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Zonder Kennedy
Zonder Kennedy (born Alexander Kennedy, 2 September 1955, Princeton, New Jersey) is a blues and rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.
==Early career==
Kennedy’s musical career began during his teenage years in Princeton, New Jersey. The first record he bought with his own money was Buddy Guy’s ''A Man And The Blues''.〔Interview with Zonder Kennedy 11/30/12〕 He left home and school at age 16 and wound up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved to Boston in the late 1970s, and then to western Massachusetts. There he formed a band called “Reliable Music” with Mark Grandfield, and his childhood friend Tommy Myers. After that band folded, Kennedy and Myers joined John Clark’s Bailey Brothers Blues Band. They spent the next few years constantly touring the boogie band circuit from Washington, D.C. to Canada, often sleeping in Kennedy’s car.
The Bailey Brothers Blues Band evolved into a band called Cash with additional members Jerry Ellis and drummer William "Benji" Benjamin, veteran of the band Fat. In 1979, the band and their manager Pat Irwin were in an elevator on their way to meet with Arista Records to discuss a contract. Irwin noticed in Billboard that there was already a band named Cash, so the band hastily agreed to rename themselves The Elevators. Their sound was often compared to The Cars, as both bands had songs with lots of hooks, prominent keyboards, and other New Wave/Power Pop elements.〔http://fredpopdom.free.fr/the-elevators-frontline-1980.htm〕 Gigs in NY and elsewhere followed, but just as the band was getting a degree of national attention, Zonder was seriously injured in a car accident. After a few months of recuperation, he re-joined the band, and shortly after the band was signed to Clive Davis’ Arista Records.〔http://www.geocities.com/nemsbook/ef/elevators.htm〕〔David Sokol March 19, 1980,Western Massachusetts Valley Advocate〕
In late 1979, they recorded their only album ''Frontline'' at Sound City in Van Nuys California, with Earle Mankey producing. Despite strong songs like "Stickball Kids" and "Girlfriend’s Girlfriend", the album didn’t take off, and they were subsequently dropped by Arista. On December 31, 1979, Kennedy moved to New York City, and continued gigging with various bands at CBGB and other New York clubs.
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