Comments on: Don’t Believe A Word I Say with Bob Segarini

By: Vickie Colatorti

Vickie Colatorti — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:09:38 +0000

I remember it. I was 4 and that studio was my first ballet classes. LaVergne Balk was one of teachers and later took over the studio. When I went there approx 1963 and on, it was next door to Gong Lee Minnies on Harding Way.

By: Mark Ross

Mark Ross — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:35:41 +0000

I remember the Minotaur well. I played there (keyboards) with The Mal-T’s, which later morphed into Wildwood. I was there for the Country Joe & The Fish gig and, of course the Family Tree. Bob, you guys definitely set the bar high for musicians coming up in the area.
I was there the night they were raided & got pulled in for curfew- I was 16 at the time. At the time, Dennis Parker’s wife was a teacher of mine at Stagg- my recollection is that she wasn’t very amused by what was going on at the Minotaur.
I’m living in LA now, mainly composing for TV. I left Stockton in 1972, so it’s great now to see these posts about the old days in Stockton, and to hear that people are getting together again to play- I’d like to get in on some of that.
Does anyone remember the Betty Hackett Dance Studio? We played there as well- I think they had the first light shows in Stockton- good memories…

By: Kenny Blue Ray

Kenny Blue Ray — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:57:11 +0000

Sorry Vuke,
(No more cappn on Lodi,)
It’s an ok place, I was just there, & rent is way better than this Bay Area. I can go on about this place, we must have givin 400K to landlords, here.
I saw Country Joe & The Fish @ The Minotaur, they were late and came in on a VW Bus. Did’nt they have poetry reading before music there?

ps,
I ain’t that cool, don’t worry…

By: Mark Vukovich

Mark Vukovich — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:57 +0000

Oh yeah and just for the record…to Mr Blue Ray…dude don’t cap on our town here..not everybody can be so cool that they get to live wherever they want..sometimes circumstances are such that you find yourself in place that you just have to make better by your vibe..so thinkin’ and acting in a positive manner can make any GDamn place better..Ya Dig..? We had a good time even in the freakin’ jungle and I was happy to come home.

By: Mark Vukovich

Mark Vukovich — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:47:28 +0000

Any word yet on the T shirts, buttons etc etc. The season of giving is almost upon us.. Peace Out Vuke in Lodi

By: Cherie Porter

Cherie Porter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:35:25 +0000

Hi, everyone, it’s Cherie Porter. Great to hear from people who were at the Minotaur in the budding years of Bay Area Rock. I arrived in Lodi from Vallejo where I was hanging out with Sly Stone and a host of bands that grew up to be The Bands of the Bay Area. The Minotaur was host to come of them. I remember being Country Joe there and (of course) The Family Tree.

By: Lisa McDonald

Lisa McDonald — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:37:09 +0000

There sure are some great Facebook photos of Grant Smith and the Power, starting with this one…
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156537053914&ref=mf#/photo.php?pid=4405247&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=156537053914&aid=-1&oid=156537053914&id=561960940

By: Kenny Blue Ray

Kenny Blue Ray — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0000

Yeah Man, Carla, CeCi and Cherie, Three Fine Foxes…they were hip even in 1966-68. I remember when Cherie arrived from somewhere to Lodi High.
I was a Minotaur Cat, saw some coold people there, (never Gigged there, but it was very hip for Stockton at the Time… I used to go down to LA to hang on the Strip when they had curfews, and ventured into The Haight Ashbury scene in 66, 67, my Sister lived in both places…Was in Lodi to see my Mom & Sister and my Bro, Jack Linn, (Used him on Bass at my Gig in Folsom, last night.
The people in Lodi still drive 5 miles an hour and wait a week to take off from a green light. Prehistoric! I called Gary Wagner, Maybe We’ll do a few Valley Gigs sometime, He’s Soulful.
Kenny Blue Ray
Blues Guitarist since 1963