1967. Summer of love. Gasoline was pennies to the gallon. Four junior high kids from Pine Grove School in Rowley, Mass formed a band and covered tunes by the Monkees, Paul Revere and the Raiders and the McCoys. We mostly rehearsed in my living room, since the Hammond organ wasn't easy to move around. ("Bernie, how in hell can you stand to have them kids and that racket in your house?" My Dad just shrugged and answered, "Well at least I know right where they are..") The band was made up of Kevin McElroy on vocals, Bobby Keyes on guitar, Andy Ewell on drums and, for a time, me on the organ. (Andy, where are you?)
This adolescent band produced two renowned professional musicians, Kevin McElroy and Bobby Keyes. Kev's been at it all these years and is well known and respected in New England as a multi-instrumentalist and traditional artist. He's having a CD release party at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine on June 1st. One Longfellow is a beautiful venue. Go back, mute the sound on the capt kev home page, then check him out at http://www.kevinmcelroy.net/ He's the real deal. Bobby? http://www.bobbykeyes.net/ Yep, that Bobby Keyes.
The band name? The Skywalkers. See, The Prudential Center had recently opened in Boston. If you toured the 50th floor observatory, you got a button that said, "I'm a skywalker."
Seemed like a good idea to us. After all, we already had the buttons. It was '67, you know...
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