AFTER "THE NOWHERE MEN" SPLIT AWAY FROM THE HORN SECTION IN EARLY 1970, THEY REFORMED AS THE "SECOND COMING" WITH ONLY 2 SINGERS "CHARLIE and DONNIE" THE BAND WAS DOING MORE VOCAL SONGS BY GROUPS LIKE "CROSBY STILLS and NASH and YOUNG", "THE ASSOCIATION" and "MOTOWN" HITS. WE STARTED PLAYING 6 NIGHTS A WEEK IN SOME OF WASHINGTON DC's NIGHT CLUBS SUCH AS "THE BASTILLE" SUPPER CLUB and FRAN OBRIAN's "ANTHONY HOUSE".

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     THERE WAS A FREAK ACCIDENT AT FRAN OBRIANS ANTHONY HOUSE ONE NIGHT WHILE WE WERE PLAYING WHEN A HORSE ENTERED THE BACK DOOR TO THE CLUB CAUSING THE CROWD TO PANIC. I POSTED THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE BELOW IF YOU WANT TO READ ALL THE DETAILS.

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   WE LANDED A SUMMER LONG JOB IN OCEAN CITY, MD at THE "HURRICANE LOUNGE" WHICH WAS THE BEACH's LATEST HOT SPOT. WE HOSTED SATURDAY JAM SESSIONS. THE PIC's SHOW US SWITCHING INSTRUMENTS AND HAVING FUN WITH OTHER LOCAL BANDS THAT WERE PLAYING AT THE BEACH.

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  THERE WAS NOTHING MORE FUN THAN BEING 20 YEARS OLD, PLAYING AT THE BEACH 6 NIGHTS A WEEK ALL SUMMER LONG AT THE LATEST AND HOTEST NIGHT CLUB ON THE STRIP. WE RENTED A N ENTIRE BAND HOUSE FOR THE SUMMER WHICH WAS PARTY CENTRAL FOR US AND ALL OUR VISITING FRIENDS ALL SUMMER.

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  TOWARDS THE END OF THE SUMMER, OUR BOOKING AGENT "BARRY RICK" OF "BRA" PRODUCTIONS OFFERED ME ANOTHER JOB IN ANOTHER BAND "THE NEW BREED" WHICH WERE ALSO PLAYING ​ALL SUMMER AT THE BEACH IN "OCEAN CITY" NEW JERSEY" AT THE "ATTICK" IN SOMMERS POINT. THE JERSEY SHORE WAS ANOTHER HOT SPOT FOR BEACHERS BUT MAINLY THE CROWD FROM BALTIMORE, PHILIADELPHIA AND NEW YORK. THE BAND WAS AN UP AND COMING HORN BAND PLAYING SONGS FROM "CHICAGO" AND "BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS" I PLAYED OUT THE LAST 6 WEEKS OF THE SUMMER WITH THEM WHILE THE "SECOND COMING REMAINED TOGETHER AND PLAYED MANY SUMMERS AT OCEAN CITY AND EVENTUALLY OPENED THEIR OWN NIGHT CLUB OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON DC  

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​THE EVENING STAR , WASHINGTON DC, WED May 19, 1970,

                                

Fran O’Brians Anthony House Supper Club.

HORSE-IN-BAR Prank Has Unhappy End
 

WASHINGTON DC.    (UPI)

Somebody led a horse into a Bar as a practical joke Wednesday
night. The horse was frightened by the band (The Second Coming) blaring Out “Along Came Mary” and Nine persons were injured in the turmoil that followed.

   The animal, a retired thoroughbred racer, charged across the dimly lit room filled with patrons drinking and dancing about 10 P.M. It charged from wall to wall looking for an exit. Tables were smashed. Glasses and bottles were broken. Customers screamed and someone shouted “Kill him”

  “Everybody was completely Hysterical, including me,” said Judy Shanka, a 22 year old White House secretary. In its panic, the horse slipped and fell on it’s side toward the front of the supper club and its owner, Ron Furman, finally calmed it down and led it out the front door.

Nine of the bars customers were treated at George Washington University Hospital for cuts and bruises, including one young woman who will require plastic surgery on an ear injured by the horse’s hoof.

   Furman, who operates a riding academy in surburban Maryland, rode the horse to Fran O’Brians Anthony House and tied it to a rail in an adjacent parking lot. It was not clear whose idea it was, but someone led the horse into the club from the rear of the bandstand and the animal immediately bolted in fright.

    Fran O’Brian, the club’s owner and a 250-pound former tackle for the Washington Redskins, tried to subdue the horse, but was no match for it. Although the patrons were terrorized, they quickly recovered.

“The whole thing wasn’t too bad,” said one. “If you went in and said you lost a drink, they gave you a free one.”

   The band had their PA system knocked down breaking a steel microphone stand in half, destroyed an “Echo-plex” effects unit. Their drums were knocked off their platform and other items were damaged when the crowd panicked and rushed onto the stage. The band wasn’t able to continue playing that night. Fran O’brian covered all the bands damages.

 

 

 

 

HERE IS A NEWSPAPER AD SHOWING ALL THE GROUPS OUR AGENT "BRA" WAS BOOKING IN 1970

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