Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guns & Butter has its roots in the local band scene. Vocalist Jeff Lyons and bass guitarist Peter Cohen have been together in various Marblehead bands since they were 12, while Paul Cohen (guitar) and Peter Tucker (drums) have been with them since they were...
...winter of 1970, they took on Richard Ploss, then a freshman at Berklee. They adopted "Guns & Butter" as their collective name and began to work on creating music of their...
...classical music. He improvised on the violin with records of Eastern music, mostly Ravi Shankar. Federer left B.U. in 1970 just one course short of graduation, unsure of what he would do. August saw him at Stonehenge jamming with anyone who was willing--including Bo Diddley and finally Guns & Butter...
...break for Guns & Butter came when Lennie Sogoloff, of the renowned club Lennie's on the Turnpike, agreed somewhat reluctantly ("Well, it doesn't knock me on my ass," he said) to let them back up the James Cotton Blues Band for one night. That night G & B stacked the house with relatives, friends, anybody they could convince to pay the cost of admission. "They started yelling for us to do encores before we even came on." Lyons recalled. Sogoloff wasn't fooled, but kept them on another night to see how they'd do. They did well enough...
...were sitting in Neal Grossman's apartment discussing Guns & Butter with Jeff Lyons and Lenny Federer. We had just finished discussing the group's history...