THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT MOST FANS ACCEPTED THE BAND IN IT'S MANY ,MANY FORMS. You mean Steve Paul? look around and wonder what Edgar was doing. We played it and we all sat around there and listened to the whole thing in a total, dead silence. of talent up there. each bass note and each horn note individually and then start figuring I had kind of retired and left the music business. It would send cold chills up and down your spine. ones to kind of break through. So I didnt do what Clive said, and my album pretty much got put on a shelf. We were playing some Greg Mathieson, Jerry LaCroix, Michael Omartian. Wed never played in that are very much.We were doing pretty good. the popular stuff of the day, in the R&B vein, and made a show and Terrance Quinn (born July 15, 1952), known professionally as Terry O'Quinn, is an American actor.He played John Locke on the TV series Lost, the title role in The Stepfather and Stepfather II, and Peter Watts in Millennium, which ran for three seasons (1996-1999).He has also hosted Mysteries of the Missing on The Science Channel.For his role in Lost, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding . No, I was living in California at the time. A guy had a 2000 acre ranch. LV bags Uriah Heep and my band LaCroix gotten along swimmingly, as the English say. Im more of an earthy kid of guy and Edgar is more of an edgy kind of guy. I loved to listen to them on record and everything, I had to leave the band again. I THOUGHT HIM AND PETE WERE GOING TO COME TO BLOWS A COUPLE OF TIMES.I DON'T KNOW HOW PETE MADE IT THROUGH.I GIVE HIM A LOT OF CREDIT. It must have been quite a different Rare Earth during that period before the Willie Remembers line-up briefly re-united. town, everybody went to see them. I was so excited and inspired that while Edgar went off to get married, I wrote thirteen songs in two days. First, I have to tell you the story about when White Trash broke up, I moved to the West Coast. did two albums, one with Norman Whitefield. It had not yet been made into an album. THINK ABOUT THE BAND TODAY.IT'S TOTALLY ACCEPTED BY THE FANS.IT WAS THE SAME BACK THEN. drummer, got killed. How do you pronounce it? Unfortunately, for . We closed with The Allman Brothers, which was another one of his favorite bands, Chicago and The Beach Boys. Then I resigned with Mercury Polygram and did the Second Coming album. I thought oh s**t, he's gonna really let me have itbut he ended up just asking me to go to the bar to refill his drink!! Everything else Hes a great guitarist, afriend of mine. The Big Oaks club was a popular spot for a long time. back through that era was Jerry Count Jackson. My big break came when Edgar Winter got Pete commented how good it was to hear Mark's (speaking) voice again. We did an album called LaCroix with Columbia Records, Epic turned them away at the door. We had gotten Edgar back and were doing it all again. We were playing more or less obscure blues your live performances I want you to get a star guitar player. It was a very bad season for job hunting recently, but the recruiter reached out to me and was really nice and friendly. I gave you three children now you wanna give them back! (laughs) The soulful balladeer type of music. My stage name all How do you pronounce your name? I had written one song in my life before I went to New York and we started writing the original stuff that we did for the first White Trash album. I want you to come and sing in Blood, Lacroix is the first solo album by Jerry Lacroix, released in 1972. Ray, I'm sure your remember such clubs in the Chicago area as Haymakers, the Thirsty Whale, Connally's, etc. He said, That was great, Jerry. That was the highlight of my career so far. Its a small town. Id like to write with him some more. I would get another Sweat and Tears style. They were playing all of that what is now called swamp pop music back then. I went up there With Save the Planet, I imagined us being in an auditorium situation, the band breaking into a gospel feel and Edgar and I coming down the isles singing, Clap your hands. That was the feel of it, that and the whole idea of saving the planet. But if you want to know a little more history At that time, the drinking age in Texas was 21 but in Louisiana it was 18. I guess Also Star Trek Series sell very good because its fan are not only adult, but also elder and children. Jerry Lacroix Add to Custom List Add to My Collection AllMusic Rating User Ratings (0) Your Rating Overview User Reviews Credits Releases Similar Albums Share on facebook twitter tumblr Credits Jerry Lacroix Discography Browser Stream or Buy: LaCroix Album Information Release Date 1972 Genre Pop/Rock Submit Corrections and the horn voicings. The This same year, he collaborated on the album "Very Rare" by T-Bone Walker , playing the harmonica . Good traveling music. We were doing a song by Ray Charles called Ive Got News for You, a slow blues. We had a recording crew come out and record us there one night. is just thrilled. We played Madison Square Garden with Rod Stewart. That was wonderful. We listened to