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Post by vent on Jun 16, 2020 8:04:34 GMT
Terry's obit by his wife Kate appeared in the 'dead tree' press edition of the printed Guardian last weekend (Saturday 13 June), page 9 of Journal section, main paper.
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Post by vent on Jun 13, 2020 19:41:42 GMT
Hi Dessery PM'd you. Cheers
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Post by vent on Jun 13, 2020 19:13:16 GMT
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Post by vent on Apr 23, 2020 12:12:04 GMT
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Post by vent on Apr 8, 2020 12:54:42 GMT
That is very sad news Michael.
I’ve many great memories of seeing Terry play.
Used to see Terry at the Weaver’s regularly along with you and Ed, also with Jessie Taylor too – maybe Ponty Bone as well sometimes?
He was quite an entertainer and a cracking songwriter - also great company with some wonderful stories. While I was a psychiatric nursing assistant at Fairmile Hospital in Berkshire it turned out that he’d had a job there cleaning windows – no wonder we both thought each other’s faces were familiar, even through the toughened glass of a Victorian asylum.
He was incredibly funny and responsible for one of the best off-the-cuff stage asides I’ve ever seen. He had a short-lived Monday night solo residency at The World’s End on Stroud Green Road which tried (and failed) to become a live music venue. Struggling in front of a load of mainly disinterested drinkers he was giving it his usual all when one the feet fell away from the mike stand causing it to fall, slowly, like a felled tree in a cartoon. His eyes followed it all the way down to the stage floor.
On picking it up, mid-song, and trying to balance it he uttered the immortal words “This really IS the f’ing World’s End”. The World’s End’s still there and, when passing on the bus, that memory often as not still brings a smile to my face.
Nothing but fond memories of Terry as a person, a songwriter and a performer.
Condolences to all.
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Post by vent on Mar 16, 2020 23:54:19 GMT
Roy Hudd has been no stranger to the forum in the past as he owned a National with an interesting history so surely his death is "relevant to this forum"? michaelmesser.proboards.com/post/26628
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Post by vent on Mar 14, 2020 13:47:17 GMT
Similar discussion was up in Talking Blues few weeks ago. The Rat modded V5 I recommended attracted no bidders at £150 and went unsold! That was a bargain. Great amps when modded, check out the link to Rat site where he tells you about original V5 and how mods have improved it. michaelmesser.proboards.com/post/93396
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Post by vent on Mar 3, 2020 15:54:04 GMT
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Post by vent on Feb 18, 2020 19:08:52 GMT
Have a look at Rat Valve Amps, they're modded versions of commercially available amps. No longer being modded but they crop up used fairly regularly at affordable prices. I've got mods of Bugera V5 boutique amp and Epiphone Valve Junior (with added spring reverb tank). They have power scaling meaning they can distort a lower volume, ideal for practice. Easily loud enough cranked. The power scaling on the Valve Junior has a "brown out" setting as mentioned by FC above. Both are 5w, really portable and the modding has ironed out any problems that the original models had. The website may tell you what need to know about the various mods that have been done. He may still handwire Fender Blues Juniors, I'm not sure. www.ratvalveamps.com/
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Post by vent on Jan 12, 2020 21:56:50 GMT
"Cigar Box Blues The Makers of a Revolution" on BBC iPlayer is only available til 8.00pm this Wednesday, Jan 15th.
If you haven't seen it, catch it before it goes!
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Post by vent on Dec 24, 2019 0:02:16 GMT
PM sent. Cheers
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Post by vent on Apr 4, 2019 23:47:21 GMT
Towards the end of her days my mum had hell with the neighbours who took advantage of her age to 'transgress' planning regs etc and did a load of inconsiderate, illegal building work and threatened her when she objected.
When the house was on the market after she died a family turned up and looked at one of the rooms that was a 'party wall' to their property and said "That's ideal for '?' to practice their drumming".
SOLD!
Last time I looked on Zoopla the family were still living there and the turds who blighted my mum's last years had fled.
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold...
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Post by vent on Mar 9, 2019 18:06:38 GMT
As well as Red Rooster festival on June 1 Cedric is also playing Dingwalls in Camden on Tuesday June 4th.
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Post by vent on Feb 25, 2019 11:51:03 GMT
I can confirm that pub rock, the genre that was around London in the late ‘70s, still exists – along with some of its finest exponents. I headed down Sunday to Whitstable for a free afternoon gig at the Duke of Cumberland – a great pub with a proper stage, Shepherd Neame ales etc. Went to see Bill Kirchen, the nimble-fingered Telecaster twanger from Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, fronting a cracking trio. Paul ‘bassman’ Riley from Chilli Willi, Roogalator, Rockpile etc and Malcolm Mills laid down some solid backing. Their two sets went down a treat and Bill announced he loves playing a pub. There’s hope yet! Catch him in UK / Europe in the next couple of weeks. Incidentally, while in Roogalator, Paul Riley sported the first Hawaiian shirt I’d ever seen ‘in the flesh’... Danny Adler of Roogalator was some guitar player too with a keen sense of mischief. The tale of shenanigans with Flyright Records over a ‘legendary undiscovered bluesman’ can be enjoyed here. www.charliegillett.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3111
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Post by vent on Feb 18, 2019 23:41:25 GMT
Totally agree. Saw him at Rough Trade and Blues Kitchen in London, ace. Agree about the ante being upped when he picked up the sticks, at RT he played so hard and solid he totalled the bass drum pedal. Cedric graciously signed my Chickenbone John cigar box. Really top bloke with time for a chat to everybody. Original brief for that CBG was as a Wilko Johnson 'lookalike' and had it signed by the mighty Wilko last year. One guitar, two legends...
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