alan Watts; I WANT TO CHANGE BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW (Rusk Sr.). Both floors of CITY LIGHTS and all eight miles of STRAND BOOKS. UPTIGHT: The Velvet Underground Story. ROCK ARCHIVES, Michael Ochs. ROCK & ROLL TIMES, Jurgen Vollmer. UGLY THINGS (Mag), Vol. 1 - 8. KICKS (Mag) 1 - 5. Domenic Priore's new book on the Sunset Strip.... | | Heroes | See also "Music". Hal Blaine, Mick Avery, Big Jim Sullivan, Joe Meek, Tommy Tedesco, Stu Sutcliffe, Little Richard, Phil & Ronnie Spector, Mary Weiss, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Presley, Man Ray, Roland & friends and "Exquisite Corpse"; Greg Shaw. Mark Neill & the Unknowns & for that matter Shelley & the Unclaimed. |
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | San Diego, CA | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries |
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THE NASHVILLE RAMBLERS LIVE! — TWO SHOWS!
BROOKLYN, NY AUGUST 12th, 2007! Rare live appearance by the The Nashville Ramblers will be the first since The Wild Weekend in Benidorm, Spain more than two years ago. Their last show in Brooklyn was twenty years ago. It won't happen again soon — don't miss it! MORE INFO..
We're best known for "The Trains", a song which appears in the recent Rhino Records box set, "Children of Nuggets". The tune originally was released on a 1986 UK-only compilation, "American Heart & Soul" on Hi-Lo Records. The track was also bootlegged on two Bomp Records compilations, "The Roots of Power Pop", and "Its a Mod, Mod, World" in the mid-1990s.
The band is, and has always been Tom Ward, Ron Silva, and Carl Rusk — who wrote all of the original material for the group. The Nashville Ramblers are also known for their ability to play marathon sets of obscure, mid-Sixites pop music — carefully chosen to fit their unique take on British Beat, American folk-rock, garage, and early rock & roll.
We started in 1985 in San Diego, California as teenagers (well, Ron was a bit older), later we all moved to New York City, and then San Francisco, while playing under the name The Black Diamonds. Recent notable gigs include The Las Vegas Grind in 2000, and The Wild Weekend in Benidorm, Spain in November 2004.
The group never really broke up, though separated geographically. At the moment, Tom is in New York City, Carl is upstate, and Ron is in Oakland, CA, but is planning to join the guys back east soon.
Ron Silva lived in Point Loma and founded the Crawdaddys in the late 1970's; Carl, who also attended Point Loma High School, joined with Ron in 1981 to form a 1961 Hamburg-style band called The Hedgehogs with future Tell Tale Heart singer Ray Brandes. Carl and Ray went on to form The Mystery Machine in 1983, who later became The Tell Tale Hearts when Carl left the band to attend art school in San Francisco. Tom sported a Vox violin bass on behalf of the Gravedigger V, before being recruited by Ron and Carl to be a part of the group. We had always wanted to be a four-piece, ideally with the addition of an organ, or Wurlitzer Electric Piano, but the right extra person never showed up.
More Info on Carl's site: www.carlrusk.com
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