Mickeyboro

A military band in Wimborne played Enola Gay by OMD. Took me a couple of minutes to work out what it was (melody played on xylophone). Can you beat this?

And thanks for your entertaining contributions!🙏

One book sale impeccably completed. Gary is the model Basschatter, as if you hadn’t heard already! 🙏

Good luck with it all!👍

Must be heavy, though. His legs are buckling!😂

Hit Me Up…

We did a book deal and it was absolutely textbook! Gavin is very much recommended.

Have you tried a uke bass? I wouldn’t be without mine, and its made many a doubter eat their words!

Far from our first transaction, and hopefully not our last. Guitars, books…all seamless! Thank you Pete.

I could stomach it until the rapper came in… But its not intended for the likes of me!😁

My second deal with Jeff, as troublefree as the first. Top man!

Another deal with Andy impeccably concluded. No more to add, deal with absolute confidence!

One of the most entertaining people I ever interviewed. Didn’t take himself seriously, hence the daft song titles.

A lot, judging by Facebook! Wonder where they think they've been these last fifty-odd years…

I think the most dishonest trib band name is Clearwater Creedence Revival. Or maybe it’s the cleverest…

I would have agreed but for the way they are run, as a business. Everyone who was in the band earned from it, even Wilko for all his sniping. Reason? They cut in their manager, an old school friend, who invested their earnings and minded business. They own a large chunk of Canvey! Letting tributes profit from their inactivity made no sense. Besides, Lee wanted them to continue.

Just come back from seeing Gong, utterly disappointed. I knew there were no original members, but the music was so divorced from anything I know as Gong it was almost a case of the trades descriptions act. Selling Camembert Electrique t-shirts was the icing on the cake. On a broader note, what gives a band its identity - and when should the trigger’s broom principle come into play?

From sixties contemporary Bob Hall… talking of pianos. Memory of Christine McVie (née Perfect). Back in the day club pianos were often out of tune and missing notes. Club owners had their pianos painted more often than they were tuned and pianists had to develop all sorts of ways around it, transposing where possible and working around the missing notes. Savoy Brown and Chicken Shack were with the same agency and I found a real improvement if we played a gig after Chicken Shack. Christine was a rather limited pianist in those days and apparently lived up to her name, insisting that the piano was tuned to concert pitch and in good shape before she would perform. Thanks Christine, you made life much easier for those who followed.

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