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  • this band is fantastic. i love them. theyre overlooked.

  • I did the WHOLE BAND!!!

  • @kilofranable  .. oh, so YOU'RE the one!

  • Let's get it on!!!!!

  • WOW.... Take me back home!!

    

  • durham,n.c./bazen here! my freind t redd!

  • uzzell brothers who?redd was the man!

  • tommy redd folks,he is/was nantucket!!!!

  • i saw these guys several times in the late '70s and early '80s. The first time was in the Asheville Civic Ctr when they opened for The Doobie Brothers in '78. When Nantucket finished with the crowd The Doobie Brothers were almost ashamed to come out on stage.

    GREAT BAND!!

  • THEY PLAYED SMALL CLUBS IN SPARTANBURG SC. WITH HEAD EAST AND SOME OTHERS. GRET MUSIC

  • Saw these guys in Asheville at the Civic Center back in the early 80's , They opened for Rush !

  • The club was called "CRACKERS"

  • @danzilla1701 Before the club was called CRACKERS it was called THE HANGER. I saw several good bands there in the seventies and the eighties, like Ike and Tina Turner, and Dr. Hook. Some of the best times of my life.

  • im so glad my dad kept the 8 track with this song on it, i ahve his cassette player and 8 track in my room :D

  • This song rocks! It was a pretty big hit here in St. Louis on K-SHE 95 Real Rock Radio. Love it!

  • saw these guys at the "nightlife" on the circle Atlantic Beach

  • @cutegirl15131 Wow, nightlife...that is where I saw them too...and in Raleigh with Sidewinder.

  • Grew up with this band's music. Saw them play small clubs in N.C. before they got big. Luv this band 4 ever.

  • I'm seventeen and raised on this <3

  • yeah I saw them in Fayetteville often

  • TOMMY REDD! greetings from Von,Vickie and David from New Bern! and Sparky and Roxanne! keep rockin' these songs are pure southern rock goodness! God bless.

  • done the monitor mix for the band eastbound in myrtle beach a couple weeks ago...michael gardner is playing lead for them.

  • Going to see them in half an hour with sebastian bach. so hyped.

  • Going to see them with Sebastian Back in Half an Hour so pumped.

  • Reminds me of High School!!!!

  • They're from Jacksonville NC originally...

  • I use to see them at Roxy's in Chalotte NC....brings back great memories

  • Still can't finger-out why a NC band would name themselves after a DAMN YANKEE town...

    SUX

  • @JKKillerB

    Comes from a poem- "there was a young girl from Nantucket....." you can figure out the rest...

    at least that's what peewee told me at Papillions in Greensboro in the late 70's.

  • Tommy Redd, Lives at the end of my road I have one of his amps, A fender musicmaster.

  • 70's southern rock at its very best!

  • sittin here rockin with a NC band in NC!! crank it!!

  • Now THIS is music! I used to have this album too and heard them play in a little tiny club in Rockingham NC...wish I could remember the name of it...I was WAY underage at the time, maybe 15. But this was 1980 and you could get away with that. THEY ROCKED then and still Rock. I make my 9 nine year old son listen to this stuff all the time....lol, just to make sure he isn't ruined...AWESOME!

  • @daisygirlnc it was probably a club a real close friend of mine named Dixon Morrison used to dj at called Crackers.

  • @daisygirlnc ... given your references, it would seem you are about the same age as I. Isn't it a wonder that we managed to survive such a barbaric age when there wasn't much concern about how old one had to be to have a good time?

  • @Silaxian Tell me about it. I got "grandfathered in" so I could buy beer at 18, but there was a store in my town that would sell it to anyone and since I was the oldest, I had to go in. Even the concerts at Charlotte were up close and personal, not sanitized and distant as they are now. But survive we did and of course now I watch over my son like a hawk! I can't even get over the fact that they cuss now on non cable tv. Jesus I am getting old, LOL But this band will always rock 4 me.

  • Love their album covers, especially "long way to the top". It's on I-tunes and Wounded Bird has The CDs. These guys and Glass Moon--both from NC--should have been huge! Maybe they were in some ways!

  • Yayz I brush my teeth to this!

  • they're still touring, saw them in Myrtle Beach 2 years ago and heard about them being around since then.

