TOM KING AND THE STARFIRES, however, went on to become THE OUTSIDERS and had a top five national hit with TIME WON'T LET ME. We were playing British Rock.Beatles, Stones, The Who, etc. By 1966, I had moved on to a college band called "THE GUV'NORS". We played current R&B above all, a few of the "hits" and a bit of blues. My first rock band, which I joined in November of 1963, was TOM KING AND THE STARFIRES. There was also a quartet with a Cordovox and a guitar.we might have ventured into THE VENTURES, but that was very short-lived. We played "standards," such as "Dancing on the Ceiling," and even played a gig or two. ![]() There were a series of them, none rock and roll to begin with, and no names recalled!! Heck, I'm not even sure we HAD names!! One was an 8-piece "dance band," very much "of the times," with two trumpets, three saxes (including a girl who also sang lead once in a blue moon), piano, bass and drums. ![]() I began playing in bands in the very early 1960s. PSF: What were the first bands that you were in? What sparked an interest in playing music? For the first time, a new CD offers the recordings of the Glenn Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade, taken from a 1967 recording. The Gang made their dent in the early '70's with songs like "Funk #49" and "Walk Away." Here, we take a look at Fox's pre-James Gang days, and his times with Glen Schwartz as well as Fox's musical influences, the events of the 1960's and his love of the blues. ![]() Jim Fox on the left, Dale Peters in the middle, a youthful Joe Walsh on the right Jim Fox interview by John Wisniewskiĭrummer Jim Fox worked in a blues group with guitarist Glen Schwartz (who would also later play in Pacific Gas and Electric) during the late 1960's but you probably know him better as a founding member of the James Gang, which later included Schwartz and a pre-Eagles Joe Walsh. Perfect Sound Forever: James Gang's Jim Fox interviewed
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