TOMORROW NIGHT: Jack McTamney with ToneBenders and Grooveyard @ Dawson Street Pub

They said it would never happen... and they were almost right

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TOMORROW NIGHT: Jack McTamney with ToneBenders and Grooveyard @ Dawson Street Pub

POSTED: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: Music Philly Bands

They said it would never happen… and they were almost right. There were skeptics who felt sure that despite Dawson’s eager offer to have Jack McTamney back on a regular basis — following the success of the journeyman singer-songwriter’s the concert length set of original songs back in February — was a fluke.

Happily the ToneBenders have fallen in behind the McTamney originals once more. They’ve even had rehearsals! Yes, plural! Within the last week. even. McTamney reveals that one of the fellas was pulling out songs he’d forgotten himself. So, no fear that this concert will be a rerun of that first Dawson’s extravaganza. There are songs so new that McT explains, “I have to learn ’em myself. I was working from a lyric sheet at rehearsal.” Yes, some of the best writers around will appear with written music on stage, but McT won’t go there. Just not how he rolls with his old buddies Roger Cox (drums), Mike Vogelmann (bass) and Jim Fogarty (lead guitar) — his leaps might knock the stand over.

When I grow up I want to be Jim Fogarty. Not only does he get to be best friends with the likes of Jack McTamney for over a quarter century, but he gets to make music full time, playing everything that has strings. About a year ago he decided he wanted to seriously study the bass. Friday night he’ll play lead electric with the ToneBenders and sing harmony with Jack then switch axes and amps for Grooveyard’s Dawson debut. With Grooveyard the mood shifts from one man’s lyrical output to what Fogarty terms “the more obscure corners and side streets of classic rock, tunes you maybe heard once on the radio back in the day. B-sides, album cuts.” Ever hear of “Fresh Garage”? Me neither, looking forward to making its acquaintance on Friday night.

Fri., June 29, 10 p.m., Dawson Street Pub, 100 Dawson St., Manayunk, 215-482-5677. More info here.

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Many thanks to the Business Journal's Brian Wiggins for providing this atmospheric shot of Jack McTamney in a seemingly pensive moment at the last Dawson Street McT Party.

— Mary Armstrong

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