I am...was very lucky and thankful. I was 26 or so back then, 63 now. It was an amazing start to adult life. I got to listen to that BlackBros version! The Iron Horse...wow. Such a cool and different gig. Super super small but really fun. It's only rival the the 8x10 in Baltimore! We had to really adjust and listen to those gigs and that made them special in that way. Broke up the standard approach. Cool that you were there...there weren't many of you! All the best to you.
While I didn’t catch on to what David was doing with his band til the mid 80s, I saw the lineup with you more than any other. I did see el Rayo-x in a lot of the smaller venues like this one luckily. Always loved your guitar work Ray! And I loved your beer bottle talents as well! Thank you!
The legal capacity of the Iron Horse was only 89 people back then! I brought my vinyl copy of "Mr Dave" with me and Dave was kind enough to autograph it. I remember him telling tales of life on the road traveling in "the van of the living dead; the van from hell", and the Abdows' Bob Doll suspended from the roof of the vehicle on rubber bands for abuse, as a way to let off some steam; and thecequipment failure that prompted Dave to say "uh-oh, the infamous Trace Elliott bass amp has fucked up again". Anyway, a few years later, the Iron Horse knocked out the wall into a vacant store front next door and doubled the capacity to 180. I saw many many great shows there over the years, both before & after the expansion: John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Richard Thompson (at least a dozen times), the Steve Morse Band, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, the Bobs (fantastic and hilarious acapella group), Michelle Shocked, Uncle Bonsai, Gregson & Collister, Loudon Wainwright, Daniel Lanois, Johnny Winter, Loudon Wainwright, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paul Geremia, and so many more. I also saw David play there with Hani Nasser once and another time with Wally Ingram; I had 2 teenagers who were budding musicians with me and Wally was dating a woman I knew (Heidi S), so we all got to meet and talk with David and Wally, who generously answered the boy's questions and have them picks and drum sticks and snare brushes and autographs. The boys were on Cloud 9! Unfortunately, keeping the club afloat financially was always difficult, and after the original owner sold out to an entertainment group that runs a handful of other local venues, the vibe was never the same, and the food, once excellent, went way downhill as well.
I used to have a partial video (the promoters' edit) of ElRayo-X playing at a Reggae festival at the Woodbury Ski and Racket Club. I gave it to some guitar playing kids in the neighborhood many years ago, before UA-cam was really a thing, and now I wish I had kept it! I also had a video of ElRayo-X at the Improv comedy-club, playing Mercury Blues; and another performance of Mercury Blues on the Solid Gold TV show, apparently live (not lipsynched), while surrounded by the Solid Gold dancers in tight gold lame' dresses, gyrating and cavorting around the band! Which begs the question, Ray, what was the weirdest gig or venue you ever played?
You forget to include"Rag Bag" and "Texas Tango". Leo Kottke recorded another of Frizz's songs as well, the very strange "Goodbye Enrico and Good Luck" (not sure if that's the title of the song but it's in the chorus).
Bob "Frizz" Fuller also wrote my favorite Linley cover of his: "Rag Bag" Though Lindley won't play it anymore (even if you ask him nicely). Probably cause he played it so much in the 80's & 90's.
you are wrong on two counts,....he's as handsome as a fella can be; was at 20 and still is whatever age he happens to be at the moment, AND he is a fantastic singer!! my fav.....you were right about the amazing
If I had to make a baker's- dozen list of my all time favorite songs, Quarter of a Man would definitely be on it. For some reason, after all these years, a cover version of "Romeos" by an Indonesian band from Papua New Guinea, the Black Brothers, popped up in my UA-cam feed yesterday. The arrangement is virtually the same as the original on the ElRayo-X album. PS, If you are the same way Ray Woodbury that played with David, you are a very lucky man indeed! I saw you with play him at the Iron Horse in Northampton MA back in the late 80's!
@johnnyjolijt Romeos are a type of low cut work/casual boot with elastic in the sides and a flat non marking sole orginally designed by Red Wing Shoes.
Could someone please post the answer to these questions? Did David Lindley write this tune ? and/or is it his take of an earlier Classic..I just cant seem to get "Under the Boardwalk" out of my head when I hear it...also a little of Richie Valen's La Bamba..maybe its just me?..a stylistic thing....or they share similar compositional structure?..at any rate .. a real ripper of tune...seems to just sticks like glue in there somewhere..brain, heart and soul!
This song was written by Bob Frizz Fuller, a very unusual character and prolific songwriter. Lindley recorded 5 other of Frizz's songs that I know of; Quarter of a Man, Ain't No Way Baby, Rag Bag, Texas Tango and Tiki Torches at Twilight. Leo Kottke recorded another Frizz song that's even weirder and I can't remember the exact title. In interviews, David spoke of some of the other songs that Frizz wrote but were presumably never recorded, such as Goofballs on the Range", and "Martians at the Window ( and you in my arms)".
