The song was “Reconsider Me.” He cut a gold record on the group HOT at Wishbone and earned writer’s credits on a cut on their album, called “Guilty.”Īlso while at Wishbone, Roger and Clayton Ivey were invited to Motown in Detroit to play on several sessions. He cut the first number one country record to come out of Muscle Shoals on Narvel Felts at Music Mill. In the 70s, there were nine very active studios in the Muscle Shoals area and Roger ended up working for all of them.
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Including Mac Davis, Bobbie Gentry, Rufus Thomas, Billy Ocean, Bill Haley and The Comets, Clarence Carter, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, T.G. He notched so many gold records during that time, he lost count. Roger went to FAME, auditioned and found a new home. His old buddy from Chattanooga, Ken Bell had migrated to Muscle Shoals, Alabama and called Roger one day, asking if he might be interested in becoming a session drummer for Rick Hall at FAME. To this day, Roger says the HooDoos was the best band he’s ever been a part of, hands down! They toured with Journey, The Tower of Power and The Pointer Sisters. It was around that time that he became acquainted with and eventually joined a band called The HooDoo Rhythm Devils. Roger then moved to Los Angles and played on at least 25 cuts for Steve Miller at Capital Recording Studio. A far cry from a club on Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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He found himself at The Palladium, playing a command performance for The Queen of England. They played in Scandinavia, Germany, Sweden and England. Roger toured with Steve Miller all over Europe. He took it all outside and tossed it in the air! He loves to tell the story of getting his first paycheck from Steve Miller, taking it to the bank and asking for it all in one dollar bills. Overnight he went from making $48 a week to $500 a day when the band was idle and $1500 a day when they had a show. So Roger went to the audition, jammed with the band for an hour and when it was over, he was the new drummer for…The Steve Miller Band. But the salary and the thought of going on tour intrigued him. Scanning a newspaper one day, he saw an audition call for a band he had never heard of.
He wanted to work, and boy was he! Six hours a night, six nights a week for a grand total of…$48 a week. Then finally, he landed a gig at a club in Walnut Creek near San Franciso called The Hook and Ladder. Roger will be the first to tell you, he starved for six months. He had friends living in San Francisco that assured him, he could find lots of work there. In 1969, with nothing more than a dream and what he could pack into his car, Roger headed out to the west coast. His association with Ken Bell also led to trips to Memphis, Tennessee where he got his first taste of session work. At age 16, Roger was playing at the biggest club in Chattanooga. It didn’t take Ken long to hire Roger away into his own band. His dynamic style of playing drums had musicians all over town coming in to hear “the kid.” One of those musicians was renowned songwriter/musician, Ken Bell. He was so young, that when the band went on break, he had to hide behind the bar, because he was under aged. When Roger Clark was 14 years old, he got his first paid drumming gig at a night club on Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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