The Mississippi Hippies

Name: Hugh Leggat Astrological Sign: Taurus Instrument: sexxy bass, use a 59 Fender jazz, an real old Hofner standup, and my bullish 66 get outa here Fender precision, oh yeah it doesn't hurt to have an old Ampeg SVT set up either. Past musical Tribes: oh man here we go, first band I was in was the Lords of London, we hit #1, with 'Cornflakes and Ice-cream' the summer of love 1967. That band evolved into Nucleus. We recorded our only album in New York City at A&R Studios Feb '69, where Led Zeppelin did 'Whole lotta Love'.Nucleus evolved into A Foot in Coldwater early 1971. Recorded 4 albums with the boys, yielding the hits 'Make me do Anything You Want', 'In My Life' and 'Love is Coming' before splitting up in 1977. Formed Private Eye with brother Gordie in '78 and released an album in '79. Had a couple of hits off that album, 'Your Place or Mine', and 'Changes'.

Then me and Gordie came up with the Leggat 'Illuminations' album in 1980, had a hit off that called 'White Flags'. Blue Oyster Cult also recorded a version of 'White Flags' in the mid-1980's. Hallmark Musical Moments: 'Summer of '69' was out-a-sight, Nucleus played the Toronto Pop Festival with Dr. John, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and more. Then the Rock n' Roll Revival '69 with John Lennon, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. I was hangin' out backstage with Nucleus drummer Danny Taylor when the promoter John Brower asked us to play with Chuck Berry! When I came off the set Jim Morrison came over and we hung out backstage, and met everybody...Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and dig this, Gene Vincent. To top it off Chuck Berry took us to Harvey's across from Varsity Stadium and bought me and Danny Taylor, hamburgers n' cokes. I'll never forget it. First Became A Hippie: people been callin' me a long haired hippie freak forever, it just sorta fits, don't it? Favorite Organic Sound: definitely a Hammond B3. Future Hippie Plans: gotta get this new CD heard, maybe do another album, or just go to the luv-in with John n' Gordie.

RARE AND GENUINE EXCITEMENT - by Greg Quill/ Toronto Star/ - In joyful acknowledgement of Toronto’s enduring passion for bedrock Blues, these proudly un-reconstituted Young St. saloon warriors bring a raw and elemental edge to 10 originals that recall the trademark antics of every major American Blues legend from Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to Chuck Berry and James Brown, and pull it off with great authority and, more importantly, without actually mimicking their mentors....read more!

THIS GROUP IS GOING PLACES! -by Tom Radai/Blues Mgt. Group - Every few years I come across a recording that just knocks my socks off. Just such a product found its way to me recently and when I learned that it was produced by some of the classiest people in the industry my intrigue was amplified...read more!

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