Ray Woodbury usually played rhythm guitar, and sometimes there was a guy named Bernie (can't remember his last name) on guitar or mandoguitar etc. Should be Jorge Calderon on bass....
can only find bobby fuller on utube. i guess theyre different people but not sure. the music is similar in ways. but no frizz. maybe they took off his frizby
The Black Brothers did play a fine version, but "Romeos" was written by Bob Frizz Fuller and recorded by David Lindley and ElRayo-X back in the early 1980s. The Black Brothers arrangement is virtually identical to Lindley's and since David toured Indonesia with his friend Ry Cooder several times, I'll take a guess that the Black Brothers might have heard Lindley's version and were inspired by it. Other songs by Frizz Fuller that Lindley recorded include Quarter of a Man, Ain't No Way Baby, Rag Bag, Texas Tango, and Tiki Torches at Twilight.
@@raywoodbury-fy6ph , Bob Glaub did some bass playing with Lindley on record, but did he ever play with ElRayo-X? The times I saw you guys play, it was always Jorge on bass; same applies to the various ElRayo-X shows on UA-cam.
@@jazzermonk , just pointing out that Jack White wasn't the first to explore the wonderful weirdness of Teisco, Danectro, Supro and Airline guitars, and so on. However, the average Jack White fan is probably at least 20 years younger than me, perhaps half my age ( I'm 67), and maybe never heard of Lindley, much less actually saw him play. By the way, one of the times I saw Lindley and ElRayo-X play was in an 89 seat club with a stage even smaller than this one!
@@goodun2974 I’m 39 and not really a “fan” of Jack White. Jack white put that guitar on the map as far as I can tell. Just like Lindley put lap steel plus a dumble amp on the map. IMO. Cooder was doing it before David.
@@jazzermonk, there's a guy who used to write for Guitar Player magazine in the 80's under the pen name "Teisco Del Rey" (real name Dan Forte), who used to write columns about these mutant guitars. He interviewed Lindley a number of times and at least one of these interviews is on the internet somewhere. Of course, it was the 80's, and a lot of GP's readership may have been more interested at the time in Floyd Rose-equipped shred machines than in Teiscos and Dan-O's. By the way, I've never seen pictures or video of Cooder playing through a Dumble (the rumor I heard was that he smashed his failure-prone Dumble on Alexander's doorstep), and the last time I saw him play he had 4 small combo amps: a small tweed Fender, a Premier 88, and two Standel amps. I have however heard Lindley play lap steel through his Dumble while I was standing right up against the stage with the speaker cabinet about 8 feet away; that's a sound I will never forget! I might have lost some hearing at those gigs but it was worth it. Interesting to note that I've also seen Sonny Landreth play a number of times but never with a Dumble, instead with a Demeter or some kind of black power amp that looks somewhat like a vintage McIntosh hifi amp.
An awesome song by a fantastic musician! He's amazing to hear LIVE!
A musicians musician. Fantastic original music
Love this song ❤
I am...was very lucky and thankful. I was 26 or so back then, 63 now. It was an amazing start to adult life. I got to listen to that BlackBros version! The Iron Horse...wow. Such a cool and different gig. Super super small but really fun. It's only rival the the 8x10 in Baltimore! We had to really adjust and listen to those gigs and that made them special in that way. Broke up the standard approach. Cool that you were there...there weren't many of you! All the best to you.
While I didn’t catch on to what David was doing with his band til the mid 80s, I saw the lineup with you more than any other. I did see el Rayo-x in a lot of the smaller venues like this one luckily. Always loved your guitar work Ray! And I loved your beer bottle talents as well! Thank you!
The legal capacity of the Iron Horse was only 89 people back then! I brought my vinyl copy of "Mr Dave" with me and Dave was kind enough to autograph it. I remember him telling tales of life on the road traveling in "the van of the living dead; the van from hell", and the Abdows' Bob Doll suspended from the roof of the vehicle on rubber bands for abuse, as a way to let off some steam; and thecequipment failure that prompted Dave to say "uh-oh, the infamous Trace Elliott bass amp has fucked up again". Anyway, a few years later, the Iron Horse knocked out the wall into a vacant store front next door and doubled the capacity to 180. I saw many many great shows there over the years, both before & after the expansion: John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Richard Thompson (at least a dozen times), the Steve Morse Band, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, the Bobs (fantastic and hilarious acapella group), Michelle Shocked, Uncle Bonsai, Gregson & Collister, Loudon Wainwright, Daniel Lanois, Johnny Winter, Loudon Wainwright, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paul Geremia, and so many more. I also saw David play there with Hani Nasser once and another time with Wally Ingram; I had 2 teenagers who were budding musicians with me and Wally was dating a woman I knew (Heidi S), so we all got to meet and talk with David and Wally, who generously answered the boy's questions and have them picks and drum sticks and snare brushes and autographs. The boys were on Cloud 9!
