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Post by ken1953clark on Jan 28, 2010 19:53:23 GMT
I'm sure he is appearing all round the country, but the Yorkshire contingent may be interested in Peter Green & Friends on Sat 20th Feb at the Holmfirth Picturedrome. Tribute acts mostly play there so its nice to see someone real. Saw Johnny Winter there last year. www.picturedrome.netOther dates you might be interested in... 6th Feb: Ruby Turner Sun 12th Sep: Robin Trower Fri 17th Sept: The Hamsters (Southend's finest) are doing their Jimi Hendrix 40th Anniversary Memorial Tour. Excellent live and the Hendrix set is great. |
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Post by percythewonderant on Jan 29, 2010 17:56:06 GMT
So - Rob Trower doesn't count as Southend's Finest?
Is he doing his Hendrix set too?
I realise that Ruby doesn't come from Southend so does she just set fire to a Strat?
Perce
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Post by ken1953clark on Jan 29, 2010 17:59:42 GMT
I always thought of him as Rayleigh, rather than Southend, but maybe you are right :-)
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Post by percythewonderant on Jan 29, 2010 18:07:56 GMT
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Post by Mike L on Jan 29, 2010 19:25:01 GMT
Just to confirm Robin Trower was definetely from Rayliegh & I believe he's still around.
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Post by Mike L on Jan 29, 2010 19:33:06 GMT
I don't know if anyone would be interested but a strange thing happened last year. I visited a music shop in Essex. Its a big shop with a warehouse area out the back which I always wander into to find unusual strings. I heard some instantly recognisable guitar playing from the back area & wandered out only to find Peter Green & a friend playing. I hung around behind a rack of shelves & listened for 20 minutes then, knowing what a private man PG is quietly slipped away before I was noticed. A once in a lifetime moment & a real privelige.
Mike
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Post by ken1953clark on Jan 29, 2010 20:30:47 GMT
The Hamsters actually bill themselves as Westcliff's Finest, The Southend bit was my invention. Yes Southend was my home for 50 odd year so I have a slight bias (prefer Yorkshire now, Sarfend (it seems to me) is full of people with fake eastenders accents and haircuts).  Juppy and Wilco, yes. Juppy seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth, he's either in Bath or the Lake District depending on who you believe. Wilco seems to be in, or with, the Blockheads these days. RT used to play at the pub at the bottom of Crown Hill in Rayleigh. Pre-Procol Harum (the Paramounts) played the Elms in Leigh. But for a gent you couldn't beat Lee Brilleaux (RIP), a diamond geezer as they say down there. The 'gig that got away' for me was when I was 13 and what I knew about music could be written on the back of a postage stamp (and leave room for my name and address), The then unknown Jimi Hendrix played the Hadleigh Kingsway on his 1st trip over. wow, that would have been something. Remember what they say, if you remember the 60's and 70's you wern't really there  |
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Post by ken1953clark on Jan 29, 2010 20:34:35 GMT
BTW I bought Mojo today and I was right, there's an ad for the Peter Green tour and it does cover most of the country so most of you will get a chance to see him if you want.
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Post by honeyboy on Jan 30, 2010 11:16:12 GMT
World Keeps On Turning..
Sublime..
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Post by Steverb on Jan 30, 2010 20:22:01 GMT
Wow! That is a fantastic clip Honeyboy. Peter Green at the height of his powers was just superb. I have never had the bottle to go see him live since he started playing again - I'm always worried that it would be a let down and I'd rather think of him as he was in his prime.
I was talking to Michael at the Keighley gig last night about being an Essex boy living in Yorkshire for the past 30 years; all this talk of Rayleigh, Canvey and Westcliffe is almost making me feel nostalgic about growing up in Grays. I was too young for the Shades scene etc but I have very fond memories of the Kursaal ballroom in Sarfend, bouncing up and down on the sprung dancefloor to Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy & Wishbone Ash in the early 70s.
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Post by percythewonderant on Feb 1, 2010 12:33:46 GMT
That old world keeps on turning indeed, I have seen PG a couple of times since his 'comeback' and one was a lack luster performance the other a gem.
You must be a bunch of toffs if you came from Sarfend - Where I come from was Sowfen with the emphasis on the Ow!
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Post by Gerry C on Feb 1, 2010 16:33:20 GMT
Ken wrote: "people with fake eastenders accents and haircuts"
What's wrong with having a haircut? Had mine done just last week! ;D
Cheerily,
Gerry C
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Post by ken1953clark on Feb 2, 2010 22:52:00 GMT
was referring to the 'Mitchell Brothers' style, i.e. no hair. looks " 'ard" (i've been told).
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Post by frank64f on Feb 3, 2010 15:33:20 GMT
Hey Ken,
some of us have no hair because - we have none to cut !
Funny, found an old cassette player in the loft today, tuned it on to see if it worked, first up was - The Stumble, from Peter Green's Mayall period. Pity it didn't play at the correct speed!
Frank
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