| Headline | ||||||||||||||
| BACK | ||||||||||||||
| early 80's | ||||||||||||||
| HEADLINE
Mark Thompson- guitar, vocals Pat Upton- guitar, lead vocals Gene Pledger- drums Brad Gaither- bass, vocals Damon Johnson- guitar, vocals Tim Hammond- keyboard, guitar, vocals |
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| Formed in the the early 1980's, this band featured Pat Upton as the lead vocalist and a young upcoming star on lead guitar named Damon Johnson. This band formed just before the "local option" law passed in Alabama and became the house band at Guntersville, Alabama's first music nightspot, PJ's Alley | ||||||||||||||
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| (L to R) Gene Pledger, Tim Hammond, Randy Beason, Mark Thompson.
This was second generation Headline after Damon Johnson left to play with Split the Dark (from Birmingham). A few months later Brad Gaither and Pat Upton left and Randy Beason came in on bass. |
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