every note. His first musical exposure came by way of family. I just wanted to tell Jerry that I saw his band White Trash play at the Texas Pelican Club in La. (laughs) Its like The Wizard of Oz. I came back home, my father was ill. He stood up and I don't know why. Shinn, Scott McGill, Charles Mann, T.K. head is still swimming, we're going to be on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert. Jerry was one of the best companies that I interviewed with as a New Grad. I got all I dont know if many people know that or not. Jerry LaCroix was a saxophonist , keyboardist , harmonica player , singer and composer American of blues , rock and rhythm and blues , born in Alexandria ( Louisiana ), the October of October of 1943 , and passed away 7 of maypole of 2014 . They were very loose. It was a wild ride with Edgar Winter and White Trash. horns and got two saxophones, and it was like wow. They didn't seem to gel very well at the time [ 1 ] Record Anyway, I've continued to see the band often to this day. Bobby Ramirez, the I think his IQ was about 480. He is credited with work on nine albums for Epic and Mercury Records. You are still da man Jerry! and get the Wolfman and John R, and they were hipping us to all kind of That, and your Roadwork album. They enticed me How many Rare Earth albums were you on? He had just done that all by himself. We werent afraid to say thats good or that sucks. He just passed away last year. She never did come up and sing that I remember. His voice was not like Pete's. Brother of Julian LaCroix . Jerry LaCroix, local singer, saxophonist and Gulf Coast Music Hall of Famer, died today in a Lufkin hospital. School Tours (Grades 3-12 and college groups) - free, 2023 Museum of the Gulf Coast I had a great time with them. have taken him around the world and back with many of the most talented "I'm doing a compilation tape of things I've recorded in the past. deal out there. two more horns -- another trumpet and another baritone. It was just him in the control booth with a couple of engineers. greatest drummer in the world. We I was luckey enough to see some of the last shows with the 72 line-up still in tactand let me tell you--they were some of the best concerts I've seenperiod. So you used to tune into the late night radio shows? I joined them first and DVD Movies online is rather cheap and have full seasons. You get both of those things together and youve really got something. Find Jerry Lacroix's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. and formed various bands. I had a band in New Orleans, a four-piece band with two horns. 2. Close. I followed. He had a couple of guys in mind, but I said, Clive, I've got a star It was very, very cool. He was 70. The Boogie Kings were getting really famous. There's no doubt that Duncan Lacroix captured our hearts very quickly as Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser on Outlander.We were blessed to have Murtagh around up to the middle of Outlander Season 5, and we'll get an Outlander Untold story between Murtagh and Ulysses in the Season 5 DVD boxset. Demos, if somebody wants to hear something. Three of the guys in the band went up to Boston We took a break and walked across the street and opened the door and it was like a freight train coming through that room! with them, and that was quite interesting. I left and went back with Edgar after a couple of weeks. I had a guy named Barry Rowlero, who had played with Ray He would always tell us the rest of the band is disposable. A lot of that did come about like that. would have cars parked on the highway and this was the happening place. That was my stage name. An Interview with the Former Lead Singer of Edgar Winters White Trash Learn how your comment data is processed. Come to find out, after we had spent all of Edgars front money and been to every major city, we discovered that we already knew the best players in the world -- we had already played with them. . Bobby Columbi, the drummer, was the leader of the band. I just got on live TV and sang 'Get Ready.' 1 On The Road Again (Jerry LaCroix) 3:262 Drivin\ Wheel (BB King, Jules Taub) 5:193 A Little Bit O\ Trust (Edgar Winter, Jerry LaCroix) 4:394 New Orleans Song (Jerry LaCroix) 4:005 Marshall\s Tune (Marhall Cyr) 3:226 Tired Of Feeling Sorry For Myself (Jerry LaCroix) 3:257 Ninety-Nine And A Half (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) 3:438 Sexy Linda Lee (Jerry LaCroix) 2:519 I\d Like To Write A Song (Jerry LaCroix) 3:1510 All Join Together (Jerry LaCroix) 6:33, Producer Tom Thacker, Jerry LaCroixCo-producer Bill Schnee (Tracks 3, 6, 8)Arranged By (Horns) Jon Smith, Jerry LaCroixEngineer George Beauregard, Jack AndrewsOther (Engineering Consultant) John Horton, Photography, Design Philip Schwartz, Tom Gundelfinger, Recorded At Bolic SoundMixed At Bolic Sound, Your email address will not be published. Then we changed our name to The Blues Krewe to capitalize on the Mardi Gras theme. Bobby, the club manager, the guy that hit him and onlookers. And Edgar would come down. This is the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. I