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[SmithfieldFair]

Tull boys

Don - Perhaps Ian IS Peter....think about it.

Coastie...1972, just before going into the Navy...riding motorcycles in the woods, counselor at Scout Camp....listening to Aqualung. How about Audience - House on the Hill? Nancy? Early Genesis - Selling England By the Pound? JSD Band from Inverness? Gerry Rafferty & Billy Connelly in the Humblebums? I liked the Hollies AFTER Nash left. How about Lonnie Donnegan? Great version of "Last Thing On My Mind!" Cliff Richards & The Shadows - ah, too far back in British music for you? Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Lindesfarne, Albion Band with Ashley Hutchings....

West - Arlington is the first weekend in June, 2-4. We'll be (Smithfield Fair) on the Glencoe stage with Alex Beaton and Alasdair Fraser. Should be fun...on one of the other stages is Brian McNeill formerly of the Battlefield Band - always interesting.

Ah, well...

 

[West R Lee]

Smith,

Where in the world do you come up with all of these people?............Don't think I've heard of any of them, which isn't saying much, my having lived a sheltered life and all.

We're going to try to make Arlington...................I'll be the one in the Guild tee shirt "made to be played" "1952-1995"! :twisted:

West

 

[coastie99]

Smith, old fruitee - something completely different. Regardez The New Vaudeville Band !!!!!!

Cliff and The Shadows were just a year or three early for me, and apart from his chart stuff, I've never listened to any Lonnie Donnegan.
Genesis only seemed useful for Peter Gabriel, and no comment re. Phil Collins !!

Family, Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Chicken Shack, The Firehouse Five Plus Two
(!!!!!!), The Kinks (Guild !), Graham Parker, Savoy Brown etc., etc., on and on. But never, EVER Peter Frampton !!!!

 

[coastie99]

I posted the above just after getting home from work, and pondered the subject in the shower afterwards, as you do
Circa 1970 N.Z. would have had a population of around 2 1/2 million, and while we had record pressing plants here, some of the afore-mentioned "obscure" acts in Smith's posts wouldn't have been pressed here. L.P.'s were always hellishly expensive, and specialty import shops rare. Where they existed, and I can recall only one, in Auckland, our biggest city - the cost (taxes !!) of imports was appalling. I remember paying astronomical prices for my first, "obscure" Blues albums.
Consequently, I've investigated a great deal of late '60's - '70's music out of the context of the times and my, then, tastes - and been less than thrilled with what I heard.

Oh, and "old fruitee" isn't an expression of derision - it's in the (English) "old chap" vein.

 

[dreadnut]

Hey, Smith, I went in the Navy in '72 too - Great Lakes for boot camp in June. From there, Jacksonville, Whidbey Island, Alameda, SanDiego, and WestPac on the USS Ranger.

Had a nice old Epiphone 12-string stolen from my barracks on Whidbey Island. Whe I asked if they had insurance for my stuff, I was told "Son, if they wanted you to have a guitar, theyd've issued you one!" :evil:

I decided to give it up for the rest of my tour, then when I got discharged and got a civilian job back home, I took my first paycheck, went to Grinnells music, and bought a brand new D25M. It just had its 30th birthday...

 

[SmithfieldFair]

Fruitee - brilliant!

Coastie - Yes, I know that one. BTW - have great friends in Taranaki - old Scots friends. ALso, my old engineer and his new wife bought a home in NZ, but I don't know where yet.

I think Genesis was one of those "had to be seen to be appreciated" bands. I liked the old band, but I also liked the version with Collins. It's really pop stuff, but then, it have a great groove. But then, there was always something in the spin offs of Collins solo, Mike & the Mechanics, etc.

As far as the others - Chicken Shack (I drool for Christine Perfect McVie!), John Mayall....some great bands, but I went more for the acoustic and traditional. But I do remember the New Vaudeville Band and 'Winchester Cathedral'. Jaunty tune, that.

Dred - I went to Orlando for boot, then PN"A" school at NTC Orlando and on to NAS Pensacola - doing TADs with the Blue Angels, CBs, CVT-SAR-Det., USS Lexington, and even did some of the initial reasearch for what would become the Naval Air Museum. Got to drive Charleton Heston around when they came to film Midway on the Lex. Learned to dive from UDTs - pre-Seals. Amazing time of life and Pensacola had a thriving acoustic scene then and I was in the thick of it. Shore-based for the full hitch.

West - and I'll be the one in the Guild jersey AND kilt. See you there...dbs

 

[coastie99]

Smith, you will no doubt be astonished to learn that I was once a bagpipe virtuoso. SERIOUSLY, it's true !! Gave it up when I was old enough to tell my dad "Sod it, I hate this !"
But you know ? The sound still stirs me, and I'm utterly AGHAST that there are wimmen out there who have the nerve to be essaying the bagpipe !!
Wimmen should be FORBIDDEN, ABSOLUTELY to (attempt to) play bagpipes and cricket !!!!!!!
Nude ice hockey's OK though.

 

[dreadnut]

Winchester Cathedral? I haven't thought of that song in a hundred years!

Coastie: aren't the bagpipes the only instrument more hated than the 5-string banjo? 8)

(o=)==#

 

[john_kidder]

Saw a gentleman here in Vancouver other day, busking with bagpipes in front of the Station. The otherwise crowded sidewalk was empty for about twenty meters on all sides of him, lots of pedestrians crossed over to the other side of the street to get away from him. I can't imagine a less suitable instrument for street play - even banjo players do way better.

And I'm a fan of the pipes.

 

[West R Lee]

Smith,

I have always wanted to know and had to ask...........ya'll wear anything under those kilts? By the way, one of the most moving songs I've ever heard was "Amazing Grace" on the pipes. They have a Celtic Festival in Kilgore.

BTW, The Museum at Pensacola is amazing. Dad was a carrier pilot and flew a Dauntless so I was especially interested. Still see the "Angels" every chance I get.

Ya'll will be on the UTA campus right? I know you told me the stage, just want to make sure I don't end up in Ft.Worth or something.

West

 

[SmithfieldFair]

Arlington dreams

West - As the old daying goes, "Nothing worn under the kilt - everything in fine working order." All kidding aside, the term is "being Regimental" - nothing worn beneath the kilt. In Arlington, one is especially thankful for that and for any slight updraft.

BTW - We've played the festival in Kilgore, but I understand it may not continue next year. They've been flagging for several years and have moved sites a couple of times. We've also played festivals in Bedford, North Texas Irish Festival in Dallas, Dallas International Festival, as well as the Texas Scottish Festival in Arlington (UTA Maverick Stadium) for several years.

Our schedule for the weekend is Friday evening (6/2), 5:30 – 6:15 p.m. on Glenfinnan Stage; then to Glengarry Stage for quick set on ceilidh stage with Alex Beaton (approx. 8 p.m.); Saturday (6/3) sets on Glencoe Stage with Alex Beaton & Alasdair Fraser: Noon, 3:30 & 6:30; Sunday sets on Glencoe stage: 11:00 a.m., possibly 2:30 short set, 5 p.m.; possible finale 2 songs on Glengarry stage with Alex at 6 p.m.

Also, as a piper, I've played Amazing Grace at many, many funerals, church services, memorials, and band performance - mostly when I was playing with a pipe band, but I have an extensive history as a solo piper.

Well, all for now. Tioraidh an Drasda (Bye for Now in Scots Gaelic)...dbs