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Robert "Bobby" Winkelman is an American singer, song writer, rhythm guitarist, and bass guitarist. He was a founding member of the East Bay band, "The Epics".
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Robert "Bobby" Winkelman is an American singer, song writer, rhythm guitarist, and bass guitarist. He was a founding member of the East Bay band, "The Epics".
At age 17, the band released its AM hit single record, with its side A, "Humpty Dumpty", and side B, "Homesick", on radio station KFRC, in 1966.
In 1967, he became a founding member of psychedelic rock band Frumious Bandersnatch. [1] The band released its first, transparent, psychedelic-purple, four-song LP that year.
He later became a performing, recording member in the Steve Miller Band, for which he wrote, sang, and played his original song, "Good Morning", as well as other album tracks that appeared on their 1970 album Steve Miller Band Number 5 , on Capitol Records. He also played and sang on Miller's 1972 Anthology album.
In 1975, Bobby got a solo record deal with Warner Bros. Record Company, and they released his album with Bonaroo, Bonaroo, with his original songs, "Life's Sweet Song", "Dream On", Melody Maker", "Spirit of a Dead Man", "I See the Light" and "Let's Go Down to the River".
In 1977, he contributed a co-authored song titled, "My Own Space", with lyrics by Jason Cooper, to the Steve Miller Book Of Dreams album.
In 1995, Bobby, as a record producer and music publisher of the band, Frumious Bandersnatch, released Nuggets From The Golden State: The Berkeley EP's", on the Big Beat Records label.
In 1996, Big Beat Records released Frumious Bandersnatch's A Young Man's Song, containing: Jack King's' "Hearts to Cry", Bobby Winkelman's "Chain Reaction", and "Misty Cloudy", with Jack King's, and George Tickner's "Cheshire". Bobby self produced & released his Bonaroo II CD, which included his original songs: "Nobody Asked Me", "We Can Move", "Magic Spell", "When You Touch My Hand" (lyrics by Linda Wallimann), "Where Ships Come Sailing By", and a new version of "Spirit of A Dead Man". The title track was called "Children of the Stars". That CD also contains "Old Glory" and "Be Here Now" with piano and organ performed by Nicky Hopkins of the Rolling Stones, for his keyboard work on their original song entitled "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Lastly, "Off Again On Again Love", according to the label, is actually another original song entitled, "Rainbows (The Phantom Messenger)".
In 2002, Bobby and Alec Palao produced a full-length re-issued LP album entitled Frumious Bandersnatch: Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes), which quickly became a collectors' item after it was released by Get Back Records.
Bobby's song "Humpty Dumpty" was re-released in 2007, on the Big Beat Record label, on You Got Yours! East Bay Garage 1965-1967 CDWIKD 268. "Hearts to Cry", was re-released, after it was released by the band back in 1967, on their clear purple, transparent, 33 1/3, four-song, LP album published by R. P. Winkelman Tunes. The song was originally penned and lead-sung by the band's original drummer, Jack King.
The song appeared again on, Love Is The Song We Sing (San Francisco Nuggets) on Rhino Records. The package included a four-CD, 65 song set, inside its 64-page book, photographed and illustrated in full color, and chronicling the "flower power" years of the San Francisco bay area music scene from 1965 through 1970.
A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and his 1874 poem The Hunting of the Snark. Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in The Hunting of the Snark, it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. Through the Looking-Glass implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in The Hunting of the Snark, a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in various adaptations of Carroll's works; they have also been used in other authors' works and in other forms of media.
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles that were released during the mid-to-late 1960s. It was created by Lenny Kaye, who was a writer and clerk at the Village Oldies record shop in New York. He would later become the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group. Kaye produced Nuggets under the supervision of Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman. Kaye conceived the project as a series of roughly eight LP installments focusing on different US regions, but Elektra convinced him that one double album would be more commercially viable. It was released on LP by Elektra in 1972 with liner notes by Kaye that contained one of the first uses of the term "punk rock". It was reissued with a new cover design by Sire Records in 1976. In the 1980s, Rhino Records issued Nuggets in a series of fifteen installments, and in 1998 as a 4-cd box set.
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group had a string of mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band's contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams, among others. The band's Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. In 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Rock Love is a half live / half (sixth) studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band. The album was released in September 1971, and compiled by Capitol Records. All of Miller's previous backing band had left following the recording of the previous album, save bassist Bobby Winkelman. They were replaced by members of Winkelman's previous group, the psychedelic rock band Frumious Bandersnatch for this record, including Ross Valory on bass, and Jack King on drums. Bobby Winkelman was in the band during the live recordings on the album's first side, but is not credited on the album cover. David Denny, who later joined the band in 1976, is a guest guitarist on "Blues Without Blame".
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You Got Yours! East Bay Garage 1965-1967 is a compilation album featuring American garage rock bands that were active in the San Francisco Bay area between 1965 and 1967. It was released on September 18, 2007 on Big Beat Records and is the twenty-third installment of the Nuggets from the Golden State album series. Generally overshadowed by the garage scenes located in Los Angeles and San Jose, the San Francisco scene was uniquely influenced by the surplus of folk rock, which would eventually develop into psychedelic rock. For the most part, the groups presented on You Got Yours! do not exemplify the teenage-angst and rawness associated with the garage rock genre, but rather display a level of professionalism not expected from an adolescent band.