BANG

My uncle is in his 50’s. He lives alone in a trailer, he drives a forklift, he can’t drink or do drugs any more because his liver will fall out and his heart would stop. He is obsessed with pizza and is very slowly working on a pizza cookbook.

In the early seventies he was in a band called BANG. They were the modal for the group depicted in the movie “Almost Famous”. A power trio compared to Sabbath, Zeppelin, Cream, and Hendrix. In reality they were trying to be The Guess Who, but were too pissed off and full of testosterone to touch the depth or sensitivity of Burton Cummings craftsmanship. But guitar wise could out Bachman Randy Bachman any day of the seven-day weekend, resulting in a sound, best described as, The Guess Who after a lobotomy. Bang even opened for The Guess Who and would fire a double barrel shotgun into the air right before starting the set. BANG! BANG!

Lot’s of record collectors think the groups home state to be Florida, but really it's Pennsylvania. For some reason they were hugely popular in the sunshine state. My uncle said the record was even advertised on billboards in the Daytona area.

Why Florida?

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