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BongoBlue said:
Bass - Noel Redding of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. (Settled in my hometown back in 1977 and never left.)
Drums - Mitch Mitchell - ditto; he was visiting Noel at the time. Only time I ever met him.
Guitar - Tom McGuinness - Manfred Mann and McGuinness Flint. (Has relatives in the area.)
A couple of very good local musicians and singers.
And lil' old me - without a fucking camera.

A hell of a going away gig it was.
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I'm guessing DeBarra's
 
Probably said already but Ravi Shankar is Norah Jones father.
I wonder are they the biggest selling parent and their child artists.
 
Marklr said:


I have it on fairly good authority that the power cut was intentionally done by the then manager Gareth Evans. He instructed Cressa to turn the guitar amp up too high if the singing was too bad. Apparently he didn't want the world to hear how bad Ian's singing was at that stage. Could be bullshit though ;)
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In 2005/6, I was rehearsing with a band I was in when this guy in a suit stuck his head up against the window eating a bag of fish and chips..We thought what the fuck so we invited him in to eat his dinner off the table in the corner if he wished. He accepted and we carried on playing and he seemed to like it. Anyway, we had a break and got talking to him...Turned out to be Gareth Evens. I didn't have a clue who he was, but two of the lads were Roses fans and knew exactly who he was after he presented his card..His card had the famous paint splatter picture on the back and I remembered him taking credit for the idea of the pic. He checked out and sort of managed us for a while, even talking about getting us to do another Spike island gig. For one reason or another the band fizzled out and it came to nowt.
 
Bill Walker said:
Christ mate, that's amazing. What music we're you playing ?
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Kind of a mixture really. Noel used to do a lot of old Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers type of stuff but mixed in a couple of Hendrix choons like "Hey Joe". Especially with Mitch there which was bloody amazing. I warbled couple of Dire Straits tunes as well, as I recall. Like I say, I didn't have a camera too...it really was a fantastic session.
 
BongoBlue said:
Kind of a mixture really. Noel used to do a lot of old Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers type of stuff but mixed in a couple of Hendrix choons like "Hey Joe". Especially with Mitch there which was bloody amazing. I warbled couple of Dire Straits tunes as well, as I recall. Like I say, I didn't have a camera too...it really was a fantastic session.
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I read back in the day that Noel was a guitarist but agreed to play Bass in the Hendrix band. I always admired Mitch drumming, he could play any style it seems, Awesome, what a memory for you.
What town was this ?
 
Bill Walker said:
I read back in the day that Noel was a guitarist but agreed to play Bass in the Hendrix band. I always admired Mitch drumming, he could play any style it seems, Awesome, what a memory for you.
What town was this ?
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You're right. Noel was a guitarist originally. He went to audition for the Animals as a guitarist but they had already found one by the time Noel got there, so his agent said something along the lines of: "Well there's a weird looking bloke in another room who plays guitar who's looking for a bassist". Well the rest is history...
Noel really was an excellent acoustic and rhythm guitarist though all right.
Clonakilty is the town. Best little town in Ireland. But of course I am utterly biased...;)
 
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Thatchergate was the colloquial title of a hoax perpetrated by members of the anarcho-punk band Crass during the aftermath of the 1982 Falklands War. Using excerpts from speeches by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, a recording was spliced together which purported to be a telephone conversation between the two leaders. During the course of the tape Reagan seems to state his intention to use Europe as a battle front to show the Soviet leaders the US's resolve in a nuclear conflict, whilst Thatcher appears to imply that HMS Sheffield was deliberately sacrificed in order to escalate the Falklands war.

When the recording first surfaced into the public domain in 1983, it was initially considered by the US State Department to have been propaganda produced by the Soviet KGB, a story reported by both the San Francisco Chronicand The Sunday Times. However, coverage of the tape by the UK broadsheet The Observer in January 1984 identified the true source as Crass.Crass have stated that great care was taken to ensure their anonymity, and that to this day it is a mystery as to how Observer journalists were able to trace the hoax back to them.

In January 2014 official government documents were released to the National Archives revealing the concerns of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A Foreign Office adviser's letter to Thatcher said: "This looks like a rather clumsy operation. We have no evidence so far about who is responsible. ...SIS doubt whether this is a Soviet operation. It is possible that one of the Argentine intelligence services might have been behind it; or alternatively it might be the work of left-wing groups in this country
 
BimboBob said:
A-ha were Norwegian physicists in the early 80's.Being a country a bit behind the rest of the world they got their name when their lead singer Horton Market jumped into a hot bath and had to leap out shouting "a-ha" and subsequently discovered he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.
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Ah ha. Pull the other one.
 
J.G.Blue. said:
The Boys Are Back in Town song by Thin Lizzy is thought to have been written about a bunch of criminals who used to drink it the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range,
Phil Lynotts mum used to help run the place & Phil used to drink in there sometimes, two members of the gang were nicknamed Jimmy the Weed & Johnny the Fox.
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The QSG.

They’ve actually got a song called “Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed” about the two QSG members:
 
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