recently met Edgar Winter and his band on a trip from Houston to Beaumont to play with ZZ Top, Apr.24, 2010 in Beaumont, Texas, ZZ Top also played at our high school prom in 1971. I'm playing keyboards in this band. Hes moved to Austin now. In 1947, his family moved to Port Arthur, and later Groves. Yes, she is right, people watch movies for full most. He told me his idea of putting together the best ", While LaCroix continued to enjoy local legend status in the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast region, he turned his back on the music industry after the '80s; at one point, he told Swampland, "I was living up in Oregon cutting wood. That was our first job. doing a compilation tape of things I've recorded in the past. Theres an opening and they are going to do a world tour and an album. Jerry is survived by his daughter Amy and her soul mate Jeff Say, and his grandchildren Ashley, Colton, Brody and Tucker. We were the first music, other than Dixieland, the first entertainment, other than strippers, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. So was Gary Dorsey. canadianexoticboyz. champions_pop. View the profiles of people named Jerry Lacriox. speaker and go, what's that saxophone player playing. At that time you guys were optomistic about getting you new music out. We were just floored. In the mid-1960s, G.G Shinn was a singer in a Eunice, La., band called the Boogie Kings. or less going back to the roots, going back and playing the old blues -- Id like to put out some previously unreleased stuff I have. Jerry LaCroix was born October 10, 1943 in Alexandria, LA, and a 30-mile journey from his kinfolk's home in nearby Jena. Ive heard rumors that Bob Seger counts you as his major influence. I used to be called Jerry The Count Jackson. Both of my parents were from Gena. Duncan Lacroix talks about Murtagh and Jocasta, Outlander Untold, and more. I'd love to see a proper family tree drawn up like Pete Frame used to do for rock bands in the 70s / 80s. Bill Graham gave us a real boost. auditions in the major cities and try out all the musicians and find the The Boogie Kings I had basically quit and retired. and grandpa sitting on the front porch and singing and picking. I just got started back in 1987. Demos, if somebody wants to hear something," he mused in one late interview. and when I play, it is six. Then I found write all of our original material for the first White Trash album. hottest spots -- Cobo Hall, The Spectrum in Philadelphia. but they are just another one of those bands that sounds good recording. James Brown, Bobby Blue Bland, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles came along, That was my first influence. Dale Gothea the saxophone player, who is playing with me again today. band in the world, a super group. RYM. I am as proud of the band I have now as I am For national television. At least you were spared your initial fear of a visit to hospital with a timbale embedded in your skull. It was released in Europe and they were wining and dining me and my wife while Columbia was wining and dining us for BS&T. It was an awesome performance in a great venue. and joining up with them again. Well, When he died, the spirit of the band died The first time I ever saw Edgar was on an afternoon TV show --Don Mahoney. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Just before his second album was released, Clive Davis asked him to join Blood, Sweat & Tears , who were going to record an album and start a tour. Required fields are marked *. We would talk and he would say, you have a lot of great ideas, Jerry, why After the gig I think we made a good team. Its like brothers. Jerry LaCroix. Member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Born on Oct. 10, 1943, in Alexandria, La., LaCroix moved to Port Arthur at an early age and attended Port Arthur and Port Neches schools, according to the Museum of the Gulf Coast. For national television. These guys were good. King song. Angel knew a guy that had Edgar was the complete opposite. They were teenagers by this time. Chet McCrackin, Tim Johnson(have I got that wrong?) Play with the guys you know. I go more with the feel, Ive got to feel it. Join Facebook to connect with Jerry Lacriox and others you may know. We were pretty much on our way. Then I formed another band, a little four piece band. 2.7K views, 43 likes, 27 loves, 13 comments, 21 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Huntington News Now: ((( HUNTINGTON UNITED WALK~" Jerry Lacroix. The Rock Doc talks about his time with Edgar Winter's White Trash and Jerry LaCroix 3,491 views Oct 10, 2016 80 Dislike Share Save Neil Ratner Rock Doc 1.2K subscribers I am very excited to. Our claim to fame was that we cut Lionel Ritchie and Dianna Ross' Endless So, I took it and went up to New York and stayed in Edgars apartment and slept on the couch. HE WAS DIFFERENT AS A PRODUCER,WITH US ,AND AT MOTOWN IN THE SNAKEPIT.HE WOULD COME OUT INTO THE STUDIO(INSTEAD OF SITTING IN THE CONTROL ROOM)AND WORK WITH US MAN TO MAN.HE TRIED TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EACH OF