So, you bump into your musical hero...

So, you bump into your musical hero...

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TheExcession

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11,669 posts

249 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Who would it be?
What would you talk about?

Me, I'd love to catch Miles Hunt, and also Ian Anderson, and Troy Donockley.

I'd buy them all a pint, but I'd really want to ask Miles how he/they wrote that album called 'Never Loved Elvis'.

I think maybe he was a few semitones out, but hey! hehe



Edited by TheExcession on Monday 9th January 20:02

audidoody

8,595 posts

255 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Many years ago I worked on a music magazine and interviewed the late Steve Marriott about his guitar collection. I tried so hard to be cool I asked him this epic question :

"So how old is your '56 Telecaster?"




TheExcession

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11,669 posts

249 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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audidoody said:
Many years ago I worked on a music magazine and interviewed the late Steve Marriott about his guitar collection. I tried so hard to be cool I asked him this epic question :

"So how old is your '56 Telecaster?"
hehe
I've been waiting a long time for a reason to smile, and that was A1 rofl

Many years ago I met Mark Chadwick (Levellers) one evening, I told him I'd used his words to teach a whole load of Thai kids 'contemporary English poetry'. He looked a bit stunned.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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I daresay I'd just apologise and keep walking...

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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TheExcession said:
Who would it be? What would you talk about?

Me, I'd love to catch Miles Hunt, and also Ian Anderson, and Troy Donockley.

I'd buy them all a pint, but I'd really want to ask Miles how he/they wrote that album called 'Never Loved Elvis'. I think maybe he was a few semitones out, but hey! hehe
Funny you should say that! Years ago a mate and I were really into British jazz/rock. A band called Colosseum were our favourites and drummer Jon Hiseman was a hero. We used to go to a jazz pub in Barnes and on the 1st visit after the session we noticed Jon and his wife at the bar, paying their drinks bill of all things! NOt being backwards I went up with my mate and said "Hello Mr Hiseman, great session tonight, can I buy you both a beer?" laugh

Incidentally he accepted and we sat for 15 mins chatting about his music, how he met the guys in his band and he thoughts on music in general.

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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V8mate said:
I daresay I'd just apologise and keep walking...
That's exactly what I did on April 11th 1967 at The Granada, Bedford when I bumped into Jimi Hendrix in the foyer.

TheExcession

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249 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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RichB said:
Incidentally he accepted and we sat for 15 mins chatting about his music, how he met the guys in his band and he thoughts on music in general.
It's fking great isn't it!

Back in youth time, I was working as an instrument technician at ICI at Alderley Park, there was a lad that worked in the stores dept that used come deliver all the bottles of chemicals we needed.

A spitting image of Slash, and a very decent guitar player.

Eventually we got friendly enough so that he came out to see a band called 'You Slosh' at the Manchester 'Band on the wall', great!

At the end of the gig we managed to get back stage, so half of us were half cut, and he walks in and says "Hahaha You Slosh... Me Slash"


I guess you had to be there...




Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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I was drinking at the bar in a quiet pub near Kidderminster in 1978 when Led Zeppelin's John Bonham came in, ordered a pint and sat two bar stools away from me.

As a huge Zeppelin fan I couldn't believe it.

I said "Hello John".

He rose from his stool, downed his pint in five seconds, said "fk off" and walked straight out.











What a star.......biggrin

TheExcession

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249 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Wacky Racer said:
I was drinking at the bar in a quiet pub near Kidderminster in 1978 when Led Zeppelin's John Bonham came in, ordered a pint and sat two bar stools away from me.

As a huge Zeppelin fan I couldn't believe it.

I said "Hello John".

He rose from his stool, downed his pint in five seconds, said "fk off" and walked straight out.
What a star.......biggrin
You told us that story months ago biggrin



Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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TheExcession said:
Wacky Racer said:
I was drinking at the bar in a quiet pub near Kidderminster in 1978 when Led Zeppelin's John Bonham came in, ordered a pint and sat two bar stools away from me.

As a huge Zeppelin fan I couldn't believe it.

I said "Hello John".

He rose from his stool, downed his pint in five seconds, said "fk off" and walked straight out.
What a star.......biggrin
You told us that story months ago biggrin
Did I really?

