Site Contributors

We would like to give a special THANK YOU to the following key contributors. They have all freely donated their time and knowledge to help create an accurate historical record of The Grass Roots for the world to see.

 

Gary Borress

Gary opened the door to the history of The Grass Roots by assisting in our initial communication with Creed Bratton. He has continued to offer help with his large collection of artifacts and his extensive group knowledge. Gary has a record label called GB Music and he has released over 15 titles from some great 70’s bands. Click here to visit his site.

 

Joanne

Joanne is a long time fan of The Grass Roots and is very knowledgeable about the group. She helped us to locate vintage pictures and continues to help with development of the site. She has volunteered to take photos and submit overviews of recent Grass Roots concerts. She is the founding Group Moderator of our official site forum.

 

Tina Reichow

Tina is a long time fan of The Grass Roots. She has been instrumental in creating an accurate discography from original media sources. She has provided vintage pictures and has been involved in development by conducting group member interviews. In 2006, she completed an update with Terry Furlong and Dennis Provisor.

 

Jon Strausser

Jon has a true investigative spirit and has been helpful in locating group members and clearing up gray areas in our history investigation.

 

Ron Wendall

Ron has been a fan since the very beginning. He is concentrating his time searching for vintage printed media on The Grass Roots that has not yet seen the light of day on the internet.

 

Cindy Taylor

Cindy has been a fan since 1985. She is a high speed typist and can quickly transcribe recorded interviews and printed material. She has started to creatively write her own content as well for the site.

 

Jennifer Mora

Jennifer has been a fan since 1967. She has a large collection of Grass Roots memorabilia. She is assembling the collection by different group line-ups to submit to the site as a permanent record. She is also interested in writing articles about how she managed to collect items from many different sources over the years.

 

David Pinder

David has been a fan since 1968. He has donated secure storage space to keep backups of our site files and programs. This will help to ensure continuous operation of our sites in the years to come.

 

Jim Mullen

Jim has been a fan since 1968 when he first heard the song Midnight Confessions. He didn’t know what group it was  that played the song until the early 70’s when he began to hear the name The Grass Roots and put the group name to the song. By this time they were consistently hitting the charts with other outstanding songs as well. Jim first caught the group live on 11-18-82 on the Powers Of The Night tour when they played in Devon, PA at the Valley Forge Music Fair with John Sebastian and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

 

Darrin Konkin

Darrin hails from British Columbia, Canada and has amassed a large collection of Grass Roots music and is also a quadraphonic recording collector. There are several Grass Roots quad discs and tapes and Darrin has found some unusual mixes on them. Darrin has made some interesting sound clips of the tracks for other Grass Roots listeners to hear on our site.

 

These are just a few of our many contributors. We encourage all visitors to submit content or photos to the site to complete our ever evolving history of The Grass Roots. Can you help?

Group Member Contributions

The following Grass Roots group members and those closely associated with them have kindly given their time to contribute essential information. Listed alphabetically:

 


Gary Beatty
Beau Bratton
Creed Bratton
Gary Borress
Rick Coonce
Cookee Coqouz
Dr. Richard Fanning
Kenny Fukomoto
Terry Furlong
Nancy Grill
Rob Grill
Joel Larson
Melissa Hanvey
Scott Hoyt
Lou Josie
Nancy Josie
Reed Kailing
Reggie Knighton
Terry Oubre
Dennis Provisor
Glen Shulfer
Barbara Smith
Gunga Dave Stensen
Leon Tsilis