Musicians who are ****s

[davidd]

TheExcession said:

Once upon a time....

GetCarter said:

I shared a flat once with Rowland Rivron who was in Raw Sex

Come on Steve, I've been waiting years now to hear a story about those times...

Yeah come on Steve, I'm only sticking around on PH until you've spilled the beans.

[GetCarter]

Ha. I'm sure you don't really want to know, but if it'll shut you up...

We were in a band together, then started working together on 'The Comic Strip' progs, then with, French and Saunders, Rik and Lenny and all that crowd through the 1980's. Rivron and I moved into a flat in Hampstead (with our respective girlfriends), drank too much, did too many drugs and played a lot of late night double or quits pool. He still owes me about 20 grand!

This is us pissing about:

http://stevecarter.com/random/Ade2.mp3

http://stevecarter.com/random/RawSex.mp3

[thebraketester]

Haha. Brilliant. I've heard worse vocals of 'my way' live on gigs. :-)

[davidd]

Thanks, I can go now.

[droopsnoot]

blueg33 said:

I have met one star who is listed here, and he came across as a nice guy and wasnt full of himself.

I've met a small number of people, but only as part of fan "meet and greet" things, signing sessions after shop gigs, that kind of thing. I don't think you can judge anything from that, they're always perfectly nice and polite but I just take it that they're working at the time.

[anonymous-user]

robsa said:

dromong said:

Francis Rossi for turning a great 70's boogie band into a cabaret act.

If anyone should doubt how awesome Francis Rossi and Quo could be in the early 70s:

https://youtu.be/OBSDoMgjqG0

Oh yes, Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon and Dog of Two Head are fooking brilliant albums.

[blueg33]

droopsnoot said:

blueg33 said:

I have met one star who is listed here, and he came across as a nice guy and wasnt full of himself.

I've met a small number of people, but only as part of fan "meet and greet" things, signing sessions after shop gigs, that kind of thing. I don't think you can judge anything from that, they're always perfectly nice and polite but I just take it that they're working at the time.

This wasn't at a "fan" meet and greet. It was at a mutual friends house, I had no idea he was staying over or even that my friend new him. Had a sarnie and a beer and talked about a range of stuff as blokes do.

[conkerman]

This thread is Just Like the HORA (RIP.)

[irocfan]

HORA?

[anonymous-user]

Dr Who reference

[irocfan]

techiedave said:

Dr Who reference

Ahhhhhhhh <hands in geek membership card>

[HarryFlatters]

Simes205 said:

Tom_C76 said:

HarryFlatters said:

audidoody said:

Doesn't the same go for Chuck Berry?

Didn't he like to video women on the plop?

Yep. And he plays with local session musicians rather than a touring band. And won't tell them in advance what the set list will be, or even which key he'll play each song in. Even when the musician is Keith Richards...

On the plus side it's only 3 chords!

Not telling Keef Richards what key he's playing a I IV V progression in somehow makes him a worse person than videoing women doing jobbies

PH: Keef Matters!

[TonyRPH]

MikeT66 said:

<snip>
Some time ago I was talking to Mrs.T66 about what makes a guitarist more than special, and played Whitesnake's live version of Mistreated (with Bernie Marsden and Mick Moody - two good guitarists in their own right)<snip>

Which Whitesnake album was that?

Was it "Live In The Heart Of The City"?

Thanks.

[80sMatchbox]

PurpleTurtle said:

MarshPhantom said:

Miles Hunt from The Wonderstuff. Terrible band, terrible person.

This summer just gone my brother-in-law stage managed a local festival where Miles and Erica Nockalls were early on the bill.

As Miles arrived my B-i-L, himself a musician on the same bill, goes to chew the fat with him but was brusquely replied to with '"yeah yeah, let's just get on with it". B-i-L thinks "jeez, stroppy tt" and contemplates going home and burning his Wonderstuff collection.

As soon as he comes off stage, "Sorry about that mate, despite all the years I'm always a bit nervous about going on, and we were cutting it fine for our slot. What were you gonna say?. Cue half an hours chat about bands in the 90s over a beer and both parting on amicable terms.

Maybe you just caught him on a bad day too?

It was probably 6 or 7 years ago The Wonderstuff were playing at Shepherd's Bush Empire, and a mate and I were there to review it. We got wristbands for the after party in the little bar on the first floor.

At many of these after shows, the band don't turn up, but on this occasion they did. My mate and I ended up talking to Erica. Eventually Miles wanders over and we were chatting to him for a good 10 mins or so.

