Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Heinz Lichius 1st NYC gig, JON HAMMOND Band Cleo's


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Heinz Lichius flew all the way from Hamburg Germany, cleared customs with his wife and baby daughter..checked in to Hotel Carter and got to the gig 40 minutes before the hit at Cleo's with Jon Hammond Band! Here they play Jon's theme song Late Rent for his long-running TV & Radio shows, next band up was Manny Duran (RIP) June 11, 1926 - October 30, 2006. Tim Armacost - tenor sax, Joe Berger - gtr, Heinz Lichius - drms, Jon Hammond - XB-2 organ as heard on HammondCast KYOU KYCY Radio 1550 AM ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com "The FINGERS...are the SINGERS!"

Monday, September 03, 2007

Dan Hicks directing Lance Hughston Traffic at SUMMER OF LOVE 40th Anniversary


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Jon Hammond on the scene backstage at SUMMER OF LOVE 40th Anniversary. Watch Dan Hicks (of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks) doing a fine job of directing Event Producer Boots Hughston's twin brother Lance parking his van next to tour bus stageside. ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM daily 4AM.
Here are the acts who appeared:
Country Joe McDonald, Moby Grape reunion, Taj Mahal, Lester and Willie Chambers (from Chambers Brothers), Canned Heat, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter and Dale Ockerman (from the Doobie Brothers) and Fuzzy John Oxendine (from the Sons of Champlin) , Banana (from the Youngbloods), Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors), San Francisco’s First Family of Rock, Brian Auger, David Laflamme, Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer, Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers, The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman band), Brad Jenkins, Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin), Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, George Michalski - Pete Sears “Dueling Keys,” Freddie Roulette , Ron Thompson , The Charlatans, Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer), Greg Douglas (from Steve Miller), Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship), Essra Mohawk (from Mothers of Invention), Barry “The Fish” Melton, All Night Flight featuring David Denny and Steve McCarty (from Steve Miller), Jack King (from Cold Blood) Merl Saunders (supporting the event), Hair (reunion Original Cast), Squid B. Vicious with Buddy Miles, Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegel Schwall Blues Band), Charles Lewis – Harmonica, David Harris, Fayette Hauser and the Cocketts, Cindy Sheehan (political activist), Jack Hirschman (Poet Laureate of San Francisco), Scoop Nisker, Ben Vareen, Terence Hallinan (former SF DA) Ruth Weiss (Beat Poet), Richard Eastman (marijuana initiative), Lenore Kandel (Beat Poet), Paul “Lobster” Wells, Khenchen Rinpoche (Buddhist Monk), Dr Hip (Eugene Schoenfeld), Artie Kornfeild (Producer of Woodstock), Wavy Gravy, Mouse man (Bagpipes), David E. Smith (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic), Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer show), Rabbi Joseph Langer, Bruce Barthol (Mime Troupe), Stephen Gaskin, Doug Green, Howard Hesseman, Benjamin Hernandez (Harts hands and Elders),American Indigenous people’s, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas, Lakota War Ponys, Merle Tendoy (6th generation of Sacagawea) Shonie, Albert Tenaya, Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa), Chief Sunne Reyna, Iroquois Tribe, Dakota Tribe, Seminole Tribe, and Emit Powell and the Gospel Elites. (*more or less accurate..can not completely verify jh)

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Jon Hammond Presents: Star-a-Thon 1954 Historic Kinescope !


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This Is Your Lucky Day!
Jon Hammond Presents: Jon going deep in to his vault because he has decided the Public deserves to see this Historic Kinescope at Pantages in Los Angeles in 1954 of broadcast of Opening Night of Judy Garland's "A Star Is Born" More stars than there is room to write here: Liberace (and his Mom), Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Sophie Tucker, Dean Martin, Mason, studio head Jack Warner, and Jack Carson (MC), and dozens of A-list stars attending. This is Pt. 1, stay tuned to HammondCast, enjoy folks! Jon Hammond is Host & Producer of daily HammondCast Show on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM, Host of The Jon Hammond Show on TV in New York for 24 years and touring internationally for many years as band leader and Jazz Ambassador Impresario of USA.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Alex Foster on HammondCast KYOU Radio 1550 AM


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Pt. 1 of in-depth interview with saxophonist Alex Foster of Saturday Night Live show band with Jon Hammond on daily radio show HammondCast heard mornings on Radio KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM CBS. Alex is commuting to work from Athens Greece to NBC New York and has played with everyone from Paul Simon, Paul McCartney to Jack DeJohnette and symphonic situations. One of the top saxophonists in the world today! http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/ ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Mercy Mercy JON HAMMOND Band Hofheim Germany


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Encore performance (Zugabe), ninth year Jon Hammond bringing the band in to play for an enthusiastic audience at Jazzkeller Hofheim in Taunus, in tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Joe Zawinul - Mercy Mercy with Hungarian tenor sax star Tony Lakatos, Heinz Lichius drums Joe Berger gtr. and Jon Hammond at the XB-2 Hammond organ. This session was during the annual Frankfurt Musikmesse trade fair ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com

Monday, August 27, 2007

Peter Albin of Big Brother and The Holding Company on HammondCast KYOU Radio


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Pt. 1 excerpted from Jon Hammond's interview with founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin on HammondCast KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM San Francisco CA. Hear Peter tell about the musicians and songs first performed with Janis, one of which bought a new Cadillac for Big Mama Thornton and how Chet Helms became manager at one point and organized the early shows with Family Dog Productions. It all came together at 1090 Page St. in the Haight Ashbury where they rehearsed and lived. ©2007 http://www.kyouradio.com + bbhc.com

Peter Albin of Big Brother and The Holding Company on HammondCast KYOU Radio


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Pt. 1 excerpted from Jon Hammond's interview with founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin on HammondCast KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM San Francisco CA. Hear Peter tell about the musicians and songs first performed with Janis, one of which bought a new Cadillac for Big Mama Thornton and how Chet Helms became manager at one point and organized the early shows with Family Dog Productions. It all came together at 1090 Page St. in the Haight Ashbury where they rehearsed and lived. ©2007 http://www.kyouradio.com + bbhc.com