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You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP/PPX Sessions is a posthumous compilation album by Curtis Knight and the Squires. Except for "Gloomy Monday" (recorded in 1967), the album compiles recordings made by Knight in 1965 and 1966, with Jimi Hendrix providing backup guitar before he moved to England to start the Jimi Hendrix Experience. [1]
Curtis Knight and the Squires Musical artist Curtis Knight (May 9, 1929 – November 29, 1999), born Mont Curtis McNear , was an American musician who is known for his association with Jimi Hendrix .
[3] [4] At some stage in 1964, [5] Hendrix met Knight in the lobby of a Harlem residential hotel and they hit it off. Hendrix became a member of the band Curtis Knight and the Squires in October the following year. [6] While with the band, Hendrix signed a contract with the owner of PPX Studios, Ed Chaplin for just one dollar.
Don and Dewey's song "Farmer John" was a regular staple of their live set, and Young would eventually record it with Crazy Horse on his 1990 album Ragged Glory. The Squires recorded the song "I Wonder," three different times; it became the basis of Young's song "Don't Cry No Tears" on his 1975 album Zuma.
Aided by a popular MTV music video, it became his best charting song since 1984's "Rock Me Tonite" and the last one to chart in Billboard Hot 100. [ 1 ] The album marked a return to Squier's rougher hard rock sound following his synth-heavy Signs of Life (1984) and polished Enough Is Enough (1986), with his arena rock slightly updated to late ...
Lead singer Mike Bouyea was drafted the following year and sent to Vietnam. The Squires slipped into obscurity. Bouyea later released several singles: "The Fury", "Lover Of The Night", and "I Can Wait". He later became a radio personality at 1050 CHUM, Toronto, and recorded a theme song for the Toronto Blue Jays under the name "Home Run".
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