Ponderosa Stomp

I was planning on taking a break from writing about the Flamin' Groovies today before tackling Flamingo and Teenage Head (it's important to clear your palate after a few helpings of meat & potatoes rock with a few vegetables), but then this news crossed my computer from Magnet.

Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan, backbone of the first incarnation of San Francisco’s notorious Flamin’ Groovies, are slated to reunite onstage for the eighth annual Ponderosa Stomp, set for April 28-29 at New Orleans’ House Of Blues. P-Stomp, which specializes in long-overdue musical reunions, is pumping up the event by claiming that Loney and Jordan—who penned all the Groovies’ originals from 1968’s Sneakers, 1969’s Supersnazz, 1970’s Flamingo and 1971’s Teenage Head—haven’t played together in 38 years.

They go on to say that Roy and Cyril have played together in the last 38 years. I've lived in the S.F. Bay Area for just over 21 years, and have seen them on the same stage at least four times, but this is exciting news nonetheless! Not sure I'm up for a trip to the Big Easy, so hopefully they'll play a San Francisco gig with the A-Bones.

There's been talk of Flamin' Groovies reunions for the last few years (they were slated to play Cavestomp one year), but it's always been just talk until now. If the five original Groovies would just get together for one special show someplace like the Fillmore, it would be so great for fans like me who never saw them live back in their day.



Meanwhile, I'm continuing to work my way through the Flamin' Groovies discography. I'm listening to Flamingo tonight, and will blog about it tomorrow.