Ron Meagher

{{Short description|American bassist (born 1941)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Ron Meagher | image = Ron Meagher.png | caption = Meagher in 1965 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|10|2}} | birth_place = Oakland, California, U.S. | origin = | genre = Folk rock, pop rock, garage rock | occupation = Bassist | years_active = 1964–present | associated_acts = The Beau Brummels, The Black Velvet Band }}

'''Ron Meagher''' (born October 2, 1945) is an American musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band The Beau Brummels.

== The Beau Brummels == {{Main articles|The Beau Brummels}} When guitarist-songwriter Ron Elliott was putting the band together in 1964, he asked a friend, Kay Dane, if she knew any good bass players.<ref name="garage">{{cite book | last=Tahsler | first=Bruce | title=''Garage Bands From the Sixties, Then and Now'' | publisher=Teens 'N Twenties Publications | location=San Francisco | edition=2nd | year=2007 | page=73 | isbn=978-1-4243-1813-1}}</ref> Dane recommended Meagher, but cautioned, "He's kind of weird. He has long hair!"<ref name="garage" /> After joining the band, Meagher proved to be important to the band's image, as he was one of the first American rock musicians with Beatlesque hair.<ref name="meagherbio">{{cite web | title = Ron Meagher – Biography | publisher = Allmusic (Rovi Corporation) | date = | url = {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p104851|pure_url=yes}} | format = | doi = | accessdate = August 27, 2009}}</ref> In addition to providing backing vocals, Meagher sang lead on occasion, as on "They'll Make You Cry," a song from the band's 1965 debut album, ''Introducing the Beau Brummels''.<ref name="meagherbio" /> Meagher appeared with the band in the 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie ''Village of the Giants'', which was featured in a 1994 episode of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Renzi | first=Thomas C. | title=H.G. Wells: Six Scientific Romances Adapted for Film | edition=2nd | publisher=Scarecrow Press | page=173 | location=Lanham, Md. | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-8108-4989-1}}</ref> He remained with the band as it reduced from a quintet to a trio by 1967's critically acclaimed album ''Triangle''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Unterberger | first=Richie | title=Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock | edition= | publisher=Miller Freeman, Inc. | pages=[https://archive.org/details/urbanspacemenway0000unte/page/180 180] | location=San Francisco | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-87930-616-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/urbanspacemenway0000unte/page/180 }}</ref>

During the recording of the band's next album, 1968's ''Bradley's Barn'', Meagher was drafted, becoming one of the few musicians from a well-known rock band to serve in the military at the height of the Vietnam War.<ref name="meagherbio" /> Over the next three decades, Meagher has also participated in several Beau Brummels revivals, most notably in the mid-1970s when the band released a 1975 self-titled reunion album.<ref>{{cite book |last1=March |first1=Jeff |title=Echoes of the Sixties |last2=Childs |first2=Marti |publisher=Billboard Books (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8230-8316-9 |edition= |location=New York |page=136}}</ref> After he was discharged two years later, Meagher played in the Black Velvet Band with former Beau Brummels bandmate Declan Mulligan.<ref name="meagherbio" /> == Discography == {{Main articles|The Beau Brummels discography}}

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