Owen Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 11 minutes ago, BassTractor said: Laughter galore ensued; they'd agreed to not let me in on this and to then watch my response.) Comedy gold. Those crazy guys! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) we played a pub gig many moons ago in Chester and the landlord asked if his mate Paul could join us for a song , it was Paul Reynolds from flock of seagulls , our guitarist was mightily unimpressed with the thraping his 12 string acoustic received on a loud version of Dakota 😂 Edited March 18 by lurksalot 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 13/03/2024 at 18:01, StingRayBoy42 said: I played the Sousaphone on an episode of Lucy Worsley's history thing on the telly, the one about the Peterloo massacre. She's lovely - really friendly and down to earth. you reminded me of this: 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Talking of TV appearances, I managed to get 2 tracks from our home-recorded demo on the telly. One was background on a John Craven's Newsround piece about raves (!) and the other was on Crimewatch as the music playing at a party while someone got murdered. Fame!!! 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I've been a TV a few times. The first was a music show that Garry Crowley presented. He interviewed us and then we played a few live tracks. Be kind, its 27 years ago and we had no idea but we got signed after this TV show. A lot of our music also got features of extreme sports shows on Eurosport etc. for stuff like snowboarding, water skiing etc. so they then did a special feature on us. Be kind, this was 26 years ago I was a little wasted on various substances. We then had one of our tracks used in a Casio advert to advertise Casio G-Shock watches in Spanish cinema's. We got paid £500 for this and I actually wrote this track on an acoustic guitar that only had 2 strings on it whilst sitting on the landing of some ones house in Farnborough. The main part is just the bass line which is used here with the drums and feeding back guitar. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borntohang Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) Met plenty of already well-known musicians, but in terms of unexpected trajectory we played with Idles in a tiny little Sheffield basement in 2016. Well Done had just been playlisted but there were as many people onstage as paying customers so we played to them, and then they played to us. They were pretty much fully-formed already and the atmosphere felt genuinely dangerous, like there was about to be a fight onstage and they weren't too fussed if it was between the band or the audience. We did an EP swap after the show and theirs is now heading for triple figures on the second hand market - ours of course is still worthless. They kindly invited us to support at the significantly bigger (and sold out) Plug down the road when Brutalism hit and made enough of an impression that we pretty much broke up after that second show: we were getting tired of trying to push forward in aggro music and Idles were doing it so much more effectively that it solidified our need to do other things. I went into pop music and the singer went the other way into extremely hardcore electronic noise. Didn't play with them again after that, but I still deal with them occasionally through Hiwatt work and took a bass amp down to the Ally Pally shows in 2019 - went from 10 people to 10K in three years and have only really got bigger since then. You could see they were going to do well, but I absolutely didn't have them pegged as arena headliners. In fairness I also didn't peg Snow Patrol, Kasabian, or Bring Me The Horizon when they played the 100 cap venue I worked at over the years, so perhaps I'm just not that well tuned! Edited March 18 by borntohang 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswareham Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 4 hours ago, Linus27 said: I've been a TV a few times. The first was a music show that Garry Crowley presented. He interviewed us and then we played a few live tracks. Be kind, its 27 years ago and we had no idea but we got signed after this TV show. Well appropriately for this thread, I went to sixth form college with John and was good friends with Sid from Inter until I moved away from the area. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorris Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 This may be pushing it a bit - but had the quickest of words with Toby Jones in London on Saturday. Now I know he's an actor rather than a musician. But you have to see Barbarian Sound System. 😳 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorris Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Also "met" - in the loosest sense of the word - Peter Hook twice and managed not to say anything stupid imo 🙂 But these were at DJ / Book events so not sure it counts 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbiscuits Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 I one did an open mic slot in Swansea with a chap called Peter Singh, a famous local Elvis impersonator. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, bassbiscuits said: I one did an open mic slot in Swansea with a chap called Peter Singh, a famous local Elvis impersonator. That must have been awesome, were you All Shook Up about it 🤣 Edited March 19 by Linus27 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 In a degrees of separation brush with greatness, my mother is a piano teacher... Her first teacher was the German pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 16 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: In a degrees of separation brush with greatness, my mother is a piano teacher... Her first teacher was the German pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt! I think we can lock the thread now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 9 hours ago, rmorris said: This may be pushing it a bit - but had the quickest of words with Toby Jones in London on Saturday. Now I know he's an actor rather than a musician. But you have to see Barbarian Sound System. 