That'd be Laddie on bass (the guitar with only 4 tuners, OK, the blonde guy).
Click here for audio only but the whole record.
The B side, live on TV, Laddie on guitar and doing the lip sync this time:
This being what I'm steeling up for: 64 is too young to die in this day and age. The drummer, Joe Davis, left the building already, last year at 63 (obit w/ band history). From the Batesville [AR] Daily Guard:
CHEROKEE VILLAGE — Laddie Gene Hutcherson, 64, of Cherokee Village died Saturday, May 30, 2009, in an Ash Flat nursing home.The phone number over there is (870) 856 2705. I AM NOT SAYING this is the same Laddie Hutcherson...YET. (Well, of course, now I can.)
Arrangements will be announced by Tri-County Funeral Home of Highland.
Here's a really nice history of the band, with more graphics. And there's still Louis Paul. Check out his site for more info and pics.
UPDATE from Nancy Apple:
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 12:38 PM
Friends,
Don Nix asked me to help spread the word about a Memorial Service for Laddie Hutcherson
2 Pm on Sat the 22nd at The Church on the River.
Thanks for your help and I hope you are well and happy. Don
Laddie Hutcherson
As one of the founding members of the Guilloteens, a Memphis garage rock trio that ruled the local scene from 1964-1968, Hutcherson appeared on Shindig and American Bandstand, palled around with Elvis and the Byrds, worked with with Phil Spector and Jack Nitzsche, and, as unlikely as it might sound, inked a deal with cartoon team Hanna-Barbera's record label.
NANCY APPLE
Memphis Song Slinger
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Map to the church.
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http://www.kingsbury63.com/45th-reunion.htm
Mute, this suggests he lives in florida now, hope this is some help.
Ah, but there's this:
http://www.myfirstband.com/FirstBandGuilloteens.html
"Laddie has finally recovered from a car wreck about 2 years ago and he and his wife are living West of the Mississippi, (he asked us not to say where)."
This is the same Laddie Hutcherson. He was my uncle. He had liver cancer and was just diagnosted recently.
Here's an obituary from the Tampa paper
http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/article1006761.ece
I played in a band here in St. Pete FL with Laddie a couple years ago. He moved back to Arkansas and now I know why. He was a great guy and a hell of a blues man. We'll miss him here
I sat in with Lynn Jones and Laddie at BB's lots of nights and enjoyed his company and fine guitar playing many nights with my band at the Black Diamond , BB King's and the Rumboogie. The old Laddie, before his decline, was a remarkable musician and superior entertainer with a great sense of humor.
That is how I will remember him... vibrant, fun-loving and always ready to play a song.
This really brings back memories. the Guilloteens used to hang out at my sister's apartment near the airport in the mid 60's. They were all in the same social group.
I used to bring my friends over to meet them sometimes.
I saw Glen Camack today and he mentioned that he thought Louis Paul had died last year somewhere in Texas. Does any one know if there is any veracity to this?
I played many times with Laddie at the Copper Feather in Cherokee Village, Arkansas. He would come and sit in with us, and he and I would wind up playing in the wee hours of the morning, long after the bar had closed.
He will truly be missed around here.
As you have, undoubtedly learned by now - it is true. Lad was my dad's younger brother and our family has lost another member way too soon. He was diagnosed with liver cancer and died within the week right at the end of May.
Robert- Louis did not die in Texas. That was Joe Davis. He was my Dad and passed away on April 20, 2008.
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