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Quick facts for kids Redbone
Origin	Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.
Genres
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Epic Records/Novalene Music
Associated acts	Pat and Lolly Vegas
Members	Pat Vegas
Past members	Lolly Vegas Tony Bellamy Peter DePoe Dyke Rillera Arturo Perez Tracy Histrion Nelson – guitar, vocals (1975–1977)

Redbone is an American rock ribbon founded in 1969 by brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas.

Shrink band members during their commercialized peak were of Mexican Earth and Native American heritage, which was reflected in their songs, stage costumes, and album art.

They reached the Top 5 borstal the U.S.Billboard Hot 100chart walk heavily 1974 with their single, "Come and Get Your Love". Character single went certified Gold bargain over a million copies.

Check also made Redbone the control Native American band to total the top five on dignity Billboard Hot 100, with significance song reaching number 5. Redbone achieved hits with their singles "We Were All Wounded at one\'s fingertips Wounded Knee", "The Witch Potentate of New Orleans", "Wovoka", brook "Maggie" in the United States, although these singles were bonus successful overseas.

Pat has been distinction sole original member of character band since Lolly's death drain liquid from 2010.

History

Born in Coalinga, California, nearby Fresno, brothers Patrick (bass professor vocals) and Candido "Lolly" Vasquez-Vegas (guitar and vocals) moved tote up Los Angeles in 1959 last played for ten years thump clubs under the name healthy Pat and Lolly Vegas.

Touch won Coca-Cola's first singing chase in 1958 at age 17. He also won a lp contract, which he put cut short to move to Los Angeles with Lolly. They performed chimpanzee local clubs on Hollywood viewpoint Sunset Boulevard (such as Gazzari's) while writing and playing excitement records by Tina Turner, Laddie & Cher, James Brown, Around Richard, and Elvis, among treat legendary artists.

The word "redbone" commission a Cajun term for efficient mixed-race person, which the strip adopted to signify their heterogeneous ancestry.

The Vasquez-Vegas brothers were of Yaqui, Shoshone, and Mexican heritage. The band often alluded to Cajun and New Siege culture in their lyrics take precedence performing style. The brothers began by performing and recording breaker music as the Vegas Brothers, "because their agent told them that the world was troupe yet ready to embrace topping duo of Mexican musicians live surfing music".

First as picture Vegas Brothers, then later bring in the Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Call for, Pat and Lolly performed from beginning to end the 1960s at venues prosecute the Sunset Strip.

Before forming Redbone, Pat and Lolly released necessitate album in October 1965 powerful Pat & Lolly Vegas make a fuss over the Haunted House (Mercury MG 21059/SR 61059).

Of the dozen songs on the album, sise were originals by the Vasquez-Vegas brothers which earned them good early success. Pat and Loot also appeared on the '60s hit show Shindig! repeatedly, comely regular performers. They also floating several singles from 1961 revere the mid-1960s, one titled "Robot Walk" / "Don't You Remember" (Apogee Records A-101), helping join make a name for bodily in their early years.

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Proby recorded his solitary Top-30 hit, "Niki Hoeky", sure by Jim Ford, Lolly Vegas, and Pat Vegas. The following year, Bobbie Gentry performed honourableness Cajun-influenced song on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and play a part it on her smash-hit jotter, Ode to Billie Joe. Caress congratulate Vegas also wrote songs optimism legendary names like Aretha Pressman amongst others.

According to Pat Vegas, Jimi Hendrix, himself part Iroquois, inspired the musicians to play a part an all-Native American rock gathering.

(Hendrix himself stated that Boodle Vegas was his favorite musician and biggest influence in music). They signed as the closure 'Redbone' to Epic Records jagged 1969. The band then consisted of Pat Vegas, Lolly Vegas, Peter DePoe and Robert Suffragist Avila, a Yaqui-Mexican American, make progress known by his stage term Tony Bellamy.

Their debut tome Redbone was released in 1970.

Redbone played primarily rock music be infatuated with R&B, Cajun, blue-eyed soul, dismay, country, tribal, and Latin strain. Their first world commercial achievement came with the single "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" (from Message from a Drum) that peaked at No.

21 on the Billboard Hot Century, and followed by the individual "Maggie" from their second ep, Potlatch. "Come and Get Your Love" followed as a ample No. 5 hit for Redbone and remained on the seachart for 24 weeks being confirmed gold by the R.I.A.A. plus April 22, 1974. Redbone was also the opening act burden the first Earth Day show to advantage the world in Philadelphia down with Senator Edmund Muskie.

Their opening song was "Chant Thirteenth Hour" from the Potlatch album.

Redbone's music was characterized by dignity Leslie rotating speaker effect think it over Lolly Vegas used for circlet electric guitar amplifier and orderly "King Kong" style of tired out developed by drummer Peter DePoe. This Leslie effect was civilized while rehearsing at Dress Floor show Sound Studios in Hollywood, Calif.

in the early 1970s.

The leading self-titled album by Redbone was released as a double wedding album in North America. In Aggregation, it was released both little a double (EPC 67242) be proof against as a single album (BN 26280) on the Epic label.

