Tommy Moonlight
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Chick Newman
Chick was playing a Farfisa organ with a band in Canarsie when Tommy met him. They decided to put a band together themselves and took local legend Robbie Biegel with them. Bob Roman moved from the lower east side of Manhattan to Park Slope, Brooklyn. That was where Hackamore Brick began. A few people at Kama Sutra Records liked the demo tape the band had recorded at the Record Plant and time was booked to record an album. The site was Bell Sound Studio and eight or nine days later, the album "One Kiss Leads To Another" was complete. It was recorded in September, 1970 and released a few months later. The band worked some dates locally, spent six weeks over the holidays in St. Thomas working at Duffy's Place in the Sun. They returned to New York to record the 45 RPM single, " Searchin." When terms and studios could not be agreed upon for the recording of the second album, the contract with Kama Sutra ended. Things didn't happen. The band broke up. Chick and Tommy did some recordings in the 1970's and taped an album's worth of material at Parrot Studio in Austin, Texas 1984. At that point, they decided to take a brief vacation... In 2006, they met at a wedding and sang a few songs. With the encouragement of four or five guests, they decided to record again. It's 2008, here they are...more
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