Fudge will appear with folk group
By SARAH DALE Kansan Staff Writer
From the Pigeons to the Vanilla Fudge, from New York to Lawrence, the Vanilla Fudge are on their way. They will appear in a pop concert 8:30 p.m. April 19th in Hoch Auditorium.
Jeff Rockwell, Wichita senior,
and SUA Special Events
chairman said," The block sales
for the concert are going well,
but campus sales aren't going
fast. We have plenty of good
seats left, almost all of the $2.50
seats."
The Fudge met late in 1966 and formed a group known as the Pigeons. They played New York area discotheques.
Mark Stein, group organist, recalled, "We were thrown out of discotheques—I mean thrown out bodily of the first few we played. The owners couldn't understand why people were neither dancing to our music nor buying drinks—why they were just sitting and listening."
Offered contract
A spokesman for Atlantic Records said after the Pigeons gave several concerts they were offered an Atlantic Records contract, at which time they changed their name.
The group name appears to have absolutely no significance.
Tim Bogert, bass, said, "A girl we know was eating a vanilla fudge ice cream popsicle when we told her our problem. She suggested the flavor of her popsicle might be an idea. It
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Since that time the Vanilla Fudge has cut four albums and appeared on numerous shows. A group spokesman said, within two months of signing the contract the Fudge hit the Top 20 and with this acceptance came the critical acclaim, the inevitable Ed Sullivan booking.
They have appeared on the Ed Sullivan show twice, the Joey Bishop Show, Steve Allen show, Merve Griffin show, Jerry Lewis show and the Smothers Brothers.
The group spokesman said, "To a great extent, the personal lives of the Fudge and their music runs along parallel lines. There is a degree of freedom and discipline in both," he said. "They say what they feel, and they play what they feel, with little regard for outside pressures."
No leader
The group, composed of four young men, has no actual leader.
Mark Stein is the 20-year-old organist who broke into show business as a child actor on the "Star Time Kids" television program. Mark never played an
accordian until three years ago and has never taken a lesson.
Vinnie Martel, group guitarist was doing professional gigs at 14.
Tim Bogert, bass player, makes strange-looking experimental basses and massive amplifiers designed to make the Fudge sound fill every bit of space.
Carmine Appice is the only group member with formal training. This drummer displays an acrobatic talent for hurling his drumsicks in the air. At the end of each performance he tosses his sticks to the audience.
Brewer and Shiplev
Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley will also appear with the Fudge the 19th. This folk duo have cut three singles, "Keeper of the Keys", "Green Bamboo" and "Truly Right".
A spokesman for the group said, "They draw from the seeds of grass roots folk, along with the combined progressive spirits of the artists themselves."
It has also been said that they are more at home in the country rather than in the city.
Brewer continued, "I'd rather play music in the country. Back in the midwest, I think audiences are more responsive."
Tom added, "By the time you get out into the country and you hear music that is happening
The Vanilla Fudge
now, there isn't any of the hype . . it just doesn't exist."
Both men play the acoustic guitar. Musically they have said
their goal is to become more spontaneous, more real ... to reach a point where communication can increase.
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