Festa delle Donne – Jacks Pack

Last night the Barga Blues Band – Jack’s Pack played at a packed out womens only night at the Kanagià club in Castelnuovo to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Geoff Collins-White – Vocals/Harp |Jack Nannini – guitar | Simone Venturi – Keys | Gino Marchi – e. bass | JJ Carde – drums | Keane – percussions | The Horny Hornes – Marco Venturi – t. sax and Marco Tommasi – trumpet

Oh by the way …remember back in January this article: Who are the musicians in these photographs?

A series of images have turned up on one the backup computers which according to my records I must have scanned and filed some time during 2005 or 2006 but for the life of me I cannot remember seeing them before.I have printed them up and showed them around to a few people and they too have no idea who the people in the black and white images could be …so, using the power of the Internet, I now throw it out to you …. just who are these late 1950’s … maybe that’s too early , how about, early 1960’s musicians?

By the looks of things they are American or maybe British, so why are those images here in Barga?

Well it took just a couple of months, but up came the reply from England:

rokstar Mar 08 2007 / 3am

Well, I know some of the the guys in the second picture from the bottom. They are from right to left :: Trevor White, lead guitar, and the Gibson SG Junior he sold to Marc Bolan !!: Geoff White, Trevor’s brother, singer and gig-getter; Julian Ferrari, drums. I forget the name of the bass player. They were a band called “The A-Jaes” and later on I joined up on Vox Continental organ and we started to specialise in harmony songs by the Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Jan and Dean etc.as well as original material. When Geoff left, I think because we were gigging too much and it interfered with his “proper” work, we became the “Candy Bus” with a new drummer, John Taylor, and bass player…..why can I never remember bass player’s names ? We nearly made the big time, but…………..
Trevor went on later to play in Sparks, Radio Stars and Jook. We are still intermittently in touch, and a Candy Bus re-union will hopefully be in the offing soon……….I have never been in another band that sounded so good !

ps: I forgot……..Great to see Geoff is till actively singing and playing the ol’ Harmonica………………all my regards !!
Rok. myspace.com/solotronics