Dave was a former Nashville touring guitarist who once shared the stage with Carl Perkins (he wrote several of Elvis’s big hits, like Blue Suede Shoes, etc). I played drums/vocal with Dave Horne (guitar/vocals) and Deb Horne (bass/vocals). We played the lower part of SC and some Georgia. The last regular working band I was with was Two Hits and a Miss out of Barnwell. We had a good couple of years, especially opening for the Nashville acts coming through Orangeburg at the Silver Spur Club. I joined back up with Eddie and Elizabeth Hutto, Bobby and Jeffrey Padgett, Rodney “Tubb” Ballard (guitar/lead vocals) and Fred Jeffers (bass/vocals). I became the drummer/vocalist for Silver Creek. The next band was a homecoming of sorts for me.
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That band featured Billy Shaw who had sung with the Drifters and Skip Pearson, great sax player who is a big draw in the Columbia Jazz scene. Jeffrey Padgett and Tommy Tant were in that band. Later members of ERB were: David Cooler (keys/guitar/vocals), Jerry Axson (guitar/vocals), Hal Axson (bass/vocals) and Tommy Tant (guitar/vocals).Īfter the Edisto River Band, I was the drummer/vocalist with the Sands. Originally, Eddie Hutto (guitar/vocals), Elizabeth Hutto (keyboard/flute/vocals), the late Gus Eubanks (bass/vocals) Jeffrey Padgett (lighting/percussion) and Bobby Padgett (sound and bookings). I took some time off to finish school and around the early eighties, I was the drummer/vocalist in the original Edisto River Band. I finished high school and went off to college but kept playing drums/vocals on weekends with the band Blue Thunder with Eddie (guitar/vocals), Elizabeth Hightower (keyboards/flute/vocals), Billy Herman (bass) and Dale Patrick (drums/vocals). About the ninth grade, I ran into Michael Covington and he knew a guy named Eddie Hutto who played guitar, Eddie knew a guy who played bass and we started the band Omega. I started singing in our church choir when I was thirteen, then I was a drummer in the high school band. I think seeing the Beatles that Sunday night on the Ed Sullivan show started this whole music thing rolling. I’m from Denmark, SC and I have been doing some kind of music, seems like my whole life. Most of you around the Orangeburg area know me as Mac Davis (I’ll get to the Mac Millen name in a minute). Let me get my name straight with you right off the bat. We both shared primary vocal duties in the band and I can say after looking back over the years that Mac was technically one of the most “pitch-perfect” singers to harmonize to that I have had the privilege to work with! A truly talented man, a good friend, and a dedicated musician who has been entertaining folks in this state for many years I can’t say enough good things about him… The first thing that struck me about Mac was how easy it is to get along with him! He is the most laid back and likable guy you would ever want to meet and he possesses a wicked sense of humor as well.
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We played together for about two years and I got to know him very well. I first met Mac Davis (Millen) when I joined the Edisto River Band.