45 Years Ago

[BTMN]

These guys lit it up with a little Hamer help. Released 9/1/1978

[Steve Haynie]

Molly Hatchet was one of my favorites from the beginning. 

Last week the official band played within seven miles of my house, but I could not bear to see them.  Instead of three guitars playing harmonies, Molly Hatchet is now one guitar harmonizing with a keyboard. 

It is much better remembering the band the way it was intended as a guitar army. 

[Travis]

I was a month and a half old…

But Molly Hatchet did come on the radio at work the other day, and I liked it. 😂

[BTMN]

 

Best thing I ever got out of them. 😎👍🏁

[phoenix]

look what that mean strap has done to Whackhead!

[BTMN]

Whackhead and Sherry Baby 

[princeofdarkness56]

I first started playing guitar in early 79. I was taking lessons at the House of Guitars in Rochester New York.  They had a small stage jammed packed with amps for sale and I was in the corner with my guitar teacher playing the absolutely worse sounding guitar music you can imagine. And standing right next to me was Molly Hatchet waiting to sign autographs. I was mortified. 

[hamerhead]

4 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

....Molly Hatchet is now one guitar harmonizing with a keyboard. ....

That is one of the saddest things I've ever read.

[DaveH]

I wore out two 8-tracks each of those first two albums.

[Joe mama]

6 hours ago, BTMN said:

These guys lit it up with a little Hamer help. Released 9/1/1978

Derek smalls on bass?

[beezerboy]

"Derek smalls on bass"...... EXACTLY what I thought!

[BTMN]

12 hours ago, Joe mama said:

Derek smalls on bass?

Poor Banner Thomas the Rodney Dangerfield of bass. 😁😀😎

[scottcald]

Great tone, great players, and Danny Joe Brown's voice just fit their music. 

[Steve Haynie]

Something a little annoying has been later singers in Molly Hatchet having a rough voice trying to sound like Danny Joe Brown.  The roughness was not what DJB's singing was about.  There was no point in trying to have the DJB growl.  Danny Joe was a young guy who was relating stories and feelings through a microphone, which he did with his feel and personality.  That was all that was required.  When Jimmy Farrar came in he had a different voice.  It worked. 

Slade replaced Noddy Holder with someone screaming with a gravely voice.  What made Noddy a great singer was the feeling he put in the songs.  Kevin Dubrow had a different voice that worked with Slade songs.  The singer in the last Slade video I saw was more like a parody of Noddy. 

[Dutchman]

One of my old bands did a gig with them at a bar. Great guys and from what I could see they had tamed down a bit to just passing a jug o Jack around the outside of their tour bus and smokin' a few joints. They hit the road right after the show to the next one nighter. 

[Biz Prof]

On 9/3/2023 at 9:41 PM, Joe mama said:

Derek smalls on bass?

"He wrote this..."

[Jakeboy]

I dug Hatchet in the 70s….they got such a bad rep…especially with FWD…. I thought they rocked.

[conorb]

So cool.

[Joe mama]

On 9/3/2023 at 1:18 PM, BTMN said:

 

Best thing I ever got out of them. 😎👍🏁

I want this standard

 

[Biz Prof]

2 hours ago, Joe mama said:

I want this standard

 

Many others do, as well. 

[BTMN]

3 hours ago, Joe mama said:

I want this standard

 

You have a few in line in front of you and the owner, me, is unmotivated to sell. 

[Steve Haynie]

3 hours ago, Joe mama said:

I want this standard

 

Hey, man!  No cutting in line!

[Steve Haynie]

I remember Dave tossing his Standards straight up what seemed like twenty feet above his head, and he always caught his guitar.  

Bob Huckaba was a roadie who was nice enough to let a small group of us teenage fans go into an equipment truck where he opened the case with the hatchet shaped guitar in it.  

Then there was the Flying P, a pointy guitar with a carved top and a little marquetry banner on the top.  

Dave had some cool guitars.  

 

 

 

[BTMN]

He dropped mine in Iowa at the Iowa Jam Memorial Day 1980. Lucky for it didn’t break. 😳

[Biz Prof]

9 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

IThen there was the Flying P, a pointy guitar with a carved top and a little marquetry banner on the top.  

Dave had some cool guitars.  

The old David Petschulat Flying P.  Unique and radical, even for that era.  David P was probably just as famous for being the guy who built this miniature Lester for an upstart guitar wiz from California.