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Post by goldielox on Jun 18, 2013 12:31:51 GMT
Which group were you with?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2013 18:26:40 GMT
Hirsute days... (a rehearsal picture) The resemblance is remarkable you've not changed a bit Scorps.
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Post by goldielox on Jun 20, 2013 15:02:26 GMT
It's not the New Faces then ;D
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Post by scorp on Jun 21, 2013 7:55:06 GMT
Which group were you with? Group? None if I could help it... whatever band, fixer or orchestra wanted to hire me. That picture was taken (no idea by whom) when rehearsing with Don Lang's band at the Empire , Leicester Square. Oh, I suppose a residency with the Phil Phillips Quartet, at The Talk of the Town would qualify as being with a group...
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Post by scorp on Jun 21, 2013 10:19:18 GMT
Which group were you with? Group? None if I could help it... whatever band, fixer or orchestra wanted to hire me. That picture was taken (no idea by whom) when rehearsing with Don Lang's band at the Empire , Leicester Square. Oh, I suppose a residency with the Phil Phillips Quartet, at The Talk of the Town would qualify as being with a group... PS: Lots of memory stuff on the subject here on my site: www.epicure.me.uk/randrandme.html
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Post by goldielox on Jun 22, 2013 9:05:15 GMT
Gosh you are famous, Scorps. Have you met the Beatles?
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Post by scorp on Jun 22, 2013 11:29:51 GMT
Once. At The Cavern, in Liverpool. They had a new drummer, that Paul McC told me was worried about - a nervous feller with a lot of rings on his hands, that he kept twisting... I thought they were pretty good, but so were the other local groups, and all different! Just so happened that the Beatles were the ones that made it.
And no - not me - fame was something I did not hanker for...
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Post by ARENA on Jun 24, 2013 8:17:51 GMT
I met them in the Cornwallis pub in Russell Square (bear in mind they weren't famous then)in 1963
We were the only ones in the pub (11am) and got chatting. John cadged a two-bob bit off me ,for the juke-box. He spent the lot on playing Please,Please Me. He said it was them and one day, they'd be famous. He never paid me back, Yoko!!!
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Post by goldielox on Jun 24, 2013 10:40:58 GMT
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Post by scorp on Jun 24, 2013 13:21:14 GMT
At least he spoke to you - he spent most of his time standing in the middle of the dressing room (ha!) at the Cavern, staring into space...
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Post by ARENA on Jun 25, 2013 10:40:40 GMT
They were in a long line of musicians (many from Liverpool) who came down to appear on telly and stayed in Russell Square.
The list included Billy J Kramer , The Clayton Squares .Merseybeats etc. There was also an Irish band ,I had a couple of very boozy days with . They were called Them. They didn't last too long but the singer was Van Morrison.
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Post by goldielox on Jun 28, 2013 9:30:17 GMT
Which other celebrities have you guys met?
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Post by scorp on Jun 28, 2013 9:53:59 GMT
My earliest would be Barry Took - his family lived across the road from us when I was a kid. Later, when he was a Variety comedian he would borrow my father's trumpet when his own needed the services of a repairer... and his Mum used to slip cigarettes to the 7-year-old me...
Mostly it was people I met in recording studios when I was hired to play saxophones... you never knew who would pop up, from Dusty Springfield to Sir John Barbirolli, from Lulu to George Chisholm...
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Post by scorp on Jun 28, 2013 10:02:50 GMT
Re: Beatles. When I was working with Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, I remember sitting in our transport one day and hearing, on the radio, the Beatles arriving in New York, with all the attendant brouhaha. Tony was uncharacteristically quiet... later, Paul McC said in a book, that it was Tony who had turned them down for DECCA -- he certainly produced their DECCA audition recording. No wonder he went quiet!
Abbey Road was an odd establishment - a bit old-fashioned in many ways. I remember how we used to have to go up to the first floor after a session, and go to a window where a cashier would count out your fee in notes... anywhere else the fixer who booked you would pay you, too! Multi-track machines didn't arrive there until years after DECCA had them - Sergeant Pepper was recorded on 1/4" stereo tape...
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Post by ARENA on Jun 29, 2013 11:39:08 GMT
A bit like Scorps, I might find it harder to remember who I hadn't met and that's not name-dropping. It's purely a question of where you spent your life and what you did.
I lived opposite Ealing Studios ,have a wife who was a well known actress and spent my working life on Fleet Street. That combination put me in touch with many well known people.
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