The Stratoblasters at Big Sandy Music Hall // The Big Sandy Music Hall, South Tyler St.., Big Sandy, 05.10.2024
Veranstaltungsdetails und Tickets

Live Music Concert - 7 pm - $20 Advance donation to secure your seat is highly recommended. $25 cash donation at the door night of show.

About the band:
Jimmy Wallace and his band Lynx made quite a name for itself touring in the ’70s with some of the hottest acts of the day such as Styx and Kansas. Even then Wallace had an understanding of the nature of the music business and presence of mind to look ahead and have something else going on with which he could earn an income if the day ever came that he wasn’t playing for a living. He and a friend partnered to buy a rehearsal space and rent out what he didn’t need to other artists including a pre-Branch Davidian David Koresh. Wallace also worked at Arnold & Morgan Music during the day which gave him the opportunity to meet Eddie Van Halen Ted Nugent Joe Walsh Rick Neilson of Cheap Trick Vivian Campbell and Lee Roy Parnell. While working for Arnold & Morgan he was vexed by the lack of new models based on older styles of guitars. So he made a trip to the Gibson Guitar factory with a couple of his favorites in tow a 1959 Les Paul and an ES-335. A Gibson designer used Wallace’s guitars as templates for a new model and honored him with the Jimmy Wallace Les Paul the Holy Grail for guitarists. Wallace joined Bugs Henderson & the Stratoblasters in the ’80s. Along the way he has also performed with such legends as Todd Rundgren Lynyrd Skynyrd the Cars Phil Keaggy Stephen Stills Johnny Winter Willie Nelson Albert King Gregg Allman James Burton and many more.

After six years of playing in two bands he decided to part ways with Bugs and took the name Stratoblasters with him. “The Stratoblasters were originally Bugs Henderson & the Stratoblasters with Bugs Junior Clark and myself. When I left the band Bugs gave me permission to keep using the name and there we went” Wallace explained. Through the years the Stratoblasters have included singer John O’Daniel bassists Bobby Chitwood Randy Cates Aram Doroff James Anderson and Mike Medina; and drummers Mike Arnold and Mike Gage. Guitarists have included Jerry Branch Matt Tapp Mike Clark Joe Lee and Wallace. The band has also showcased keyboardists such as Tommy Young Shawn Ferris and Johnny Marshall. 

In 2001 Wallace sold Studio Southwest and now devotes his energies to the Dallas International Guitar Festival Jimmy Wallace Guitars & Pickups and performs with The Stratoblasters and EC WAS HERE. 
Story courtesy of Buddy the Original Texas Music Magazine.

About the Venue:
We are located in a 100 year-old church building in Big Sandy Texas about half way between Tyler and Longview on Hwy 80 & 155N. Doors open at 6:30 but please arrive by 6:45 at the very latest to get your seat. The show starts promptly at 7pm. Free parking is on Tyler St or in the rear lot. take the sidewalk to the front steps to enter. Reminder the only access to the auditorium is through the front steps. BYOB. 

Big Sandy Music Hall:

Diese Veranstaltung der Kategorie »music, entertainment, art, nonprofit, guitaring, concerts, festivals, live-music, trips-adventures« findet am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2024 um 19:00 Uhr am Ort »The Big Sandy Music Hall, South Tyler Street, Big Sandy, TX, USA«, 100 S.Tyler St. in 75755 Big Sandy statt.