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Early 70’s , NME and Melody Maker, listening to John Peel. My best mates brothers were 5 and 10 years older, we got to listen to a lot of Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack and John Mayalls Bluesbreakers. My first album purchase was Jeff Beck - Truth.

Wednesday April 27th - Sky Arts 11.40 pm Muscle Shoals - docu/film about the famous recording studio.

It’s a very thin Policeman.

Gig in a Classic Rock covers band, used to do a minimum of 20 paid gigs a year, this year it’s dire, first gig of this year is not until the middle of May !! We have 6 gigs booked so far this year, can’t see us getting many more, half the live band venues around this way are just not putting on live music, lack of footfall and won’t pay for bands. Most of the bands around here are still going despite the onslaught of Covid over the past couple of years, I would have thought several might have called it a day but not the case, we now have a dire situation where we have the same amount of bands looking to gig at 50% of the venues there used to be.☹️

Listening to this one a lot, our new drummer has suggested this as a new song to add to our set.

Blimey, Sassafras, I didn’t realise they were still performing, I was really into them in the 70’s. I saw them live at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in the 70’s, it was a multi band tour, I’m pretty sure one of the other bands was SNAFU. I have dug out their albums, must gig them a play.

The blonde vocalist Bet, her ego is already kicking in this evening, refused to attempt the Coldplay song because “ she couldn’t feel it “ 🤔 She has suggested she wants to do “ I wont let the sun go down on me” and demonstrates how good she can sing it. What I actually heard was a washed up old cabaret version, dreadful. ☹️

Double post - ooooooops

The Divine Comedy.

Make sure you are not the only one in the band who organises everything, chasing gigs, arranging rehearsals, contacting local press, emailing posters, emailing/texting other band members etc. Its a lesson I still haven’t learnt.

Bass 1 x 15 MarkBass Combo 1 x 15 MarkBass Cab Guitar Stand Mike and Stand Effects/Tuner Unit 3 x Picks Sports bag containing various leads, power unit, strings, small towel, battery, insulation tape, small torch, pen, beer mats, spectacles, set list.

The Rock in Cherry Hinton Road was a great live music venue many years ago, played there many times, sadly, I think they no longer put on live bands.

Brotherhood of Man. Two men Two women

Was he in Taxi with Danny DeVito ?

Cambridge ain’t a brilliant place for live music venues for weekend warriors, considering it’s a major University town, gigging opportunities are pretty poor. Huntingdon had a couple of pubs that put on live bands, they are both what I call very rough places, full of trouble makers and druggies, not sure if they still have live bands at the weekends.

“ look at the size of my blister” 😀

Timothy B Schmit - The Eagles

I stand by what I say, his rhythm playing is great, unfortunately in my mind, his lead playing is not. Each to their own, we can’t all think everyone is great. Now, where’s my rosette.

Not bad, unfortunately the guitarists lead playing has not improved, his lead work has always sounded disjointed to me with lots of inaccurate string bends.👎

She is 36 years old.

Highly respected U.K. blues player and vocalist.

I’m not sure if I have been hiding under a rock, Graham, I have not heard of any of the bands or albums you have listed over the past few days, are they all of a certain genre ?

Another Phil X cover.

Great Year. Fire & Water - Free Deja Vu - CSNY Live at Leeds - The Who In Rock - Deep Purple Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel Abraxas - Santana No Dice - Badfinger Chicago - Chicago Climbing - Mountain Funkadelic - Funkadelic Curtis - Curtis Mayfield Sex Machine - James Brown