Post by edharrison on Jul 9, 2007 16:58:24 GMT
Bruce was my mentor and I owe a lot to him so here is his bands info.......................Band Website dochollidayband.com/
Band Members Bruce Brookshire (vocals, guitar, dobro), Eddie Stone (keyboards, vocals), Daniel Bud Ford (bass guitar, Vocals), John T. Samuelson (guitar, vocals), Danny "Cadillac" Lastingern (drums)
Record Label Phoenix Records
Type of Label Indie
Doc Holliday, named after the historical character often portrayed in films relating to the Wyatt Earp-epos as the coughing western hero who had a stance on each side of the law, come from Macon, Georgia, just like the Allman Brothers. Their first album Doc Holliday was a ticket to fame in 1981, especially in Germany and Europe, and climbed to ..30 in the Billboard Album Rock Charts. Subsequentially, the band supported the Outlaws on their Ghostriders Tour in the States in sold-out venues in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, etc. At the time the line-up was: Bruce Brookshire (g, lead vox), Rick Skelton (g, vox), John Samuelson (b, vox), Eddie Stone (keyb., vox), and Herman Davis Nixon (dr). The second album Doc Holliday Rides Again made them, still today, the most successful southern rock band after the generation of the Allmans and Skynyrds, and the hymnical Lonesome Guitar, a song in the finest southern tradition of Lynyrd Skynyrds Freebird or Molly Hatchets Fall of the Peacemakers, is to be heard on it. The next US coast to coast tour, they supported Black Sabbath, and in 1982, they were the opening act for April Wine and Loverboy. Their third album "Modern Medicine" was recorded 1983 in Munich, Germany, in a rather unusual disco art-rock sound, and on the occasion the band did their first concerts in the country. Doc Holliday did over 250 concerts a year from 1981 to 1983 and performed with the Outlaws, Charlie Daniels, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Gregg Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many other celebrities, in venues such as the famous Madison Square Garden in New York. A burn-out after excessive touring topped by the commercial flop of the uninspired album Modern Medicine caused the band to split up in 1984, but they already reunited in 1986, publishing their next album Danger Zone on an european label. In 1989, their fifth album hit the market: Song for the Outlaw Live, even today one of the foremost southern rock achievements. Its release was publically related by a tour of Europe, a habit of touring the band maintained in the nineties, performing at summer festivals and in clubs in the old world. 1993 was spent on writing and recording the album Son of the Morning Star, which was once again released on a european label and led to another tour there, finishing with a tour through Finland and Germany with UFO and Quiet Riot. Son of the Morning Star was released in the States in 1994. In the winter of 1996, the seventh album Legacy was released on a world-wide scale, featuring a number of newly recorded old songs as well as five new ones. After bandleader Bruce Brookshire absolved a solo tour in 1997, the band came together again at the end of that year and was joined by the original line-up of the first three albums for the Doc Holliday Reunion Jam in Macon. In 1998, the band once again reduced its activities, due to its members concentrating on their individual projects. Bruce Brookshire writes and produces christian music. Nonetheless, they often rejoined on stage on one or the other occasion. In the fall of 2000, Doc Holliday did an eight-city tour in Germany along with the german southern rockers Lizard. Dangerzone and Song for the Outlaw Live were re-released in August, 2001, digitally remastered, boasting completely new artwork and two bonus tracks each. In October, 2001, A Better Road is released, containing five new songs, including three hithereto unpublished songs from the bands heydays as well as five remastered and partially even overdubbed classics. The releases of 2001 were followed up with a german tour in the fall of that year and a grand european tour in the summer of 2002, including the frenetic feature at the legendary Sweden Rock Festival. Michael Knippschildts Southern Rock Archiv describes the 2001 Germany Tour like this: The group excelling itself on the autumn tour with their old friends Lizard. The pure energy of the band in combination with the communication with the audience was dazzling, without even mentioning the ever yet band-dominating vocals and guitar of Bruce. 2003 promised to be even a better year for a band alive and kicking like... in June, the long time sold out albums Legacy and Son of the Morning Star were re-released, technically completely overhauled and remastered, featuring new artwork as well as bonus tracks, by their new label Phoenix Records, entitled Gunfighter Best of the Nineties. In summer 2003, the band was once again touring in Europe, playing some festivals and released their first studio album since ten years that consists of entirely new material under the title Good time music on Phoenix Records in September 2003. In January 2006 Doc Holliday are cellebrating their 25th band aniversery with another completly new album on Phoenix Records, which is a kind of a tribute to the roots of the band. The album Rebel Souls features interpretations of classic southern rock tunes, as well as a few homages to english influences from the golden 60s! The current release features the band in a kind of unplugged mood, technically and musically surely on the climax of their carreer!
