The Last Instances – Don’t Tell Me MARION OHIO Uncommon Garage. Released by TOGY Records, Marion Ohio in 1966. Photo by Tony Giampietro. Harding Higher School college students Jon “Jack” Henderson and Eddie Baxter, two aspiring guitarists, began their personal combo in late ’64. They took the name ’69ers but needless to say that was not a ticket to fame, so they became the Tymes – at least till they got word of the hit making vocal group of that name. Lastly settling on the Last Occasions, they located crack drummer Don Lister and lead guitarist Kregg Kirts to round out their Byrds-influenced sound. They played teen dances all more than the region in Vermillion, Huron, Mansfield, and Columbus exactly where they were scouted by Tony Giampietro. After playing a job in Columbus 1 night, they stayed and auditioned for Tony the up coming morning, and he decided to spend for the group to record a number of songs at Magnetic recording studio. The demo integrated a couple Byrds songs, and two band originals, “Do not Tell Me” and “I Need to have Your Enjoy”. Giampietro pressed up 500 copies on his Togy label and got the record some airplay on Marion’s WMRN. Eddie Baxter quit the Final Instances in the fall of ’66 to attend Ohio U. Keyboard player Joe Kantzer came on and the band changed their sound to emphasize the new instrumentation. The Byrds set remained by organ-heavy sounds like Spencer Davis were additional. The period of late ’66 to summer time ’67 is considered the Final Occasions peak, and people like Andy Apperson began to take discover. Apperson …
Nice guitar work here. Similar to Love. Vocal line sounds like Dream Lover, Rick Nelson.