Paul Jones

[tom1946]

Sunday night we have Paul Jones from Manfred Mann & his wife coming to our church to give testimony and sing.

We get to play a worship song at the beginning and maybe wallpaper music before as people come in.

Should be good.

[spongebob]

That's great Tom, you must be really looking forward to it.

A real legend, and still clearly a big music enthusiast.

Best of luck, hope you get to meet him!

[Baxlin]

They came to our church a few years ago, absolutely lovely couple. I was allowed to host them, it turned out Paul had given up the only free evening of a Manfreds tour to come.

[Len_derby]

That's great Tom. I'm sure you've thought about it, but would be brilliant to engineer a situation where you could say 'I played with Paul Jones'.

I believe he only has two more Mondays before he retires from his BBC blues show. 

[tom1946]

Thanks guys, I am looking forward to it, we will meet him before for a sound check and other things. I followed the Manfreds in the early 60's, I loved those old songs and he is a great blues singer and harmonica player.

I didn't realise he was retiring from the blues show, heck he's only 77! Just a youth really... He'll be there singing  'The Lord's my shepherd' (newer version) so we will have played with him if you squint a little 

[TrevorR]

Paul and Fiona have spoken and sung at our church several times. Lovely couple and a great evening of music and testimony.  First time they came we backed them for the worship session so they came along to the rehearsal/soundcheck on the Sunday afternoon. That whizzed through no problems so when our regular Worship Leader said, “All done” there was plenty of time left. Paul looked round at the rest of the band, drew a harmonica from his back pocket and said, “Well, anyone fancy a little blues in G then?” Etched in my memory as one of my best ever playing experiences!!!!

[tom1946]

That sounds fantastic Trevor.

[bazzbass]

I reckon that would make even a non believer like me  attend church

I love the music that happens at your churches, my folks are Orthodox, so just three old men chanting is all we got, possibly why I hated church.

Have a great time and make an awesome memory Tom

And remind Paul that he still has lots of fans down under too

[spongebob]

Chap I used to work with a few years back used to frequent some of the popular music clubs in the 60's. He saw the Stones, etc, all the names.

However, a band he never missed was Manfred Mann. In his opinion, they were leagues above the rest, and always a big draw.

[TrevorR]

How did it go?