US.EVEN DURING THE ACTUAL RECORDING,HE WOULD GO AROUND TO EACH OF US,MAYBE HUMMING A MELODY OR RHYTHM FOR YOU TO PLAY.YOU WANTED TO DO A GOOD JOB FOR HIM. There was a lot Joe recently started a thread concerning Peter Hoorelbeke and Wayne Baraks in which he said they were great frontmen. I love him. I assume the concert is the same live 75 video on You Tube! We all lived in the farm house. But when I got my chance to go nationally, I wanted to use my real name and let my family be known. A soulful blues veteran whose musical collaborations The Museum of the Gulf Coast is administered by the Port Arthur Historical Society in partnership with the City of Port Arthur. I got there and my Bobby and I get along great. Alexandria, Louisiana. If you could reach the bar with a quarter you could get a beer. Click here to refresh the page. I got a call from Rare Earths manager who asked me if Id be interested in singing with them and I said, yeah, Ive always loved Rare Earth. musicians in the world. I loved the way Anyway, Firstly it highlights that for fans in the UK and other places where RE never played live, there's a big gap in knowledge of some of the members who joined and left in the 80s and 90s. did a solo album with all the greatest studio musicians in New York City Dave The RE family tree not a bad idea, it would be neat to see that.As for Jerry LaCroix, I was on his site and tried to leave a message but it wouldnot go through, it could be something I screwed up ,I don't know.When I was on the site there was an email address jlacr22277@aol.com.When I clicked it went to a message board with this address jerbear297@aol.com.If someone else tries maybe they will have better luck,and if enough of us email Jerry we may get him to drop us a line.What ya think? "This is the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.". The audience seems to enjoy it and I have fun with it. They were very loose. I got Gary, the bass player, my bass player eventually, Ive been thinking about an anthology kind of project where I could put together all of the things in one place that I am proud of. So we ended up using them. of anything I have ever done before. I always loved Rare Earth, Going to school in Boston, coming back, I get excited and sometimes I just have to get out there with them. We hadn't even had a rehearsal. Summer of 75 or 76;With WAR as headliners.Frosty the drummer was not there;so probably 76.Katona was there,Paul warren wasnt.Think McBride was there,not certain.LACROIX was incredible;great live performance,thoughprobably REs weakest performance I ever saw.Probably had some subpeonas awaitinOlson was gone by then; Who played drums after FROSTY?BARRY FROST?It wasnt FROSTY @ msgwhatever happened to him? They were great. and got to hanging out at Berkley. But you were asking about where the Roadwork album was recorded. As you were getting into your teens, were you primarily doing vocal P90X is the good Body Building Guide for family. them until we just kind of petered out. People like job from JT Richard. Senior Citizens (62+) - $6 THE "TIGHT AND HOT" ALBUM WE DID AFTER LEAVING MOTOWN WAS PRETTY MUCH THE END FOR THAT LINEUP.WE ALL HAD GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR THAT ALBUM WHEN WE WERE TRACKING,BUT THE PRODUCER RUINED THE WHOLE ALBUM,AND MADE US SOUND LIKE SOMETHING ELSE.WHEN RCA HEARD IT THEY WERE SHOCKED. A musical genius. Weren't you out in Vegas for a while as well? We called ourselves The Boogie Revival when we first started. Rush Street was where the action was. Ill never go looking any further than my own back yard. Funny, after the interview, we asked Mark and Gil to cut a couple of promos for our radio show. I thought you did some engineering work and studio work out there. We just more or less figured it out All phoros this page by Michael and Jill Smith except where noted. biggest crowd they ever had. and one of those Louisiana drummers. Returning to Texas to care for his ailing father, he started a new band, but he harbored no delusions of grandeur regarding that stage of his career. What I like most is Scrubs and Desperate House wife. Barry played. (Page 2) They played bluegrass, and it was bluesy and soulful country music. Clive wanted me to go with a more So there was quite a bit of jealousy there. had a name and a reputation, and they were hot. So, after our band kind of disbanded, all of my friends went to the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Jerry LaCroix was born October 10, 1943 in Alexandria, LA, and a 30-mile journey from his kinfolk's home in nearby Jena. Although it was hard and long hours. Bobby started playing with me when he was 11 and I Bobby went downstairs to take a leak. He said he hadn't been able to talk to his brother's children yet. You have to do what you have to do. After this, he spent a long time working as a studio musician, alongside his former guitarist Angel South , who had been in the band Chase for some time . We commenced to How was White Trash formed? Its me and you baby. Shinn performs live in Beaumont, TX at the Jerry LaCroix Tribute. People would USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service. I said, Bobby I couldn't do that because It hurts. Angel South, my guitar player from my early days, was living in Reno Jerry agreed to take some time in the Ramada Inn lounge and answer a few questions for Gritz about his days with Edgar Winter, Rare Earth and his current projects. They only taught classical Most of the band came with me -- Bobby Ramirez, Jon Smith, Marshall Cyr, Tilly Lawrence -- we had George Sheck, the original White Trash bass player, and Mike McLellan, a trumpet player from The Detroit Wheels who was also in White Trash. out, and learning what thirds, fifths, sevenths, and even ninths are. And Bobby Ramirez was in that band. Where were you born? They came I had the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Rick Merado It was a place that was really famous down here called The Big Oaks Club in Louisiana just across the Serbian River. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. nine albums for Epic and Mercury Records. Oct. 10, 1943 - May 7, 2014 Groves, TX, Address: 700 Procter St., Port Arthur, TX 77640. I went on tour with BS&T. born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on October 10. I said well, what time are we leaving? This is a carousel. About six of those ended up on the first White Trash album. I was doing alright, but I knew that this was my big chance. Inquiring minds want to know. We rehearsed the band and we lived in a farm house in upstate New York on a farm called the Heart of Stone Farm. He attended Port Arthur and, Port Neches-Groves High School in 1961. The show was over. We hadn't even had a rehearsal. it just blew me away. If so, was the old magic still there? Local musicians banded together to help raise money for his medical care after he suffered congestive heart failure; he recovered enough to perform at his induction into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in January of 2012, but over time, his condition continued to deteriorate. Id never been in a fight in my life. The crew followed us around and recorded for three nights and we just picked the best of the tracks. Not the big event, but there was a town called Woodstock that had a health food store. with a little harmony in the horns, got a trumpet player and a trombone My thoughts on Edgar Winter. I finally felt like I had made the right decision leaving New Orleans. This is like before we even knew what chords, I had a wonderful interview experiences with the company, and had a chance to have conversations with all the executives. the LaCroix Band was in the studio and Clive Davis flew out, and we played Sure (smiles) She dated some of the guys in my band. Talkin Trash with Jerry LaCroix Jackson Brewing Company. https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry_LaCroix&oldid=126351713, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 November 2020, at 15:23. Just a private performance for Clive Davis. 1. to compete with this? in 70. I hope he has. Thats kind of the attitude he had toward the rest of the band. don't you take over the band. This guy obviously didnt belong down here with all the rest of us. work or were you concentrating on an instrument? ?EGO TRIPPING??? True to this duality, Jerry Lewis gave interviews in his last year to promote is final film "Max Rose," in which he was difficult grumpy, aggrieved, impatient or suddenly abandoning the. We would sit down with our ear right next to the Anyway, that is where I was playing when WITH THE LEAD VOCALS HE WAS REALLY A STICKLERBUT.LOOK AT HIS TRACK RECORD.I REMEMBER WATCHING PETER DO LEADS ON THE "MA" ALBUM LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.ONE LINE OVER,AND OVER,AND OVER,UNTIL YOU WERE READY TO SCREAM!!! wood in Reno. These guys had five tenor saxophones, a couple of trumpets, a Hammond B-3 organ and one of those Louisiana drummers. We had finished a great night and were out on the town for some fun and relaxation. Did you ever carry out the idea of coming down the isle singing? The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. These guys were the best in the world. After Johnny got famous and made the famous quote, You think Im good, wait until you hear my brother. Then, of course, the label signed Edgar and he did his Entrance album. He said and then, day after tomorrow, were going on tour. They were right here under our noses all the time. how we got the gig. Louis vuitton handbags a manager and a big A and R man out on the West Coast. Man, they sounded like a freight train You neednt wait for months and you neednt downloads for nights. So I did. Then I got a call from the manager But just as quickly as he left one band, he joined another: Rare Earth's manager soon came calling, and as LaCroix recalled in the same interview, "He flew me out to L.A. and we talked a little bit and he said, 'Oh, by the way, tomorrow were going to be on Don Kirshners Rock Concert. I still do that today. View the profiles of professionals named "Jerry Lacroix" on LinkedIn. with the best musicians in the world. 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