35th Reunion Pictures Posted

Posted on July 24, 2011 by admin

Check out the Benefit 2011 link to see who attended.

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Posted on April 4, 2011 by DebbyB

Wow, this is a cool website … really neat looking at all the entertainers … nice documentaion … really enjoyed working at VB’s. Enjoyed the reunion and seeing everyone and meeting new people too … looking forward to the next one for sure …

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Posted on January 26, 2011 by admin

Vegetable Buddies 25th Reunion

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Tickets Now On Sale!

Posted on January 2, 2011 by admin

Buddies Benefit for the Homeless   Sat. March 26th 2011  – Club Fever

Featuring the incomparable Johnny Winter

with very special guest The Blasters

Part of VIP / Reunion Ticket proceeds go to benefit of the
South Bend Center for the Homeless.
 

 
What: Johnny Winter / The Blasters
Where: Club Fever, 222 S. Michigan St., South Bend, IN
When: Saturday March 26th, 2011  VIP reception room, 6PM – 1AM, Show time 7PM- 10PM
Outcome: Had a fantastic party – 650 attending, 175 VIPs and raised $7500 for the Center for the Homeless
Itinerary:

6pm – 7pm     Pre-show VIP Reception  (Green Room of Club Fever )with Lite Buffet  

7pm – 8:15      Blasters   

8:30 – 10pm   Johnny Winter 

10pm – 1am    Post Show Partyin the Green Room of Club Fever  with DJ  Clene Gene  

10pm  -       Meet and Greet with the Blasters (and Johnnyin his bus)  Weekend Events :

 Friday night  we met at Treo’s for dinner at 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm (129 N. Michigan -the old building that VB’s occupied) and/or appetizers – ask for a Buddies discount. Our old friend Bill Boris was playing Jazz Guitar. Friday Nite at McCormicks , the Blue Gills -Tommy Gravners exceptional bandplayed . Saturday morning we had Brunch at the Marriott.    Sunday Morning Brunch was at the Marriott .

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Video: Johnny Winter  Stranger Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytdsPVkNCOM

Phil Alvin & The Blasters to open for Johnny Winter Show. Phil Alvinis like Moses coming down from the Rockabilly Mountain – and one of the most incredible voices in roots rock.  Special thanks to Rick Dow, Jack Campbell and RJ Keady and Pete Kernan for making this possible. This promises to be an incredible night of music now with one of the greatest roots rocks acts of the last 4 decades opening for one of the great blues masters — Johnny Winter. Check out these videos. Event details at bottom of page.

Video: The Blasters – I’m  Shakin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB2kogSjyQU&feature=related

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Posted on December 18, 2010 by admin

The Incomparable Captain Beefheart Dies  At 69

Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, was mysterious, alchemical, inexplicable and unrepeatable

 

Photograph: Richard Mccaffrey/Getty Images

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band played 2 amazing sets at Vegetable Buddies on November 9th 1978. 

He never sold many records. His biggest hit album, Lick My Decals Off Baby, reached number 20 in the UK in 1970. But in a recording career that lasted from the 1960s until 1982, he succeeded in redefining the parameters of rock music. His sound shifted over the years, from relatively straightforward blues rock to doomed attempts to court a mainstream audience; but at its height, it reached hitherto-unimaginable heights of avant garde experimentation.

The singer’s earthy holler grounded it in the blues tradition, but the lyrics were wild and surreal. And the music seemed to be from another planet, far beyond even the most acid-fried psychedelic band could muster. Standard time signatures were disregarded.

The most obvious reference point was free jazz, but the most startling thing about the Magic Band may have been that nobody was improvising: every note had  been carefully worked out in advance by Beefheart (he wrote the entire album on piano) and drilled into the band via a regime that former members later protested as little short of tyrannical.

But no one has ever really sounded like the classic Magic Band in full flight: more striking even than their music is the sense that Beefheart achieved something genuinely mysterious, alchemical, inexplicable and unrepeatable.

Just some of the faces and voices of the late great Captain Beefheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdRh7qdi_g&feature=related

Captain Beefheart – Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man (with the band that played at Vegetable Buddies less ex-mother Bruce Fowler.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_jZ_DgR8Yk&feature=related

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