chris_b Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='452983' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:26 AM']....Awesome. I was obsessed with "In A Broken Dream" as an eight year old school boy doing his damnedest to avoid the music of 1986!....[/quote] This is the demo PLJ made to get their record deal. They were always fighting and split up and reformed several times. We recorded the proper version but it got shelved when the band split for the last time. Of course the success of Maggie May ensured that the demo got a release! I have had to play “Dream” several times in cover bands… very strange! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='chris_b' post='453008' date='Apr 3 2009, 08:45 AM']I remember Scaffold, Family, Edgar Broughton and Arthur Brown but the rest is a blur and I slept through Pink Floyd!!! The sound system wasn't very good and a lot of it was quite boring. I went with our guitarist who was trying to get a band together with Felix Dennis, of IT fame, now millionaire, then not very good drummer. In the end I was surprised to see that it got so much coverage![/quote] Was it as crazy in there as the books make out? and did you see anyone famous wandering about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='453051' date='Apr 3 2009, 10:26 AM']....Was it as crazy in there as the books make out? and did you see anyone famous wandering about?....[/quote] No and no. It was much duller than the reports suggest. Most of the people weren't that weird or out of it and most of the audience seemed to be your average punter for the time, including me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 What a superb thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerdragon Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Here's me looking thoughtful in the front. weirdly we are all still in bands and are doing a charity thing on the same bill later in the month.[attachment=23206:4_3_2009...36_00_AM.jpg] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='chris_b' post='453061' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:37 AM']No and no. It was much duller than the reports suggest. Most of the people weren't that weird or out of it and most of the audience seemed to be your average punter for the time, including me![/quote] Have you ever seen Hendrix or cream live mate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='beerdragon' post='453085' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:54 AM']Here's me looking thoughtful in the front. weirdly we are all still in bands and are doing a charity thing on the same bill later in the month.[attachment=23206:4_3_2009...36_00_AM.jpg][/quote] You look a lot cooler than the bands playing these days,the guy on the right looks like john squire out the stone roses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguyhomer Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='453101' date='Apr 3 2009, 10:59 AM']Have you ever seen Hendrix or cream live mate?[/quote] I've seen both I grew up in Liverpool and from 1959, lived opposite Paul Mc Cartney until he moved away around 1964. I was only young but have some nice memories of the Beatles around that time - playing footy in the street with them, Uncle Jim (Paul's Dad) letting me pluck that bass on the sofa and best of all, sitting in a Ford Thames van with John while he signed copies of Fan Club Magazines. I can remember that as if it was yesterday. My older brother got a guitar for his birthday - I remember it was a white Framus single cutaway and he couldn't tune it so he used to send me around to Terry Silvester's house to get it tuned. Terry was in a band called The Escorts then - he later joined The Swinging Blue Jeans and after that replaced Graham Nash when he left the The Hollies. Terry got fed up of me going 'round so he showed me how to tune it and a few chords. I was about 7 or 8 and got the bug. There were bands everywhere were we lived. Anyway, when I went to secondary school, I met another guitarist called John Lewis and we started playing as a duo - did our first 'gig' at West Derby Conservative Club in 1967. We did a few songs and got a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps. Me and John carried on playing together right through school and drifted apart. Here's a back garden shot of me showing off my brand new AC30 which I bought from Frank Hessy's for £120. The guitar is a Hofner Verithin. Here's me and John - I'm about 16 in this shot..... ..and here we are a couple of years ago. He'd just done a gig at the 606 Club in London with Connie Lush - I sneaked up on him and frightened the life out of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGit Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='452983' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:26 AM']Awesome. I was obsessed with "In A Broken Dream" as an eight year old school boy doing his damnedest to avoid the music of 1986! Alex[/quote] That is one fantastic record. Certainly on my Dessert island (with ice Cream) disc list. Fabulous melancholy feel to it. I wonder if the story is true about Rod Stewart being called in to "show them how to do it" perhaps you can enlighten us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGit Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Baker 30 speakers Oh yes ... Actually the first thing I used to make my bass audible was the family valve wireless which had an "aux" input. I attached a jack socket to two wires and jammed the wires into the two input sockets with matchsticks. It was very quiet and farty but it was louder than nowt..... Here's one from about 1970 Not sure about the bass probably a Framus or Columbus I think. This thread is playing havoc with my "smell memory". Lots of the stuff I remember from then had very distinct smells - like that bass, the wireless cooking, the fiberglass stuffed in my speaker cab - and the memory of those smells is very acute, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguyhomer Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Sonic blue and lipstick red guitars and basses evoke memories of the 60s for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBeefChief Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='OldGit' post='453300' date='Apr 3 2009, 12:58 PM'][/quote] Denim, bass, and motorcycle. That's what its all about people! Great thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='niceguyhomer' post='453235' date='Apr 3 2009, 11:24 AM']I've seen both I grew up in Liverpool and from 1959, lived opposite Paul Mc Cartney until he moved away around 1964. I was only young but have some nice memories of the Beatles around that time - playing footy in the street with them, Uncle Jim (Paul's Dad) letting me pluck that bass on the sofa and best of all, sitting in a Ford Thames van with John while he signed copies of Fan Club Magazines. I can remember that as if it was yesterday. My older brother got a guitar for his birthday - I remember it was a white Framus single cutaway and he couldn't tune it so he used to send me around to Terry Silvester's house to get it tuned. Terry was in a band called The Escorts then - he later joined The Swinging Blue Jeans and after that replaced Graham Nash when he left the The Hollies. Terry got fed up of me going 'round so he showed me how to tune it and a few chords. I was about 7 or 8 and got the bug. There were bands everywhere were we lived. Anyway, when I went to secondary school, I met another guitarist called John Lewis and we started playing as a duo - did our first 'gig' at West Derby Conservative Club in 1967. We did a few songs and got a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps. Me and John carried on playing together right through school and drifted apart. Here's a back garden shot of me showing off my brand new AC30 which I bought from Frank Hessy's for £120. The guitar is a Hofner Verithin. Here's me and John - I'm about 16 in this shot..... ..and here we are a couple of years ago. He'd just done a gig at the 606 Club in London with Connie Lush - I sneaked up on him and frightened the life out of him. [/quote] What were hendrix and clapton really like was it as mind blowing as people always make out or just a really good gig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguyhomer Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 I didn't really appreciate Hendrix as much then as I do now - TBH, it wasn't that great and the sound was dreadful. I saw Cream at the Royal Albert Hall reunion a couple of years ago and that was really special - easily in the top 3 gigs of all time for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='452964' date='Apr 3 2009, 08:01 AM']You look a bit like the early pink fairies,cool photos.[/quote] Whoa YouMa, you're either my age or a rock historian. The Pink Faries. What a band. Twink was one of my heroes. I never saw them with the first drummer (Russell someone) I think Martin Stone joined then later on from possibly, Savoy Brown Blues band? Don't quote me on that, I partook of far too many dubious substances in those days. Never tried Harpic though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGit Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 [quote name='BigBeefChief' post='453476' date='Apr 3 2009, 04:16 PM']Denim, bass, and motorcycle. That's what its all about people! Great thread![/quote] Denim and bass still a daily thing. The motorcycles were set to "Pause" though when I got scared and found transporting gear to gisg a tad hard - the bass I could handle but the amps and cabs were impossible Oh and that's actually my mum's bike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 (edited) [quote name='leschirons' post='453668' date='Apr 3 2009, 08:47 PM']Whoa YouMa, you're either my age or a rock historian. The Pink Faries. What a band. Twink was one of my heroes. I never saw them with the first drummer (Russell someone) I think Martin Stone joined then later on from possibly, Savoy Brown Blues band? Don't quote me on that, I partook of far too many dubious substances in those days. Never tried Harpic though![/quote] Im just turned 34 mate but i have a lot of time for you guys,what a fantastic explosive time,my last bird nearly dumped me because i spent so much time with her mother talking about 60s london,what a time,you lucky man. Cmon over and ill get the stash out. Edited April 3, 2009 by YouMa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 (edited) [quote name='YouMa' post='453715' date='Apr 3 2009, 10:18 PM']Im just turned 34 mate but i have a lot of time for you guys,what a fantastic explosive time,my last bird nearly dumped me because i spent so much time with her mother talking about 60s london,what a time,you lucky man. Cmon over and ill get the stash out.