SOUP

Doug Yankus began using guitar at age eight, and by the first ’60s, beneath the short-lived stage name of Ritchie Dino (after hero Ritchie Valens), he began executing and learning music voraciously. Disinterested generally in organised music, Yankus was inspired in early stages by Bo Diddley and Pal Holly, but also by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Mls Davis, and Frank Zappa. Yankus produced several rings throughout senior high school, like the Versatones, Ritchie Dino as well as the Dukes, as well as the Strangers from Digil (Digil getting the music/practice/party area for several musical close friends in the cellar from the Appleton, WI Yankus house). By 1965, Strangers from Digil acquired morphed in to the vaguely psychedelic pop/rock and roll music group Private Property or home of Digil, which contains Yankus on acoustic guitar, Don Jacklin on bass, Chuck Posniak on body organ, and Steve Gertsch on drums, changed a year later on in the drum chair by Dave Faas. The music group almost specifically performed original materials compiled by Doug Yankus, who experienced become, actually at this early age group, a prolific composer. He also was an achieved drummer and keyboardist, nonetheless it is due to his virtuosic guitar-playing abilities that his name spread through the entire area’s music picture. Private Property created a substantial pursuing in Wisconsin and by 1967 was documenting Yankus’ tunes. The recordings received considerable regional airplay, and climbed several record graphs, but by 1968, Personal Property made a decision to contact it quits. Yankus regrouped, acquiring Fass, who turned to bass responsibilities, with him and enlisting drummer Rob Griffith for any heavier power trio they christened Soup. On the effectiveness of Yankus’ reputation only, Soup instantly garnered widespread curiosity. But they completely resided up to the curiosity, getting acclaim in just about any quarter. Rock Publication published in 1970 that “in capability only, Soup surpasses just about any new group within the pop picture today,” while Yankus’ abilities on guitar had been referred to as “up to now advanced that nobody comes near him.” Jimi Hendrix actually went to observe Soup play in Milwaukee. Jim Peterman, previously from the Steve Miller Music group, sat set for one cut on keyboards. The music group began recording a number of the multitude of music Yankus wrote by this time around (his brother quotes in the liner records that he composed over 1000 music) at several studios, like the vaunted Chess Studios, through the entire Midwest, plus they released their eponymous initial record privately in 1970, untitled and in an ordinary dark brown wrapper, with demonstration tracks using one aspect and a live show on the various other, simply because regional supporters craved a Soup record. They continuing on through the first ’70s, and released an acclaimed second record, The Record Soup, throughout that time. Struggling to break to the industrial mainstream, nevertheless, Soup disbanded in the middle-‘70s. Yankus continued to create Soft Touch as well as the Doug Yankus Music group, and performed on produces by John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Rosanne Money, and Tracy Nelson, and NATURE, amongst others, before tragically loss of life in 1982 because of problems from diabetes.