The Endd from LaPorte. If any other band had an output as strong as this, they would be a household name in the Indiana 60's band narrative. But sadly, no.
Any info on the Endd is scarce, this is what we do know:
Russ Sanders - writer - publisher of most Seascape run. Deceased for quite a while.
What is speculated:
Russ Sanders - lead singer
Larry Anderson - bass
Not much to go on eh? Look up the address on the label, and you find a home that has been there since the mid '30s. All the Seascape 45's have Sanders involvement, so MAYBE it was his label, at this address.
Seascape discography (known releases):
#500 - So Sad / Emancipation (as the End)
#501 - Project Blue / Out of my Hands
#502 - Black Blues / Feeling (The Zoo from Michigan?)
#503 - Gonna send you back to your mother / Don't it make you feel like cryin'
#504 - Come on into my world / this is really Zoo plus two
#507 - Stop / One Down Seventeen More to Go ( Credited to Phase II Productions)
Where are #505 & #506? Is Phase II Productions a later Endd reincarnation? Why were the Zoo on this label? Any answers, ideas, real or imagined, please help us out!
3 comments:
i started to do some research into the history of this group when i lived in laporte 6 or 7 years ago. russ sanders, when he grew up, ran a bar on lincolnway in downtown laporte that had, i was told, a pretty "shady" reputation. he disappeared in (IIRC) october 1988, taking a small boat out into lake michigan and he was never seen or heard from again (that i know of). the people i talked to were convinced that he faked his own death and skipped town. his brother still lived in laporte as of 2006. i've got a couple of scans in the archives somewhere, a couple of russ's high school photos and the articles that ran in the herald-argus when his boat disappeared. if you're interested, i can scan the stuff for you. let me know. great band.
Sure I'd like to see them Rob. Just use my e*mail address on this blog.
I had "heard" that some believed he was likely to "still be out there".
Still then, who were the others?
I knew Russ Sanders casually shortly after high school. Kind of a brooding individual as I recall. If he did really fake his death it would have been pretty nasty since he had a 16 year old son at the time. That son, Dylan, passed away last year at age 39. His obit refers to Russ's having passed away in 1988. In a sad irony, Dylan also leaves behind a 16 year old son. The obit can be viewed at 'What's New LaPorte?' online.
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