Mickeyboro

Have been world travelling for 10 months and touched a bass half a dozen times. How I look forward to playing every day ...

Saw a band last weekend and had to move away from the stage when the strobes started. Seemed they put more thought into the light show than the music. And it wasn't a stadium but a bloody car park... We ended up leaving. So these things can have a negative effect on the audience too.

A fantastic interviewee; I had the pleasure three times. Remember him discussing pre-Yes band the Syn supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Marquee and revealing that Noel Redding couldn't master 'Hey Joe' at the soundcheck. Squire and Hendrix would have been some combination!

Rod fronts the current Lindisfarne on slide guitar. Before him the frontman was Ray Jackson. It does get confusing ... But the music of James Alan Hull lives on.

Very nice. The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz has very much this feel.

We're trying to do our trip on £150 a day plus air fares. A business class round the world ticket is about £7500.

Having spent the last ten months travelling the world on a 'geriatric gap year', I am planning a road trip to the above destinations in August as the unashamedly music-centred finale. As BC members betwen them have done everything already (!), I would love to hear any hints and tips you've gathered from previous trips. Apart from the fact it's gonna be flipping hot... Thanks all!

A lot to answer for? Those trackie bottoms, for a start!

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1463441474' post='3051437'] I got smashed in whitstable with the bass bloke from caravan,although i wasnt aware who he was. [/quote] Was he?

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1462460632' post='3043212'] The first time I met Jenny Haan (Babe Ruth band & early 70s pin-up) she was standing in my kitchen and I had no idea who she was. To be fair, Sounds used photos that concentrated on her legs and not her face! After a good 10 ten minutes of to-ing and fro-ing, he said 'do you know who I am?' and then told me...David Frost. [/quote] Didn't 'Hello good evening and welcome' give it away Dave? 😈

My sister was keen on his brother, David... 😆

Paul McCartney - in Portland, second gig of the world tour. Did I ever tell you I saw the Beatles? Attending the Cream reunion 11 years ago, I was assaulted by a bunch of people taking 'my' picture on smartphones. I turned round to see, in a box behind me, fellow audience members Macca, Heather Mills, Ringo, Barbara Bach and Tom Hanks. By the encore they'd long since disappeared into the night...but I saw the Beatles, all right?! 😆

Nice post! Out in SF at the moment, wish we had coincided...

Assuming we ain't seen it all before

It is indeed a cracker! Have you heard the live version that started out as a single B-side but has turned up on some comps? Same song but twice as fast...

The TV clips I've seen show a rock band, albeit one that thought 'outside the box'. I credit jazz for that! Seeing the 'making of Aja' DVD, with all that constant re-recording, made me think they had OCD problems. (As once did I.) Those first two albums - when they were a band, not a duo - are still among my all time Top 20... So guess we agree to disagree!

There's a clip of my last band on YouTube where, when I'm introduced, I respond with some unlikely, super-fast and totally random run that sounds like Stanley Clarke on speed. The singer, rightly gobsmacked, says 'where the hell did that come from?' And continues by getting the keyboardist's name utterly wrong...

I had a ticket for their 1974 tour of the UK they abandoned partway thru. I then thought them the most inventive rock band I had heard. Finally saw them in 2000 and they had disappeared up their own fundament! What went wrong?

People who pay for a name act will put up with a lot more. If you don't want to lose a pub audience, make an effort to make 'em yours! On a different note... Saw Rod Stewart in Vegas Wednesday - his banter and crowd control exceeds his singing but he gets away with it on charisma alone.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1458842496' post='3011515'] Technically, when that was recorded they were called "The Jacksons". Not sure what the reason for the name change was. [/quote] Motown copyrighted the name. Jermaine married Berry Gordys daughter and stayed; the others quit.

Mine came with that mod done and I have never had any problems.

Is OMG a permitted response?

Every track I know on here I adore! Except Brilliant Mind by Furniture - my first band shared a bill with them once at the Moonlight Club and ended up with the ****ty end of the stick. Actually, the song's not half bad. But I still hate 'em after 36 years. What a sad b@stard I am!

Good grief! A Brickenbacker...