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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: spooky on January 04, 2021, 01:41:18 PM
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Just found an old concert ticket from 1972, Durham University used to get all the big name bands..😁 40p !!!!
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Saw them a couple of years ago and they still have it. The new album is good too...
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Saw 'Ash' twice ....very underrated band.
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Eeee..... them were’t Days eh, when I were a lad. (Literally) 9 years old to be exact. Shows how expensive things have become though I suppose. Although 40p back then wouldn’t have been that cheap would it. 1972... wasn’t that the year of decimalisation??
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14th February 1971 was 'D' day.. I think my weekly pay was about £6.00..certainly no more, I was riding a Vespa SS180. 8)
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Ah 71... nowt but a lad then. Still had another 8 years to go before I could get my lag over....... a moped. That to was an SS. Not a Vespa though, a Honda SS50. Loved it I did
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Yes I'm a fan too. Saw them at the Birmingham Odean in '78 when the side panel fell off my C15 runaround approaching Bearwood on the Hagley Road.Went back next morning and found it battered on the grass central reservation. Have seen Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash several times at Worcester and recently at Bromsgrove in March this year -just as the lockdown came into force! Still a great gig (in the sky?) (to quote another of their contemporaries!)
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Never seen them but being an avid listener of planet rock radio, which I have on all day everyday at work I’ve been “introduced” to them and there material, of which I will say I do like. I’ve even warmed to jethro tull 🤪(I must be getting old😉) . Bit more of a hard rock kinda bloke generally though. I was brought listening to the MIGHTY slade, sweet and T Rex. So as the GREAT Noddy Holder used to say... “KEEP ONNA ROCKIN” 🤘🤘
Cheers, Michael
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Other bands I remember seeing in Dunelm...Free, Fleetwood Mac, Pretty Things, Hawkwind and lots of others from `72 to `80 , then a bit later the Stranglers, great days...
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Wow.. free!!, would have loved to have seen them in their heyday. Was it Peter Greens fleetwood mac Mr Spooky?... if so I’m well envious.
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Never saw the original Wishbone Ash when Ted Turner was on lead, When I saw them it was Laurie Wisefield - interesting fact - I noticed that a few years ago Laurie Wisefield was part of Geoff Waynes band on the 'War of the Worlds' live stage tour ( Bloody Marvelous if you haven't seen it!).
Barclay James Harvest anyone?.........possible Britain most underatted band?
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Saw Free quite a few times, pretty sure Peter green was there, also Peter Framptons camel, I keep remembering others... yes, BJH played in Durham as well...
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Believe this or not- I saw Fleetwood Mac (unfortunately the post Peter Green blues Anglo / American orientation at ...guess where...? One of the cattle sheds at the Stafford Showground in June 1980!Went with my girlfriend in my TR6 - the car not the bike-fuel gauge could be seen going down in the outside lane of the M6 on the way...18 mpg on a good day thanks to Lucas mechanical fuel injection-you could smell the fumes with the hood down......happy days.........
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Saw Free quite a few times, pretty sure Peter green was there, also Peter Framptons camel, I keep remembering others... yes, BJH played in Durham as well... Status Quo at least once,
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Yes Laurie Wisefield was one of the twin guitarists when I saw them-touring "No Smoke Without Fire"but I prefer Argus and There's The rub if I'm honest...
My faves are the prog rockers -early Genesis with Pete Gabriel and Steve Hackett and Yes and of course The Pink Floyd and Led Zep.
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YES. “wondrous stories” one of my all time faves. Found out very recently that John Anderson hails from Accrington which is just down the road from where I now live.
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I saw Wishbone Ash at the Reading Festival in 1975 along with Yes, Lindisfarne, Hawkwind, Heavy Metal Kids, Jack the Lad etc. Me and my mate went from Nottingham to Leicester on our CZ 125s to get the tickets. The three day concert cost us £7 I think.
The year before I had seen Hawkwind at DeMonfort Hall in Leicester. It was their dancer Stacia's last ever performance. I tripped on the way to the coach and broke my ankle and stood on it all night then had to go to A&E the next day to have it plastered. I lost money as I had to be off work for two weeks but it was worth it.
Ian
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I saw Wishbone Ash at the Reading Festival in 1975 along with Yes, Lindisfarne, Hawkwind, Heavy Metal Kids, Jack the Lad etc. Me and my mate went from Nottingham to Leicester on our CZ 125s to get the tickets. The three day concert cost us £7 I think.
The year before I had seen Hawkwind at DeMonfort Hall in Leicester. It was their dancer Stacia's last ever performance. I tripped on the way to the coach and broke my ankle and stood on it all night then had to go to A&E the next day to have it plastered. I lost money as I had to be off work for two weeks but it was worth it.
Ian
Well I guess it would have been worth it to see Stacia's last performance. I love the In Search of Space album....."adjust me......".....
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I tripped on the way to the coach and broke my ankle and stood on it all night then had to go to A&E the next day to have it plastered.
Ian
Tripped and plastered - surprised you can remember it.....
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I tripped on the way to the coach and broke my ankle and stood on it all night then had to go to A&E the next day to have it plastered.
Ian
Tripped and plastered - surprised you can remember it.....
Or maybe you were just TRIPPING maaaan ... 🤘??
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Oh yes seeing Stacia dance to Silver Machine was definitely worth it. I think though that I must have been a jinx in those days as a few years earlier I also saw Peter Knowles' last game for Wolves. Either that or they thought 'oh well Ian has seen me so it can't get any better might as well pack it in'.
In those days I was strictly a Players No 6 and Newcastle Brown boy, so no tripping of that sort, though I am keeping quiet about being plastered!
Ian