EXPECT NO QUARTER! The Silver Travis Band Turns 35 A Conversation with Joey Parrish
By Michael Buffalo Smith I first met the guys in the Silver Travis
Band shortly after they had formed in 1981 in Spartanburg, SC. We immediately hit it off, and I started hanging around their first re- hearsal space just past the “Singing Bridge” on Forrest Street. At the time, the band con- sisted of founding members Randall Calvert, Mike Satterfield and Joey Parrish, along with guitarist Bill Johnson and singer Steve Moore. Within a matter of weeks, Steve Har- vey would join the band, and I started co- writing songs with him for the band, as well as acting as “road manager” and many times running the sound and/or lighting boards. Between the years 1983 and 2004, the guys in the band took on wives, jobs and many of them played in various bands. Then in 2004, they reunited, and with a few personnel changes, they have continued for the past ten years.
I sat down with my long-time friend
and collaborator Joey Parrish, the band’s bassist, to talk about the various incarnations of the band and their upcoming third album
MBS: When was the Silver Travis band formed? JP: 1981. Randall Calvert and Mike Satterfield were playing in a local band called Southern Hemisphere around 1979-80, one of the best bands in Spartanburg at the time. A very good band, one of the hardest working bands in
(Photo by Pam Tinkham Pugh)
Spartanburg at the time. They were awesome. But the band broke up. And Satterfield and Randall asked me to come in and play bass. They were wanting to continue to play. They had original songs, and they were saying, “The other guy played it like this,” you know, showing me how to play the song, and I was like no, let me play it my way, and if it works out, cool, if you don’t like it I will change it. So, it worked out, and the three of us have been together ever since, for over 35 years.
So, did you and Calvert and Satterfield go to school together? We sure did, starting at Roebuck Elementary School and the Roebuck Junior High. We got into so much trouble in Junior High. (Laughs) Randall terrified his teachers. (Laughing) We were shooting bottle rockets
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