  • One ass kicking Carolina band!!!!

  • They played at The Copper Mine in Petersburg VA we loves them. His name is Tommy Redd....awesome guy.

  • They use to play often in a club called ICK'S in my hometown.Roanoke Rapids,N.C. They were always a sell out. Talking bout the 70's and early 80's. Who was the guy that always wore a long leather coat and would play the guitar with a spoon?

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  • I'm in college and this music impresses me more than anything out today. I wish rock could still be laid back and fun like this

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  • Saw Nantucket several times in Myrtle beach at the convention center they opened for The Rossington Collins Band (Lynyrd Skynyrd) in 1977 after the plane crash and 38 Special later. They were always the "Special Guest" and Rightfully so in these parts.

    Quit Wish'in Go Fish'in

  • @Cathooker2

    Saw them open for RCB with Henry Paul Band in Roanoke for RCB for the first RCB tour. They were terrific and saw them again in Blacksburg Va at VA Tech the following year. Unreal band.

  • Never heard of these guys. Came across this as a random. Pretty damn good. Thanks for sharing. Always nice to hear some straight up rock'n'roll.

  • partied with them when they lived in apartments in Raleigh nc

  • Partied hearty with these guys when thet came down to LA,,Early 80"s

    Ya"all know,Greg Spears??/Hyatt house,,Ha,ha,,That stupidpunk band that came out first "The Yachts"",Rode that party bus from Carlsbad to the Whisky,,Snort,Snort,Thanks for the memories...Frank

  • This kicks ass!

  • Saw them open for Kiss in the old Charlotte colliseum.They stole the show in my opinion.

  • The first three studio albums were released on compact disc by re-issue label Wounded Bird Records in 2003 and 2004. Nantucket V was made available on CD through re-issue label Retrospect Records in 2007.

  • I played in a raleigh band in the 70's and we became good friends with tommy redd

    and kenny soule, jammed with them at times, and eventually bought alot of they're lighting and sound equipment when they signed on with epic. MAN , those were the days! I really have some good memories there, seems like alot of smoke and mirrors, big production, marginal stuff being passed on as being rock these days.

  • My dad told me he lived across the street from one of the band members and got to listen to them practice a few times. Nantucket rocks

  • anyone have "natural woman" ?

  • Very fun band!! hahaha gotta love it!!!

  • Nice lob-stah!

  • i played in a band with the songwriter of this song[tommy redd] he is still rocking in the raleigh / durham area.nantucket forever!!!!! w. bazen/durham,n.c.

  • I thought I'd never hear this song again!! It's been 30 years almost. Thanks!!

  • What a fun band they were! Saw them front row at the Omni in Atlanta, I think it was the summer of 1978 or 1979...opening up for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow...with the irrepressible DIO...and REO Speedwagon...Gary Ritchrath at his finest...what a show!

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  • Anyone know who created the art for the album?

  • When I was a teenager, Nantucket took me on stage and sung to me. OMG!! I was the shit!! LOL.....

  • Saw them opening on AC/DC'S Back In Black tour.

  • you guys are awesome-sounds like a great southern rock band-like 38 special-molly hachett etc-we used to burn the grooves out  on this album back in the days-would like to see you come to jax fl

  • I grew up with this song in Illinois due to the coverage St. Louis, Mo. radio station KSHE-95 gave this band. Excellant band.

  • @LimeLemon333 ...cool, me too. I'm from Alton IL. This song was a hit when I went to jr high.

  • Dude. My dad introduced me to them, and I must say, I absolutely LOVE this song :D

  • I was in the Marines at Le Jeune and saw these guys back up AC/DC Back in Black tour. These guys rocked, AC/DC not so much. Great band!

  • I was in a band in the early 80's and we were playing The Whiskey River in Macon, GA for two weeks straight. Wednesday of the second week, the club manager told us to take a night off, that he had another band for the night. It was Nantucket. They came in a blew out the house. Awesome.

  • I still have it on vinyl too. Brings back alot of memories. That was 30 years ago and I still like it. Didn't know they were still performing.

  • My 1st concert was Nantucket at Camp Lejeune, NC (I was 13). I snook backstage and got Larry Uzzels's autograph on the back of my admission ticket. I got a t -shirt and wore it during Phys Ed in high school. They were great.

