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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDave Starsky
(5,914 posts)The late, great Phil Seymour on drums.
Big Twilley fan here. What's with the goofy cartoon cut-ins?
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)For whatever reason, Twilley appeared on a Saturday morning children's show called "Wacko"!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)It was like a kid's version of Laugh-In.
HeartachesNhangovers
(815 posts)FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)But if I posted the video link here, someone will get their nose out of joint. It's not exactly G-rated, nor is it particularly PC.
Petty sings backup on it.
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)Apparently Petty was a good friend to Twilley and his band.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Phil Seymour came out with a pretty solid album of his own in 1980. It's actually kind of a cult power pop classic. Shortly after, he died of lymphoma. That sucks. (Lymphoma, I mean. Not Phil's album.)
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)They met standing in line to see a screening of "A Hard Day's Night" in Tulsa, OK. Two young longhairs in the Bible Belt who discovered they had similar tastes in music. The rest, as they say, is music history.
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)It's so interesting learning about the details of their history.