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Gary Graham
ready to go back to L.A. yet because I still didn’t have the lead guitar player the group needed. Then, one night at the end of a show, a man walked up and wanted to know if he could visit with me for a minute and we end up talking a while.
His name was Michael G. O’Harro and he told me that he had a club in Washington, D.C. called the Gentlemen II and would like us to perform there. I told him our bass player was probably going back to San Francisco after the gig, but that finding a replacement would not be a problem. We talked a little more about price and this and that and when we closed at the Joker’s Wild, the owner wanted us to stay. He even offered to pay us to take some time off because the owner was going to bring a standard hard rock group for the spring season. We were also provided a house to stay in and basically just a vacation, but I didn’t want to do that. Keith and I headed to our nation’s capital.
O’Harro, now a big-time movie producer and probably the most successful club owner and promoter that I have ever known (he started Champion’s Sports Bars and several nationwide beauty contests) had three bassists lined up for us to audition when we arrived. From the audition, we got one we thought was pretty damn good and as an added bonus, he could sing a little backup harmony. He was a talented little guy named C.J. and that’s all he would ever tell us, but he sure could play the bass.
The GII was an unbelievable club at the edge of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Every night the club was filled with a huge crowd comprised mostly young women who worked on Capitol
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