  • BALL 4 LOUNGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

  • looks like brant point light on the cover :)

  • i remember when they used to come to atlintic beach and play at the circle in BIG SURF

  • I have "Long Way to the Top" on vinyl. Havent heard this song in almost 30 years. I was born in NC. This band rocked

  • Alrighty then, now I'm on a mission to find the other one...will post soon,  Dang you got that straight out of 1979 didn't you?

  • Sounds good but I've never heard of them

  • Larry Uzel and Tommy Redd still play with a slightly different line up in the bar scene. Tommy was the song writing force in the band. He was awesome.

  • When Nantucket signed with RCA the old bass player and lead guitarist were cast aside for new people that were hoped to propel the band over the eetop. Alan the new guitarist left and went to Myrtle Beach where he still teaches guitar as far as I know. Pee Wee the original bass player started a 3 piece band called PKM which was named after the first letter in each persons name. Tommy Redd the rhythm guitar quit to drive a fork life for IBM in Raleigh.

  • I saw Nantucket with 38Special and Molly Hatchet at Kinston, N>C> in 1979 on the banks of the Neuse River, Molly Hatchet was the headliner and they were GREAT! BUT>>>>>>>> Nantucket absolutely STOLE the show! ROCK ON!

  • @Gradyoutlaw

    Wow, I was at that show, I was 12, I lived in New Bern...do you remember a band called Pegasus Plus?

  • OMG hott summer, outside, Winston-Salem, NC! I think the Charlie Daniels band played too??? Anyone???

  • Whatever happened to real music? Love this shit. Nothing like it today.

  • i seen these guys on my 21st birthday. At a bar called the 'horseman', in statesville n.c. Best show that i remember!!

  • I totally agree dude, brings back good memories, time passes by so fast.

  • saw them in 1980 in johnson city tn they opened for ted nugent nantucket was awesome

  • i HAVE KNOWN THEM FOR 33 YEARS AND THEY ALWAYS BRING EXCITEMENT

  • Ahh, 75-80. Maybe the best five years in live music.(imho) Some of the best rock bands ever toured then. As far as R.E.O., good god were those guys ever not on tour!

  • i became a radio announcer in 1979 at a station called 2BE in Bega NSW Australia , i still remember playing this song , when i first started there

  • first band I ever saw live!!

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  • @DLisland2 Dude, when I was in Junior High my friends all thought Limp Bizkit was the greatest thing ever. Don't sweat it.

  • @revjoe250 hey i love limp bizkit

  • i met tommy and larry uzzel once when i was 10 or so at a barbecue for some friends of my parents.larry told me all about when they opened for kiss in 79 i think.he said gene and paul were pricks,but ace and peter loved to party and hang out of course.he said ace got pissed off when they threw his tv out the window and it hit the bushes instead of the pavement!excellent story,excellent song,excellent band.

  • Wow...this is so weird.

    But, here it is almost the fall season with Friday night high school football, and this song happens to pop into my head.

    I remember back in the day when this song came out, they played it at our games.

    Think I'll head to our high school game on Friday....lol.

  • Thry are Still rocking today...Tommy Red is the Man!!!.

  • nantucket 8-track tape and bright pink "reefer rollers"....jeez i miss the 70's.....

  • Saw Nantucket at the Omni in 1978 or so...they opened for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, who opened for REO Speedwagon. What a great, great show. Nantucket kicked...I will always remember their lyric "Two-Timin' Hymen"... The guitarist played with a spoon... Richie through his guitar into the audience directly above my head...everyone destroyed my front row chair trying to get a piece... Dio was excellent, of course. And Gary Ritchrath destroyed the Omni as well...met REO after the show...

  • 9/25/2009 8:00 PM at Nantucket Plays Rock 102 Radio Myrtle Beach Reunion

    Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

  • Saw these guys in Roanoke Va in the early 1980s. What a great show they put on.

  • They're playing in Myrtle Beach Sept. 24th, part of SxSE

  • I hope they sell the joint out! These guys ROCK

    If I was still on the Eastern seaboard I'd be there in a heartbeat. Do they have a website?

  • do you know where at in myrtle?

