Are You "fit" To Be A British Citizen?

[willy j.]

Exactly right, I have seen him live and he blew me away. I have waited 30 years for someone like him to turn up, and you're right about the Zepp/Cream influence. I read all about him and he cut his teeth on that music from the age of 7. He was so good from an early age, BB King went to see him in upstate New York and promptly offered him a residency in his New York club......at the age of 12.

 

I played that sort of stuff myself in a group in the 60's early 70's, so you can imagine the sheer pleasure when he came along after so many years of inferior wannabe bands. If you ever get the chance to see him live, take it, you won't be disappointed.

Edited October 6, 2014 by willy j.

[Maggie/915]

We saw BB king a few years ago.

However one highlight was Newcastle City Hall circa1978/9 and seeing Clapton with Muddy Waters as support.

[willy j.]

Fantastic, you are lucky to have seen them live.

 

Do you remember the 'package tours' that used to come to the City Hall? You could see Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, The Nice, Family, all ably supported by Stone The Crows. An unknown band from Scotland that contained Maggie Bell and Bryan Adams.

 

These concerts were common and we were so young, we bloody well didn't realise how timeless they were. That would be a good topic to post wouldn't it, Lots of memories for the guys to wax lyrical about. Especially Foxy........he's the expert on those gig's.

[keith lockey]

One of my favourite songs is the Theme to Hazell- a TV private detective series in the seventies (?)...co-written by Terry Venables. The theme tune was written by Andy Mackay from Roxy Music and sung by Maggie Bell...look it up on Youtube. Brilliant.

[Maggie/915]

We missed the tours you mention willyj.

Sadly we were in exile for a while.

However we were listening to most of the music you list.

[willy j.]

Will look that one up on Youtube, she is still a star to this day. Went up to Glasgow a while back with the Fox to see her, she was brilliant. She's a credit to the Blues. I still think the music (the good stuff that is) from that time still stands up well today.

 

There is a number we used to do, it's an instrumental by the Nice, it's called Rhondo, if you ever get the chance to hear it just sit back and close your eyes, I guarantee you will be breathing quite heavily by the time it finishes. Keith Emmerson also did it when he formed ELP, but I think he did it better on the Nice version.

 

Here's another one to throw into the mix..........How much does anyone remember about 'The Domino'?

 

By it' great talking to you lot. 

[willy j.]

Keith, looked at that youtube site, wow, looks like a tribute page to Maggie Bell. Hazell was great to hear again, strange how you forget how good these things sounded. Will certainly be back there to hear a lot more. A treat for me to hear 'Stone The Crows' again, they were very good in their day, the epitome of the progressive bands.

 

More of them: Nice, Family, Coliseum, Tull, Vanilla Fudge, Purple, Cream, Floyd, Hendrix and many more, but you can see where I'm going with this. real music from real musicians. Not a 'Boy Band' in sight. AAH, but it was heaven for me.