February 28, 20188 yr @Craig Sawyers I love that story- I heard him tell it on R4. It's one of those anecdotes that is pretty much impossible to top. It does sound like he made pretty good use out of those extra years, too. Bit of a one-off.
February 28, 20188 yr Great guy. Saw Swarb at the Nettlebed Folk Club http://www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk/index.html with Martin Carthy. Tiny place, and plenty opportunity to meet them in the bar for a chat. When you consider that the two of them were part of highly successful bands that filled major halls in the 70's - Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span - it was a real treat to see them (and others) in such a tiny place.
February 28, 20188 yr Ah Martin Carthy rings bells too. I know Frankie Armstrong's nephew, who has been suitably raised loving all sorts of suitable folk*. He has plenty of interesting tales to tell. Someone with a better memory might even have remembered them. My only "the famous playing in a small venue" encounter was seeing Mark Knopfler's Notting Hillbillies at Poole Arts Centre many years ago- oddly brilliant, lots of old blues numbers and spirituals. Seeing three National Steel guitars on the same (tiny) stage at once was quite something. Something of an uncool thing for a schoolboy to go and see, maybe, but the musicianship on display was well worth it. * As well as unsuitable noisecore industrial, and weirdly- Eat Static. He loves him some Eat Static along with his encyclopedic knowledge of folk. Go figure. Edited February 28, 20188 yr by Kattefjaes
March 4, 20188 yr RIP Roger Bannister, he of the first recorded four minute mile: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43273249
March 4, 20188 yr Oh wow. One of my heroes, set on a cinder track at Iffley near Oxford, with pacemakers who were legendary runners themselves - Chris Chattaway and Chris Brasher. Brasher was the guy who founded the London Marathon, and after track running turned himself into a fell runner, both competitively and as a pacemaker. Bannister outlived both - Chattaway died in 2014 and Brasher in 2003. The Iffley Road track is still there, about 11 miles from here. It is now a composition track of course - the last cinder track that I ran on was 25 years ago, and that made me understand what a feat a sub 4m mile was on that surface. RIP Roger Bannister
March 4, 20188 yr Oh wow. One of my heroes, set on a cinder track at Iffley near Oxford, with pacemakers who were legendary runners themselves - Chris Chattaway and Chris Brasher. Brasher was the guy who founded the London Marathon, and after track running turned himself into a fell runner, both competitively and as a pacemaker. Bannister outlived both - Chattaway died in 2014 and Brasher in 2003. The Iffley Road track is still there, about 11 miles from here. It is now a composition track of course - the last cinder track that I ran on was 25 years ago, and that made me understand what a feat a sub 4m mile was on that surface. And this is how he did it, in 1954 RIP Roger Bannister
March 5, 20188 yr One of my favorite M*A*S*H episodes was when he was coaching Radar about Classical music and other things. To this day, when I hear Bach mentioned, I raise my hand similar to the royalty wave, and say "Ah....Bach" Great actor, film, stage and voice.....RIP PS - and fuck cancer.... EDIT: was reminded that the episode I'm remembering was before CEW III joined the cast! Amazing what my mind thinks/remembers, or doesn't remember! Edited March 5, 20188 yr by skullguise
March 5, 20188 yr RIP Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the wind up radio for use in third world countries (specifically in response to the AIDS epidemic in African countries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis Edited March 5, 20188 yr by Craig Sawyers
March 6, 20188 yr 13 minutes ago, robm321 said: Didn't know him, but that's the kind of human I like. RIP Trevor Baylis. x2. RIP.....
March 6, 20188 yr RIP Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records, my favourite record/then CD/etc. store chain ever.
March 6, 20188 yr RIP Russ Solomon. Whenever I traveled through London as a student and shortly after, Tower Records was a standard visit. Spent quite a lot of money there! Mind you, 92 is a pretty good innings.
March 6, 20188 yr RIP Mr. Solomon.....got to visit the CA store several times, and the Boston store was a regular visit many a week each year.....
March 6, 20188 yr RIP Russ. I spent endless hours at Tower during my teens, and I shopped in Tower Records locations in at least three states and on three continents. It was certainly sad when it went under.
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