Did they do 'live'. I thought Brian Connelly mimed everything.

I bought 'Anarchy in the UK' on the EMI label the day it was released. A week later the Pistols appeared on the Today programme, swore at Bill Grundy and got sacked by EMI which makes it rare enough. But it also had the producer on the B side wrongly accredited on the first 5000 copies. It can now fetch £100 if mint.

I gave it away to a girlfriend. :curse:

My last post got me thinking, so I did a little research.

If anyone has:

THE QUARRYMEN: That'll Be The Day/ In Spite Of All The Danger (1958)

I'll take it off your hands for 50 quid.

God, your hopeful.. anyway anyone who has a record like that knows who they became, and must know how valuable a record like that.. but.. hey if it's in mint condition, I'll up the bid to 60 quid.

I went to see SLADE when they came to our local gig venue (even though I didn't like them it was a freeby) and they were brilliant! No 'Cum of feel the noiz' crap or 'Mama weer all crazee now' Just good no nonsense rock.

Going back to the original question.........................Fog on the Tyne by Lindisfarne was my first purchase which shows what an old fossil I am

Loz x

heh heh ..... I think so, for at Barbarellas you were only about 6 feet away from them ..... small club!

I saw Slade about 6 times in Birmingham, because at the time they were one of the best entertaining live bands around. The venues were always wrecked through people jumping on the seats! They also used to have a guy called Raymond Froggatt touring with them who was brilliant. Iirc, it was at one of their concerts they had a hitherto unknown band called The Sensational Alex Harvey Band supporting them.

"soul motion" , collection album of the hits of 1975!

Ahh, SAHB, now there was a band. I saw them at the Kursaal in Southend and it was one of the best gigs I've ever seen. When they performed Boston Tea Party, Alex stalked around the stage like a hunter with a huge blunderbuss aiming it at the audience. Brilliant!

The following week I saw Focus and they were pants. Jan Ackermann couldn't be arsed that night and they only did a fifty minute set before being booed off.

This is bringing back memories
Saw Focus in Birmingham, and we must have been lucky cos they were good
Watched them on an Old Grey Whistle test DVD I have recently and they look so so dated ....... and completely barking mad

So many good songs here.
but here are our first singles.
Ian;


Irene;


Ian´s first LP was Deep Purple Live in Japan. Also the first band he saw live, at the Kursaal Southend.

Irene`s first LP was by the Beach Boys. One memmeory of a live concert was Pink Floyd in Kralingen, Rotterdam. The tune was "Setting the controls to the heart of the Sun". There was an armed Policeman standing on a platform high up with the sun rising behind him that makes it so memorable.

But surely not so barking mad as Ian Anderson? Standing on one leg playing his flute.

He's on tour in the UK at the moment ........ I wonder if he still prances around the stage

Some old Boys never give up!
If he is touring then maybe a video will turn up on Youtubby!
I saw him at The Octagon, Reading, it could have been his 25th anniversary tour.

Me .... at the Odeon New Street Birmingham, sometime in the late 70's

I haven't heard that in donkey's years! I love it It reminds me of new year's eve parties at my mum and dad's house - the music was always sorted out by my older brother and sister. I think I still have the 45 somewhere in the loft!

Sharon
PS mine was The Pushbike Song I'm not sure who by!