thanks Steve G....
I guess at the time we were in the moment and really couldn't conceive of 45 years into the future....probably because, like you said, Rock was young....look at it this way...in 1967 if we were to look back 45 years it would've been 1922!!!!
Holy Shit!
As for being reunited all these years later, it feels natural now.
Mainly because Steve Bartek and I are life long friends and Randy Seol has played with us in numerous bands over the interim years.
Mark Weitz was the hold out...although he did do a brief reunion with Lee Freeman, Gene Gunnels and I in 1982...His heart wasn't into it then.
When I told Mark that Randy and I had gotten together with Steve and Lee and Howie Anderson and that we wanted to do a re grouping of SAC it sparked his interest. (2006)
In 2005 prior to that, we had been asked by TJ Lubinsky to do his PBS show with the entire original SAC...including Greg Munford and Ed King. The whole band agreed that it would be a cool reunion. Then the contracts showed up with none of our requests met in writing. They said we'd just have to trust them. We passed...much to their dismay.
The next full fledged reunion came at the behest of Roger Ebert who, in 2007, asked us to close out his 9th annual over looked film festival in Champagne Ill. They agreed to do whatever it took to get us there. Roger wrote the screenplay for the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in which SAC appeared.
We didn't bring in Greg Munford, but we did include Ed King, Paul Marshall and Gene Gunnels as they were in the movie.
the line up;
Mark Weitz
Lee Freeman
George Bunnell
Randy Seol
Steve Bartek
Ed King
Paul Marshall
Gene Gunnels
Howie Anderson (has been playing with different incarnations of SAC since 1987)
--Previous Message--
: This is it! 45 years ago this week “Incense
: and Peppermints” was the top selling 45 on
: Billboard Magazine’s Top 100 charts, for the
: week ending 11/25/67. It knocked out “To Sir
: with Love” which had been Number One for the
: previous five weeks.
:
: Here was the entire Top Ten singles listing
: for that week:
:
: 1-Incense and Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm
: Clock
: 2-To Sir With Love-Lulu
: 3-The Rain,The Park and Other Things-The
: Cowsills
: 4-Soul Man- Sam and Dave
: 5-Daydream Believer-The Monkees
: 6-Please Love Me Forever-Bobby Vinton
: 7-I Say A Little Prayer-Dionne Warwick
: 8-It Must Be Him-Vicki Carr
: 9-I Can See For Miles-The Who
: 10-Expressway To Your Heart-Soul Survivors
:
: Unfortunately, it only lasted for a week.
: On the following week’s chart, ending
: 12/2/67, “Daydream Believer” jumped up to #1
: knocking “Incense” down to #3.
:
: Amazingly, every single artist listed in
: the above top ten is still active today! At
: that time, though, Rock and Roll was no
: longer the “passing fad” but still had not
: developed into the big business it became.
: And acts from ten years before in the
: Fifties, were already considered “oldies
: acts”.
:
: Well, here we are 45 years later. The SAC
: is still going strong, new album and doing
: shows. Who’da thought??
:
: So, George, here goes:
:
: 1. Back then, at the time, did you (or any
: of the guys) ever even dream or fathom the
: possibility that someday way into the future
: the work that you guys did would have left
: an impact and still be remembered? Or was
: it really just a case of being “in the
: moment” and when things ended, that was it,
: it’s done.
:
: 2. And even more remotely, was the idea ever
: considered then that you and everyone from
: “back then” could actually still be playing
: together again, way, way down the road?
:
: 45 years later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:
:
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