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Chicago

CHICAGO
 
 

Mike Stax’s return to San Diego in May 1982 triggered the exit of the original Crawdaddys bassist Mark Zadarnowski.  This time, Stax came to town with an agenda; Stax is quoted by Ray Brandes:  “I returned with lots of tapes of obscure ’60s beat, R&B and garage stuff; and we began to learn a lot of new covers, stuff like ‘Chicago’ by the Phantom Brothers, ‘She Just Satisfies’ by Jimmy Page [which I had figured inspired the band’s original “I’m Dissatisfied], the Bootsversion of ‘Jump Back [Baby]’ and the SorrowsYou Got What I Want’.  The rest of the band was finally open to doing stuff like this, which I’d been advocating all along, rather than being a purist R&B/blues band who only did songs by the original black artists.”  

 

(January 2015/2)