Doc Scanlon plays Rocket 88

Doc Scanlon in a promo piece shot for Albany, NY's First Night New Year's Eve Celebration. Personnel: Don Young: guitar, Gene Garone: drums, Cliff Lyons: sax, Riff Baxter: trumpet and Reggie "Doc" Scanlon: bass. Rocket 88" is a rhythm and blues song that was first recorded by Ike Turner at Sam Phillips' recording studio in Memphis, Tennesse in 1951 and is claimed by some to be the "first rock and roll song". Working from the raw material of jump blues and swing combo music, Turner made it even rawer, also featuring one of the first examples of distortion, or fuzz guitar, ever recorded. It was also recorded by Bill Haley's Comets later that same year. Our version is influenced by a recording by San Francisco area jump blues band Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s.

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It's better than Mitch Woods band!!