One of my all time faves.
Useless piece of info but did you know SS gave guitar lessons to Jimi H ?
Erm..David Guetta?
*snark*
Had to post these :
I'll have to put King of the Delta Blues Singers on after this...
Nostalgia; but what do young folk get now to compare?
You humming this one Brian, with all this synchronicity coming up here :
That jolted my memory some. We went down to IoW in the same van. We went early, Wednesday I think, and took the van over. Getting back on a ferry was another story. Strangely enough, and I did not use the essential supplies myself, because it was a van that looked like a gas repair outfit, we got there to Afton Down without anybody stopping us. Going back, with nothing to look for but most of us the other side of the moon, we were turned over at least four times. A bloke tapped one of our bunch for some 'skins', we all gazed gobsmacked when that man got on stage with a trumpet and blew minds away, Miles Davis! Because we were there so early, we were parked in with the performers anyway, partly because when the van opened up my then bro-in-law's drums were set up and every other one of us was playing something. My very proper Corsican wife saw John Entwhistle's equipment when he went for a jimmy against somebody's car and nearly lost it, then wanted to go home. I think that might have been part of the turning point in our time together when I laughed my head off!
Hah. We went down overnight to the Isle of Wight in 1970 from Preston in two Reliants (not too many motorways in those days) and left the vehicles in a side street in Portsmouth. Staggered on to the ferry with four egg boxes of "essential supplies". Got off the ferry at Ryde and ran the gauntlet of parallel lines of Peelers staring suspiciously at the egg boxes, but nae bother. Had to leave the two drivers at Ryde station with "benny overdrive syndrome" with rdv later at the Release tent (there always was one!). Ginormous queues for the buses to the site so one of our lasses used native charm to wheedle a taxi, all six of us in it with the egg boxes :) Tumbled out of the taxi and saw a million people spread over a hillside...the rest is history :)
I was working for the summer. I have no idea how I got to work next morning, how I did anything at all in a greenhouse picking strawberries for Sainsburys down near Canterbury. I remember we were all travelling and sleeping in a friend's big ex gas board van (big pre-Transit thing, shutter back without windows) so probably did not consciously experience our Geordie, couple of crates of Newkie Broon and other sedatives, driver getting us there. Man, those were the days. Try it now abut prepare for it by digging a 2m deep oblong hole! This time for me ;-)
That's the one Jimmy. The bike shed, yeah. I remember Sandy of the Fairport alright. Took ages to get away from that one, we ended up walking to find a taxi :)
The best one I remember was Phun City near Worthing in 71 I think. That's where I scored a full set of Lovecraft paperbacks, among other artefacts !
1968 Jazz and Blues Festival eh! We have been at the same place at the same time. I was there for Purp, Cocker, Baker, Mayall, Davis, Shack and the Fairports. My mate Sandy was singing for the Fairports, she was the best. Hard to believe she died 10 years later :-(
I think another friend was playing, good old 'Dustbin', Duster Bennett the one man bluesband? He got ill and died a couple of years before Sandy :-(
Johnny Almond, who joined Mayall next year, another mate, jammed in. He snuffed out in 2003 :-(
Do I have that effect on people or what?
Wasn't it the bicycle shed roof that collapsed? Just away from the stage a bit. They were what, 10 feet high and 60/70 feet long. A few broken arms, legs and ribs but most people OK. Lot of them were too stoned to get hurt. What a scene though. One of the memorable festival and the first National jazz and Blues Festival not to be made up of jazz and blues acts.
Stephen Stills - one of the very best, ever.
"You don't need us...we are leaving".... Ha.
That time at Kempton Park when the stand fell in was one of those "out of it" moments... in fact no one was badly hurt, just a few bumps and scrapes....everyone must have been "hanging loose" :)
Just listening to each one in turn now. When The Music's Over, how premonitory...
Just a story about the first one Ian. About 25 years ago the drummer from The Crazy World of AB, a mancunian called John 'Dracian' Theaker was looking to buy a property in SW France. We found a suitable place and became friends over the course of a few months. We spoke a lot about music of course and he kept in contact with Arthur Brown who became a respectable looking businessman though he was still convinced he was in fact The God of Hell Fire ! Dracian's proudest moment was according to him, the day they appeared on TOTP the same day (the act before I recall) as The Beatles when they performed the iconic Hey Jude. He reckons John Lennon spoke with him as they were leaving the stage and told him "son, you're a f***** good drummer" High acolade indeed !
Dracian sadly pssed away in about '95 with cancer linked he thinks to his 'excesses' of the heady West Coast days...
Now, back to the classic youtubes
Playlist : some few others :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eawL6aJ2nBc
Seen this at Kempton Park, the roof of the stand fell in with all the heads climbing up on it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAr-WlxMZY
Still makes the hairs rise...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4MZJsexEs
Sarai sempre nei nostri cuori, leggenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2yQLXTuctA
*swoon Grace Slick*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmP6YNOETuo
the definite freak anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPBuFoJCM
a history lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnliAafBYzU
RIP Joe
And to finish (for now), all-time classic :
Blimey, what a performance !
Thank you Peter, brought back many memories.
Then there was this classic as well. MacArthur Park
Staying on this music thread, all of us are old enough to remember the Procol Harum performing the iconic Whiter Shade of Pale but here is an updated live version with the original lead singer, Gary Brooker with orchestral backing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5K4qZaALI
listen and enjoy this version
"I think Johnny is a MEGA RICH clapped-out old toss-pot"
Edited for accuracy
Well, everyone in Paris was talking about him so it must have touched a special cord with the Parisiens! Apprarently the show was awesome!
For me J. H. just couldn't sing....