Pre senile dementia setting in.......hehe

vournikas

11,682 posts

203 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Back in the late 1980's, I'd just started learning the guitar and was very into classic 70's rock. Just before I moved to Shrewsbury, I bought a copy of this:-



It was out of curiosity if nothing else due to the album cover. Anyway, I loved it and Tony McPhee's gritty blues fusion guitar work.

Not long after moving into my first (bedsit) in Shrewsbury, I walked to one of my favourite pubs for a couple of beers. As I sat at the bar, I kept looking over to my right at another guy reading a magazine at the bar. After the guy left, I asked the landlord, 'Don? That guy over there at the bar just now, does he play guitar?' Don confirmed he did, and it turned out my suspicion was right; Tony McPhee often enjoyed a beer at The Swan in Frankwell! So I rushed back to my hovel, grabbed my copy of "Who Will Save The World......." and asked Don if he could kindly ask Tony to sign it for me when he was next in.

Very kindly, Tony did sign it smile


Escapegoat

5,135 posts

134 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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Peter Green. But I think he's too damaged now to enjoy shooting the breeze about what it was like in the old days. Seeing him onstage with Splinter Group where he looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but there was a sad sight.

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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Escapegoat said:
Peter Green. But I think he's too damaged now to enjoy shooting the breeze about what it was like in the old days. Seeing him onstage with Splinter Group where he looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but there was a sad sight.
That's a shame to hear. I have a couple of the Splinter Group's CDs and really enjoy them. I had hoped that was a turnaround for him.

niallf

61 posts

281 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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TheExcession said:
Who would it be?
Me, I'd love to catch Miles Hunt, and also Ian Anderson, and Troy Donockley.
Edited by TheExcession on Monday 9th January 20:02
I worked with Troy a tiny bit in the late eighties, a very talented person. Accomplished guitarist, Uilleann pipes and low whistle player. I was playing bass with The Enid at the time, he did some work on one of the albums, and we played a couple of gigs at the Dominion together. His sister was the girlfriend of Steve, the Enid's guitarist. Amongst other many other things, he went on to form the Bad Shepherds with Adrian Edmondson. I've not seen him since those gigs in 1988.

S10GTA

12,645 posts

166 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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Meat Loaf. I'd ask him what he wouldn't do for love.

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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Just booked him for a session in March smile

conkerman

3,298 posts

134 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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S10GTA said:
Meat Loaf. I'd ask him what he wouldn't do for love.
He Won't do that. (you dirty, dirty bugger) smile

lockhart flawse

2,040 posts

234 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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niallf said:
I worked with Troy a tiny bit in the late eighties, a very talented person. Accomplished guitarist, Uilleann pipes and low whistle player. I was playing bass with The Enid at the time, he did some work on one of the albums, and we played a couple of gigs at the Dominion together. His sister was the girlfriend of Steve, the Enid's guitarist. Amongst other many other things, he went on to form the Bad Shepherds with Adrian Edmondson. I've not seen him since those gigs in 1988.
Well you live and learn - I always thought Steve Stewart was gay? Saw The Enid first in very late-76 and most recently at the Barfly a couple of years ago.

lockhart flawse

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234 months

Tuesday 10th January 2017
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I sat in the pub next to Eric Clapton's house in Surrey whilst he and Patty Boyd and a few other people I didnt recognise sat at the bar. Didn't say anything to him though.

Only person I have actually met was poor old Adrian Boorland of The Sound in the audience at a gig at the Kings Head in Fulham about 15 years ago. He was pleased to be recognised but a bit bitter about his experience in the music industry I think and I wasn't that surprised when I heard that he committed suicide. I have just stuck his first album on for a listen. It's a bit of a curate's egg to be honest.

Le TVR

3,092 posts

250 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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lockhart flawse said:
I sat in the pub next to Eric Clapton's house in Surrey whilst he and Patty Boyd and a few other people I didnt recognise sat at the bar. Didn't say anything to him though.

First time I went to the Parrot (was Gary Brookers gaff then) I trod on Erics foot trying to avoid the low beams they had in there. I dont remember exactly what he said but I'm sure it wasn't printable.

vournikas said:
Very kindly, Tony did sign it smile

Clearly had mellowed since the early 70s then. Did PA and lighting for them for a gig in 72 and he was so far up his own arse that my extremely shy and reserved GF declared him to be a "Grade A ".
Lindisfarne played later that month and were 100% natural and approachable and provided cases of Newcastle Brown for all stage staff. Nicest person I remember was Steve Harley.