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− | [[image:Phantoms.jpg|right|thumb|Tony, Ray and John, "Under Age and Living in Paradise" cover art]] | + | Fronted by [[John Stroud]], ''Johnny and the Phantoms'' were a blues band in the late 1990's. They released an album [[Under Age and Living in Paradise]] on [[Sitting Duck]], including the song ''Smoke da Weed''. |
− | ''Johnny and the Phantoms'' were an original blues band that existed from the mid-1980s and through the 1990s. Their first release was an EP, [[Treachery]], in 1992. This was followed by the 1997 [[Under Age and Living in Paradise]] album on ''Boat Shed Recordings'', Tauranga, which included the popular song ''Smoke da Weed''. The ''Phantoms'' name came from the engine of a Rolls Royce (the Phantoms 6), and founder [[Ray Stroud]]'s liking of 'The Phantom' comics.<br> | + | |
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− | The band was originally fronted by ''Doone Barry'', and later by [[John Stroud]]. By 1997, ''Johnny and the Phantoms'' comprised band founder [[Ray Stroud]] (bass, vocals, percussion, digeridoo, guitar), father of John, and [[Tony Van der Putten]] (drums, percussion, backing vocals). However, the band underwent a number of lineup changes though their existence, and at other times included saxophone player [[Scott Towers]], later of Wellington's ''Fat Freddys Drop'', [[Les Beale]] (drums) and [[Ray Chaber]] (bass). The Strouds and Van der Putten also recorded under the name [[Moby Trip]]. They are reputed to have averaged three four hour gigs a week in bars all over the country, over a peiod of more than twelve years.
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