Gary Littletons Place

1. 26-06-2007 15:30

Included in the Live 1983 at the Uptown recordings I noticed that Steve, Bob, and Rich joined the Fools for a couple Beatles/Stones covers. Steve, Bob, and Rich would later become the Rainmakers and record 3 fine albums for Mercury. 
 
God I wish I could have been at that show. But damn it, I was in the Army in 1983.....Stupid, Stupid! 
 
Thanks for sharing, 
Jeff 
Springfield, MO

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2. 09-05-2007 09:41

Hello Gary,  
I'm just a biggest fan of the FOOLS FACE!!! 
Your site is too great to me!!! Cuz I could here their unrelease tracks!!! 
Hopefully, I'd like to release their old tracks as CD someday. 
If the members of FF see my message, please contact me. 
Best, 
A2Z from Japan

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3. 25-04-2007 13:56

Thanks for letting your music be shared. I lived in Nixa and enjoyed many shows around Spfld. and SMSU. Your music reminds me of the best of those years. To Gary thanks for putting this out there. In rememberance to a good friend, fellow musician, and my instructor Bill Brown from the Misstakes. If possible could there two albums be shared also?

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4. 13-03-2007 09:14

Fools Face

I've gotten the same response from the people I played the songs for from "red tape" as I have the LPs. Thanks again.  
 
I'm not generally nostalgic but Fools Face is an exception for me. I miss the great songs, the exciting, fun shows and I miss talking and joking with the guys in FF at those shows. Really nice people. 
 
I do remember a couple of shows on the Illinois side of the greater St. Louis area that didn't go well. They played at club called Fat Cats (formerly The Granary) in Edwardsville. The bands that played there were cover bands. They covered Trapeze, Bad Company, UFO.... or bands that sounded like Yes and hand a lot keyboards and massive drum sets. 
 
The Sheiks, a St. Louis band did play there and did primarily play originals, but they had been around for years and had a large local following. Also they weren't "New Wave" as FF was described.  
 
I arrived late for their first Fat Cat's show. There were a lot of people walking out of the building. I remember some guy telling me to not go in there, that there was a punk band playing. Well, I wasn't that late, so I thought "Does Fools Face have a punk band opening for them"? 
 
They didn't. The irate customer was referring to Fools Face.  
 
People would ask me back then if they were "New Wave". I would either quote or paraphrase Jimmy or Dale (I don't remember who said it) from the Trouser Press article and say "If by new wave, you mean a revitalization of high energy 60's sounds, then, yes they are new wave".

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5. 13-03-2007 09:08

Fools Face

Gary, 
 
One of my biggest regrets with FF is that I allowed the master tapes of both "I Live Alone" and "Bring on the Show" to be edited out of the half-inch master so they could be played on some radio show. They are now either lost, destroyed, or in a huge box of unlabled tapes. 
 
I wrote "I Live Alone" at a point in my life which was extremely formative, and "Bring on the Show" was a song Jimmy wrote when he decided to go ahead and join me in the new band that became Fools Face. We recorded those songs at the same session as "Way Back in '78", in 1978, of course. The session was a demo session at the same studio in Batesville, AR, where we went back later and did the Here to Observe album. Ah, those were the days, my friend. 
 
We have nothing from those days transferred to MP3 or WAV files, in spite of numerous requests. I wonder if your recording is from that little bar in Houston the first time we were there. I can't remember the name of the place but I remember the drink we called Liquid Ignorance !-D 
 
I love your website and admire you for carrying the torch.

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