The Briks came from a band called the Embers who formed at Texas Tech in Lubbock in 1965, with Richard Borgens on vocals and lead guitar, Lee Hardesty on guitar, Bobby Daniels, and Steve Martin on drums. The band relocated to Denton, outside Dallas, and Gainesville, TX, where some of them attended Cooke County Junior College, a “home for the academically ill” as one teacher put it. There they met Cecil Cotten, who became their lead singer, and bassist Mike Meroney and changed their name to the Briks.
Some of the Briks lived at the Stella St. apartments for a while. Cecil, Steve, Reggie Lang (manager) and I had a place there and Tommy Carter was just down a few doors. Across the courtyard is where Bob Story and Johnny Hale lived and they were some wild and crazy guys! Just around the corner at the next complex is where “The Four Speeds” lived (later they became “Felicity”). That was a fun time for the most part but I think our apt. was a mess. Some of us were driving back and forth to CCJC in Gainesville at the time.
The Briks signed with the Bismark agency, run by George Rickrich, who also managed the Chessmen. Whit Snell of the Beefeaters remembers Rickrich this way:
George was the Godfather of the music scene in Denton. He and Charlie Hatchet from Austin controlled everything north of San Antonio all the way to the Oklahoma border. His so-called real job was Manager of the Campus Theater on the Denton square. Here, at the back and above the large dimly lit balcony, was George’s office, Bismark Agency, filled with movie posters, black and white photos of bands, food wrappers and heaps of clutter, scribbled phone numbers, scratched out and circled dollar figures. There, on his desk, were two or three black telephones, their rotary dials worn shinny silver from thousands of calls made by George’s stubby fingers.
Their first recordings were distributed on acetates only. Both “I’m Losing” and “It’s Your Choice” are classic garage numbers and it’s a shame these weren’t released on 45.
There are two versions of “It’s Your Choice”. One features a twelve-string guitar, and the band takes the song at a fast pace. The other has an altogether tougher sound. On this version Cecil’s vocals are nothing less than menacing. The band generates an ominous, intense sound with Mike Meroney’s repetitive bass line, the jangling guitar, drum fills and occasional harmonies. There’s a good, trebly guitar solo and a neat break with just bass, drums and handclaps.
The Briks – It’s Your Choice
The Briks – It’s Your Choice (12-string version)
Steve Martin slams out the beat on “I’m Losing,” which also features their first use of a distortion pedal on the guitar. The band’s harmonies add to Cecil’s lead vocal but his voice still cuts through. It’s a great sound.
Lee Hardesty: I can’t speak for the differing versions. I remember recording them only once at Sellers (downtown Dallas). It was our first trip to the studio and I remember the engineer running out of the control room saying “There’s something wrong here! I’m hearing horrible distortion!!” We laughed because he had never heard a fuzztone before and didn’t know it was intentional. Actually he was probably right about the sound though. That was my original (homemade) fuzz box, built into a wooden English Leather box, and I imagine it probably did sound pretty horrible.
When we had finished recording we asked for a 45 and they cut us one right there on the spot (cutting lathe). We drove out to KBOX on flagpole hill (about midnight) and went around to the back of the building. I think the DJ was the only one there so we knocked on the window and he opened it to talk to us. We gave him the 45 and went back to our car and listened to it on the radio! What a thrill! Seems a little more difficult to get things on the radio these days.
The Briks released their first 45, the poppy “Can You See Me?” on Bismark in ’66, though garage fans love the flip side, “Foolish Baby”. Both sides are originals by Richard Borgens and Cecil Cotten. Dot label picked it up for national distribution and to promote the record the Briks traveled to Houston for shows at the Catacombs, around November of 1966.
Lee Hardesty: It was a big thrill the first time we played there. We were given some real star treatment, ads on the radio stations, radio station interviews, a dinner I believe. I think they might have been a little underwhelmed though because that stuff ended after our first night. It was a cool place (glad we didn’t use pyrotechnics back then!!) but I liked the parties and other dance halls better where it wasn’t so much of a show thing. I liked playing when people were dancing more.
Mike Meroney: I also recall that the Dot record rep showed up and threw records to the audience. I also recall that we changed outfits between each set and broke a guitar or two. How nutty was that? We appeared on the Larry Kane show during one of those trips to Houston. I remember listening to the Catacombs promos on the radio as we approached Houston – that would pump us up.
