Quite a transformation Brian tho' the roots of Cream are solidly entrenched in the Blues ie Crossroads etc
John Mayall came to a smallish venue in Limoges a few months back. He's now in his 80s but still doing what he's always done !
Woah! The Cream. Clapton played his last gig with Mayall's Bluesbreakers at our school fair at the beginning of July 1966, two weeks later Cream played their first live gig together at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. A group of us went up to see it. The Clapton metamorphosis from blues to that kind of rock was stunning.
Bon app
Le Grand Tour on France 3 this evening should be interesting.
Yep yep yep, fine job altogether there. Gah I have to sign off for today, got to get the blanquette de veau on the go, have to get it just right as a thank-you for the magnificent creamy golden yellow omelette I had gifted to me last night by Herself - was finally allowed some oven-heated chips - absolute no-no on real pan-fried ones, dripping not allowed here :)
So catch ye tomorrow Peter, and thanks for the trax - so sad about Jim, yes
Sad end to Mr Marriott - this is the account of the fireman who found his body...
"It was a tough fight getting upstairs. We searched the bedroom areas and it was very hot, we knew immediately that no-one could have survived the fire. We began to feel around the walls and discovered him lying on the floor between the bed and the wall. I would say he had been in bed and tried to escape. As soon as I saw the body clearly I knew who it was. I used to be a fan, it's difficult to put my feelings into words. The scene was horrific in that corner of the room. I saw him lying there and thought what a pity it all was. I deal with many fires but this one was like walking down memory lane. We managed to salvage all his guitars and musical equipment. I feel a bit upset, all the firemen do. It was like seeing part of our lives gone forever."
One my fave rock bands of the time with David Byron surely one of the best ever lead vocalists ? Up there with Gillan ?
I'll see you (right), and raise you this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlLWITxkmW8
Best times ever, mate, you could go out the door looning around and anything anything was possible :)
Blimey, top cast Jon.
By the way, the Titan at the ONCT was mind blowing - what an orchestra ? That really was a 'positive experience' !
Very nice too Ian but I don't fancy yours...
What a time to have been alive eh, mini-skirts etc ?
Another decent band...
He could have expressed the wish - in fact last time we saw the play it was with Ian McKelle and Patric Stewart in Norwich.
Thanks - very interesting.
We have spent a night at the Observatory which is a great experience and lots of interesting lectures on the various coupolae. At times when climbing down the steps inside the mountain you do wonder if you are in James Bond film will find Blofeld on the next level.
Cripes, that's a foreign langwidge ter me :p
Nice job, I never heard of them before :)
PS nice piece of work on the left of the album cover !
Well, a top band and revolutionary in what they did, would have loved to have seen them live.
How about this - listen to the words
not a bad album actually
Ha, try telling a Salford geezer he's from Manc, not to mention Wiggin :)
I never heard BJH much at the time, but that track is excellent.
Remember these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwDo0JUeKqM
Dig the BBC accent at the beginning :)
Sorry mate, thought anyone from Salford & Wigan etc were classed as Mancs ! My mate from Hulme told me so it must be true ! (They played tennis with hammers in Hulme apparently !)
The best band I ever saw Live in terms of sound reproduction was BJH, bearing in mind this was the mid-seventies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8GBCCrCRY
John Lees and the reconstructed band (again !) are still performing.
Ackcherly 'e's from Salford, but I always get a shiver listening to me old mate Johnno. I grew up in a Beasley Street type area "where the rats all have rickets and spit between broken teeth" lol
The first Manassas album, a double is superb with each side presenting a slightly different type of country rock/country blues, highly recommended.
JC-C is brill - completely different to well, anything !
"The bloody days are bloody long and it gets you bloody down"
The manc accent helps to get the message across too.
OOOkayyyyy
The Stills is excellent, still playing right now. Don't catch the Otway character too much, but there was a hint on the right hand side for another guy I used to know in Manchester, I'll put the link at the end. Neil Young, what can you say? Always far out. The John Prine was a good larf : "West Bethlehem was no pplace to stay" :)
Now try this mate of mine from Manchester, the good John Cooper-Clark. We once had a private crates-of-beer session with a few lads from Whalley Range at the pub on St Peter's Square, upstairs, and that's where John first got going on the oul singing. Try this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs
and also this :
Right-ho mate, I'll listen to these with my after-lunch coffee in a bit. Had to varnish a bedframe out on the gravel this morning so only just got back in with frozen fingers :)
I have to say the thing that touches me the mot about living here is the community spirit.
At Easter, the firemen go out to the park, and hide eggs around it for the children to find. I get teary eyed every year watching them smile as the kids run into the play area and parks.
Well Ian, A selection of not so well known performers maybe. First off must be the only live footage available of Manassas with Stills helped out by his old mates Chris Hillman, Dallas, Fuzzy & co. Classic country rock band who didn't last long enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuphMxyPWeA
next John Otway with Wild Willy who is still doing live gigs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYOZyNocrw
now the great Neil Young in a quieter moment singing about the heroin addiction of his mate in Crazy Horse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd3oqvnDKQk
Check out John Prine, as good a finger picker as you will find, he played a variety of music. A bit of a storyteller.