https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxbx0-O8kY#t=242

We will file this under the chapter, great musicians make great music..

Simple and very effective ......
everything else can come later..

Our roving report is out there doing his bit right to the end, in between gigs, nice find again Donny he had the Bert Weedon book play in day, Nigel had the same book

Tony I am glad you like the song I am actually sitting in my car outside my next gig waiting to set up happy new year to all...

Donny you will just love these, wind it on to 2.40 Don't see any arrangers

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What a find Tony, I cut my teeth on Skiffle, sixteen years old straight from school, tea chest bass, washboard drums, acoustic guitars, happy days.

Gambling Man
Sweet Sixteen
Worried man
Rock Island Line
Freight Train
John Henry
My old Man's a dustman
Does your chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight
Great Grand Coulee Dam
The list went on.

They don't write them like that anymore. I think I can still remember the word's, can't remember much else though.

We used to play the interval at the local village hop, wait for it, half a crown each for half an hour, for the youngsters that's twelve and a half pence in new money.

Thanks' for the memories LOL

Here's another memory, Casino Blackpool we hit the fairly big time for country lads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lfsA7l7RQ4

Only two of us left I'm afraid. The video was in memory of Mel the Bass player.

Col

Great stuff, Col. Wasn't that just the best of times, Britain in the sixties. I tell you, if we ever had to live this life over . . .

We used to play in those huge old cinemas in London between the movies - Shepherd's Bush Odeon, Holloway Odeon, the State, Kilburn. Fantastic times.

Here's a you tube clip of what were up to in 1965.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6SOEWXddFw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dr6SOEWXddFw

Oh for a time machine.

Drat! How do I turn that into a clickable link on this iPad?

"Britain in the 60s..."
Thanx for sending that stuff over here! Gave me a career and a smile that hasn't gone away all this time!
Thanx, Gents!(...er, Mates?")

Let's just say that we 'processed' what came over from America in the first place.

Wow! I saw Bruce Welch (The Shadows) sitting at the table in that video; I wonder why he didn't play.

No Bruce Welch in there Andrea, but the chirpy kid at the beginning of the clip is Steve Marriott just prior to Small Faces days.

In the REPLY section did you click on the "Enter A Media Tag" (4th box from the left at the top of the REPLY box), click on "you tube video" and paste the link there ...
I can't say whether or not that will work on an iPAD ...

124 I agree will all you say but that song was like a lot at the time very repetitive, BE MY GUEST sung about a hundred times, get to you after a bit a bit a bit a bit.. Holloway Rd and Joe Meek, wonder what he would make of all the new stuff, he would have been part of it, sad loss blew his head off with a shotgun, he was part of all this stuff.

Regards

Tony

Thanks, Tony. I just did a copy and paste from the URL line. Thanks for re-inserting the clip. Enjoy!

Not all that different today, Mr. Hughes. Y'know, murder the hook. Well, it got that one to no. 32 on Radio London - I think we made about 3/6d.

WOW is RIGHT !!! AMAZING ...

Yea stripping a Queen song down to acoustic guitar is brilliant...lets you hear every nuance of emotion from the player.

Yes, yes! If you jump at 1'39" you can see Bruce Welch laughing; he is sitting right at the side of Lonnie Donegan.

I've been watching that clip for 48 years, well, not continuously you understand , but I've yet to spot either of them. And I was there.

BTW, my keyboard there was a Watkins 'Telstar'.

Oops, sorry Howard ,

there was a bit of misunderstanding here: I meant the other video (the one with Lonnie Donegan in a yellow jacket).
Happy New Year (only four hours to go here in Rome...)

Happy New Year, Andrea!

And everyone else, of course.