Rhinoceros "Apricot Brandy" 2009

[kmsmith49]

Joe Walsh has cited this band as a big influence on his playing. You can hear it.

[BMWLDRider]

Holy shit....these guys came over to my house to crash back in 69 or 70.

[8052U]

Saw them in a hall in Greenwich, Conn. in 1969. My first rock concert! Couldn't have picked a better 1st band to see.

[sgtgaryn]

FOR ALLAN HABER....ONE OF HIS FAV SONGS.....MAY HE R.I.P. IN HEAVEN.....SGT. G.

[ChecMark]

This band came out of Jon and Lee and the Checkmates, my very first fan band. I watched them for hours at the Pepsi dances at the CNE. I was lucky enough to have Michael sit in on one of our band practices because our keyboard player's mother taught him. It was a thrill.

[BradJohnson34]

Entourage

[merrilltim]

Guy looks like Kevin bacon playing guitar.

[Wheezetones]

@merrilltim Trust me, that ain't Kevin Bacon. That's Danny Weiss. Kevin Bacon can barely play... but he is five degrees from Danny Weiss ;)

[tebanas1]

Was'nt Billy Mundi from the Mothers in the original band

[Wheezetones]

@tebanas1 Yes indeed.

[goldielocks591]

I love this band.

[zhenjiu]

In 1970 I was on the concert committee of a small state college in NJ. We booked Rhinoceros for our spring concert, but the protests we staged following the incidents at Kent State and Jackson State put a halt to all campus activities. They still sound AWESOME!!

[poyoung]

Thank goodness for Kitchener!

[maryquant1967]

I saw them at the University of Hartford, not sure what year....68 or 69!!

[Spicanese]

Hey Maddanmusic -- I was at the free concert in Central Park, but I could swear it was on a stage set up at the North end of Sheep Meadow, not the Band Shell.

Different free show, or was one of us more stoned than the other? LOL.

[maddanmusic]

holy crap these rocked me out when i was young lad free concert in central park in the old bandshell on the mall...wow great days ya got up early on saturday morning to see a live band for free playing great music for you..and they are still around...the good stuff last..yup

[PadreMDB]

yeah!

[InnocenceDestroyed]

Interesting note, Danny Weiss went to high school with Lester Bangs, famous rock and Roll critic with Rolling Stoe magazine right out of high school. Lester was played by Phillip Semour Hoffman in the film Almost Famous. His dad was a movie stutman and his brother was a drummer, I believe with Rinocerous. He drove a Comet or Falcon, all souped up in his early band days.

[InnocenceDestroyed]

Danny Weiss, lead guitar in the purple shirt used to be the lead guitarist for the Iron Butterfly on their first album, Heavy, then payed as a studio Musician in vegas after this band, appeared in the movie the Rose as Bette Midler;s lead guitarist and I beleive played with John Sebastian. Always was a great guitar player.

[maryquant1967]

@InnocenceDestroyed Are you referring to in a gadda da vida? The members when In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was recorded were Doug Ingle (keyboards and vocals), Lee Dorman (bass guitar), Ron Bushy (drums), and 17-year-old Erik Brann.

[musicofourheart]

They played my high school prom in June 1969! Love this song!

[majorzonk1]

..Fantastic to hear this song again after so many years. I could never remember

the name of the band because I was High so much of the time....good memories

of skippin' school and boosting records out of the corner store. Drinkin' beer

underage and fights at the food stand. Girls in garages..naked ,out to get liquor and six packs of beer.

[roccovaselino]

I haven't seen Alan Gerber in 42 years. I did some recording with him in Chicago, and we were good friends in high school. He had a great Thelonious Monk jazz style that was awkward, angular, dissonant, and wonderful. I only wish I had played jazz with him and not just the pop rock we were doing at the time.

[sundowna]

omg..i saw these hippies perform this gem at my highschool..1969..not bad for a buncha old dudes..

[SweetHaley]

Thats my Step dad in the dark red shirt........Goooooo Danny GOOOOO Yaaaaaaa!!!!!

[foutupourfoutu]

@SweetHaley Do you know if he happens to have any live recording or outtakes of every kind of the original line up somewhere? Any price!

[IamDancingStar]

wow from another life...I saw them and T Rex at The Boston Tea Party. I thought the names together were ironic.

[FinCups]

We had their album at home too . .great band

[GaryBombard]

I saw them in a club in the Village, NY around 68.  I sat near Billy Munday the drummer. I was impressed with his style and it was a great influence on my playing. This drummer recreates that style very well. Our band did about 3 of their songs including this one.

[okeyeye]

Mundi is the BEST

saw him w/ the mothers AND Rhino!!

[andersonplayer99]

Thanks very much for the kind remarks all.

[GoldenSealDrums]

wow ,one of the instrumental songs I loved as a young kid , I wasn't expecting to see original band , were they on ATCO records?

[foutupourfoutu]

They were on Elektra ;)

[JWirtel]

Danny's a legend...plays any and all styles at a world class level...Michael Monarch of Steppenwolf turned me on to him and he's dynamite..Plays within a band context...

[soundspresent]

anyone know where this performance is from?

[neek49]

I filmed it at the Kitchener Blues Fest on August 7, 2009.

Follow the link provided in the description...

[spacepatrolman]

@soundspresent this is one of the hottest live videos in youtube right now along with little latin lupe lu by mitch ryder

[arnoldfaber]

yes, yes, YES!

[CamillusUSA]

These guys were great and still are - Thanks for playing again!!!!

[runway27r]

Song still kicks ass

[Nucc3]

The BEST Toronto band of the 60's