Hello all! This is the official BOA My space website from the group known as BOA from 1971. Ted Burris and Bob Maledon put the group together in the summer of 1969 as Anvil. The group formed when Ted approached Bob in the hallways of school in there senior year. Ted had seen Bob playing organ at a jam session at a mutual friends house. They got together in Bob's garage on guitar and organ and decided to try and form a group. Bob's friend Paul then came to the next jam session on lead guitar. The next time they jammed Ted (a rhythm guitar player) tried his hand at the bass guitar. He picked it up quite quickly. Now with Paul on guitar, Bob on Organ and Ted on Bass they started to work on some tunes. While at a break in school, Ted was talking to Bob in the cafeteria and a friend came up and asks if they wanted an organ player cause he knew one. Bob said he would play bass only if the organ player could do better than him. Ted originally did not want to play an interment. Brian Walton came to the next jam session and could play a number of tunes including a really good version of Light my fire. Bob agreed that he could be the new organ player and that he would now play bass. Ted knew a few people in school and ran across a drummer named Tom. Tom was playing at a sock hop at the junior high that weekend. Ted came to the gig just to see how well Tom played.
Most of the drummers they had tried out would get off beat and where not very good.
Tom wound up being about the same, But, as luck would have it Ted and a couple more people got kicked out of the school cause the band had too many people with them. The young blond-haired kid that was kicked out also had no ride home. Ted asks the kid if he wanted to ride with him as he was going the same way. Richard Allen accepted the ride and on the way to his house asks Ted why he was there. He said he had come to check out the drummer for his new band. Richard (going into a hyper state) said he thought he was a better drummer than that guy! Egging Ted on with the phrase Nobody ever gives the little guy a break. That Saturday morning, Ted called Bob and told him that Tom was no better than anyone else they had tried. But, He got the number of a young drummer that said he was way better so they should try him out instead. Tom was told the practice was canceled in hopes of trying out a better drummer. Richard made the practice, played fantastic, even did a version of Toad by Cream, and got the job. Thus the band Anvil was born.
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Blessed End and Boa were two of the better Doors-influenced bands of the late-'60s/early-'70s, but whereas Blessed End departed from the overtly-ominous overtones of their idols, Boa played it much closer to the vest. Paul Manning had a voice that was almost an exact reproduction of Jim Morrison's; he rumbles and growls his way through about one-third of the songs on Wrong Road (Ted Burris handles lead vocal duties on the rest), With some interesting musical variations and solid songwriting from Bob Maledon, Burris, and Manning. Instead of betraying any debt to jazz or blues, Boa rip through the songs on Wrong Road with an unkempt garage punkiness. It may be messy, often threatening to come apart at the seams, but that gives the music some immediacy. And Boa seems to be having a good time playing together. "Never Come Back" and the title cut are eerie pounders, while "You Don't Want Me Anymore" and "Angelisa" are first-rate ballads. "I Think I Been Had" is simply pure, inept aggression. Several of the songs don't reach the same level of fun but are easily overlooked, and the finest among them, eventhough they don't match the best garage-rock classics, at least melodically better anything by Blessed End. The best song on Wrong Road is "Brave New World, " a furious rocker on which the band loses all traces of the Doors, suggesting that had they stayed and grown together, Boa may have created something lasting. As it is, their sole album is only a decently interesting romp. ~ Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide
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