Show us your old band photos

[Horizontalste]

I spotted a couple of Wal's in some of the 80s/90s photos, we're they "budget" basses back then cuz I was definitely "Thatcher Broke" 😂

[dmccombe7]

19 minutes ago, Horizontalste said:

I spotted a couple of Wal's in some of the 80s/90s photos, we're they "budget" basses back then cuz I was definitely "Thatcher Broke" 😂

If i remember right a US Fender Jazz cost me £350 and my WAL was £730 early to mid 80's if my memory serves me right. It was always regarded as an elite bass to buy. I had to save to get it LOL

Dave

Edited April 28, 2022 by dmccombe7

[dmccombe7]

On another note i'm doing a themed punk gig tomorrow night and i'll be sporting leather jeans again altho not the ones in my earlier pic.

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

Found this one, channelling Graham Bonnet...

 

 

[Johnm93]

On 26/04/2022 at 14:11, Leonard Smalls said:

 

I'm wearing some in the pic above... Proper rock'n'roll me - came to the gig on this! Luckily the band brought my gear in the van...

 

Nice...!

I had a red T3...

[BreadBin]

Circa 1990..

[alant]

Rock 'n' Roll/Rockabilly band mid seventies.

 

[odysseus]

10 hours ago, alant said:

Rock 'n' Roll/Rockabilly band mid seventies.

 

 Nice set of 'grips on the singer.... 😎

[BCH]

15 hours ago, odysseus said:

 Nice set of 'grips on the singer.... 😎

From 1974, precision purchased in 1969 behind me JBL 15" & Wallace hand made bass amp (with 2x KT88's) vocals thro Electrovoice eliminator 3 way

[dmccombe7]

29 minutes ago, BCH said:

From 1974, precision purchased in 1969 behind me JBL 15" & Wallace hand made bass amp (with 2x KT88's) vocals thro Electrovoice eliminator 3 way

Nice bass, bet you wished you'd kept it. 

And sporting a lovely pair of flares. 

Dave

[Clarky]

My old voodoo swamp blues band Rattlin Bone from about 2011 (me on upright). Clown/beat boxer and up to 15 piece band with brass

[dmccombe7]

26 minutes ago, Clarky said:

My old voodoo swamp blues band Rattlin Bone from about 2011 (me on upright). Clown/beat boxer and up to 15 piece band with brass

That looks amazing, would love to hear some of it. I'm of to Youtube for a search LOL

EDIT :- now that was seriously good. Listened to two songs both live and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Nice one.

Dave

Edited April 30, 2022 by dmccombe7

[Clarky]

Just now, dmccombe7 said:

That looks amazing, would love to hear some of it. I'm of to Youtube for a search LOL

Dave

 

[BCH]

2 hours ago, Clarky said:

My old voodoo swamp blues band Rattlin Bone from about 2011 (me on upright). Clown/beat boxer and up to 15 piece band with brass

Clearly a shy, no confidence band or circus...ha

[BCH]

3 hours ago, BCH said:

From 1974, precision purchased in 1969 behind me JBL 15" & Wallace hand made bass amp (with 2x KT88's) vocals thro Electrovoice eliminator 3 way

The Wallace ( https://reverb.com/uk/item/3600212-wallace-xt-mk-1-rare-late-60s-amp-head-superb-sound ) wish I had kept it! I purchased from Supertramp, who were recording "Crime of the century" in Scorpio studio when we were there. They were poor and became rich we had money and were a flop...ha....I also purchased from them a Harmony H75, which I sold in 2010, when someone made me an offer I could not XXXXX

 

[BCH]

On 30/04/2022 at 12:59, dmccombe7 said:

Nice bass, bet you wished you'd kept it. 

And sporting a lovely pair of flares. 

Dave

I wish I'd kept the hair!!!!

[Stub Mandrel]

On 30/04/2022 at 15:48, BCH said:

Clearly a shy, no confidence band or circus...ha

 

Obvs shoegazers...

 

[TheRev]

We've been reduilding our website and whie trawling back through old photos I found this from 2014 or 15.  Jack Scrumpy is no longer with us, but it's still a decent promo poster 

[neepheid]

This is the oldest one I could find of my first band Panda Eyes back in April 2010...

 

[Steve Browning]

Unhappily, the guitarist in my first (college) band has recently joined the drummer in the great band in the sky. Both were my age (although the drummer had suffered with MND for many years).

 

Someone has just posted some pictures from 1979 on Facebook. Here I am showing my earliest attempt at reproducing John Deacons rig. I have an 18 and two 4x12s (they're even Sound City). The bass was my first Precision - where are you now S749320?

 

The perm earned me the nickname Phyllis.

[Franticsmurf]

Me on guitar in my first band, playing a biker rally in 1990. The stage was a series of puddles due to a leaking roof.

 

My first gig as bassist, '93 ish, tucked away on the left. Colombus J copy, a great bass as I remember it.

 

Pub gig circa 2012.

 

2013.

[Misdee]

11 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Unhappily, the guitarist in my first (college) band has recently joined the drummer in the great band in the sky. Both were my age (although the drummer had suffered with MND for many years).

 

Someone has just posted some pictures from 1979 on Facebook. Here I am showing my earliest attempt at reproducing John Deacons rig. I have an 18 and two 4x12s (they're even Sound City). The bass was my first Precision - where are you now S749320?

 

The perm earned me the nickname Phyllis.

You could have been playing in midfield for Liverpool with that perm! Grow a moustache and you could have been scouted by Bayern Munich.😀

 

1979 was a  wonderful year for music and a magnificent time to be young. Nice photos and some great memories I expect.

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, Misdee said:

You could have been playing in midfield for Liverpool with that perm! Grow a moustache and you could have been scouted by Bayern Munich.😀

 

1979 was a  wonderful year for music and a magnificent time to be young. Nice photos and some great memories I expect.

Late 70's were just a magical time IMO. So many great local bands / talent about. Almost every pub had live music of some kind and you could go between venues in Glasgow listening to all the different bands. Great times.

Dave

[Misdee]

On 30/04/2022 at 15:58, BCH said:

The Wallace ( https://reverb.com/uk/item/3600212-wallace-xt-mk-1-rare-late-60s-amp-head-superb-sound ) wish I had kept it! I purchased from Supertramp, who were recording "Crime of the century" in Scorpio studio when we were there. They were poor and became rich we had money and were a flop...ha....I also purchased from them a Harmony H75, which I sold in 2010, when someone made me an offer I could not XXXXX

 

Nice bass and even better outfit. Those might be the best flares I have ever seen. I am betting that they are hiding an equally dapper pair of platform soles. You were a stylish man!

[Misdee]

58 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Late 70's were just a magical time IMO. So many great local bands / talent about. Almost every pub had live music of some kind and you could go between venues in Glasgow listening to all the different bands. Great times.

Dave

Couldn't agree more. So much great music in so many genres.

 

Glasgow has always been a very musical city, and I expect the local music scene in 1979 reflected the times.

 

Funnily enough just the other day I spent the afternoon looking at an awe - inspiring collection of photos taken in Glasgow in 1979/1980 by a French photographer (Raymond Depardon, in case you are interested) and they really captured the mood of those times. Even though they are very much about Glasgow, the pictures are evocative of urban life throughout the North during that era ( I grew up in West Yorkshire). When I listen to music from that time I like to remember the wider context and those pictures nail it perfectly.

 

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by Misdee