My mate then says to Miles, you're lovely, very easy to talk to and not like what he imagined. So Miles asks what did he think he would be like, smiling whilst saying this.

Mate "Well, you know the press that you used to get and the Cockney rhyming slang about you...."

Miles,still smiling, "What rhyming slang?"

Mate "You know , being a bit of a Miles Hunt".

Miles, still smiling What did that mean?

Mate "Miles Hunt, a bit of a ".

How we laughed, Miles too. He had egged my mate into actually saying it. And he said, "You know what,I probably was". He went on about what was said above, he was young, very famous and he just just carried away with it.

He said that he was so happy now, doing smaller tours, putting on live new music nights at a pub hear to his house and didn't have a care in the world. You could see he genuinely meant it.

It's all about timing, I've got many other stories of other musicians I've met who haven't got the best reputations and yet they were lovely.

[Kinky]

Interesting thread. And interesting to see folks observations of people.

I agree with 90% of the names posted, that I know, but totally disagree with the following names:

Big Pants said:

Peter Andre

Elderly said:

Paul McCartney

AndStilliRise said:

Bryan Adams
Jon Bon Jovi
Phil Collins

Taita said:

Van Morrison

[marcosgt]

I never really understand why this matters.

I have no dealings with these people except to listen to their music.

If they make sounds I like, that's great and I don't care if they've politics I disagree with or I find their attempts to do something more positive than whine about people they don't know irritating.

If they don't make music I like, the fact that they're great people who I'd love to go on a night out with is utterly irrelevant since I almost certainly never will!

M.

[80sMatchbox]

Not really on the theme, but as Kinky mentioned Paul McCartney..

A friend of mine works as an events manager at a very well known music venue in London. Mr McCartney was there playing, my mate spent a bit of time with him, managed the even that was on.

At the time, said mate was doing a bit of freelancing and was at a TVs filming of something or other. It should be said that he's blind as a bat and didn't have his glasses with him.

Some guy comes up to him saying that he recognises him from meeting earlier in the week... Not remembering who he was, my mate brushes him off and carries on working.

A colleague of his comes over later and asked what were him and Paul McCartbey talking about.....

I'm sure I would recognise his voice alone, but I guess with the noise and being in the middle of working, my mate didn't.

There's not many times when Paul would be the one recognising yourself and not the other way around. He sounds like s decent guy to take the time to chat to my mate...or try to.

[MikeT66]

TonyRPH said:

MikeT66 said:

<snip>
Some time ago I was talking to Mrs.T66 about what makes a guitarist more than special, and played Whitesnake's live version of Mistreated (with Bernie Marsden and Mick Moody - two good guitarists in their own right)<snip>

Which Whitesnake album was that?

Was it "Live In The Heart Of The City"?

Thanks.

Sorry Tony - just seen this. I don't think it was that one. I've got, well, probably thousands of MP3 tracks on my computer from when I ditched my whole CD collection, and have, er, utilised lots of friends' stuff too, including some rare stuff. I used to have the Live... In The Heart Of The City album (I always hated the cover art) so know that version.

I saw Mick Moody and Bernie play with their own bands at HRH Blues in Sheffield this year - great guitarists, but Blackmore, well, is just something else. Love this clip of Deep Purple in 1993 - Blackmore apparently refused to go on stage at first, then stepped forward to rip the Highway Star solo and manage to dowse a cameraman with water at the same time for encroaching onto the stage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bx767gdPNg

[anonymous-user]

TonyRPH said:

Which Whitesnake album was that?

Was it "Live In The Heart Of The City"?

Thanks.

About 15 years ago they use to get a band play every sunday at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhal, sometimes the place got busy especially if it was a popular local covers band anyway one sunday there was hardly anyone in there and this band are playing and the drummer is doing lead vocals, very well I hasten to add, he then breaks into Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City and does a great job, then the penny dropped it was Dave Dowle. Had a word with him after and was a top bloke.
Am I right in thinking Coverdale gave him the red card before he did the same with Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden?

[anonymous-user]

Raygun said:

About 15 years ago they use to get a band play every sunday at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhal, sometimes the place got busy especially if it was a popular local covers band anyway one sunday there was hardly anyone in there and this band are playing and the drummer is doing lead vocals, very well I hasten to add, he then breaks into Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City and does a great job, then the penny dropped it was Dave Dowle. Had a word with him after and was a top bloke.
Am I right in thinking Coverdale gave him the red card before he did the same with Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden?

David "Duck" Dowle was replaced pretty early on with Ian Paice.