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My first thoughts was that it is a victim of the chicken pox that's doing the rounds at the moment

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1499942693' post='3334671'] Pubs no longer have pots of cash after a nights takings any more. Contactless and regular card payments mean that their intake of money is only about 15% cash. Most of their takings now are visible to hmrc because of this so it's no longer an advantage to pay for anything in cash. Whereas before they had pots of cash and were desperate to pay with anything they could with it rather than declare it. It's a cultural thing People in general are moving away from cash. Also, if done by bank transfer it is visible to hmrc and a portion can be written off. Finally if paid midweek or at the end of the month it can be reviewed by a manager and processed in a sober fashion. [/quote]I don't know what type of pubs you drink in, but I am now retired and I drink in a number of different pubs most days of the week, and I can honestly say that someone paying for their drinks by card is still very rare, by your reckoning, for every £1000 the pub takes, it has only taken £150 in cash, I'd be very surprised if that was the case. It might be the case in the carvery/restaurant type "pubs" that happens to sell alcohol as well, because people are ordering meals along with their drinks and they usually pay all in one go, but they are not usually the type of "pubs" that have live music. I'm not sure where you got your information from, but a number of my friends are pub landlords/managers, and I know for a fact that most people still use cash to pay for their drinks.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1498481648' post='3324878'] I was with Andy Bown. That was the year our manager, Billy Gaff, sponsored the whole festival. All his bands played. [/quote]I actually remember watching Andy Bown at Reading, in fact, I bought one of his albums on the strength of seeing them/you at Reading, unfortunately I probably sold it along with all my other vinyl when the dreaded CD's came along. Dare I ask, is there any old footage of your performance?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1498478951' post='3324845'] You saw me then. One blink and you'd have missed us though. My first festival was Reading in 1966. Cream's first big gig was on the Sunday, but I went on the Friday. Saw Geno Washington, Spencer Davis Group and headlined by the Small Faces. [/quote]Which was your band Chris?

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1498475182' post='3324791'] Others available, bottom one has a noted transcription too: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5AVF6L_sVw[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQ3z4b8OpM[/media] [/quote]They are a great help Kev, especially the third video, I don't read, but looking at the dots as he's playing has made me realise that the final part is probably the "easiest" part, for some reason when listening the the original, I'm thinking there is more going on than there actually is.

Apologies if this has been done before, but because festivals are quite topical at the moment, especially with all the comments ([i]good or bad[/i]) about Glastonbury, I was wondering what your recollections are of the first major festivals you ever went to, and what were the lineups. I know our opinions on how great they were are mostly relative to our ages and musical era's, so I'm not saying the earlier festivals had better lineups etc, it's just a bit of fun to share our musical memories. For me, Reading 1973 was the first one I went to and the lineup was: [u]Friday[/u] Rory Gallagher. Jo'burg Hawk, Commander Cody, Capability Brown, Greenslade, Stray Dog, Alquin, Embryo [u]Saturday[/u] The Faces, Andy Bown, Status Quo, Strider, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Chris Barber, Lindisfarne, Magma, Fumble, Riff Raff, Tasavallan Presidentti, Quadrille, Claire Hamill, Dave Ellis [u]Sunday[/u] Genesis, The Spencer Davis Group, Jimmy Witherspoon, Mahatma, Jon Hiseman's Tempest, George Melly, Stackridge, Medicine Head, Jack The Lad, Tim Hardin, Ange, John Martyn and Danny Thompson, A J Webber And I did Knebworth for the first time in 1976 where the lineup was more about quality rather than quantity. Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 10cc, Todd Rungren’s Utopia, Hot Tuna, Don Harrison Band