"Jazz is anti British"...Paul Dacre

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

One of the leaders of the Angry Brigade was a major Flamingo goer. A formative influence on him....well, and the pills.

BN.

And...if you were ever deafened down tbe 'Mingo by one of Ginger Baker's endless ego trippin drum solos, you'ld be pretty angry too.

"I was the really angry one...the others were mostly merely annoyed." Jake Prescott RIP. Great quote.

[Serial_Apologist]

One of the leaders of the Angry Brigade was a major Flamingo goer. A formative influence on him....well, and the pills.

BN.

And...if you were ever deafened down tbe 'Mingo by one of Ginger Baker's endless ego trippin drum solos, you'ld be pretty angry too.

"I was the really angry one...the others were mostly merely annoyed." Jake Prescott RIP. Great quote.

Viv Stanshall once told of how the Bonzo's drummer used to copy Ginger's solos in the band's warm up for Cream at the Marquee. One night, Ginger, who had just about had enough of this, burst in, kicked the Bonzo's drum kit over and proceeded to stamp all over it, saying, "If yer wanna play the drums yer first gotta learn to dance"!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

One of my favourite memories is Baker arriving over an hour late to play an all night set with Graham Bond. Baker arrived eventually with a stunning blond on his arm and walked up to the stand like some European royalty! Someone, Jack Bruce?, said "Where the fk have you been?" and all hell broke lose.

"The Love Generation" as Otis Redding once put it.

BN.

[eighthobstruction]

My fave Ginger Baker happening, Glastonbury circa 1980ish....The night he had a fight with Roy Harper, because Roy was slow finishing his set....Later up at the farm (I was manning the Freak out Barn (First-Aid)....Ginger was up at the farm, incensed and out of control wind milling about shouting at the top of his voice "I'M GINGER BAKER" continually for ten minutes until calmed (cough ahem ) down...."I'M GINGER BAKER"....(I was 10 yards away)

[Serial_Apologist]

My fave Ginger Baker happening, Glastonbury circa 1980ish....The night he had a fight with Roy Harper, because Roy was slow finishing his set....Later up at the farm (I was manning the Freak out Barn (First-Aid)....Ginger was up at the farm, incensed and out of control wind milling about shouting at the top of his voice "I'M GINGER BAKER" continually for ten minutes until calmed (cough ahem ) down...."I'M GINGER BAKER"....(I was 10 yards away)

Drummers eh???

The late Michael Garrick was great on Joe Harriott stories. One night the mid-gig break seemed to be over-extended - where was Joe? Somebody went out the back of the club; two women were beating hell out of each other; the suave Joe was standing some way off, back to the wall, smoking. "Hey Joe, what's going on?" he was asked. "Oh, don't worry man", Joe said nonchalantly, "they're just fighting over me".

[burning dog]

Come along you chaps!

Stand for the National Anthem (.... Sort of...)

[ahinton]

Has the dreadful Dacre really compounded his recent gaffes by asserting such a thing? Or has he begun a new secret life as Sydney Grew the Younger?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Although I deeply loath Dacre, the idea that Alastair Campbell is carrying the sword of freedom makes me throw up...

IRAQ...one million IRAQI dead and still counting.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we all die, it's the timing innit; speaking of Ginger Baker ....

[Jazzrook]

Have just been reading Sophie Parkin's extraordinary book on Soho's The Colony Room Club(1948-2008).
Here's what the Daily Mail thinks of it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2256126/Join-club-die-horrible-death-THE-COLONY-ROOM

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Have just been reading Sophie Parkin's extraordinary book on Soho's The Colony Room Club(1948-2008).
Here's what the Daily Mail thinks of it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/boo...HE-COLONY-ROOM

Anyday now the Mail will run a lurid feature on 60s Soho...'where the filth began!"

Don Rendell outside the Flamingo mumbling to Ian Carr..."Its Sodom, Sodom!"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

did you ever see Dacre poppin blues at the Flaming El Senor?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Dacre was Leeds...he was too busy booking Brian Poole and the Trems for freshers week....


"Wild!" as Adam Faith might have said (Beat Girl)

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[eighthobstruction]

I'm settling down with Chicken Karachi and a Nan bread at 4.30 in the afternoon watching American Graffitti....

....it's 60's & 70's Jazzers that started that sort of thing .....now look where the world is....monkey see monkey doo....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I'm settling down with Chicken Karachi and a Nan bread at 4.30 in the afternoon watching American Graffitti....

....it's 60's & 70's Jazzers that started that sort of thing .....now look where the world is....monkey see monkey doo....

Well maybe! But I watched "Zabriskie Point" again last night for the first time in years...Antonioni 1970...where the hippies and Pink Floyd blew up the world/prime real estate. I'm sure Dacre would have a lot to say about that!

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