[/quote] Lucky? Certainly. Because I happened to be growing up at the right time and in the right place. You couldn't buy that now. Was fortunate enough to see Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Jethro Tull, The Birds (as in Ronnie Wood) Free, Peter Green, early Genesis, Spencer Davis, Peace (Paul Rodgers, after Free and before Bad Company) Black Sabbath when they were called Earth, Black Widow, Spookey Tooth, First Supertramp gig (sorry) Mott the Hoople, East of Eden, Argent etc. They were great days but I did start young. I was at the Marquee every week since the age of 15. Also saw some great bands at the Cooks Ferry inn at Edmonton. Great that you're into such a great period of music. Next time I'm over, I'll bring Harpic and my old copy of Fill your head with Rock. Edited April 3, 2009 by leschirons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 (edited) [quote name='leschirons' post='453785' date='Apr 4 2009, 12:41 AM']Lucky? Certainly. Because I happened to be growing up at the right time and in the right place. You couldn't buy that now. Was fortunate enough to see Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Jethro Tull, The Birds (as in Ronnie Wood) Free, Peter Green, early Genesis, Spencer Davis, Peace (Paul Rodgers, after Free and before Bad Company) Black Sabbath when they were called Earth, Black Widow, Spookey Tooth, First Supertramp gig (sorry) Mott the Hoople, East of Eden, Argent etc. They were great days but I did start young. I was at the Marquee every week since the age of 15. Also saw some great bands at the Cooks Ferry inn at Edmonton. Great that you're into such a great period of music. Next time I'm over, I'll bring Harpic and my old copy of Fill your head with Rock.[/quote] Would love to have a beer sometime and hear some stuff,my dad saw earth in carlisle,im off to bed now,it wasnt that long ago when you think about it,time does fly doesnt it,bit of a bugger really. Edited April 4, 2009 by YouMa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='453101' date='Apr 3 2009, 10:59 AM']....Have you ever seen Hendrix or cream live mate?....[/quote] Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce with Graham Bond were an acquired taste but Clapton with John Mayall was incredible. I saw Cream's first gig at the Marquee and they were just a blinding blues band. Cream used to play within travelling distance of Ealing about once a week. There was a club in a scout hut behind the cinema in Ealing Broadway which they regularly played. No posh gigs in those days! The first 6 months was the best, but after the first album they started to change, which was a shame! I first saw Hendrix in a half empty Rikki Tik, a small club in Hounslow, the same week Hey Joe came out and about a year later at a packed Manor House club. We'd never seen anything like it, he was totally unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Funk Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Damn. Love the photos and stories, guys. In the photos you all look too cool for school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 fascinating stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='453795' date='Apr 4 2009, 01:03 AM']Would love to have a beer sometime and hear some stuff,my dad saw earth in carlisle,im off to bed now,it wasnt that long ago when you think about it,time does fly doesnt it,bit of a bugger really.[/quote] Jeez, I'm talking to a guy who's dad was probably at the same gigs as me. I'll get me Phylosan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianwild16 Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 brill....i wish i was in a band with matching suits AND haircuts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumnote Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 This is the earliest picture I can find from about 1967 I am playing a danelectro belzouki 12 string [for the birds so you want to be a rock and roll star and eight miles high probably] through a marshall 100 watt stack. I also had a jaguar or a tele Note the home made trousers from curtain material and shoes which were hand painted. I was a crap lead guitar but a good rythm player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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