[Music] Instrumental music

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[Super Steve Earle]

We must be about the same age. Oh my, Sandy Nelson and Duane Eddy, marvellous stuff. My older brother was a Duane Eddy fanatic (still is at 76) he's got every album and single he made. I even remember him taking me when I was about 8, to the Embassy cinema in Western Road to see 'The Wild Westerner' because Duane Eddy had a 2 min spot in it and said about 6 words!
I envy your history of live bands you've seen, I saw a quite a few bands in the 70's . My first ever gig was John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. I suppose the highlights were Deep Purple, David Bowie. The Faces. Roxy Music and believe it or not The Sweet who were one of the heaviest and loudest rock bands I ever saw. My proudest moment though was taking my 2 daughters to see Guns'n Roses + Nine inch Nails+Skid Row+Sound Garden at the old Wembley Stadium back in 1991. That's the closest I ever got to seeing Queen live as Brian May joined Guns'n Roses on stage for a rendition of Tie your mother down and We will rock you.

I may be a little younger than you think. Brighton born in '54 but from an early age and throughout my life, I can't really concentrate on anything else and listen to music at the same time. I was lucky that my parents bought a couple of singles a year, the same for me if something caught my attention, plus my older sister now 75 loved the Everlys and Buddy Holly, then The Beatles. My cousin, also now in his 70's introduced me to Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard etc. From the age I could open it's heavy wooden doors, I was entranced by the upright radiogram with it's warm lit radio and evocative smells. Many an hour was spent scrutinizing the detail on record labels, organising them in order and, of course playing them. Plus listening to every scrap of music I could find on television. My gigs didn't start till King Crimson at the Dome, but then came in a rush. I've been lucky. And although I saw the original Queen on three wonderfully occasions, I also treasure the memory of seeing Brian May with Kerrie Ellis at St George's Church in Kemp Town. Right in front of me playing Rock You, Champions and others in an acoustically brilliant church. Funny how these three slightly similar sounding singles evoke such strong childhood memories.

 

[Barham's tash]

Not least because it features in the apocalyptically apposite and brilliant 28 days later but it’s also an exceptional piece of writing:

https://youtu.be/OlaTeXX3uH8

 

[Barrow Boy]

I may be a little younger than you think. Brighton born in '54 but from an early age and throughout my life, I can't really concentrate on anything else and listen to music at the same time. I was lucky that my parents bought a couple of singles a year, the same for me if something caught my attention, plus my older sister now 75 loved the Everlys and Buddy Holly, then The Beatles. My cousin, also now in his 70's introduced me to Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard etc. From the age I could open it's heavy wooden doors, I was entranced by the upright radiogram with it's warm lit radio and evocative smells. Many an hour was spent scrutinizing the detail on record labels, organising them in order and, of course playing them. Plus listening to every scrap of music I could find on television. My gigs didn't start till King Crimson at the Dome, but then came in a rush. I've been lucky. And although I saw the original Queen on three wonderfully occasions, I also treasure the memory of seeing Brian May with Kerrie Ellis at St George's Church in Kemp Town. Right in front of me playing Rock You, Champions and others in an acoustically brilliant church. Funny how these three slightly similar sounding singles evoke such strong childhood memories.

I'm only one year older Hove born in '53, but my musical memories are so very similar to yours. Having two older brothers and parents who loved music the house was filled with all kinds of sounds from a very early age. I remember my brothers trying to form a skiffle group which was doomed to failure but at least they tried. My influences were so varied because of all this, we had one of the first Dansette portable record players in our street with my brothers and parents buying all manner of records. Trad jazz, Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, Duane Eddy, Tommy Steel, The Shadows, Chuck Berry, Little Richard,Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin plus many others. And I loved your memories of the old wireless sets, we had a massive wood and Bakerlite unit which was then replaced by our first Radiogram which had a smell all of its own.
Happy days.

 

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[Barrow Boy]