Mike Meroney: We went back there several times with various versions of the band. The last gig there that I remember was a bit humbling. We were the headliners but they had another band that played during our breaks. All I remember was they were awesome, kind’a kicked our butts, and it was hard to get back up there and do a second set. They were some band from Louisiana and had real good players, PA, etc.
As I recall their name was the Greek Fountains or something like that. They were good. It seems like the most common technical challenges in those days were with PA systems. They never could seem to catch up with the rest of the stuff. As a bass player I felt techno disadvantaged as well. It was hard to keep up with the Hardesty. It was never loud enough or clear enough or punchy enough. The first set up that I felt even reasonably satisfied with was dual Kustom towers. This Louisiana band did have a good equipment setup including an awesome PA.
Another venue for the Briks was the legendary Louanns.
Cecil Cotten: We had to audition in order to play. The audition was done while Mrs. Bovis and her family were eating dinner. This was in 1966. There were two stages one on each end and another completely different room on the other side and yes a beer garden.
The Briks also played Sump N Else [local TV show hosted by Ron Chapman] and played two songs. “I’m A Man” (Yardbirds) and “Baby Let Me Take You Home” (Animals). I remember the window that allowed people to look in on the show while they were at the North Park Mall. It was like being in Hollywood for us. We were still in our late teens or early 20’s and felt invincible.
In a comment below which I’ll repeat here, Bud Buschardt writes:
The Briks appeared on the Sump’n Else show on October 10, 1966. The music log lists them playing a song called “Keep Down.” When a group appeared on the show, they also performed live for the pre-show warm up. Perhaps that is when they played the cover songs mentioned in the bio. Our music lists were often made out in a hurry before the show, so there could have possibly been a misunderstanding of the song title, especially if no one in the group remembers “Keep Down.”
What sounds like a studio version of “Baby Let Me Take You Home” exists, and it’s a great version with an intro that’s reminiscent of the riff to the Gentlemen’s “It’s a Cry’n’ Shame”, fine drumming, 12-string guitar and a rave-up ending. It’s likely the Briks recording came first – could it have influenced the Gentlemen’s legendary guitarist Seab Meador? In any case, I believe it was Animals’ guitarist Hilton Valentine who came up with that riff for “Baby Let Me Take You Home” in 1964.
from left: Mike Meroney, Lee Hardesty, Cecil Cotten
March 17-18, 1967 the Briks play at the Box in Fort Worth.
Paul Ray soon left to join the Cobras. Cecil was out of the service and back in the band by January, 1967, and Jamie Herndon came in on lead guitar, replacing Richard Borgens, who wanted to try production work and folk-oriented music.
Later that year the Briks released a second 45, a cover of Cream’s “NSU” b/w “From a Small Room”, an original by Borgens. Part of a show at the Northwood Country Club was recorded, the set list full of songs made famous by British bands: “Til the End of the Day”, “NSU”, “The Nazz Are Blue”, “Heart Full of Soul”, and “I’m a Man”. There’s also a live version of “Everybody Needs Someone to Love” that, to my ears, comes from an earlier live performance show. All of these are collected on Texas Punk vol. 8.
Lee Hardesty: I think that one of those unissued songs was actually recorded at Mike Meroney’s house using his father’s tape deck. The song “Over You” was an original by Jamie Herndon and the real title was “Green Green” if I’m thinking of the same thing here.
“Over You” has a lot of potential as a song, with moody, churning verses going into a brief ooh-ing “over you” and a short fast break. On the version I heard, the sounds of a guitar and bass doing some practice runs intrudes on the recording briefly about 35 seconds in.
The lyrics are hard to make out, but I can hear some snippets like “the sky is blue the night is black the sea is green …” The song finishes with an intense 12-string guitar solo that lasts a full minute over a bass line reminiscent of Cream’s “”Tales of Brave Ulysses”.
I’ve read they also cut a version of “It Won’t Be Wrong” but if so, I haven’t heard it.
Rear l-r: Mike Meroney, Chris Vanderkolk, Cecil Cotten. Front l-r: Lee Hardesty and Jamie Herndon
The Briks broke up by 1968 and Cecil joined a band with some members of the Chessmen, who had also just split. Cecil told me “Jimmy Rabbit managed a band called Texas which included Jimmy Vaughn guitar, Cecil Cotten vocalist, Tommy Carter bass, Billy Etheridge keyboards and on drums Sammy Piazza. We did some recording at Robin Hood Brians studio in Tyler (I would really like to have a copy of those tapes). We played only a few times and one of those times was opening for The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart at Louanns in Dallas.”
