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[Brighton] Bob Grover dead
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The Depressions were one of my favourites at the time. Used to go and watch them at the Buc. Played their album to pieces.
For old times sake
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I bought quite a few odds and ends from both shops. Actually sold stuff at decent prices. I got a 1964 Hofner violin bass from him for under £100, original case and strap, the works.Yea thats right, opened first in Waterloo St, then moved to Castle Street I think was the name of the road
....And "Hammer" Frank Smith RIPDave Barnard and Ozzy Garvey, more blasts from the past
Yes , Tonge were extremely LOUD too !I don't know about bass playing, but he was certainly a better vocalist from what I remember
I know a bass player who was in a three piece, when the other two told him they were leaving and could they use the name ? Why's it always the bass player
IIRC Ozzy died quite young a long long time agoAnd didn't Tonge pre-date the DPs ?
I posted a pic of Dave in the thread earlier. But I didn't say who it is.
Incidentally, I had always assumed you were a former public school boy like John and Miles.... how did you get together with them in the band?
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Miles isn't a public school boy - he was at Varndean with me.I posted a pic of Dave in the thread earlier. But I didn't say who it is.
Incidentally, I had always assumed you were a former public school boy like John and Miles.... how did you get together with them in the band?
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We'd known John a couple of years. Of all the places to meet, we encountered him at the European Bridge Championship, we all had a summer job there, setting up and clearing tables. John was selling a Maoist newspaper outside, chatting to him we discovered a shared interest in Velvet Underground and Can. We stayed in touch after that
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Came across one of them many many years later in the 2000s when I was doing mobile DJing. It was a work Christmas do in one of the hotels on the seafront. An old punk came up and got really angry because I played Tom Hark...
...twat.
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I had a beer or six with Keith this summer when I came over. We happened to be back in Brighton at the same time and met up in the Green Dragon.Is Angie still working/involved with the Labour Party? Last time I saw her was about 25 years ago when we met up for lunch at Westminster! Lovely, lovely lady.
Edit - I just realised that instead of “Angie” that ran the Zap with Neil, Dave and Pat, you could have meant “Angie”, Ian’s wife? Also a lovely lady
Another dear friend whom I lost touch with when he moved to Sweden. A decent drummer with a son who was (when I last saw him too!) a young prodigy on the drums.
Very sad to have found out he had died.
Isn’t it incredible that Bob‘s passing should link all of us to those we knew on the performing arts/music culture of Brighton in the 70s-80s - he really was a Brighton legend.
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No, Cresswell
But perhaps the P's changed the surname for fear of litigation. As was the case here wrt Whitehouse:
Edit: this is a seriously shite record. Even worse than the blind man, standing very still, on a hill
And Carter USM years later with "Nicholas van whatsisface"
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I knew Ozzy quite well, he used to come in almost every lunchtime when I worked in the Sussex on Brighton seafront. His little girl used to come in to get her pocket money from him. Years later, as a young adult, she became a regular at a club I was DJing in and it took me years to realise it was her.Dave Barnard and Ozzy Garvey, more blasts from the past
Was that a yes to me posting the single to you ? I don't want any money for it.
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No, sorry.
The first ‘yes’ was in response to your question, wasn’t Bob Hawkins the lead guitarist? - (Bob Hawkins joined the lineup around the time they moved to the Fortune of War in the late ‘70s). The second ‘yes’ was a yes to ‘he was a phenomenal guitarist‘.
20 years ago (yesterday) the Tom Hark (We Want Falmer) single was released:
www.brighton-mad.co.uk
Tom Hark (we want falmer) update
Brighton fan Attila the Stockbroker updates us on his plans for chart domination in January to raise funds for the Albio
www.brighton-mad.co.uk
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Bob's sister is crowdfunding for his funeral:
www.gofundme.com
Donate to To help with ‘Boring’ Bob Grover’s funeral ., organized by Janet Constable
My name is Janet, one of Bob’s sisters and I’m raising funds for my love… Janet Constable needs your support for To help with ‘Boring’ Bob Grover’s funeral .
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Thanks for the link.Bob's sister is crowdfunding for his funeral:
Donate to To help with ‘Boring’ Bob Grover’s funeral ., organized by Janet Constable
My name is Janet, one of Bob’s sisters and I’m raising funds for my love… Janet Constable needs your support for To help with ‘Boring’ Bob Grover’s funeral .
Donation made.
Ditto.
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There's a brief obituary in March issue of Mojo
He was only 68
He was only 68