ladies and gentlemen the ohio players sugar who is a pisces the sign of the water the fish that is strong enough to make it upstream he s our guitarist listen now you can hear a thud almost heart shaking pounding that s our bass player mr marshall jones who s a capricorn mm hmm taps nice is a soulful way of saying you know our drummer s name is tim williams he s an aries strong wrists pulsating drum beats you can hear them playing at you now and our saxophone player there he is that s me my name is satch and i m also an aries the fire sign we have a leo next to me playing trumpet who very strongly is playing too his name is ralph middlebrooks listen to him play that horn for you we d like to team up and do it now now there s two more left tall statue of a man his name is marvin pierce and he s a cancer he plays trumpet and trombone then there s mr bruce napier who s an aries playing trumpet and french horn now that you ve met the ohio players i would like for you to listen as we join in together to listen to  we don t know how to tell you what our music is about because we seem to feel different things as time travels forth we want you to understand the fact that we play rock bop soul blues you know music is a thing that we all need and we hope you need the ohio players enough to listen to their very many styles we have something on this album we hope will please each other for openers we love all people 