In 1969, Cotten moved out to San Francisco with Benny Rowe of the Wig, Steve Karnavas of the Chaparrals, and Keith Ferguson, where they gigged as Benny, Cecil and the Snakes.
Richard Borgens sang on The Truth’s 45, “Chimes on 42nd Street” / “When Was Then”.
The Briks reunited once, in 1996 at White Rock Lake.
Lee Hardesty: It was really a pretty short run for the original Briks, just a year and a half or so, then another year or so with Paul and Chris and Jamie I would guess. A lot happened in a fairly short time and it was quite a while ago. If we’d only had a clue we should have been writing and recording a lot more. Richard had more talent in that area than we realized at the time, and so did Mike for that matter. Somehow I just don’t think I had any idea what we were doing or what the potential was. It was mostly just fun and a way to make some money. And it was a lot of fun sometimes.
I’m very sad to report that Cecil Cotten passed away on Friday, April 4, 2008 in Winnsboro, TX, at the age of 62. In recent years Cecil and former Briks bandmate Mike Neal recorded a CD of blues-inspired songs as The Pickin’ Cotten Band. I greatly regret I never met Cecil in person, and his music will always mean a great deal to me.
Update February 2020: I’m very sorry to write that Richard Borgens passed away on November 25, 2019. He was a faculty member at Purdue University and founded the Center for Paralysis Research “to develop clinical therapies for injury and disease of the human nervous system” and that he was “regarded as a preeminent researcher in spinal cord neuronal regeneration.”
Thank you to the BigD60’s site for the history and photos of the band, and to Andrew B. for contributing the transfer of the incredible acetate of “It’s Your Choice”.
I love their stuff. Thanks for laying the wax.
Thanks for your great work…this is such a great site for people who truly love this music.
Thanks for the great site! Cecil is my dad and has just recently passed;we already miss him greatly. It is so neat to really be able to see what his life was like before we came around. He had such a wonderful voice and talent for creating music. As talented as he was with a guitar or microphone he was even better as a dad. Many years ago he put his first passion of music on hold to dedicate his life to his family. I know that now he is jammin’ upstairs and looking down on us proudly knowing that he did a great job. We love you and miss you.
Hey Ollie. Cecil would be very proud of what you wrote to honor his memory. I love and miss him too.
CECIL WAS A VERY SWEET,KIND, AND FUNNY PERSON.
I DID NOT KNOW HIM LONG BUT, I DID GROW TO CARE FOR HIM AND HIS WIFE.
HIS MUSIC WAS BEFORE MY TIME ON THIS EARTH BUT, I DO LIKE IT.
HE WILL BE MISSED.
HATS OFF TO YOU IN ROCK AND ROLL HEAVEN C.C.
I’LL MISS YOU!!!!
The Briks appeared on the Sump’n Else show on October 10, 1966. The music log lists them playing
a song called “Keep Down.” When a group appeared on the show, they also performed live for the pre-show warm up. Perhaps that is when they played the cover songs mentioned in the bio. Our music lists were often made out in a hurry before the show, so there could have possibly been a misunderstanding of the song title, especially if no one in the group remembers “Keep Down.”
I would love to get in contact with Jamie. I was in a band with him in 73 and 74 in LA. Kim kimbullard@mac.com
Jamie is my brother and he still resides in LA. Currently collaborating songs with Neil Merryweather. You can email him at vulcanrider.1@hotmail.com
I am Richard Borgens sister, Jayne Farmer, and I had the younger Cecil Cotten in my 7th grade English class at Coyle Middle School in Rowlett Texas (my last name at that time was Frazier). Not much was mentioned about Richard on the homepage, probably because he has lived out of state for years,(I’m forwarding this site to him), and his is a very interesting story. Richard is now an Endowed Chair at Purdue University. He has received world wide acclaim with his research in spinal cord regeneration(forgive me Rich as I know I’m buthering this, but I’m a layman!) He is a Distinguished Alumni at the University of North Texas, has an honorary Doctorate from Oxford University (England); I could go on and on. The letterhead on his “official” stationary takes up half a page. BUT, guess what? His love for music is alive and strong! He has played in little neighborhood bars in Layfette, Ind. (home of Purdue) with his wife singing vocals with him, taught himself to play several more instruments (the banjo among them) and still is entertaining all of us with his playing. I have a great photograph of him surrounded by his many guitars. In short, I guess I can sum up my brother by saying that if you were to talk with him now, the subject of the conversation will be music, not Science. To whoever put this together, you’ve honored a great band where the individual members are still making great music.
