In 1964, the Rockin' Ramrods was made up of Ronn Campisi, Vinn Campisi, Bob Henderson, and Bill Linnane. By 1966, Ronn & Vin Campisi and Bob Henderson were joined by Lenny Cirelli. Scott Curtis also played organ with the Ramrods, though our records don't pinpoint just when. I heard the Rockin' Ramrods in 1966 or 1967, probably at the Brewer Auditorium in Brewer, Maine. By then, the loose garage-rock sound of the early 1960s had given way to tighter, more professional performances. We don't know exactly when the Rockin' Ramrods broke up, but our archive has a listing for the group from the fall of 1967.
Vin Campisi and Robert Henderson went on to perform with an excellent Bosstown band called Puff (by 1968), and Ronn Campisi contributed original material to that outfit. Somehow Robert Henderson became Jesse Henderson. He has since contributed his engineering skills to the making of many great albums.
We may have enough material to profile the Rockin' Ramrods. We've tried to contact Ronn Campisi but received no reply; and we wrote to Len Cirelli but found that the e-mail address we got from Mickey O'Halloran no longer works. If you have an e-mail address or a postal address for a Rockin' Ramrod that you can share, we'd love to hear from you. Actually, we'd love to hear from you anyway. -- Alan Lewis, 6/30/2002
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