Delaware Valley Revisited
Click here if you missed Ben Vaughn Part 1
Hey, howzit going everybody? Had enough of this lockdown yet? I know, I know, there’s nothing funny about it and you’re running out of ideas. Well, at least you have me to keep you entertained for a little while. I’m Hal in Philly and this is my podcast. Welcome to it. In case you forgot , it’s called… TALES OF THE ROAD WARRIORS!
If you listened to the last episode, my conversation with Ben Vaughn – Part 1 then you know I ended it wth a kind of a cliff hanger. Ben was telling me that his father would not allow him to have a guitar i the house if he couldn’t get his grades up in school. Well, Ben had a hard time getting better grades, Instead choosing to be a juvenile delinquent. A rebel with an axe to grind, but he couldn’t bring his axe home with him. So, in part two, Ben goes on to tell us how he got around the Vaughn house rules…
Talking Points
No guitar allowed…
E.J. Korvettes
Silvertone guitars
The Relay Shack
The Rambler Revisited
My Essra Mohawk story
The Hippie scene in Philly, 20th and Sansom Street, The Plain Dealer – free underground newspaper
Sugar Cane Harvest in Cuba – Learn more about the Venceremos Brigade
Songs we thought we had only imagined
Underground Radio, The Marconi Experiment with Dave Herman
John Sebastian was a bad influence on me
Ben and I preach against smoking (Sorry, smokers)
Norristown and the Zep
The Delaware Valley
More on The Geeter
The Mojave Desert
Santa Monica, Rent control, Ocean Park
The Blue Lagune Saloon
Kenn Kweder live shows on Facebook
Music scene in Philly – Past and present, the next generation
Charlie Gracie
World Cafe Live
Coronavirus effect on gigs
Ben Vaughn Links and Resources
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn Podcast on Stitcher
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn On Facebook
Ben Vaughn Videos
Ben Vaughn & Kim Fowley – Kings of Saturday Night
Ben Vaughn – Rambler 65 – Full Show
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Today you’re in for quite a treat. I’m talking to Ben Vaughn. If you’re from the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Tri-state area, you’re probably familiar with him. He’s been a fixture around these parts for a very long time. As a rock and roll star and as a DJ. Even outside of this area, listeners of NPR radio stations across the country can hear his remarkable, eclectic music on his show, The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn”.
During the late seventies, while I was working as a singing waiter in Los Angeles and cutting my own teeth as a performer, I was missing a phenomenon in my own home town of Philadelphia… a guy by the name of Kenn Kweder. While I was bartending, bussing, waiting, and singing Beatles songs tableside to my customers, Kenn Kweder and the Secret Kids was taking Philly by storm on every stage in town.
