User:The Angry (of Canton)

The Angry: The rock band ,The Angry, originally known as The Silvertones, were formed in Canton, Ohio in 1962, with original members being Jim Grant on drums, Hans Stucki on keyboards, Ken Stephen on sax and Gary “Bean” Tinsler on guitar. After two public performances, Tinsler left the combo and was replaced with Tom Potts on guitar. The band performed at many high school and public dances for the next three years. In 1965 the band became the house band at the popular “Litehouse Inn”. It was during this period that both Ken and Jim left the band. Mike O’Brien, replaced Jim on drums and Chris Noon joined the band as a second guitar player. From 1965 through 1966 the Silvertones became the house band at the Riveria, a new popular dance club. During this period, the band was re-named The Angry and recorded a demo tape at Mills Recording Studio in Canton which was taken to New York City by Larry Zagray. The result of Larry's efforts was a six record contract with Reprise records and The Angry, then re-named The In Crowd, were assigned the production team of Hugo & Luigi, who also produced The Kinks and Nancy Sinatra for Reprise records. The band moved to New York City and began living at the Henry Hudson Hotel. In the fall of 1966, after production had already begun on the first album the draft board came calling and Hans and Tom had to jump back into high school, Mike had an auto accident, Gene returned to Ohio Northern to continue college and the band from northeast Ohio returned home---and the momentum was lost. They were replaced at the Action House by a band called The Pidgins, who weeks later changed their name to the now famous Vanilla Fudge. Category:Rock music groups from Ohio