{"id":1175,"date":"2008-10-19T13:04:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2008-10-19T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:12:50","slug":"appeal-for-nrbqs-steve-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for NRBQ&#8217;s Steve Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1175\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/images\/steveferguson.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Ferguson\" \/><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\npassed onto me by Dave Marsh, Rock and Roll Confidential&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steve Ferguson was the original guitar player with NRBQ (yup, before Big Al Anderson), was involved in <a title=\"Johnnie Johnson Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnnie_Johnson_(musician)\">Johnnie Johnson&#8217;s<\/a> great album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Johnnie-B-Bad-Johnson\/dp\/B000005IV9\">Johnnie B. Bad<\/a> and has made great music for many years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From Tom Staley (NRBQ&#8217;s Original drummer):<\/p>\n<p>Dave Marsh recommended I contact you to get the word out about Steve Ferguson.<br \/>\nI created a donations page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevefergusonfund.com\">www.stevefergusonfund.com<\/a><br \/>\nand I&#8217;m organizing a benefit here in Tampa at Skippers Smoke House.<br \/>\nI understand Terry is bringing his new band to Louisville for a benefit soon.<\/p>\n<p>He is undergoing treatment(chemo and radiation) and is responding positively but it is really just buying him some time as it is bone cancer and has spread into his lymph nodes.<br \/>\nHe just started the treatment 2 to 3 weeks ago and remains resigned but upbeat<br \/>\nabout it all.<\/p>\n<p>Donations are what is needed as he has a family and the medical bills<br \/>\nare going to be huge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Help if you can. Give back what he&#8217;s given to us&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PS- if you want to hear some live vintage Ferguson-era NRBQ go to Amazon and download <a title=\"Amazon MP3 download NRBQ Ludlow Garage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ludlow-Garage-1970\/dp\/B000S58JM8\/ref=sr_f3_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dmusic&amp;qid=1224443169&amp;sr=103-4\">Ludlow Garage&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>passed onto me by Dave Marsh, Rock and Roll Confidential&#8230; &#8220;Steve Ferguson was the original guitar player with NRBQ (yup, before Big Al Anderson), was involved in Johnnie Johnson&#8217;s great album Johnnie B. Bad and has made great music for many years&#8230; From Tom Staley (NRBQ&#8217;s Original drummer): Dave Marsh recommended I contact you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[136,75,133,76,77,78],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-iX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}