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Black Oak Arkansas- Best known for The Song "Jim Dandy to the Rescue, With the Help of Ruby Starr. Ruby- also traveled with her own band "Grey Ghost". She opened for many of the Top Name bands in the 70's such as Black Sabbath, Bob Seger, etc. In the early to mid 80's Ruby was in a band called "Grey Star", in the Late 80's early 90's it was the Ruby Starr Band. This woman had an incredible voice, and i will never forget her. She rocked Wiscosin. But sad to say in the latest release of BOA dvd she is only mentioned by name, and they say thanks to her. You would think that who ever put the video together, could have given her alittle film footage, of her actually singing on the stage with the band. Ruby has since passed on...

Contents 1 Shawn Lane! 2 RE: Shawn Lane 3 NPOV and Vandalism 4 Vandals

[edit] Shawn Lane!

Why isn't Shawn Lane mentioned anywhere on the page? Read Shawn's biography here http://www.tarsun.net/bio.htm

[edit] RE: Shawn Lane

There were probably upwards of 100 different musicians who jammed with Black Oak Arkansas, especially in different periods in their late history when the original members had left and the band was basically comprised of Jim Mangrum and a load of replacements. I don't think it's really historically relevant to list them all because they weren't part of the band when it was widely popular and they were recording albums that sold more than a few hundred copies. However, I did include a link at the bottom of the article to a website that goes into detail listing every person that has ever played on stage with Black Oak Arkansas. Personally I feel like that's enough information on the subject and there's really no need to replicate it here. I guess someone could make a wiki "list of people who played with Black Oak Arkansas" but, again, I don't know if all that warrants its own page. The Bob Talbot 03:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Then again, Wiki isn't paper so there's room for everything, I guess! I may try to come up with a graceful way to write up some of the relevant later musicians. Shawn Lane definitely was an accomplished musician and I'd hate to leave him out. The Bob Talbot 03:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV and Vandalism

The reason I kept removing your edits, "random IP people from Cork", is because they were not formatted correctly, they used sensationalist language, and were not NPOV. Granted those albums DO exist and I will try to format your additions into some Wikipedia proper form. However, I do not appreciate you vandalizing my user page repeatedly. I am sure we can work something out here! Thanks. The Bob Talbot 06:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

You have information that I don't, obviously. That's fine. Just keep it neutral, as in no diatribes on why it's "cool" and how "rocking" the lyrics are. If you can find some constructive way to add it please go ahead. As you can see I was able to add some of your stuff and I am still working on expanding on the later albums and putting who joined when. The Bob Talbot 06:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandals

I have gone in and changed back some incorrect information that was inserted in the last few months. Somebody named Bill Godley inserted his name in place of Andy Tanas in the 77-78 version of the band. I was in the band at that time too and know that Andy was in the band and not Godley. This is an insult to the members of that band who were quality players and performed at a very high level if only a short time. I hope Mr. Godley will leave this article alone out of respect for the members of this version of Black Oak. Popsdrum 03:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)