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- TOLER - TOWNSEND BAND RELEASE -
February 27, 2008
The Toler/Townsend Band debut album Is an eight song effort that is getting
great reaction all over. It is now up on CD Baby and available for downloads.
It will soon be available at all the usual places like itunes, Yahoo Music, Napster
and Rhapsody.
We hope you'll check it out by either clicking the CD cover below
or visit the MUSIC page on this site.

The Toler - Townsend Band was conceived in the mid nineties. Danny, Frankie and I
had been working with Gregg Allman's solo band around that time when the Allman
Brothers Band reformed. Danny, Frankie and I have been playing in various bands
together in recent years and have been threatening to do this for some time.

For those less familiar with the entities involved:
Danny has performed and recorded with The Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts'
Great Southern, and as was mentioned before, Gregg Allman And Friends. Frankie also
played and performed with ABB, Dickey and Gregg but also did a stint with The Marshall
Tucker Band. Anything you'd want to know about me (and probably some stuff you didn't),
you'll find in the ABOUT section. Additional players on the TTB cuts were keyboardist
and trumpet man, Mark Petty and on bass was the late great Bruce Weibel.
This project was recorded by Bud Snyder at Telstar Studio in Sarasota, Florida
and mastered by Alex Kazanegras at AK Studio, Los Angeles, California
More soon !

- SANFORD/TOWNSEND BAND REUNION -
September 24, 2007

A Sanford Townsend Band reunion was something that was long overdue. We've been planning to get together since the passing of our good friend and comrade Jerry Rightmer this past spring. The event was held at Gary and Melody Denton's Stagg Street Studio in Panorama City, California. We owe Gary and Melody a great deal of thanks for helping us put this together and for making their studio available to us. Gary not only engineered the session, making things sound wonderful, but also played bass on the recordings. Excellent work on both fronts G.
I have to say " WHAT A FREAKIN' BLAST !!". We all started assembling at the studio about 10:30 AM yesterday morning (Sunday, Sept. 23rd) and setting up our equipment. The idea was to play a lot during the day, jam some and maybe record a thing or two. We actually got a couple of real nice tracks done in the middle of all the other fun. We took tons of pictures and Roger and another friend brought some pretty pro looking video cameras and got some footage that may emerge soon. Jerry's bass was taken out of it's case and propped up in a chair in a prominent place in the control room whereby it could best observe the proceedings.
One of the bigger get offs was the recording of two new songs during the day. One was one of the last songs Ed and I had written together prior to the demise of the band called "Good As Bad Can Be". The other song was a really cool tune written by Roger called "Fear Of The Unknown". I think the stuff came out killer and all the friends and family members in attendance really got off on the recordings. It was great to see everyone's chops were up. Hopefully we can get some mixes soon and make those available.
About mid afternoon we ordered a giant tub of bar-b-que from Hoggly Woggly's and had a feast. It's difficult to put into words what a fantastic feeling it was to have everyone there as an honorarium to Jerry, our departed friend. It was one of those days when no one wanted to leave for fear of missing out on something. Great stories were ongoing and a marvelous time was had by all.
To see some of the photos from the day, go to the Gallery II section by clicking here and scrolling down the page.

- RAMBLINGS - August 1, 2007
Hey ya'll ! I just got through rebuilding the site a little. You may notice I've added pages for Lyrics, Links and a Gallery section. This website thang is fun for me. It's more like a hobby and it's also
cathartic to the degree that I so much enjoy revisiting old friends and the stories that are reprised in the process. I've just updated the "About" pages to include some stuff with the Renegades and The TGZ Band. The Lyrics page is also going to get some additions in days to come. You should consider this site a constant work in progress and stop by for occasional visits. Who knows, we might have wormholes into parallel universes next time you drop in. Enjoy your visit and shoot me a line now and then.
Peace,
Johnny T.

- TGZ BAND NEWS -
July 30, 2007
About this time last summer, I was in Virginia Beach, VA enjoying the clime and working
my way into the TGZ Band. I had been playing with my old pal Danny Toler in the
Renegades the previous year and he had called me to see if I'd be interested in doing the
TGZ gig, to which I promptly replied.....YES !!
Anyway this band is one of the more exciting opportunities I've had in a while.
The TGZ Band CD, "Living Dangerously" has an official release date of August 7th, this year
and even though we're a week away from the release, already 600 plus radio stations are
on it. It's getting heavy rotation in some areas of the Southeast and we're ecstatic. We have a
great record company in King Mojo Records and a great relationship with it's owner and
proprietor, Dick Wooley. We're really excited about this band. These are some of the best
players I've ever seen, let alone play with. Please checkout the TGZ Band website at:

MySpace/TGZ Band

- SANFORD/TOWNSEND BAND NEWS -
April 22, 2007
I'm pleased to make the announcement that my former partner Ed Sanford and myself
have been working at transfering a lot of our unreleased tapes on to digital format with
the intention of putting out some CDs of the good old stuff. At present, we have 30 songs
that we're considering for upcoming releases. These forthcoming CDs, which will include
numerous studio sessions as well as selected live perfomances by the Sanford/Townsend
Band should be available over the next few months. A lot of these recordings were
instrumental in getting us our record contract with Warner Brothers and by all accounts
just crap all over a lot of the stuff that made it to our three albums. If you've ever been a fan
of any of our music, we think you're gonna love this.
Stay tuned !