[MD] Another one bites the dust

[Ian Glendinning]

Yes, Don was a special one.

I saw him mid 70's in west London, Zappa too, but not Knebworth '75.
(Big fan of Roy Harper too - followed him everywhere - been playing
"Lords Prayer" to death only recently too, buy we digress.)

Ian

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:33 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Horse,
>
> The Captain is a part of Quality, quite on topic.  I saw Pink Floyd in
> England in 1975, perhaps I saw the Captain at the same time and didn't
> remember, maybe I didn't know what had hit me, although I had been
> introduced to the Captain by Zappa fans.  Maybe there were substances
> present that affected my memory at the time, can't remember.   So I
> looked it up, and sure enough I musta seen him.  Out there in
> Knebworth.  We must have been at the same concert!  Along with 80,000
> others.  We got there early to get near the stage, and put our blanket
> down.  Pink was doing Wish You Were Here, and Roy Harper came on to
> sing "Have a Cigar", and maybe some more.  I think he also played as a
> backup band.  Then during the plane crash song on Dark side, a small
> plane on a cable came over us on fire.  Pink had some great back up
> vocalists, and lots of lighting effects.  They were the last ones on
> stage because we had to wait until it got dark, then there were the
> fireworks I think.   I can't remember if it rained or not, that year,
> but I do remember the bus ride back to London took forever because
> there were cars broken down all over the road.
>
> I went there a few years later for an all day Jazz festival.  Not
> quite as good, but OK.
>
> I used to go to concerts at the Hammersmith back then, or Wembly if I
> wanted to fight the crowds.  I actually lived near Hammersmith in the
> late 80's out in Ravenscourt Park on King street, so it was an easy
> walk to the concerts (and to the river pubs for that matter).  My
> favorite that I remember was the Pat Metheney Group.  He is quit a
> guitarist, makes all sorts of sounds.  Of course Santana was always
> good.
>
> Small World, Hey?
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Horse <horse at darkstar.uk.net> wrote:
>> I saw the good Captain twice (that I remember - could have been more!). Once
>> with the original Magic Band (I think) in 1972 and again in 1975 along with
>> Pink Floyd and Steve Miller Band. The Floyd crowd didn't know what hit them.
>>
>> Sorry - way off topic. I'll shut up now.
>>
>> Horse
>>
>>
>> On 18/12/2010 19:07, 118 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Horse,
>>>
>>> Yes, another one.  I was a fan of his in the early '70's, Trout Mask
>>> Replica, and all that.  A good friend of Zappa's too.  Never saw him
>>> perform though.  It was an interesting time for music.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> --
>>
>> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>> deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>> — Frank Zappa
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