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RIP Marshall Tucker
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RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:27 PM

Marshall Tucker, Namesake of Iconic Southern Rock Band, Has Died | Saving Country Music
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/marshall-tucker-namesake-of-iconic-southern-rock-band-has-died/


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Jan 22, 2023, 7:42 PM

Did not know the history. Thanks for the post.

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The guy who used to tune our piano was blind as well.

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:46 PM

Interesting. RIP Marshall Tucker.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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R.I.P. Marshall Tucker….Namesake for

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:48 PM

my favorite band.

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Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:49 PM

After reading this…..go listen to the end of their song, The Last Of The Singing Cowboys.

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Re: Now that is a cool story

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:55 PM

RIP Mr. Tucker.

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Jan 22, 2023, 7:59 PM

Great Southern Blues/Rock. One of South Carolina's only claim to music fame.

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Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:15 AM

What? Ever heard of James Brown, Hootie and the blowfish, and Charlie Daniels?

Pink Floyd was even named for black blues artists from South Carolina

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:26 AM

I actually forgot about Dizzy Gillespie and Chubby Checker, but they may not be familiar, too many

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Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 23, 2023, 3:13 PM [ in reply to Re: RIP Marshall Tucker ]

Pink Anderson was a musician that lived in Spartanburg.

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Jan 24, 2023, 7:55 PM [ in reply to Re: RIP Marshall Tucker ]

Charle Daniels was from Wilmington, NC.

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Jan 24, 2023, 8:11 PM

He went to school in Spartanburg for a short time and played multiple times with mtb and hank williams jr in Spartanburg.

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Jan 23, 2023, 5:40 PM [ in reply to Re: RIP Marshall Tucker ]

Clemson's "Jungaleers" and "Caravelles" - and Greenwood's "Swingin' Medallions and "Pieces of Eight"... all a part of my misspent youth..... :)

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Jan 22, 2023, 8:00 PM

Thanks for sharing, I had never heard his story before.

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Yep...a well known story of how MTB got their name! I didn't

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Jan 22, 2023, 8:07 PM

realize he was still living! I still can't believe the Marshall Tucker Band isn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! MTB was one of the three iconic southern rock bands that became huge in the 70's, along with Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers.

I loved all three bands, but MTB was the most innovative of the three, combining elements of rock, blues, country and jazz probably better than any band.

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Very underappreciated in my opinion.***

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Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 23, 2023, 1:43 AM

Thanks for the info. I went to HS with Doug, Toy, and Tommy. On the track team with them. They visited us in Columbia, where we had moved.

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Class of ‘71. Went through “rat season” and glad I did.


Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 23, 2023, 6:01 AM

I saw them in Greenville S.C. opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1992. They put on a he'll of a show.

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Well, I saw them in about 1971 in Littlejohn, when MTB and

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Jan 23, 2023, 7:24 AM

Skynyrd opened for Chuck Berry! Yeah, that was a helluva show!

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:58 AM

I remember Rufus with Chaka Khan and Marshall Tucker opening for Chuck Berry and a couple weeks later Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker opening for Cheech and Chong

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Jan 23, 2023, 10:50 PM

MTB & Skynyrd both on the same show, but I don't recall ever seeing Cheech & Chong. If I saw them, they must've been totally forgettable! I do remember seeing Rufus though!

Did you see the Allman Brothers there, just a few weeks before Duane died? Does the Central Dance Association still exist. It would be neat to see a list of all the concerts they had while we were in school...I didn't miss many of them!

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Jan 23, 2023, 1:58 PM [ in reply to Well, I saw them in about 1971 in Littlejohn, when MTB and ]

I was there as well. My friend, and future roommate at Clemson, and I visited our brothers that weekend. The Tucker Boys outdid Skinnerd, but good old Chuck Berry rocked the house. I vividly remember him being on stage directing everything while the lights were still up and the roadies were finishing setting the equipment. He wasn't too thrilled with the bass player for some reason but Chuck had Littlejohn rocking three notes into the first song. Probably the best show I ever saw at Littlejohn but ... Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, as well as Elvin Bishop (with Mickey Thomas singing lead) wowed us at Tillman.

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Besides MTB & Allmans, two of the best I remember were...


Jan 23, 2023, 11:01 PM

the Ike & Tina Turner Revue(Tina & the Ikettes were fabulous!) and The James Gang, featuring Joe Walsh. The opening act for the James Gang was supposed to be Goose Creek Symphony, but their bus broke down on the way from Kentucky, so the James Gang agreed to take the stage first. They were great, then Goose Creek took the stage, the crowd was high as a kite by then and I've never seen a relatively unknown band get the crowd rocking like Goose Creek did that night! I think they only had one album released at the time, but I ended up buying three or four of their later releases!

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Jan 24, 2023, 8:02 PM [ in reply to Re: Well, I saw them in about 1971 in Littlejohn, when MTB and ]

Was Elvin Bishop sitting on a bale of hay?

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Jan 23, 2023, 2:14 PM [ in reply to Well, I saw them in about 1971 in Littlejohn, when MTB and ]

#### wish I hadn't graduated

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Re: RIP Marshall Tucker

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Jan 23, 2023, 11:01 PM [ in reply to Re: RIP Marshall Tucker ]

Ah, a Dorman boy I assume? They played at my sister’s prom. The Cawdwell place was behind my church in Walnut Grove.

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Before they were known as MT, they

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:06 AM

were The Toy Factory and played at one of the frat parties I attended. When Toy Caldwell played the National Anthem on his guitar one of the frats punched him in the face.

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:17 AM

He turned our piano When I was a boy, my dad was so tickled because his name was not Marshall Tucker, and that was one of my dad’s favorite bands.

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Jan 23, 2023, 2:13 PM

very interesting read - thanks

The band is fantastic

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Jan 23, 2023, 3:25 PM

It was neat growing up with my brother's band and members of the future MTB practicing and jamming together at my parents' house. Also, Champ Hood, David Ball and what would become Uncle Walt's Band practicing and jamming in the house right behind my parents' house.

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Jan 23, 2023, 6:54 PM

My favorite memory of Marshall Tucker was about 1978 when Elvin Bishop was just getting hot nationally with fooled around and fell in love. He was playing Tillman on a Tuesday and nobody bought tickets $2 I think. Well Marshall Tucker shows up unannounced with a 55 gallon drum of beer on stage. They play till police make us shut it down. Toy and Elvin did a dueling slide guitar show that was a special experience for I cannot remember how long. One of the coolest memories I have of Tillman concerts and I doubt if 250 people attended.

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Jan 24, 2023, 7:38 PM

I had not heard the origin of the MTB name. Thanks for posting! Pretty sure you instigated some additional MTB traffic on Spotify, etc. tonight!

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