  • Oh yeah! Nantucket rocked Fayetteville, NC when I was in the Army in the late 70's-early 80's. They were LEGENDARY. Good buddies, cool chicks, cold beer.. I love these guys.. Thanks for the memories.

  • nantucket played at my senior prom in 1976 .man what an awesome group .rock on

  • lol, I had this record when I was a kid. My mom was a nurse at the public clinic in Greenville when these guys came in there for their vd tests and shots lol! Hard to beat 70's stoner rock!

  • yea it was a bad ass concert in Atlanta 1982

  • they have a web site called band of desparate men Tommy plays with the "Boogie Children." I was the sound engineer when they recorded this.They still play on occasion and are based out of Raleigh

  • If any you Nantucker lovers out there have any contact with the band members, please have them contact me. I would love to have them autograph my CD's

    Thanx!!

    Tell them you saw it here on Youtube

    LHD

  • @Lionheartdays the bassist Pee Wee Watson works at Harry's Guitar Shop in Raleigh, NC

  • @Lionheartdays Hey!!! We may have been in the same crowd a time or two! I loved Nantucket!!!!!! Then PKM..... Sorry I don't have any contacts.......

  • @Lionheartdays CD shit I have the vinyl and play the fuck out of it. Damn love them kshe classics

  • ty 4 sharing this song. i miss that album.

  • I saw them open for Kiss in Greensboro long, long, long ago.

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  • 1979 - DYNASTY-Tour ! ;-)

    KISS 4EVER !

  • Love this song,,,,and all Nantucket songs, ....

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  • Tommy Redd's mother was the librarian at my school in the late 70s... She was such a nice lady..

  • love it, can i get the tabs please?

  • Tabs? Not sure what you mean?

  • @Lionheartdays he means tabs for playing guitar. like the notes to the music

  • i'm from VA...and back in the late seventies, everybody there was jammin' this! These guys rocked. Totally underrated.

  • I remember seeing them in Kannpolis,N.C. at the old Sgt Peppers on hwy 29,, then they changed it to Fargo's,, oh man the memories.

  • Awesome!! Thanks for the share, appleofeye! 5*

  • They used to come to chowan at least once every couple of months Loved them . I think they were the best live band I have ever heard . Give me a woman supporting pretty legs

  • rockin band from my NC neck of the woods, check out album with AC/DC cover "Long way to the Top"

  • Grew up in Fayetteville rocking to this band in my Chevy van!

    Loved them then and sounds just as good today.

  • Me too dude...no van though, love this band

  • Ha, how bout a West Virginia boy that spent a couple of summers on the Grand Strand knowing them too. :-) I LOVE this album, used to rock it loud and long back in the day. I still have the original vinyl of it.

  • You did a great job w/the audio. A really good song...one of the obscure ones that only us Carolina boyz would know about...

  • You know what? This band is also poplular in St. Louis, thanks to the great DJs at K-She 95!

  • Wow. Brings back graduation memories of '78 and staying at Cherry Grove, SC. I saw them at a club called Crackers in Rockingham, NC around 1980. Larry Uzzell wore a t-shirt with "L Fuctor Factor" on the front and a 10 on the back. Good tune, good band, good times.

  • Cracker Backer!

    I can't tell you how many times I've been hammered in there.

    On Wednesday nights you could get in free with a college ID and the draft was free.

    We used to get 'falling down' drunk and not spend a dime. hilarious...

  • i had this album on 8 tranck back in 78 we played it all the waty to carolina beach those were the days

  • I saw them in '78, They opened up for KISS.

    My ears rang for 3 days

  • That was my first concert! Nantucket opening for KISS at the Asheville Civic Center in '78

  • Rock on, my brotha!

  • I am best friends with the saxaphone player from this band.

  • Remindes me of being a teenager,hanging out at atlantic beach,smokeing my summer away!

  • Wow! Back in 1980 saw them at Camp Lejeune! Uzzells rule

  • saw them at the sumter co. speedway sc. in the hot july sun 1981 one of the best concerts ever right up front with my girl on my back a bottle of jack in my hand even caught a pick that was thrown to us from the band by the way the girl on my back that day is still with me married 27 years i love you kim

  • senior day 1979 at six flags st louis. they were the 1st concert i ever went to!

