Jay Walker & The Pedestrians

Jay Walker & The Pedestrians were active in the Oklahoma area around 1965, played the local dance circuit and were hired by KOMA radio station.http://summerfruit.net/aghs_blog/?p=245 Down the years, other bands with the same name have played in various places.
== Links to Peel ==
In later years, Peel claimed to have branched out into band management during the time he worked for KOMA in Oklahoma in the mid-1960s, citing Jay Walker & The Pedestrians and Dann Yankee & The Carpetbaggers, who supposedly performed on Indian reservations, with Peel also serving as their driver.Margrave Of The Marshes (Bantam Press, hardback) p.212).
Relatively little further information about Jay Walker & The Pedestrians was available until their drummer, Mike McGuire, started this page, noting that the band "never played at Indian reservations and once we drove him." Mike has since supplied more details about the band and their links with Peel. Many thanks indeed to Mike for sharing his story:
I played drums with J.Walker and the Pedestrians. We were a four-piece group ... bass, guitar, keyboard and me (Benny Aldridge, Jerry Mosley, Brian Hinther, and me, Mike McGuire). We would provide entertainment for kids in rural communities. We hooked up with the KOMA "Wing Ding" series in the summer of 1965 under the name of the "Centaurians" and auditioned at KOMA. The DJ put us to work till the "Centuries" threatened a law suit, so we changed our name and took a break to reorganize.
We were still playing our self-sponsored gigs in rural communities, then we started interfering with the "Wing Dings." Paul Miller (Menard) says, "Hey, I'm pissed off at you guys, wanna work for us?" Anyway we set up an audition with John Ravenscroft at our place in Edmond, OK. Here he comes roaring up in his Corvette, way cool (we were like 18). We performed a lot of English stuff, old R and R etc... Had a diverse act. So we got to be the Ravenscroft/Miller band for a while, had a great time. We went to one gig way the hell out in western OK. and gave John a ride (we had a 1950 Caddy limo and a 1948 Caddy hearse). Anyway, apparently John was hitting on some guy's date and shit happened, we had to leave early. I don't know, I was playing the drums and singing.
== See Also ==
*Gigography 1954-1966
== References ==
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