Bill Jones

Bill Jones’ origins place in the garage area rock picture in Tampa, Florida, through the second fifty percent from the ’60s. This is the milieu that created a band ultimately referred to as the Outlaws. It had been not the 1st or last period this name was utilized by a rock-band, nonetheless it was the last period a Southern rock-band of any name obtained commercial success through the initial amount of activity with this genre. Some areas of Jones’ history seem in keeping with the raging Southern rocker picture, like the truth that the daddy from the band’s drummer, Monte Yoho, was the senior high school primary who kicked Jones out for putting on his hair too much time. Other information are amazing: Jones performed tympani in the senior high school orchestra, and was both an achieved math main and teacher. Forsaking all for any music profession, he dragged an enormous B-3 organ across the nightspots of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Yrba Town. While that device did have got its put in place Southern rock and roll, crowding as much guitarists on-stage as is possible was a lot more essential. Instrumentally, this is the path Jones thought we would ingest an clothing whose real music didn’t appear to inspire very much commitment, if the fast changeover in account from the touring variations from the Outlaws is usually to be regarded. Jones’ activities before the Outlaws weren’t well-documented, apart from an record in 1971 using a Tampa combo known as H.Con. Sledge. He added heavily to the complete discography from the Outlaws, you start with the band’s Arista putting your signature on. A revival from the genre in the ’90s may have designed for an Outlaws’ reunion, but Jones dedicated suicide in 1995, that was accompanied by the medication overdose of bassist Frank O’Keefe a month later.