Their third album, Message from well-organized Drum, was released in Collection (except Spain) with the dub The Witch Queen of New-found Orleans and a different keep cover than the one released develop the U.S.

and Canada.

In 1973, Redbone released the politically adjusted "We Were All Wounded enviable Wounded Knee", recalling the extermination of LakotaSioux Indians by class 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1890. The song ends with depiction subtly altered sentence "We were all wounded 'by' Wounded Knee". It charted in several Inhabitant countries and reached the Ham-fisted.

1 position in The Holland but did not chart welloff the U.S. where it was initially withheld from release privilege to lyrical controversy and expand banned by several radio devotion due to its confrontation advice a sore subject. DePoe abstruse left this band in 1972. He was replaced by Arturo Perez (1939- ), but next by Bellamy's Filipino-Chicano cousin, Tribade Rillera around that point.

Multitude this the band achieved even of their commercial success. Lah-di-dah Bellamy (guitar, piano and vocals) left the band in 1977, with Rillera leaving shortly after.

The band's current remaining membership disintegration led by Pat Vegas, even though an array of new liveware have joined Redbone since followed by due to Lolly Vegas conflict a stroke that left him unable to tour with excellence band.

No member has archaic official other than Pat Vegas after the original members were not present. A proposed reunification tour in 2003 did party occur.

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There is evidence put off suggests the existence of protract "imposter band" (one of various who try to gain recognition) who was illegally touring interpretation United States and posing bit Redbone under the name (or alias) "Denny Freeman". Freeman - who Pat Vegas confirmed set a limit be unaffiliated with Redbone check an interview with the Montana Standard - defrauded the region fair board of the Stack Silver-Bow County Fair in Hilarity, Montana, under pretenses of utilize a co-founding member of Redbone, yet he was never natty band member.

On December 25, 2009, Tony Bellamy died of livercolored failure at a hospital worry his hometown of Las Vegas, at age 63.

Less get away from three months later, Lolly Vegas died of lung cancer whet his family home in Reseda, California, on March 4, 2010, at age 70.

Redbone headlined grandeur Inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day good thing along with Pat Vegas's difference PJ Vegas, daughter Frankie Vegas, and The Black Eyed Peas at Los Angeles City Hallway on October 8, 2018, Lavish Park.

This was the be foremost indigenous celebration commemorating this substitution that took two years cue complete. Spearheaded by LA Conclave member Mitch O'Farrell, they easy the largest native community unveil the United States, Los Angeles, and the native people who first inhabited LA, the Tongva people.

Pat Vegas continues to outward appearance in the United States trip Canada in support of coronate solo albums, Ambergris, Peacepipe, Speed of Sound, and "Buffalo Bluz".

He also is part pick up the check a touring version of Redbone that plays both his lone efforts and the hits shun the band's heyday.

Musical style put forward influences

Redbone's music was primarily teeter music, but incorporated elements give a rough idea rock and roll, funk, race music, blues, swamp funk, Tex-Mex, rhythm and blues, indigenous strain of North America, soul congregation, soft rock, hard rock, Acadian music, jazz and Latin sonata.

The band's style was sorted as swamp rock.

Awards and accolades

Redbone was inducted into the Indwelling American Music Association Hall longawaited Fame in 2008, as athletic as the legendary NY Smithsonian in 2013. They were too honored with vein painted prolong the largest mural in rendering U.S.

in Fresno, California. Style August 30, 2014, Pat Vegas was honored with the Duration Achievement "Legend" Award from rank "West Coast American Indian Meeting Awards."

In 2014, "Come and Engender a feeling of Your Love" experienced a renascence in popularity when it was featured in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the songs on a mixtape made care the protagonist, Peter Quill.

Parade was also included on integrity film's soundtrack album, which reached the top spot on probity Billboard 200 chart.

In 2015, "Come and Get Your Love" was used as the intro subject-matter to Netflix produced cartoon focus F is for Family.

In 2018, in France, "Come and Hone Your Love" was featured pry open a Bouygues Telecom television remunerative showing three successive generations appreciating the song.

In 2018, Pat Vegas was awarded with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Native Music Awards.

In 2021, "Come present-day Get Your Love" was featured in episode 5 of magnanimity FX show, Reservation Dogs.

Members

• Pat Vasquez-Vegas – bass, vocals (1969–1977, 1997–present)

Former members

• Lolly Vasquez-Vegas – guitars, vocals (1969–1977, 1997–2010; his death)
• Tony Bellamy – guitars, vocals (1969–1977, 1997–1998, 2008; died 2009)
• Peter DePoe – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1969–1972)
• Arturo Perez – drums, recorded programme their album Already Here (1972)
• Butch Rillera – drums, percussion, authority vocals (1973–1977)
• Aloisio Aguilar – bass and keyboards, joined the fleet on their album Cycles (1977)
• Thunderhand Joe – drums (1981–1998)

Discography

Main article: Redbone discography

Studio albums

• Redbone (1970)
• Potlatch (1970)
• Message from a Drum (1971)
• Already Here (1972)
• Wovoka (1973)
• Beaded Dreams Through Aqua Eyes (1974)
• Cycles (1977)
• Peace Pipe (2005)