😳 I saw him in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. He was playing an orchestra conductor, he had the moves right! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 22 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: In a degrees of separation brush with greatness, my mother is a piano teacher... Her first teacher was the German pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt! When I was at college, I had a music teacher who was taught by Bela Bartok. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 I played a function gig a few years ago for the birthday of an elderly member of the UK nobility. After setting up the stage, I was chatting with the birthday lady who was absolutely charming and very good company. When I got home next day I googled her, to discover her amazing past which included spending an afternoon drinking tea with Adolf Hitler! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Cue a short repetition of one of my stories about composer Krzysztof Penderecki. High-brow, silent, socially awkward man. Still, I asked whether he listened to non-classical music, mentioning jazz, Gentle Giant, Yes and Zappa as examples. Him: "Shallow music." Me: "Give me some credit. I'm a musical person, and love for example your stuff ..." Him: "I am more musical than you are." 😃 Edited March 19 by BassTractor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky L Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Miming along with the one and only TV's cheerful chappy- Mr Keith Chegwin 😁 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 22 hours ago, badger said: you reminded me of this: I wonder if that did actually come from Lucy Worsley. 😆 Viz do actually print genuine letters from readers. I know someone who's had a few printed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 3 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: In a degrees of separation brush with greatness, my mother is a piano teacher... Her first teacher was the German pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt! . . . . what band did he play in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 We had a half decent trad band in Cheltenham in the sixties. It wasn’t really our thing but it was commercial. We organised a tour of Cornwall in 63: RN Culdrose, Newlyn Fishmarket, that sort of thing. Our final gig was at the Flamingo Ballroom at Redruth. When we arrived we were met by the owner, Joy Hone, who told us that Georgie Fame was staying at her adjoining hotel recovering from sunburn. As we were setting up he came up on the stage, sat at the piano and played Dat Dere with me on bass and our alto sax player. Not many trad bands would play that. We returned the compliment by booking him and the Blue Flames into Cheltenham a few weeks later. For £50, as I recall. Happy days. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 I was playing at a wedding in Middlesborough many years ago when who should join us on stage but ex-Whitesnake slide guitarist extraordinaire Micky Moody. Despite being a disco tribute act, we charged through a more than decent version of "Fool for your Loving" with him, followed by a lengthy blues jam. Tremendous fun, and he was a lovely guy too. Bruce Foxton bought my band a round when we were playing at a pub in Guildford one time. He sat and chatted with us for the whole of the mid-gig break: also a lovely guy. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asingardenof Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 10 minutes ago, bassace said: We had a half decent trad band in Cheltenham in the sixties. It wasn’t really our thing but it was commercial. We organised a tour of Cornwall in 63: RN Culdrose, Newlyn Fishmarket, that sort of thing. Our final gig was at the Flamingo Ballroom at Redruth. When we arrived we were met by the owner, Joy Hone, who told us that Georgie Fame was staying at her adjoining hotel recovering from sunburn. As we were setting up he came up on the stage, sat at the piano and played Dat Dere with me on bass and our alto sax player. Not many trad bands would play that. We returned the compliment by booking him and the Blue Flames into Cheltenham a few weeks later. For £50, as I recall. Happy days. The Flamingo ballroom is now a Morrisons. The local nostalgia groups are very grumpy about that turn of events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbiscuits Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Not sure if this is genuine, but I used to do solo acoustic guitar / vocals gigs at a city centre pub, which had double booked acts on a couple of occasions. This time I arrived to set up and found an older guy with a guitar also expecting to play. We tried to establish what was going on and he proudly told me he was called “Guitar George” - as in the guy referred to in Sultans Of Swing. Apparently he’d been working on a visiting market that day nearby, and the landlord had suggested he played. In the end he didn’t take up my invite to both share the gig as he didn’t want to take any of my money. So I never found out if he indeed did know all the chords. Edited March 19 by bassbiscuits 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbiscuits Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Just now, bassbiscuits said: Oops duplicate post Edited March 19 by bassbiscuits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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