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PREVIEWFRIDAY JULY 14 1995 MUSIC PAGE 3 Ex-Knob pitches solo album in Raleigh concert TERRY ANDERSON: Formerly of the Fabulous Knobs Anderson will be performing at the Ritz in Raleigh on July 22 ERIC AMBEL: Performing with Terry Anderson on July 22 will be Eric Ambel on guitar and vocals Ambel will be promoting his new solo album recorded Even though the song still brings in healthy residual checks as does Love You Anderson really care fin: what the Georgia Satellites did to his song first time I heard it I thought it sucked It was a too fast too heavy-handed Anderson said drum sound bugs me so bad that I cant listen to With nearly 20 years of toughing it son song and turn it into a rockabilly Anderson said turned into original music Most of the time we were just a rock band playing soul music It was kind of a free-for-all and what people About the time of The Fabulous Knobs Anderson met Baird in Georgia where Baird was playing with the Satellites as they were originally known When the Satellites get a recording contract Baird teamed up with Anderson and formed The Woodpeckers Baird played with the group Local roots feed Anderson's rock 'n' roll songwriting By MELANIE CREDLE The Herald-Sun Somewhere out in bustling Bunn the lock roll dreams of Raleigh native Terry Anderson continue to thrive If you were cognizant of the Triangle music scene beginning in the late 1970s you knew the name of Terry Anderson Anderson and The Fabulous Knobs gave the kind of shows that the old-timers in Chapel Hill still fondly recall over a few been That band evolved into The Woodpeckers and then that morphed into The Woods The Woods were more known for a song that they recorded first but another band had more success with: which Anderson wrote but the Georgia Satellites made into a hit Anderson has been friends with former Satellite Dan Baird for yean and wrote some songs for solo album The first single from that album was the Anderson tune "I Love You Period" which was a Billboard Top 25 single in 1993 Recently Anderson released his first solo album Like On July 22 at the Ritz in Raleigh Anderson will team up with a few friends who are also pushing solo works to form the temporary band The Yayhoos The Yayhoos will be part of a bill consisting of Dillon Fence and headliners The Yayhoos consist of Anderson Baird Keith Christopher and Eric AmbeL who was a member of Joan Blackhearts and the Del-Lords one band trying to sell three Anderson said about The Yayhoos Anderson recorded his album in the dining room at his house have any overhead I tried to make it sound as good as I could 1 just wanted the basic parts the basic singing and just to keep it real he said What he created was simple stripped-down bare-bones rock roll sung with a lot of earnestness and a lot of heart Anderson wrote all the songs and drew his inspiration for a variety of sources He got the idea for the song "Yesterday Clyde Virginia when he would travel to Nashville Tenn and see a sign for Clyde NC He said the phrase Clyde North Carolina really sing that well" The song which tells about a singer falling Knobs were great It was that industrial-strength It was really It was Jim People came to hear the cover tunes we were mangling We would take a Smokey Robinson song and turn it into a rockabilly in hist with a woman in the audience was inspired by a woman Anderson met when he toured Europe with Don Dixon The songs on the album came pretty easily to Anderson such as the heartfelt Time Broken kind of flew out of my mouth as I was strumming some chords Those are the best kind of songs the stream of consciousness he said living in Bunn Anderson 38 is not for from Raleigh where he grew up A graduate of Enloe High School Anderson first stepped on a stage when he was 14 He was at a convention with his bluegrass-countiy combo The Wake County Ramblers had to do the whistle and pop the belt for Skinner I had to stand up on a little stool to get to the Anderson recalled with a chuckle Although his father introduced him to traditional country and bluegrass artists Anderson liked all kinds of music was still kind of digging what he was doing but I was also listening to Black Sabbath It still is evident by my record you can hear every kind of influence in there just good music and bad music for Anderson said He cited Rod Stewart and The Faces and the Rolling Stones as big musical influences He met some of the future members of The Fabulous Knobs when he was attending Sand Hills Community College The Fabulous Knobs Anderson's first real band ran from 1978 to 1984 playing mostly dates on the East Coast Although he did play guitar Anderson was the drummer for the band Knobs were great It was that industrial-strength It was really rockin' It was fun People came to hear the cover tunes we were mangling We would take a Smokey Robin TEnYMOBON SMGDL SONCMBIB out with bands on the unforgiving dub circuit and writing songs that other people have made into hit records Anderson still flirts with the rock roll dream corny as it sounds I really love the music I love keeping on making the he said "I always said I'll never quit playing music until I die and that's probably how it's going to be I wasn't put here to paint houses 1 don't want to waste the talent 1 was given" The Yayhoos Dillon Fence and Drivin play fee RiU 2820 Industrial Drive Raleigh on July 21 Doors open 8 pm $11 advance SIS at fee door 836- i for a year and left when the Satellites got that belated recording contract The Woodpeckers became The Woods whose lifespan ran from 1985-93 After releasing one album on a small independent record label Anderson said that group dissolved because just kept spinning our Anderson said he's writing songs all the time He can write with another person but most of the time writes alone got a song on country singer Tim album that he wrote with Pam Tillis' husband Songs even come to Anderson in dreams as did dream was so loud it woke me up and I got up and grabbed the he said The Woods version of "Battleship is slower and not as raucous the verskm The Georgia -Satellites-.