Did you live in Indianapolis in the early 60’s?
Richard B.’s supposedly wrote a self-published memoir of his time with the Briks – I’ve tried to contact him many times to see if I could get a copy of it but haven’t been able to connect. Any help in that regard would be appreciated!
I just want to say I wish The Briks had made much more music. Songs like It’s Your Choice really mean a lot to me, and the style and sound is just incredible, it’s really something I want more and more of, it’s excellent. Also please feel free to email me with any recommendations, I’m just getting into this era of music, and it’s mainly that sound I’m looking for, it’s deep, it’s melodic, the vocals are perfect, it’s just outstanding what these guys did.
EXCELLENT WORK! And I’m glad someone else recognizes it and did this site. Better than Wikipedia which had nothing at all. Two thumbs down for them. 5 thumbs up for the Briks!
Thank you again, and if any of them are still making music, just for bragging rights, I’d like to have some kind of collaboration or just use a sample of something you wrote or never released, and make it into something new. I’ve been making music since I was 5 years old and I like to incorporate other artists into my style and it would mean a lot to me.
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I was in bands with JH in Denton, Dallas and los Angeles.
We lived together in LA. I would like to contact him.
Can I get his phone number?
Thanks very much
Wish you had that track posted, someone stole my 45 many years ago; it’s a cover of the original by Cream.
Chris Vanderkolk is my father and drummer of the Briks. I was just sent this link today when I posted a band picture of the “Styx and Stonz” I am currently looking for the master 45 of NSU, which I know we have around here somewhere. How would I go about getting that posted?
Hi Chandra, I’m the person who runs this site. Sorry it’s taken me so long before replying but please contact me at chas_kit@hotmail.com about posting any recordings or photos and I’d be happy to help.
Hello, my name is Alton Cheek. Cecil Wayne Cotten is my first cousin (we just called him Jack). I practically worshiped him growing up. I had my very own rock-n-roll star in the family (it was very exciting). I miss him very much and still check in on his Mom (Aunt Joyce) from time to time. I unfortunately, did not inherit his talent, but my son Blake did. He has been writing songs and playing music since he could stand and speak. He is the front man for a very successful teen band in Dallas (kinda sounds familiar, huh?). Jack really wanted to get out and see them play, but, he was taken from us before he had the chance. Blake reminds me so much of Jack.
I heard from Aunt Joyce that one of his old band mates is a music professor at UNT in denton. We have two gigd in Denton coming up very soon. March 31st at Andy’s and April 8th at Hailey’s. If anyone can help me locate this former Brik, we would love to have him as our special guest.
Here’s hoping we kind find him
Alton R. Cheek
altoncheek@sbcglobal.net
my years with the briks were very memorable. jamie herndon was an incredible guitar player with the sweetest tremelo you ever heard. thanks for remembering our band….. we always tried to please!!!!!!!
There is a possibility that Jaimie Herndon,Chris Vanderkolk, Lee Hardesty, and Mike Maroney will be reuniting for a yet to be announced reunion in October 2011. This is not yet confirmed, but all will be in Dallas for sure!
I am looking for family members of Cecil. Please email with any information.
Thank you!
I love you bazerkowitz@gmail
Just checking to make sure that this is the same Jamie Herndon that I worshiped from afar for his work with Nick Gilder in the group The Pop and who wrote the luscious Down on the Boulevard.
I’m sorry to say that the Denton Record-Chronicle reports that Lee Hardesty passed away on February 18, 2015.
http://www.dentonrc.com/obituaries-headlines/20150305-lee-henry-hardesty.ece
I own two 45’s by the Briks – “Can You See Me” and “NSU”. I also watched them (on tv) perform on “Sump’n Else” that day. Until I read this today I had no idea Paul Ray was once in The Briks. They had a very unique sound and just wish I had seem them play live, especially at Louann’s when they opened for The Jeff Beck Group. This is a great site and so glad I found it.
