The Pat Terry Band - Whereabouts unknown.
Tony Coor
a very good performance but one song brought to mind a group of performers
that I had heard in college but not much since. The song sounded like something
I had heard a group called the Pat Terry Band do quite a long time ago. Does
anyone know if they are still performing? Or whether any of the band members
have started other bands?
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John R. Warren
(Tony Coor) writes:
> The song sounded like something I had heard a group called the Pat Terry
> Band do quite a long time ago. Does anyone know if they are still
> performing? Or whether any of the band members have started other bands?
>
Whew! The Pat Terry Band broke up a LONG time ago. Pat Terry put out
three good solo albums in the early eighties. Most, if not all, of them
were produced by Mark Heard. I think they are somewhat similar to Mark's
own work from that period, both lyrically and musically.
The albums were:
_Humanity Gangsters_ (1982?)
_Film At Eleven_ (1983?)
_The Silence_ (1985?)
I may have the order of the first two backwards. The albums were on Myrrh
Records but are now out of print and very hard to find.
Pat has essentially retired from recording, although he is still writing
and performes occasionally. He wrote a song that was a big hit on the
country charts (for Kenny Rogers?) a couple of years ago. He also
performed at the Mark Heard Memorial Benefit Concert earlier this year.
I don't know anything about the other members of the Pat Terry Band.
John Warren
warr...@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
bha...@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
The Pat Terry Group also recorded two albums in the '70's. I believe his
first album was _Songs of the South_ (1976). The Producer is not even
listed on the album I have. The second was _Sweet Music_ (1977), pro-
duced by Al Perkins. Good songs.... brings back lots of memories just
thinking about 'em!
Bruce...
bha...@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Bruce Hawker)
The Old Frog's Almanac (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group)
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Dick Young
right) at the Campus Crusade Christmas Conference in Chicago. In the early-
mid 80s, Pat went solo with (what I consider to be) a "rockier" sound, and if
I recall correctly, the late Mark Heard produced and/or played and sang on at
least one of Pat's solo efforts.
The album names I recall are "Humanity Gangsters" and "Film At Eleven". Not
being a big fan of mellow stuff, I liked the "new" Pat much better.
Dick Young
Motorola, Inc.
(Who doesn't have a thing to do with my opinions: They're my own fault.)
Miles O'Neal
| I saw the Pat Terry Band waaaay back in Dec. of 1979 (if memory serves me
| right) at the Campus Crusade Christmas Conference in Chicago. In the early-
| mid 80s, Pat went solo with (what I consider to be) a "rockier" sound, and if
| I recall correctly, the late Mark Heard produced and/or played and sang on at
| least one of Pat's solo efforts.
|
| The album names I recall are "Humanity Gangsters" and "Film At Eleven". Not
| being a big fan of mellow stuff, I liked the "new" Pat much better.
Yeah, Pat's still occasionally showing up with new stuff, but I liked the
earlier stuff in the group - except they seldom reached their potential.
Sonny (the lead guitarist) could flat WAIL. He said they never played
faster stuff because Pat didn't want anything they couldn't do live, and
he didn't want to play live fast stuff (fear of mistakes). I liked the
last album they did as a band a lot - a whole new (semi-rocky) direction.
So, naturally, they broke up.
One of the best concerts I ever heard was when Phil keaggy invited Sonny
onstage to play a live acoustic duet set (Mt. Paran COG, Atlanta). They
just blew me away. Sonny Lollerstadt (spelling?) is one of the most
under-rated guitarists around, and has been for years.
Pat and Mark heard were good friends from way back. Pat (w/ Sonny & Randy)
helped make Mark's demo for Larry Norman, which got him out to CA and
on a real label. Mark later helped produce Pat, played with Pat, etc.
Miles O'Neal
|co...@topcat.rtp.dg.com (Tony Coor) writes:
|
|I attended a concert last night featuring a singer named Marty Pfifer. It
|a very good performance but one song brought to mind a group of performers
|that I had heard in college but not much since. The song sounded like something
|I had heard a group called the Pat Terry Band do quite a long time ago. Does
|anyone know if they are still performing? Or whether any of the band members
|have started other bands?
In case nobody else responded (our news feed is not feeling well),
Sonny Lollerstadt (lead guitar) && Randy Bugg (bass) have been
producing demos & albums in their Smyrna, GA (outside Atlanta)
studio for years now. I haven't heard of them being in any
real bands, though. Too bad - not only are they excellent musicians,
but Randy is one of the funniest onstage personalities around.