  • I also grew up outside of Raleigh back in the 70"s in Cary NC, seems to me I saw "Nantucket" at the old "State" theater in downtown Raleigh(damn that's been a while) , but didn't they do a "cover" of IT"S a long way to topif you want to rock and roll? come on folks.. help this old 49 year old 70's burn-out with this .

  • Long way to the top was Nantucket's third LP. I'll get that song on here soon.

    LHD

  • dude i think that was ac/dc but they were a great band

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  • OK...I had to get it out of my system. I just uploaded a Nantucket Guitar Cover of "Never Gonna Take Your Lies" and I have another one on the way. I always loved this band when I saw them live back in the 1970's and never forgot the great music they made! Check out the videos! -BC

  • man these guys were the best i grow up to them saw them in a club in goldsboro n.c. a hell of a place call rhodes god it brings back some great times

  • these guys are so cool. I was hanging out with this band named castle and we got to hang out with these guys a couple of times in jacksonville nc. back in the early 80s chris i miss you tony

  • Sept 9 1978 - No opening act as Nantucket takes the stage at West Florence High School, Florence, SC. Ticket Cost $4.50

    I'm there with a now late friend, who helps me free-hand a poorly rolled joint. Anyway some guy we passed to got caught with it and out the door he went. Still feel bad about that.

  • i saw these guys (along with Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet) in the summer of 1980 in a little field in a town called Stanhope, nc (15 miles west of Rocky mount, nc on hwy 97)

    what a great F&%$#ng time those days were!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I saw these guys at least a couple of times in the late 1970's....probably around 1977 or 1978. I know I saw them once or twice at the old Charlotte Coliseum opening for Kiss...and musically speaking they blew Kiss off the map! I remember bottle rockets being fired in the Coliseum...clouds of a certain type of smoke...LOL, and a volume level that left my ears ringing for at least 3 days after the show. They were a great band and that was a fun time! -BC

  • that is so cool im from charlotte and i rember parts of that to bad i dont rember all it

  • OH MY GOSH I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR YEARS and look WOOOOOOO Rock on.....bring this song out for the new Kids to listen to!!

    Heartbreaker ........h e a r t baby look what you done

  • Wow you have truly brought back some memories thank you very much!!!!

  • College in Indiana 1978-79...we would crank this at all hours....my roommate from Laurinburg, NC. brought this album with him.

  • Saw them outdoors at NCSU campus near the highrise dorms in 1981 one afternoon, funny as hell the singer kept shoving the microphone down his pants, humping and gyrating around!!

  • Forgot to mention, these guys really ROCKED at that show!! It was incredibly loud, they played like hell. It was hot out, there were girls in bikinis everywhere. Everyone cheered when they played Heartbreaker. Great memories!

  • I was at that show, too! The good all days when you bring in all the beer you wanted, rock your ass off to Nantucket and nobody gave you a hard time. Grew up listening to these guys and some of my best memories ;-) were made to Nantucket's music!

  • Far out, man! And over at UNC random bands would show up on the lawn at the dorms with a Stroh's truck with free beer from the 8 spigots on the sides of it and tons of plastic cups. Hell of an advertising scheme! Amazing times.

  • Oh man how many cold Old Milwaukees did we drink to this back in the late 70's listening to this.There used to be a place here in Winston-Salem we all cruised called Stratford Road.Back in the day when the police would make you pour your beer out on the ground and make you go home instead of arresting you,lol.Saw them pour a guys bag of herb out one Saturday night,the crazy fool was back up there Sunday picking his "grass" outta the gras,lmao.Invent the time machine please,I wanna go back!!!

  • I remember them ..the guitar player played the guitar with a spoon on a song or two...

  • This brings back so many good times, my friend Robin that had this album died 2 years ago at age 45 of cancer. Thanks for the memories!!! We listened to this EVERY morning before we went to school.

    Ginny

  • These guys were a local favorite in NC on the beach sceneback in the 70's and we were lucky enough to have them as one of the 2 bands that played for our prom:-). We were all happy to hear when Epic records picked them up then and these guys still rock now!

  • Brings back the days when WKNC(NC State Radio) and WQDR rocked. Those days are gone....not forgotten.