Michael Neal here. In the past fifteen years I have lost so many folks who meant the world to me. Cecil Cotten and Lee Hardesty, of the Briks, Johnny Willett, drummer of the Fort Worth Cats, and Phil Campbell drummer of the Jackals. Why I am still kicking is beyond my understanding. No one will ever know how it felt to play music in that era unless you were there to taste it yourself. It was magic. It was more fun than a man should be allowed to have. It was habit forming. Not the drugs, but the intensity and the excitement of that fantastic music that mushroomed from little four and five piece bands coming out of north central Texas. There were bonds made that cannot be broken, even by death, because I still love these guys like it was yesterday, just as I love the guys who I played with who are still fogging mirrors. Cecil and Lee were so talented. The briks shown like a diamond in a goats ass wherever and whenever the gigged. During Cecil’s and Lee’s last years I got to record and play with them on songs Cecil wrote, for the most part and one song of mine, ‘You’re Going This Way, I’m Going That’ , on which I was lucky to have Cecil sing. It was on the CD, PICKIN’ COTTEN, which was mentioned in the article. Cecil was the best Texas Rock singer I ever heard. Even when he was sick and his health issues were plaguing him, he could belt out a song with more soul than even those, considered the best, could strive for on a good day. Lee Hardesty was one of the most professional craftsmen at his trade I ever heard. His rhythm guitar playing was impeccable and he could play lead guitar with the best of them. He was also an electronics genius. Wish you all could have been there for the whole shebang. It was quite a party.
I was fortunate to live and play thru that era with The Jackals. Lee Hardesty and I shared several apartments including the aforementioned Stella St. Apts. Lee was a genius. I can recall coming to Gainesville to see us at the youth center in the spring of 65. They set in on our break and a great friendship began. Like Mike Neal said we that can still fog a mirror love the memories of those days. It’s great when we occasionally get to see one another. You would’nt think over 50 yrs had passed. I still get a smile recalling the great times we all had.
The Jackals only had a short run of 3 years but I would not trade those memories. Having The Who, Hermam’s Hermits, Standells, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Monkees, all come into the Three Thieves after their concerts and listen to us play was over the top. That was was just in a six month period. The Briks were about the top of the heap of local bands in those days. Easily as good as many of the touring bands of the day.
In 1966 or early 1967 I was 19 and working in Dallas for Western Electric and at one of the South Western Bell telephone offices I became acquainted with a former band member of the Briks who said he had been replaced. I can’t remember his name but he knew Bobby Fuller and asked me if I wanted to be a road manager for him. I think I owe him $5 as I, being a Beatle fan, he bet me that The Rolling Stones would out last them.
I had heard the Briks on the radio so I was familiar with at least one song which I liked but can’t remember the name. Over the years I thought about what would have happened if I had met up with Bobby Fuller but based on he’s tragic end I probably made the right decision.
This chance conversation 50 years ago is still remembered and reinforced when I hear “I Fought the Law.”
I went to school at St. Mark’s in Dallas with Mike Meroney and Steve Miller. Met the Briks through Bob Story and Johnny Hale when they all lived in Denton. Traveled with them and enjoyed the crazyness for awhile. Lee Hardesty and Mike Meroney were the one’s I was closest with. Lost in all this is how well they played the Stone’s, the Beatle’s, Cream’s and others’ music ~ priceless ! All of us who followed them thought, for sure, they were headed for greatness, like Arthur Lee and Love ! But time, the military, and the war in Viet Nam, and the general insanity of the time, all saw it another way. Too bad. But what they did was great in my opinion. What is greatness, anyway ? Whatever it is, they had some of it, way back then !
P.S. One time, sometime around 1966 or ’67, Doug Simril, who played with Steve Miller on his first album, and I, followed the Briks down to Austin for a frat party and helped them with their equipment for entry, but my high school nemesis, psycho, James Maund from Highland Park in Dallas, took exception to us being there, was going to throw us out until Lee Hardesty told him, if we had to leave, the rest of the band would leave, too. Thanks, Lee. Later that week end, I scored my first LSD from the Briks’ contact in Austin, and me and Gene Sealey, home from the Navy, took way too much wondering why it wasn’t affecting us, and, when it did, we climbed up the balcony into one of the girls’ dorm rooms that I knew from Dallas (one of Doug Simril’s failed romances) whose name I wish I could remember, and we were both gone for the next 16 hours in a world of color and melted reality. I distinctly remember that the sidewalks really were moving, rolling like waves on the ocean ! I left Gene on his front lawn in Austin watching the morning breeze move the tree leaves as the sun came up. He went back to Viet Nam. I never saw him again. Those were some of the days of the Briks for me. ~ And, Lynn Armstrong, you never knew it was me who played the Briks for you over the phone, both “Can You See Me?” and “Foolish Baby”, but it was me !
