Classics of Love
Classics of Love is an American punk rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area, formed in 2008. The band consists of singer Jesse Michaels (formerly of Operation Ivy, Big Rig, and Common Rider) with guitarist Mike Huguenor, bassist Morgan Herrell, and drummer Max Feshbach (who comprise San Jose punk trio Hard Girls). Signed to Asian Man Records, Classics of Love released their debut, the Walking in Shadows EP, in 2009, followed by a single in 2010 and an eponymously titled album in 2012.
The band's music goes back to while Michaels was doing solo acoustic shows and was approached by Mike Park of Asian Man Records about recording the songs in a studio. Michaels decided to do the recordings with a full band and recruited Feshbach, Herrell, and Huguenor. The group named themselves Classics of Love (a name known from the opening track of Last Wave Rockers, recorded by Jesse Michaels' band Common Rider) and recorded the six song EP "Walking in Shadows".
After playing initial shows in California, the band went on a European tour in the spring of 2009. While playing in Southampton, United Kingdom they had equipment stolen from them. The band announced that when they returned from Europe they planned on starting writing on a full length album.
Buddy Montgomery
Charles "Buddy" Montgomery (January 30, 1930, Indianapolis, Indiana – May 14, 2009) was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery. He and brother Monk formed The Mastersounds in the late 1950s and produced ten recordings. When The Mastersounds disbanded, Monk and Buddy joined their brother Wes on a number of Montgomery Brothers recordings, which were arranged by Buddy. They toured together in 1968, and it was in the middle of that tour that Wes died. Buddy continued to compose, arrange, perform, produce, teach and record, producing nine recordings as a leader.
Biography
Buddy first played professionally in 1948; in 1949 he played with Big Joe Turner and soon afterwards with Slide Hampton. After a period in the Army, where he had his own quartet, he joined The Mastersounds as a vibraphonist with his brother Monk, pianist Richie Crabtree and drummer Benny Barth in 1957. He led the "Montgomery-Johnson Quintet" with saxophonist Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson from 1955 to 1957. His earliest sessions as a leader are from the late 1950s. He played briefly with Miles Davis in 1960. After Wes Montgomery’s death in 1968, Buddy became active as a jazz educator and advocate. He founded organizations in Milwaukee, where he lived from 1969 to 1982; and Oakland, California, where he lived for most of the 1980s, that offered jazz classes and presented free concerts.
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Walking In Shadows
by: Classics Of LoveIn the tourist cavern I found you
And your face looked like my own
So we walked around for awhile
Cause we both knew it was too early to go home
You could look at the ice formations,
Read words so out of date
About a trite religion,
About a functional hate
Walking in shadows,
Walking in shadows
Down here in the turnstiles,
Trying to avoid the killing fall
And I saw stray visions
Of what life was supposed to mean,
And I knew you had seen them too
And it gave me solace in the slipstream
And I had loose moments,
Where my mind and my power were my own
So I tried to steal something back,
Down in the uncharted zones
Walking in shadows,
Walking in shadows
Down here in the passages,
Trying to avoid the killing fall
Been outside the attraction,
But it was so long ago
I remember the feel of substance
Now there's one place left to go
Walking in shadows,
Walking in shadows
Down here in the minerals,
Trying to avoid the killing fall
Walking in shadows,
Walking in shadows
Down here in the turnstiles,