Our Wild A to Z

This upcoming year will also be a leap year, meaning there will be 29 days in February. Let’s leap in 2016 with a new attitude and showcase the most interesting and lesser known artist of our time with a feature we all ‘A to Z.’

Here’s the letter H!

Head East was a band from the Champaign IL area, formed in the early 70s that has an interesting back story. Original band members John Schitt, Danny Piper, brothers Roger and Larry Boyd, and Steve Hutson began as classmates at the University of Illinois playing small events and college kegs.

Known as the TimeAtions in the beginning, the boys played a gig and got so wasted (rumor) that the following morning they all forgot the name they chose for the band the night before. They collectively got dressed and on the way out the door asked a roadie how to get home. The blue collar worker told the boys to simply “Head East.” The guys thought the moment has cosmic meaning so they chose the name “Head East.”

The band for some reason is in the Iowa Rock N’ Roll Music Association’s Hall of Fame. The band’s only chart and commercial hit “Never Been Any Reason” has appeared in three films and on TV in “Friday Night Lights” and “That 70s Show.”

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