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The Snakestretchers band featuring Roy Buchanan on guitar was originally organized by Danny Gatton to play a PBS documentary on WNET in New York City, hosted by Bill Graham. The original band was Roy Buchanan (lead guitar), Dick Heintze (keyboard wizard), (Michael "Pokey" Walls ) (drums & vocals), Chuck Tilley (vocals & rhythm guitar) and (Danny Gatton ) on bass. Danny Gatton and drummer "Pokey" Walls left the group before the show was taped and teamed up at Gus N' Johns Restaurant, also in "suburban MD". (Peter Van Allen '72-74 Bass) ==Origin of the band's name== The name originated in the band room at the Crossroads Nightclub in Bladensburg, Maryland.〔(The Crossroads ) was a crab house and night club and is still located at the "Peace Cross" in Bladensburg, Md. Many great guitar players worked there, including Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton and Roy Clark. 〕 Every break the band sojourned to the band room, drank beer and told "road stories". Chuck Tilley said one night he “dreamed he was hired as a snake stretcher”. The band itself had no name at that time. When queried "What's the name of your band?" - "Pokey" quickly replied once - "Roy Buchanan and The Snake Stretchers" (two words). Thinking up nutty names for the band turned out to half the fun of any given night. This name was never intended to be serious. It was “officially applied” when the group played a politically connected event at a Wash, DC PBS station and one band member casually answered the “ever popular question” with "the Snake Stretchers" - to someone who turned out to be a Washington Post reporter. It was just in fun, but once published in the Washington Post, it was accepted as fact and "coined" into a single word. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Snakestretchers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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