Unfortunately, keeping the club afloat financially was always difficult, and after the original owner sold out to an entertainment group that runs a handful of other local venues, the vibe was never the same, and the food, once excellent, went way downhill as well.
I used to have a partial video (the promoters' edit) of ElRayo-X playing at a Reggae festival at the Woodbury Ski and Racket Club. I gave it to some guitar playing kids in the neighborhood many years ago, before UA-cam was really a thing, and now I wish I had kept it! I also had a video of ElRayo-X at the Improv comedy-club, playing Mercury Blues; and another performance of Mercury Blues on the Solid Gold TV show, apparently live (not lipsynched), while surrounded by the Solid Gold dancers in tight gold lame' dresses, gyrating and cavorting around the band! Which begs the question, Ray, what was the weirdest gig or venue you ever played?
BLACK BROTHERS A GROUP LEGEND BAND FROM WEST PAPUA THEY SANG THIS SONG TOO...
This guys can do reggae.. love this
Mr. Dave is an amazing performer, catch him when you can!
Best reggae I've ever heard. DAVID LINDLEY
Bob "Frizz Fuller wrote the song. Lindley also covered his songs: "Ain't No Way", "Quarter of a Man" & "Tiki Torches At Twilight".
You forget to include"Rag Bag" and "Texas Tango". Leo Kottke recorded another of Frizz's songs as well, the very strange "Goodbye Enrico and Good Luck" (not sure if that's the title of the song but it's in the chorus).
This is great. It might have been nice to see a little more Ras Baboo, but hey, I wasn't there 24 years ago with a video camera! Thanks for posting.
Thank you
Bob "Frizz" Fuller also wrote my favorite Linley cover of his: "Rag Bag" Though Lindley won't play it anymore (even if you ask him nicely). Probably cause he played it so much in the 80's & 90's.
Awesome party song....
you are wrong on two counts,....he's as handsome as a fella can be; was at 20 and still is whatever age he happens to be at the moment, AND he is a fantastic singer!!
my fav.....you were right about the amazing
lindley is a beast!
THANKS! please post more of this show if you have it! great stuff
thanks. guy's good
thanks ray
@bluegoose555
Frizz Fuller wrote this song. He was a guy that wrote some really obscure songs that Lindley covered...Quarter of A Man is another.
If I had to make a baker's- dozen list of my all time favorite songs, Quarter of a Man would definitely be on it. For some reason, after all these years, a cover version of "Romeos" by an Indonesian band from Papua New Guinea, the Black Brothers, popped up in my UA-cam feed yesterday. The arrangement is virtually the same as the original on the ElRayo-X album. PS, If you are the same way Ray Woodbury that played with David, you are a very lucky man indeed! I saw you with play him at the Iron Horse in Northampton MA back in the late 80's!
delightful song. whole album was fine. what a voice. hints of reggae blues. laid back david. who is the other singer guitarist?
Ray Woodbury
@johnnyjolijt Romeos are a type of low cut work/casual boot with elastic in the sides and a flat non marking sole orginally designed by Red Wing Shoes.
Lindley commented in interviews that he loved Ras Baboos' playing but that the two of them were like oil and water and did not get along well...
Romeos are slip on boots, like bluntstones.
David told me Romeos were those plaid black-and-red velvetine slippers.
looks like Walfredo Reyes, aka Wally, on drums. Not to be confused with drummer Wally Ingraham who recorded a bunch of Twango Bango cra with David.
@johnnyjolijt = Romeos are a style of shoe. Bob Fuller had a unique point of view.
Writen by Bob "Frizz" Fuller.
Could someone please post the answer to these questions? Did David Lindley write this tune ? and/or is it his take of an earlier Classic..I just cant seem to get "Under the Boardwalk" out of my head when I hear it...also a little of Richie Valen's La Bamba..maybe its just me?..a stylistic thing....or they share similar compositional structure?..at any rate .. a real ripper of tune...seems to just sticks like
glue in there somewhere..brain, heart and soul!
This song was written by Bob Frizz Fuller, a very unusual character and prolific songwriter. Lindley recorded 5 other of Frizz's songs that I know of; Quarter of a Man, Ain't No Way Baby, Rag Bag, Texas Tango and Tiki Torches at Twilight. Leo Kottke recorded another Frizz song that's even weirder and I can't remember the exact title. In interviews, David spoke of some of the other songs that Frizz wrote but were presumably never recorded, such as Goofballs on the Range", and "Martians at the Window ( and you in my arms)".