Hi, I am Richard’s wife Sandy Borgens. I lost my husband over a year ago. I really appreciate seeing all the pictures and stories. I can’t even tell you how much I miss him. When I am having a rough day and tears, I like to look at all the things he did when he was young. I was married to Richard for 32 years. We both loved music and singing, so we used to entertain a few places and enjoyed it so much. He was so amazing in everything he touched. He really enriched my life along with so many others who respected his work and his talents.
So much is flooding back as I read these amazing stories and testimonials. I was lucky enough to be Lee’s brother and watch him develop as a musician as well as an inventor. He was also the nicest man I ever knew. Lee and I both were given Gretsch guitars as youths. Mine was a Tosca solid body electric and Lee had a big orange jazz model with a Bixby tremolo. I wasn’t as into it as Lee was, but he went on to form a high school band and also played guitar at a performance with the Shawnee High School choir. Mom and dad were pleased that the guitar had brought him out of his shell. He was a straight a student and president of the Latin Club before music took hold of him and thankfully never let go. They were not ready for what it led to! One memory is of his Lima, Ohio band with Jack Van Pelt (the coolest guy in town- he had a dark green 58’ Chevy Impala with side pipes, fender skirts, and a continental kit and his hair is was perfect!) and Steve Lonas ( he played drums kind of like Animal on Sesame Street), playing at the Putt Putt out on cable road. I was dancing to my brothers band, and could not have been prouder.
I was always a bystander back then and not a player yet. My best friend was Mike Nelson, and Chris Vanderkolk was close as well. We were all amazed when Chris got the drumming gig with the Briks. He had to lie about his age to play some of their gigs, but he was an excellent drummer at 17. Mike and I played music for 20 plus years in 2 different configurations, and still do from time to time. He and Lee formed Boomerang Musical Products and were responsible for an early digital looper that became fairly popular, as well as some other effects pedals. Lee’s attention to detail drove Mike crazy, as he wouldn’t sign off on a design until it was perfect. At his passing, he was searching for the perfect digital amp to emulate the tube sound. His engineer son, after going over Lee’s notes, said he was very close. I still have the amp boxes that I made to house the future amplifier and speakers. Watching the Briks back in the day, practicing in our back room on Overdale Drive in Richardson, I could tell something special was developing. They worked and worked as Lee especially wanted the sound to be exactly right. He learned to tune his Fender Rhodes which were notorious for going out, especially if you drug them around everywhere. He also bought a sitar and learned to tune and play it just well enough for maybe two tunes. His Vox twelve string had his nick name “Lizard” etched into the pick guard, and was also used to get the correct effect. He wanted a second Vox Super Beatle amp, but couldn’t wait for the shipping from the UK, so he built one to the exact specs of the one he had. He bought the correct hardware, and you could barely tell them apart. I could go on, but I won’t, except to say that my brother served as an inspiration to me as a musician as well as just a good human being. We played a lot of music together as time went on, and I was constantly amazed at just how good of a guitar player he was. I miss him every day. Thanks for letting me chat, Jack
Great memories. My room mate & I used to hire these guys all the time for our fraternity parties. They were the greatest. One time we hired a group called the American Blues for a party, but were subsequently warned they might disappoint, so we hired the Briks to do alternating sets at our party, just in case. It was a good idea, because the American Blues STUNK !!! The Briks saved the day. And oh by the way, the American Blues later changed guitarist, added a fellow named Billy Gibbons, who was playing with a Houston group called the Moving Sidewalks previously, & became Z Z Top !! All’s well that ends well, I guess….
I remember going up to the Campus Theater in Denton, with my frat brother Bobby, to meet with George Rickrich, to sign The Briks to play at one of our frat parties. I even remember what movie was playing at the time (The Glass Bottom Boat ! LOL). We also used to go see these guys at the Windjammer Club, just south of Denton off I-35. We also hired them to co-play a large party with the American Blues (which later morphed into ZZ Top) & The Briks blew them off the stage. The Briks were the best, & I have fond memories of listening to them. I am going to try to do a little re-mastering of their songs (which is a hobby of mine, to enhance the quality of older material) , to see if I can bring the quality up a bit. And I will enjoy every minute doing it. So many great memories.