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Wurzels
Marmalade
Justin Heywood (Moody Blues)
The Commitments
Sam brown
Mike D’abo (Manfred Mann)
Shane Richie
All great experiences but Justin H was the consummate professional out off all of them
good times..i miss gigging
Techy/tour manager now so it's a big chunk of my working year (or would be normally, at least - cheers for nothing, COVID!) so I have to pretend not to be excited about it all these days. I did have a brief fanboy moment when I bumped in to James Dean Bradfield of the Manics though, had to tell him that Design For Life was one of the first three songs 14 year old me ever played to an audience, when the music teacher let us play before the school Christmas show
It can be true of has-beens too, like when I supported Wishbone Ash as half of an acoustic originals duo, they were miserable snobs who even stole our food.
We had the last laugh though, we played to a full-size Wishbone Ash audience who were very appreciative, but when they came on the crowd started drifting away because they were so boring. It was half empty by the end.
Recorded a single ( vinyl ) in ub40s dep studio , we were upstairs and downstairs was terry hall and rankin roger recording funboy 3 stuff ... i think they were signed to virgin anyway i was sitting in the day room with a curled up sarnie and the table was groaning with their rider which was extensive and they never even offered me a sausage the stingy barstards ...
I saw Justin Hayward at the end of 2019 iirc, I agree his performance was slick and performed as a consumate professional. Very enjoyable too.
I said maybe.....
Funeral For A Friend
Billy Tallent
Avenged Sevenfold
Lostprophets
My Chemical Romance
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Paramore
Blink 182
You Me at Six
There's loads more, those are just some of the bigger names.
David Cross [played for King Crimson / David Cross Band]
David Jackson [played for Van Der Graaf Generator / DC Band]
Craig Blundell [played for DC Band / Stephen Wilson / Frost / Steve Hackett / Pendragon]
Joe Crabtree [played for DC Band / Wishbone Ash]
Steve Tilling [TC&I / EXTC / Circu5]
recorded with / on the same album as
Robert Fripp [King Crimson]
John Wetton [King Crimson / Asia]
Matt Bissionette [Elton John / Satch / too many to name really cos he's an awesome session player]
Peter Hammill [Van Der Graff Generator]
we supported or on the same day / stage at a festival
Yes [Wakeman, Anderson, Rabbin]
Steve Hackett
Pendragon
Mike Portnoy's band
Focus
Omega
Ray Wilson Band [the former Genesis singer]
Flower Kings [they supported us in Germany]
Uriah Heep
Hawkwind
PFM
Frost
Spock's Beard
Haken
Neil Morse Band
I'm sure there are a few others but my brain is refusing to cooperate right now.. lol
used to be a cool place to hang out instead of going to school lol
Yeah, I know - I found it weird too. Quite often they'll drop a big name quite early on to pull the crowds in, and we as a tribute act ended up going on after him.
We've played that stage a few times now. Quite funny setting your gear up next to the likes of Stereophonics, New Order etc.
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I remember coming off stage at a folk festival and almost bumping into Martin Carthy - he was just walking about with his guitar behind the curtain getting ready for his set. Nice chap.
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and an ELO tribute band...
...which sounds way more glamorous than it was, but had a huge amount of fun.