She took off my slippers
Ray Woodbury usually played rhythm guitar, and sometimes there was a guy named Bernie (can't remember his last name) on guitar or mandoguitar etc. Should be Jorge Calderon on bass....
actually its Phil Chen on bass here.
@@goodun6081, Bernie Larsen is the other periodic ElRayo-X member whose name I couldn't remember.
To learn more about Frizz Fuller, who wrote this song, Google "Frizz Fuller" and click on "Bob 'Frizz' Fuller" in the top of the results.
@johnnyjolijt 3 years late... Romeos are Italian shoes.
You should have seen the rockpalast version from the 70's with a dancing Rass (Babboo) Piere on percussion and harmonica.
Wholley Shit! 14 YeARS AGO....hOW ARE DOINNNNN........P?
I'm fine and love to go to concerts, here the link to the rockpalast video i hope you like it. ua-cam.com/video/P-UdSQZ7CWc/v-deo.html
That rockpalast show and several other ElRayo-X shows from Germany and Switzerland ( Loreley, Metropol Berlin) are all viewable on UA-cam.
Ray Woodbury
can only find bobby fuller on utube. i guess theyre different people but not sure. the music is similar in ways. but no frizz. maybe they took off his frizby
This is a song Black Brothers
From West Papua.
The Black Brothers did play a fine version, but "Romeos" was written by Bob Frizz Fuller and recorded by David Lindley and ElRayo-X back in the early 1980s. The Black Brothers arrangement is virtually identical to Lindley's and since David toured Indonesia with his friend Ry Cooder several times, I'll take a guess that the Black Brothers might have heard Lindley's version and were inspired by it. Other songs by Frizz Fuller that Lindley recorded include Quarter of a Man, Ain't No Way Baby, Rag Bag, Texas Tango, and Tiki Torches at Twilight.
@timmersdala David second to Ry? WTF? No ways. Ry is a great songwriter but he can't hold a candle to David's musicianship.
romeos are old style shoes
Bobby Fuller is a different person than Bob "Frizz" Fuller.
It was written by Bob "Frizz" Fuller. I think it means to have sex.
This is great stuff!
David is the second best guitar player ever (only beaten by Ry;-)
Is that Phil Chen on bass????
Yes.
yes...filling in for Jorge who fell ill. That was night one picking up from scratch. Phenomenal player and good fun. RIP Phil.
@@raywoodbury-fy6ph , Bob Glaub did some bass playing with Lindley on record, but did he ever play with ElRayo-X? The times I saw you guys play, it was always Jorge on bass; same applies to the various ElRayo-X shows on UA-cam.
putin !chok!it's very good !!good!!
believe that's the guitar jack white is famous for using.
Except that David Lindley was playing weird pawnshop guitars and mutant instruments long before Jack White was even born!
@@goodun2974 the first 2 words of your response seem unnecessary. I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or trying to contradict my statement. Idk.
@@jazzermonk , just pointing out that Jack White wasn't the first to explore the wonderful weirdness of Teisco, Danectro, Supro and Airline guitars, and so on. However, the average Jack White fan is probably at least 20 years younger than me, perhaps half my age ( I'm 67), and maybe never heard of Lindley, much less actually saw him play. By the way, one of the times I saw Lindley and ElRayo-X play was in an 89 seat club with a stage even smaller than this one!
@@goodun2974 I’m 39 and not really a “fan” of Jack White. Jack white put that guitar on the map as far as I can tell. Just like Lindley put lap steel plus a dumble amp on the map. IMO. Cooder was doing it before David.
@@jazzermonk, there's a guy who used to write for Guitar Player magazine in the 80's under the pen name "Teisco Del Rey" (real name Dan Forte), who used to write columns about these mutant guitars. He interviewed Lindley a number of times and at least one of these interviews is on the internet somewhere. Of course, it was the 80's, and a lot of GP's readership may have been more interested at the time in Floyd Rose-equipped shred machines than in Teiscos and Dan-O's. By the way, I've never seen pictures or video of Cooder playing through a Dumble (the rumor I heard was that he smashed his failure-prone Dumble on Alexander's doorstep), and the last time I saw him play he had 4 small combo amps: a small tweed Fender, a Premier 88, and two Standel amps. I have however heard Lindley play lap steel through his Dumble while I was standing right up against the stage with the speaker cabinet about 8 feet away; that's a sound I will never forget! I might have lost some hearing at those gigs but it was worth it. Interesting to note that I've also seen Sonny Landreth play a number of times but never with a Dumble, instead with a Demeter or some kind of black power amp that looks somewhat like a vintage McIntosh hifi amp.
@guyglowmore1
Ray Woodbury
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@johnnyjolijt
Romeos = slippers
Alfa Romeo Spider Veroche....