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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 23:01:32 GMT
Excellent 'cinema verité' documentary on the great man.
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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Jan 27, 2017 14:53:05 GMT
Hi this is a question for anyone, did any one on the forum every see davey play? and if yes , what are you recollections.
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Post by robbie on Jan 27, 2017 18:23:12 GMT
tell you who i did go to see last sunday evening at the sage gateshead...............tommy emmanuel, absoloutly mind blowing, still cannot believe it
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 18:47:09 GMT
I saw Davy Graham in the Marchioness of Bute folk club in Cardiff in 1974. He was amazingly good. He didn't speak or sing, just played wonderful piece after piece. It's probably my favourite gig ever. It even inspired me to play there as a floor singer for a while.
I saw him again a few years before he died, in Exeter, and he was very poor. A great shame. A great musician though in his earlier years and he influenced generations of guitarists.
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 27, 2017 19:21:22 GMT
I saw Davey sometime in the last couple of years of his life. His music was powerful, but sadly his lifestyle had taken its toll. I know Mark Pavey of Les Cousins Records. Mark recorded, produced and released Davey's album, Broken Biscuits, in 2007. He also assembled, remastered and released, Anthology-Lost Tapes 1961–2007, in 2012. Mark did a great job working with Davey, who at times was not the easiest person to be around. Somewhere... I have a DVD of a gig in a pub from 2005/6 that was given to me. Here is a letter that Mark wrote to Davey after his death in 2010.... Dear Davy
It’s been two years exactly since you made your exit. I don’t think a day has passed when I haven’t thought about you or picked up the guitar and wondered what you would do with it.
Recently I’ve started taking classical guitar lessons in your honour. I remember once you looked at me in disbelief when I said no-one would care if I could play Recuerdos de la Alhambra or not and you said to me, “But Mark; you would know…”
I was looking at some pictures the other day and going through the recordings we made together. I wish I could see you doing it all again, hear the surprises and ask you about the things I still need to know.
I have the recordings but I have to remember that they are only that. They are the “what” and not the “how”.
I’m working with Beverley Martyn now; she understood you pretty well. Paul loved your music but couldn’t play it; of course you know that. Nobody could; except maybe Geno.
I didn’t know how to deal with the loss. It took awhile for me to figure out a sense of the road again. There wasn’t anywhere to drive to. I didn’t have any gigs. Duck Baker helped out. I’m glad you got his letter. He loved you.
Some of the other guys were awkward around you when you were alive and kicking.
I wished I’d followed up more of the clues you gave me, how many times did you mention Johnny Silvo? I nearly missed out there; probably the best singer of a generation. I’ve remedied that now: he’s 74; alive and well in Norway.
If you see Steve, tell him I’m sorry I didn’t visit him more.
The last I heard from you was a funny dream in which you were playing a wild tune you claimed was Winston Churchill’s favourite. You told me its pretty competitive up there and rolled your eyes. It was good to see you again.
Things down here are still pretty grim. The debt bubble you objected to has burst and price is still not acquainted with value. You were always right about that. I remember when I nearly bought that Jaguar XJ we’d been driving past for weeks and those other people were looking at it; “They won’t buy it Mark; look at their shoes…”
Martin Carthy hasn’t returned his MBE yet; some of us down here hope he will.
If I could have the time again we would have stayed at the Hilton more often as opposed to those Travel-lodges but otherwise we lived as high as we could. We certainly ate out a lot.
You’d taught guitar for twenty-five years and had had enough of that I know. You were living the real blues and I’m glad we got to share it with all those people.
The work you did then is what has led to all the new people continuing to discover your music now.
One day I’ll stand by your resting place and pour a glass of wine on the ground as you asked. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to do that yet.
Mark Pavey December 15 2010
That letter is online at... www.daveygraham.moonfruit.com/letter/4546561612Incidentally, Mark Pavey filmed and recorded the first MM's Mitra performance at the Troubadour Club in 2013. Shine On Michael
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 8:41:30 GMT
Hi this is a question for anyone, did any one on the forum every see davey play? and if yes , what are you recollections. al I have a dim memory of seeing him in the seventies at a Sunday lunchtime jam session somewhere in West Kensington but amongst the players was Clive Chaman and,not being aware of Davey Graham's stature at the time was much more interested in seeing Jeff Beck's ex-bass player! There was also a rather loud trumpet player (may have been Digby Fairweather) so Davey didn't have much of a chance.
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Post by SoloBill on Jan 28, 2017 17:13:25 GMT
I saw Davey Graham in his later years at the late John 'Fats' Sutherland's place at Dunnet Head lighthouse. John said Davey was 'difficult'. My recollection is that there was still some genius there but I was trying very hard to believe it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 19:15:41 GMT
Dunnet Head lighthouse - must be the most surreal location for a gig. I once hitched from Thurso to Dunnet, and walked to and from Dunnet Head, just to say I had been to the Lizard and Dunnet Head - the most southerly and northerly points of GB.
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Post by bonzo on Jan 28, 2017 19:24:46 GMT
The end of the trail?
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