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"Terry Knight's Brown Bag Years" - Book Excerpt by Barry Stoller

Written by Eric Olsen
Published October 03, 2005
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Craig Braun provides these closing comments:


Those were the days when the producers had the juice - guys like James William Guerico, Jimmy Miller and Lou Adler. People at Columbia were listening to Mitch Miller, Johnny Mathis and Ray Coniff - and here comes the new power people, with long hair, smoking dope and they had the ears, down to what single to choose. They were signing acts - big money acts; labels bowed to these "freaks."

Terry Knight took that concept to the fullest extent.

Then one day, when everyone was listening to Billy Joel, or Bad Company, or Tubular Bells, or even Grand Funk (doing "The Locomotion"), Terry Knight (former architect of the "New Culture setting forth on its final voyage through a dying world" as he stated on a 1970 GFR record cover) took his approximately ten million dollars, the fruit of three year's labor, and disappeared from the volcanic hullabaloo of show biz.

With Kiss, Queen and the Sex Pistols on the way, the rock & roll world owed Knight a great debt. Almost single-handedly, he knocked down the earthy-crunchy crooners Rolling Stone pushed on America and helped rock regain its exuberant spirit. Hype, kitsch, pretension and passion are its essential ideological amplifiers. Any broker can sell music; selling heroes - now, there's a job for philosophers.

Excerpted from I (Who Have Nothing): The Terry Knight Story by Barry Stoller

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Published: October 03, 2005
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#1 — October 4, 2005 @ 08:56AM — sonny

cool! thanks, eric.

is the Amazon link to the movie 'the incident' an error?

#2 — October 4, 2005 @ 09:00AM — sonny

did you see the recent bob johnston interview in the austin chronicle?

here

#3 — October 4, 2005 @ 09:06AM — Eric Olsen

thanks Sonny, Knight scored The Incident, hence it's inclusion. Barry didn't want to emphasize the more obvious work like GFR this time around

#4 — October 31, 2005 @ 22:37PM — larry patterson [URL]

wanted to say hi! to Roger Force. He was The
Force!!!! behind Moms Apple Pie.. The kid who bugged me at National Record Mart. Remember??
if you could download me some of the MAP tunes...
would appreciate it. maybe we could get #3 out of the can........and re issue it, hope you get this message... larry patterson. former manager.the guy who put the $200.00 up for the demo in Cleveland Recording Company but I did get $10,000 from Terry Knight

#5 — November 1, 2005 @ 00:05AM — larry patterson [URL]

Roger Force contact me larry patterson

#6 — November 1, 2005 @ 15:20PM — Marlene Weinberg [URL]

THis is a very interesting article about Mom's Apple Pie. I remember the music, the album cover and the guys in the band. Just to mention, my brother, Larry Patterson managed this group and had Mom's Apple Pie put on the map. I remember all the stories he had to tell and he remembers those days very well. We talk about it all the time. Thanks for mentioning him as he did work very hard with the group. They all were very young at that time and headed in the right direction.
It is good to see that LArry and the Mom's Apple Pie group are still remembered for what they brought to the music industry.
Thanks again for a great article.
Marlene Weinberg
Tierra Verde, FL

#7 — November 1, 2005 @ 15:34PM — MArlene Weinberg [URL]

Hi, again.
I have one of the original posters hanging on my wall. How can I get the albums that were published. Mine somehow got lost over the years.
Thank you.
Marlene Weinberg

#8 — November 1, 2005 @ 19:33PM — larry patterson

MAR Aunt K or Mary Miller send this to them
and add comments for me thanks Larry Patterson

#9 — November 1, 2005 @ 19:59PM — larry patterson [URL]

Rodger! Fred! Dave ! contact me want to re-issue MAP inc. on the Mom's Apple Pie Record Label will send copy of design. but need downloads of albums (3) and any publishing rights you signed over to Knight or Storybook Publishing a Grand Funk Company Take care all
10 or more of you Larry in Treasure Island, FL

#10 — April 23, 2006 @ 05:06AM — annethe voice) Bartee [URL]

I know John Hambrick and the album he did with Terry Knight is brillant,, it should be re-issued again,,, John was looking for Terry Knight but couldn't find him,,, put johns name in Google and get his email address that way.. I have recorded johns tunes and love the material he gave me too.. is Terry knight dead? anne bartee

#11 — June 6, 2006 @ 23:22PM — larry

Terry is gone John Hambrick was very good Larry

#12 — July 6, 2006 @ 01:53AM — Larry Patterson Jr.

Hi, this is Larry Patterson Jr. Sharpsville PA.
I can remember the whole Mom's Apple Pie cover controversy from when I was just a kid. I just didn't uderstand what it was about until I was a little older. I still have a poster and album covers from Apple Pie #1 and #2. I would really like to see my dad Larry Sr. do something with Mom's Apple Pie #3.I didn't realize how big a deal this thing was until I found this web page while searching for details on Mom's Apple Pie. I was very impressed when I found my father's name and comments made by him on this web site. I haven't seen my father in years but it's nice to know that I still have a reason to be proud of his accomplishments. Rock n' roll was something he passed on to me. -------Larry P Jr.

#13 — July 27, 2006 @ 22:42PM — larry patterson

Larry Patterson Jr. contact me. DAD!!

#14 — October 20, 2006 @ 09:36AM — Tom Roos / Sweden [URL]

Anyonne happends to know what happend to Pia Knight or what her sirname was or is today , It would be intressting to ask her a couple of question then I in fact is Swedish myself. (på ren svenska)

VBR & TACK [Personal contact info deleted]

#15 — December 5, 2006 @ 00:01AM — larry [URL]

I would like everybody to read this The Band MOM'S APPLE PIE were more than the Album Cover, even though it is famous, they were and are still GREAT musicians including Roger Force
from Larry
former manager of MOM'S APPLE PIE!!!

#16 — April 4, 2007 @ 22:54PM — Elizabeth D.

I can't find these albums anywhere. Are they still available . . . somewhere . . . maybe??? I don't care what format, though I would prefer the vinyl.

#17 — May 15, 2007 @ 15:57PM — Karyn L.

I have the MAP albums 1 & 2. I bought them because I loved the sound, but mainly because I knew Tony & the organist from former Warren band, "The Shaddows," who played in Cleveland a lot. Larry, I hope you find Roger or vice-versa. Would love to hear #3. MAP, no matter what the critics say, your sound was the sound of that time when we were all young and "Happy to Be." Tony/Pepe, thanks for Utopia, the songs, and the memories.

#18 — May 15, 2007 @ 17:08PM — Karyn L.

PS I have photos of Terry Knight & the Pack that I took in April 1966 when TK&P opened for Peter & Gordon at the Hippodrome in Cleveland, OH at a WHK "Good Guys" concert. Photos are not the best and individuals only identifiable because I wrote captions beneath them all. Who ever knew that they would be part of a legacy of sorts.

#19 — November 14, 2007 @ 14:37PM — Kathryn [URL]

Pia Knight's maiden name was Cedric. She was originally from Sweden. I was TK executive secretary during Brown Bag. I, too, have often wondered what happened to Pia. TK dictated every thing that poor girl did....

#20 — November 30, 2007 @ 18:42PM — Larry Patterson [URL]

this is the official MOM'S APPLE PIE page.

feel free to join and send comments.
Thanks,...Larry former manager of MAP

#21 — February 5, 2008 @ 20:20PM — Larry Patterson [URL]

The official Mom's Apple Pie page

by former manager Larry

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