Joe Marshall

Not to end up being confused with possibly from the jazz drummers with this name, Joe Marshall is a rock and roll guitarist whose actions for the St. Louis music picture date back again to the first ’70s and two rings that documented, Jake Jones and Guys in the Moon. For the previous group, it really is a sure indication someone can be speaking through his head wear if he says, “Jake Jones? He’s great!,” at least regarding the clothing that Marshall performed for on a set of Kapp albums; no one involved was in fact called Jake Jones. Various other people of the group included Phil Jost, who proved helpful as an archive producer in past due-’70s LA prior to time for the Midwest. The heyday of Jake Jones was an interval that Marshall explains having a sprinkling of question: “I cannot believe how youthful we had been.” Occasionally a willingness to set up extended hours of rehearsing will go together with youth which appears to have been the situation with Jake Jones, predicated on the recollections of Midwest rock and roll old-timers aswell as those that come across an LP such as for example Different Highways in the utilized record pile. Marshall published at least one track in the Jake Jones repertoire, “IN EVERY My Dreams.” The band’s last job occurred in 1973, a slot machine checking for the Eagles. Although dating from relatively later for the reason that 10 years, the self-titled recording by Males in the Moon is usually even harder to really touch, also including fellow Jake Jones member Charlie Sabatino. For pretty much twelve years from 1984, Marshall gigged frequently at a St. Louis golf club known as Timbers. In 2003 Marshall reported that both he and Jost had been utilized by a store known as St. Louis Music. The guitarist’s tasks in those days included a weekend rock and roll combo, the Sloppy Joes, and a marriage music group, Sundance and Brass.