So, you bump into your musical hero...
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GetCarter said:
Just booked him for a session in March 
...and here he is, sight reading for f
k's sake.https://youtu.be/utlKcrKRcW0
I have a perfect music hero moment I still remember with enormous pleasure.
It's 6am & the first public day of a Goodwood Revival & I've managed to sneak in (don't ask) before the crowds so as to take some dawn mood shots of the parked WW11 aircraft & various fabulous racing & sports cars parked beneath the shelters. Snapping finished I plonk myself on the tarmac beside a Ferrari that Stirling Moss once drove. Then I realise I'm not completely alone for mooching towards me & taking much interest in all the cars is a small wiry nay rather scruffy looking chap in what looks like motor bike leathers. He isn't security, maybe a driver or a Goodwood employee.
As he gets closer I know exactly who he is. A massive petrol head who has just recovered from a very serious illness that nearly killed him. His love of cars led him to have Ferrari Sharknose replica made in honour of his German racing driver hero. Maybe inspired by his father who sold ice cream he commissioned a film Le Passione about the son of an ice cream salesman who dreams of owning a Ferrari. His love of cars also extended to the sound track of one & a picture of one on his best selling album. Crikes I know so much about this man like I know him already.
In the confines of the paddock as our eyes lock it's impossible not to at least acknowledge each other which we do. Play it cool I say to myself for this mans voice I just love & my wife loves it even more. So I just say "Good morning are you recovering OK?" He thus knows I know who he is without making any other comment. I suggest he is having some quiet time before the crowds & fans & he agrees, so I'm mega careful not to prattle on, after all he wants some peace. But he seems happy to dawdle & chat so I ask after the Sharknose & before I know we are gabbing like old mates. After a while I sense he would not object to my referring to my wife's love of his music & that she is recovering from a breast cancer & would be cheered to know whom I've met. I was then gobsmacked to be asked many sincere questions as to her well being so I VERY tentatively asked if he would sign my entry pass for her. He did & added a lovely message wishing her well.
Chris Rea - what an utter gent. What he did not know & I failed to tell him that I broadcast on a local community & charity radio station & he gets more than his fair share of airplay.
It's 6am & the first public day of a Goodwood Revival & I've managed to sneak in (don't ask) before the crowds so as to take some dawn mood shots of the parked WW11 aircraft & various fabulous racing & sports cars parked beneath the shelters. Snapping finished I plonk myself on the tarmac beside a Ferrari that Stirling Moss once drove. Then I realise I'm not completely alone for mooching towards me & taking much interest in all the cars is a small wiry nay rather scruffy looking chap in what looks like motor bike leathers. He isn't security, maybe a driver or a Goodwood employee.
As he gets closer I know exactly who he is. A massive petrol head who has just recovered from a very serious illness that nearly killed him. His love of cars led him to have Ferrari Sharknose replica made in honour of his German racing driver hero. Maybe inspired by his father who sold ice cream he commissioned a film Le Passione about the son of an ice cream salesman who dreams of owning a Ferrari. His love of cars also extended to the sound track of one & a picture of one on his best selling album. Crikes I know so much about this man like I know him already.
In the confines of the paddock as our eyes lock it's impossible not to at least acknowledge each other which we do. Play it cool I say to myself for this mans voice I just love & my wife loves it even more. So I just say "Good morning are you recovering OK?" He thus knows I know who he is without making any other comment. I suggest he is having some quiet time before the crowds & fans & he agrees, so I'm mega careful not to prattle on, after all he wants some peace. But he seems happy to dawdle & chat so I ask after the Sharknose & before I know we are gabbing like old mates. After a while I sense he would not object to my referring to my wife's love of his music & that she is recovering from a breast cancer & would be cheered to know whom I've met. I was then gobsmacked to be asked many sincere questions as to her well being so I VERY tentatively asked if he would sign my entry pass for her. He did & added a lovely message wishing her well.
Chris Rea - what an utter gent. What he did not know & I failed to tell him that I broadcast on a local community & charity radio station & he gets more than his fair share of airplay.
NiceCupOfTea said:
lockhart flawse said:
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.For me it would probably Dennis Brain, who is a real hero of mine - British french horn player who set the musical bar that horn players the world over have been trying to reach ever since. By all accounts a lovely chap and really into his cars - often to be found with a copy of Autocar on his music stand. Sadly killed in 1957 on his way back to London after a gig in Edinburgh when his TR2 left the road
GetCarter said:
GetCarter said:
Just booked him for a session in March
...and here he is, sight reading for fk's sake.https://youtu.be/utlKcrKRcW0
ker. S10GTA said:
"That" are the four things he says he will never do in the song:
"forget the way you feel right now"
"forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight"
"do it better than I do it with you"
"stop dreaming of you every night of my life"
At last, somebody else who has actually listened to the lyrics! So many idiot critics etc asked the same stupid question when all they had to do was just listen to the song."forget the way you feel right now"
"forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight"
"do it better than I do it with you"
"stop dreaming of you every night of my life"
mybrainhurts said:
thebraketester said:
mybrainhurts said:
Hero..? Did somebody say musical HERO...?
FFS, it's only bloody music.
Nice troll attempt....FFS, it's only bloody music.
I've been pondering the fawning issue, and given that you've been in these parts as long as I have, I'm a little dissapointed that you would write off all those moments that a lot of us really feel.
I'm playing The Wonderstuff I simply can't understand why human beings don't find this music worth fawning over.
TheExcession said:
I'm playing The Wonderstuff I simply can't understand why human beings don't find this music worth fawning over.
EFA
vournikas said:
TheExcession said:
I'm playing The Wonderstuff I simply can't understand why human beings don't find this music worth fawning over.
EFA
Standing on the pit wall at Classic Le Mans 2004 during the pre war (Plateau 1 I think) practise and realising that it was Nick Masons daughter driving the car next to ours and that the bloke standing next to me on a busy wall was the man himself.
Very chatty ......... couldn't have been nicer.
Very chatty ......... couldn't have been nicer.
Baz Tench said:
A couple of years ago, I went to see the reformed 'Dodgy' with a few women I know. They are friendly with Nigel Clark, and we all went backstage afterwards with the band.
I ended up chatting to Nigel on a balcony off the main room where the rest of the band were, but I was a bit too star-struck to ask anything vaguely interesting. Nice guy though.
Their drummer called our drummer a I ended up chatting to Nigel on a balcony off the main room where the rest of the band were, but I was a bit too star-struck to ask anything vaguely interesting. Nice guy though.
Edit: I haven't met Ginger Wildheart yet, but I hope that one day I will. He's my idol, and a singer songwriter sadly ignored by the mainstream.
Edited by HarryFlatters on Friday 19th May 12:50
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