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KevLo
08-19-2010, 01:27 PM
Hi this is Kev-Lo

I thought about this 70's 80's band and they're not mentioned too on here so I was just wondering what happen to them. Do Anybody know

GeeTee(HPK)
08-19-2010, 03:21 PM
Member Byron Byrd is the only member,and he currently fronts a version of Sun,for international touring and completed a album this year. [[according to wikipedia)

mark speck
08-19-2010, 09:59 PM
From what I recall, Sun changed their name to Dayton [[after their home city of Dayton, Ohio). Under that name, they hit with a remake of "Hot Fun In the Summertime".

Best,

Mark

zebop
08-20-2010, 01:23 AM
Shawn Sandridge and Chris Jones left Sun to do Dayton. Sun was still recording at the same time as Dayton.

paul1970
08-20-2010, 01:52 AM
It's funny because i was playing my Sun albums last weekend and i was wondering how in the world wasn't this group more popular.

They could deliver the funk..

Sun - Conscience[[1977)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Tj37zVp7Q


They could also do great ballads/love songs too...

Sun - When You Put Your Hand In Mine[[1978)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA2WNb4EgZc

cozmic
08-20-2010, 11:52 AM
Around the late 90's Byron performed with Heatwave on a live-recording,
released on the independent label Century Vista.

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Some other releases on Century Vista are a reissue of Ohio Players' 1984-album "Graduation",
and a Sun-compilation which actually is partly a reissue of Sun's 1984-album "Eclipse".

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410XT9BXGRL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://i43.tower.com/images/mm106350990/best-sun-cd-cover-art.jpg

Back then around 1984 both those albums of the Ohio Players and Sun were released on another independent label, Air City Records.

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Byron also produced a new funkgroup around the late-90's.
Forgot their name and album-title though ... "Legend" or "Legion" :confused:

WaltB
08-20-2010, 02:31 PM
Guitarist from the group Sheldon Reynolds is now with Earth. Wind & Fire.

cozmic
08-20-2010, 03:34 PM
Shawn Sandridge and Chris Jones left Sun to do Dayton.
+ Sun-member Dean Hummons

cozmic
08-20-2010, 03:46 PM
Sheldon Reynolds is currently doing his own thing, and released a Jimi Hendrix-project some years ago. Guitarist Greg "G-Mo" Moore has been touring the
last few years with EW&F, and Sheldon was an active member until 2002, according to this link : http://www.earthwindandfire.com/bio_members.html

zebop
08-20-2010, 04:44 PM
+ Sun-member Dean Hummons

Oh ok, thanks!

juicefree20
08-20-2010, 06:53 PM
I last saw Sheldon at the PBS "Funky 70s Soul Superstars" show, which was taped in Dec 2004 in Dover, De.

Great thread & I loved "Wanna Make Love [[Come Flick My Bic)", "Reaction Satisfaction" aka. "Jam Y'all, Funk It Up" & the Sunburn LP, ESPECIALLY "Dance, Do What You Wanna Do". My partner & I used to run that one into the ground back in 1978!

cozmic
08-20-2010, 10:41 PM
Oh ok, thanks!
You're welcome ! :cool:

cozmic
08-20-2010, 10:44 PM
I last saw Sheldon at the PBS "Funky 70s Soul Superstars" show, which was taped in Dec 2004 in Dover, De.
Sounds good ! Was he with his own band or with EW&F ? Any performed tracks you can remember ? :cool:

cozmic
08-21-2010, 07:56 AM
Official Website [[http://z7digiplayer.com/backinthedayconcertsold/index.htm)

http://z7digiplayer.com/backinthedayconcertsold/index_files/image4051.jpg

pshark
08-21-2010, 03:07 PM
They were the opening of the very first concert that I've attended. They opened
for Parliament/Funkadelic & Bootsy's Rubber Band. That was back in Fri. Aug 13, 1976 @ the Oakland Auditorium.
Gotta say, I had a funky good time:cool:
And btw, that's Roger Troutman on Wanna Make Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jTsGnbjmNY&feature=related

wonder_b
08-23-2010, 08:41 PM
great underrated band... That world tour 2010 [[see website) seems more like an Asian tour to me! Why doesn't they come visit us? LOL

marv2
08-23-2010, 09:01 PM
I loved "We're Here, Sun Is Here!" from '78.

juicefree20
08-24-2010, 01:51 AM
cozmic:

I was wrong. Sheldon participated in the Disco taping [[Disco Explosion - Get Down Tonight)at Asbury Park in August 2004. If you see the show, Sheldon is most visible dancing with Norma Jean Wright during The First Ladies performance of "Le' Freak".