Band Members Bruce Brookshire (vocals, guitar, dobro), Eddie Stone (keyboards, vocals), Daniel Bud Ford (bass guitar, Vocals), John T. Samuelson (guitar, vocals), Danny "Cadillac" Lastingern (drums)
Record Label Phoenix Records
Type of Label Indie
Doc Holliday, named after the historical character often portrayed in films relating to the Wyatt Earp-epos as the coughing western hero who had a stance on each side of the law, come from Macon, Georgia, just like the Allman Brothers. Their first album Doc Holliday was a ticket to fame in 1981, especially in Germany and Europe, and climbed to ..30 in the Billboard Album Rock Charts. Subsequentially, the band supported the Outlaws on their Ghostriders Tour in the States in sold-out venues in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, etc. At the time the line-up was: Bruce Brookshire (g, lead vox), Rick Skelton (g, vox), John Samuelson (b, vox), Eddie Stone (keyb., vox), and Herman Davis Nixon (dr). The second album Doc Holliday Rides Again made them, still today, the most successful southern rock band after the generation of the Allmans and Skynyrds, and the hymnical Lonesome Guitar, a song in the finest southern tradition of Lynyrd Skynyrds Freebird or Molly Hatchets Fall of the Peacemakers, is to be heard on it. The next US coast to coast tour, they supported Black Sabbath, and in 1982, they were the opening act for April Wine and Loverboy. Their third album "Modern Medicine" was recorded 1983 in Munich, Germany, in a rather unusual disco art-rock sound, and on the occasion the band did their first concerts in the country. Doc Holliday did over 250 concerts a year from 1981 to 1983 and performed with the Outlaws, Charlie Daniels, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Gregg Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many other celebrities, in venues such as the famous Madison Square Garden in New York. A burn-out after excessive touring topped by the commercial flop of the uninspired album Modern Medicine caused the band to split up in 1984, but they already reunited in 1986, publishing their next album Danger Zone on an european label. In 1989, their fifth album hit the market: Song for the Outlaw Live, even today one of the foremost southern rock achievements. Its release was publically related by a tour of Europe, a habit of touring the band maintained in the nineties, performing at summer festivals and in clubs in the old world. 1993 was spent on writing and recording the album Son of the Morning Star, which was once again released on a european label and led to another tour there, finishing with a tour through Finland and Germany with UFO and Quiet Riot. Son of the Morning Star was released in the States in 1994. In the winter of 1996, the seventh album Legacy was released on a world-wide scale, featuring a number of newly recorded old songs as well as five new ones. After bandleader Bruce Brookshire absolved a solo tour in 1997, the band came together again at the end of that year and was joined by the original line-up of the first three albums for the Doc Holliday Reunion Jam in Macon. In 1998, the band once again reduced its activities, due to its members concentrating on their individual projects. Bruce Brookshire writes and produces christian music. Nonetheless, they often rejoined on stage on one or the other occasion. In the fall of 2000, Doc Holliday did an eight-city tour in Germany along with the german southern rockers Lizard. Dangerzone and Song for the Outlaw Live were re-released in August, 2001, digitally remastered, boasting completely new artwork and two bonus tracks each. In October, 2001, A Better Road is released, containing five new songs, including three hithereto unpublished songs from the bands heydays as well as five remastered and partially even overdubbed classics. The releases of 2001 were followed up with a german tour in the fall of that year and a grand european tour in the summer of 2002, including the frenetic feature at the legendary Sweden Rock Festival. Michael Knippschildts Southern Rock Archiv describes the 2001 Germany Tour like this: The group excelling itself on the autumn tour with their old friends Lizard. The pure energy of the band in combination with the communication with the audience was dazzling, without even mentioning the ever yet band-dominating vocals and guitar of Bruce. 2003 promised to be even a better year for a band alive and kicking like... in June, the long time sold out albums Legacy and Son of the Morning Star were re-released, technically completely overhauled and remastered, featuring new artwork as well as bonus tracks, by their new label Phoenix Records, entitled Gunfighter Best of the Nineties. In summer 2003, the band was once again touring in Europe, playing some festivals and released their first studio album since ten years that consists of entirely new material under the title Good time music on Phoenix Records in September 2003. In January 2006 Doc Holliday are cellebrating their 25th band aniversery with another completly new album on Phoenix Records, which is a kind of a tribute to the roots of the band. The album Rebel Souls features interpretations of classic southern rock tunes, as well as a few homages to english influences from the golden 60s! The current release features the band in a kind of unplugged mood, technically and musically surely on the climax of their carreer!
, they became a New wave techno Southern rock pop band, Their song "You Like To Rock " it was horrible,