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April Lawton / Ramatam - still around ?

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Mika

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Aug 21, 2004, 7:05:59 PM8/21/04
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I saw this band called RAMATAM in the 70's that featured APRIL LAWTON on
guitar. Does anyone know if this band or if April is still around ?

Nil

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Aug 21, 2004, 7:41:47 PM8/21/04
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On 21 Aug 2004, mbenn...@aol.comnojunk (Mika) wrote in
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> I saw this band called RAMATAM in the 70's that featured APRIL
> LAWTON on guitar. Does anyone know if this band or if April is
> still around ?

I saw them, too. They were the opening act for (I think) ELP. Mitch
Mitchell was the drummer. They were impressive in concert, and Lawton
was great. I bought their abum after that and discovered that the songs
actually stank.

The band put out one more record and then broke up. I've spent some
internet search time looking for April Lawton, and I can't find a clue.
She seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Mika

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Aug 22, 2004, 9:56:03 AM8/22/04
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>: April Lawton / Ramatam - still around ?

Yes, I remember now, the Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer, Mitch Mitchell and I
believe one of the guys in the band was blind. Maybe if I do a search on Mitch
Mitchell or something, it might turn up Ramatam or April Lawton ? I loved the
song Wild Like Wine !

David Baker

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Aug 22, 2004, 2:31:46 PM8/22/04
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David Baker

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Aug 22, 2004, 2:40:13 PM8/22/04
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April is a full time artist now (think sculpture and pottery) and tho I
personally havent heard her play in a long time, Im sure she still picks it
up from time to time. Chick was one bad-ass guitar player tho...funny thing
was, when Ram was hot, the trades were trying to play her off as a
trannie...now thats really sad that their male egos couldnt comprehend of a
girl playing rings around their asses unless she was a boy/girl......gak....
the mucic industry makes me sick.
April, where ever you are now...you still rock. JmsDvd


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EricF

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Aug 23, 2004, 12:34:55 AM8/23/04
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Try allmusic.com. Here's an excerpt ...

Tom Dowd produced 1972's self-titled debut from Ramatam, a poor-man's Blind
Faith featuring co-author of The Blues Image hit "Ride Captain Ride Mike
Pinera on guitar and vocals, and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The "star" of this
group was alleged to be April Lawton, a chick who had the Hendrix riffs down,
to be sure, but not as creative as Robin Trower and all those other gents who
carried Jimi's sound and stylings into the seventies.

Mika

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Aug 23, 2004, 9:18:42 AM8/23/04
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> April Lawton / Ramatam - still around ?

April appears as a guest player on a CD by another female rocker named Jaye
Foucher - they both can play circles around most guys !

Bruce Morgen

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Aug 24, 2004, 5:54:24 PM8/24/04
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mbenn...@aol.comnojunk (Mika) wrote:

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>I saw this band called RAMATAM in the 70's that featured APRIL LAWTON on
>guitar. Does anyone know if this band or if April is still around ?

I played on their second
album and I can't find
out anything either --
let me know if you turn
up anything current!

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Bruce Morgen

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Aug 24, 2004, 5:59:44 PM8/24/04
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mbenn...@aol.comnojunk (Mika) wrote:

Jaye Foucher claims she
doesn't to know April from
Adam, er, I mean Eve. :-(

Nil

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Aug 24, 2004, 6:46:01 PM8/24/04
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On 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Morgen <edi...@juno.com> wrote in
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> I played on their second
> album and I can't find
> out anything either --
> let me know if you turn
> up anything current!

Really!?! Cool! What do you remember about the recording sessions? Was
Mitch Mitchell on that album, too?

Bruce Morgen

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Aug 24, 2004, 7:21:43 PM8/24/04
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Nil <redn...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:

Mitch had moved on by those
sessions, as had the two
Blues Image guys, Mike and
Russ -- that incarnation of
Ramatam was April, Tommy,
and Jimmy Walker. I was
called in for "Bounty On My
Table," which was kind of a
CS&N-style acoustic thing
with April on lead vocals.

I'm really sorry I never
got to work with Mitch, but
he and his wife were pretty
heavy-duty junkies back
then, which was really
disruptive. I understand
he's been clean for a long
time -- the last word I had
about him was that he was
living in Nashville.

howldog

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Aug 25, 2004, 9:53:18 AM8/25/04
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:40:13 -0400, "David Baker"
<dvd...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>April is a full time artist now (think sculpture and pottery) and tho I
>personally havent heard her play in a long time, Im sure she still picks it
>up from time to time. Chick was one bad-ass guitar player tho...funny thing
>was, when Ram was hot, the trades were trying to play her off as a
>trannie...


I heard she is, or was, a man. Or something. Whoever she was, she
could play.

The Chris

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Aug 25, 2004, 7:40:15 PM8/25/04
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Nil <redn...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in
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Who are you talking about??? The New Yorker - Melanie Ray La-Pierre??

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