1. Bobby Kimmel has been recording and performing in concert for over 50 years and was a founding member of the Stone Poneys, along with Linda Ronstadt and Kenny Edwards.
16 Facts About Bobby Kimmel
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Bobby Kimmel's father was a studio musician in New York City, and become the principal double bass player in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
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Bobby Kimmel owned and operated a retail music shop near the university.
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At that point, Bobby Kimmel fully turned his attention toward folk music.
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Bobby Kimmel began playing both bass and guitar in the folk music clubs around Tucson in the early 1960s.
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In 1963, Bobby Kimmel left Tucson for Los Angeles to further his music career.
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That was the beginning of the end, Ronstadt and Bobby Kimmel played one more tour as The Stone Poneys with pick-up musicians, and the group disbanded at the end of the tour.
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Bobby Kimmel went on several of these tours as road manager.
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Bobby Kimmel moved back to Tucson in 2001 and connected with his friend Jo Wilkinson, a powerful lead singer and songwriter from Los Angeles who moved there.
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Since Jo and Bobby Kimmel had played together at parties there, they got the idea of forming an acoustic singing band here.
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Bobby Kimmel immediately approached Stefan and Lavinia and proposed that the four of them get together to play music.
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Bobby Kimmel written a group of new songs full of possibilities for rich harmonies, and much room for George to play.
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Somewhere toward the end of the mixing process, and before George's return, Bobby Kimmel got a call from Linda Ronstadt who was in Tucson and wanted to visit.
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One of the songs Bobby Kimmel played was his own "Into The Arms of Love", and Ronstadt started singing a harmony part under her breath.
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At the beginning of 2012, Bobby Kimmel retired BK Special after almost ten years together to focus on a lifelong dream of forming a quartet with a purely vocal concept and almost no instrumental presence.
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In July 2013 the group traveled to Santa Monica, to play McCabe's Guitar Shop, the club Bobby Kimmel opened in 1969, and had become one of the premier acoustic venues in the country.