Not all about the bass: D.C. music veteran Johnny Castle is ‘retiring’
Don’t want to be no music machine.But what a machine! Castle — who’s being feted at a “retirement” gig this Sunday at a near-sold-out show at Rosensteel Hall in Silver Spring — has spent the past five decades chugging around the world with the rhythmic power of a diesel locomotive.That was in 1967, after the Air Force brat’s family had moved to Arlington. In 1969, Castle metjoined and the band moved to a farmhouse on 1,000 acres near Haymarket, Va.
Castle devised a solution. Adcock’s band shared the bill with teenage members of a clogging team. Castle asked them to teach him a few clogging steps, which he would do around the stage while playing bass. This mystified the crowd enough to stop the fusillade.backing band, the Bad Boys. When that rockabilly figure went on his long hiatus, the band morphed into Switchblade, still one of the snarliest, gnarliest bands to come out of D.C.
“I was very happy here in D.C.,” said Castle, who lives in Columbia, Md. “They had everything: blues, bluegrass, country, honky-tonk, rockabilly, funk, R&B, rock-and-roll. It was all here. I even played Dixieland.”
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