Blue Mountain
Eagle - 1972
Photo by Saulius Pempe, Provided Courtesy of Gordon (Gordy) Kjellberg
Blue
Mountain Eagle
Oregon
~ Washington ~ California
1969
~ 1977
Members
Scott
Barbee ~ Keyboards, Bass
Mark
Booth ~ Elec. Violin, Keyboards
Doug
Casady ~ Vocals, Bass
Gary
Church ~ Bass
Robb
Clarke ~ Vocals, Harp
Joe
Cox ~ Bass
Randy
Fuller ~ Bass, Guitar
Mark
Gallagher ~ Vocals
Chip
Hayes ~ Drums
Bill
Hornibrook ~ Vocals, Keys
Bob
"B.J." Jones ~ Guitar
Gordie
Kjellberg ~ Lead Guitar, Vocals
Vern
Kjellberg (aka Joey Newman) ~ Guitar, Keyboards
John
Morris ~ Guitar
Jim
Pompeo ~ Drums
Don
Poncher ~ Drums
David
Price ~ Guitar
Bob
Salterelli ~ Guitar and Saxophone
Chris
Stevens ~ Guitar
Eddy
Young ~ Drums
Crew
Alan
Quinn ~ Roadie
In
Memory of
Gary
Church
Bob
"B.J." Jones
The top photo was taken in
1972
by Saulius Pempe at the Warehouse Tavern on Westlake Avenue, Seattle
WA.
A crazy looking picture, but was Saulius's idea and we went for it. To
make the group members easier to identify from the rest, we were
planning
to have the members colorized at some time but it never happened.
The five group members are pictured
middle-center
- left to right, Gary Church "RIP", Gordy Kjellberg and Bill
Hornibrook.
Seated in front is Robb Clarke and Chip Hayes standing with the bull
whip.
This was Seattle's first Blue Mountain Eagle and features the same
members
as in the below color photograph. The color photo was taken in Canada
and
sometime in 1973.
The Buffalo Springfield changed their
name
to Blue Mountain Eagle in 1969 when different band members quit and
different
members hired. My brother, Vern (AKA Joey Newman) Kjellberg, was
one of three guitarists in the first California based Blue Mountain
Eagle.
They put out an album on Atlantic/Atco Records in 1969 and the group
broke
up in 1970. I asked Mike Zalk (Blue Mountain Eagle California
group
manager) and my brother Vern if I could use the group name in 1971,
they
said yes and the first Seattle based Blue Mountain Eagle was formed.
Gordon (Gordy) Kjellberg, April
2011
