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"Blue
Sky evolved
from a young Bremerton Washington band called Darone
in 1971-72. We were fresh out of high school and had stars in our
eyes but the rawness, intensity and barely-contained energy of the band
would rapidly develop into a powerful and charismatic Seattle based
stage
show that took audiences by storm all across the country. From
its
roots in small Bremerton performance venues like Perls and The Mariner
Club, to being pursued by concert promoters and added to concert
line-ups
across America performing with greats like BTO, Jerry Lee Lewis, Climax
Blues Band, Chuck Berry, Journey and Canned Heat, Blue Sky never slowed
down. As a road band, constantly moving from city to city, Blue
Sky
brought its powerful stage show to venues packed with loyal fans year
after
year. The band had several member changes throughout the
seventies
that recruited fantastically talented players from around the nation
that
eventually went on to become some of Seattle's most famous band
personalities.
Blue Sky was like a band of pirates back then. We mused about
living
on the road, pillaging and plundering. Some of the
stories-of-the-road
cannot be gracefully told here but boy was it fun. The band
composed
and recorded many songs. Those recordings and pictures of the
band
can be found today on the official Blue
Sky website, www.blueskyrock.com, thanks to the combined efforts of
Jim Fleming, Norm Peterson and myself. Many thanks to Pacific
Northwest
Bands for compiling such valuable knowledge about the rich music
culture
of the northwest keeping alive the dream."
Roger
Nick, September
2006 roger@blueskyrock.com
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