In 2014, Salwitz began collaborating with guitarist and vocalist Shun Ng. He toured as part of the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue on different blues cruises and again on land-based shows during 2007 through 2008. Salwitz contributed his harmonica playing and some vocals to a live recording, "Command Performance", by the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue, featuring the Tommy Castro Band, Deanna Bogart, Ronnie Baker Brooks, and others. They played only 1 show in 2004 on New Year's Eve which was their final show. They toured heavily through 2002, and played a handful of shows in 2003 as both a solo act and as part of B.B. The band released two records on the Rounder Records label: Bluestime (1994) and Little Car Blues (1996). The band's music was a fusion of Chicago blues and classic jazz. Steve Ramsey left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Gordon Grottenthaller on drums until the band's final show on New Year's Eve 2004 at the Bullrun in Shirley, MA. Ward was subsequently replaced by bassist John Turner. McCloud was later replaced by Michael "Mudcat" Ward, who played with the band for several years before leaving to pursue other interests. Geils and formed the band Bluestime, with Steve Ramsey on drums, Jerry Miller on guitar, and Roy McCloud on bass. In 1992, Salwitz reunited with his old friend and bandmate J. Beauregard was the director of the Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra, of which Salwitz was also a member. Geils Band dissolved in 1985, Salwitz spent time working on a harmonica design of his own, the "Magic Harmonica", for which he received a patent with co-inventor Pierre Beauregard. In The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979), music critic Dave Marsh described Salwitz as possibly "the best white musician to ever play blues harmonica." He was often referred to as "Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick".
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His performance of "Whammer Jammer" on the band's live album Full House has been particularly noted. Geils Band's sound during their hard-rocking 1970s heyday. Salwitz's harmonica playing became a major and distinctive element in the J.
He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he met John "J." Geils and Danny Klein and became a founding member of the J. would be ready with their product already in the marketplace.Salwitz was born in New London, Connecticut. The motive behind this move was that if pogs became popular again like in 1994, Imperial Toy Corp. In 2006, Funrise Toy Corporation relaunched their brand of pogs, so Imperial Toy Corp. There were also sets of 24 caps that were not part of the 288 big set (for example Dino Dudes, Ink Drops, Pure Poison, Cyberdudes, Mini Monsters and Splatter Bugs). This 288 set comprised 12 individual sets of 24 caps to collect. There were 288 slammer whammers to collect. released various sets of milkcaps under the Slammer Whammers name, for example Biker Bugs, Wise Guys, Skull Squad and Wild Things. The standard Slammer Whammers product was a blister pack containing 24 milkcaps and 2 slammers. They were one of the leading brands of pogs during the milk cap craze that swept Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom in 1994–5. Slammer Whammers were a brand of Milk caps made by the Los Angeles-based company Imperial Toy Corporation, in the 1990s.
Wild Things Slammer Whammers in its original factory packaging.
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