General Chat

Chopsticks on the sacred ivories Florence? Sack cloth and ashes for you LOL Did make me laugh though - chopsticks is a great leveller :-D

Agingrocker, if we didn't go home with fuzzy eardrums we hadn't had a good time :-D

Florence :-D :-D :-D :-D

My grandmother taught privately and was a Minister's wife and no way as she played the organ for the church was she gonna allow me to even play "chop sticks" :-D :-D

Island - virtually every number I think it's brilliant! Favourites are probably Time, High Hopes and the obligatory Comfortably Numb. I remember another pub in Shepherd's Bush, a few doors from the Tube Station, that had live music, I did go in once on my own and there was a hard rock band playing so loud that the place was shaking, I loved it.

Florence I was about 15 when I stopped playing, I had passed grade 5 but lost interest.

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Island

I think it might have been Yarmouth rather than Kings Lynn :-0 :-0

Florence :-D I've heard of pop on the piano being frowned upon before, maybe afraid of it being rocked like Jerry Lee Lewis LOL

MtG... arrrgh! :-0 Did you even get asked for a slow dance by a sweaty cheese grater? Drip dry shirt and a string vest :-0 :-0 Still, a dance was a dance LOL
Take Me In Your Arms and Love Me <3 no one ever did :-(

No musical instruments for me. We had a Joanna but the best I got was Chopstick :-0 :-0

Motown for me, I used to frequent the Tottenham Royal where I dance the night away and had to get up for work for next morning :-0

I figured if someone asked me to dance I should, so I ended up dancing with some weird and wonderful! :-0 :-0

I later frequented The Cricketers over a pub in South London, which played Bluebeat and Motown. It was a proper dive, small hall, dark with sweat running down the walls. If my Dad had known, he would not have been best pleased :-D :-D

Fave songs, Do I Love you, Frank Wilson, before Northern Soul cottoned on to it and Take Me In Your Arms and Love Me by Gladys Knight cos I heard it on a weekend end with me mate at Kings Lynn when we met some fellahs on the Pier;

Bob Jovi for me all the way! Would have loved to have seen him in concert back in the day but couldn't afford to go back then.

My grandmother was a piano teacher and taught me up to about 13 when I decided to play pop music on the piano and" one was not amused" lol Hence I kinda lost interest and thought pop music was more my thing like T Rex and David Bowie of course.

agingrocker I haven't ventured back to Pink Floyd yet. Name a few numbers for me :-D
Shepherds Bush market was great - we might have stood at the same bus stop :-D Small theatre there too, over a pub, name escapes me.......

LG, I've been further up country - worked in Sheffield for a year. Any further north than that would give me vertigo :-D

Small world aginrocker my Dad's family lived above their shop in Shepherds Bush Road :-D :-D

A bit further up country than me then Island :-D :-D :-D

Island I meant bass guitar. There's some cracking songs where the bass is the lead, thinking of Pink Floyd among others.

I remember the Greyhound too, I was never in it but used to hear the music from a nearby bus stop as my Dad lived in Shepherds Bush.

Warwickshire :-)

How far up did you move ?I am in Bedfordshire :-)

:-D :-D :-D @LG Headphones and the Travelling Wilburys for me, had a bit of Freddie earlier <3

I moved down country for 40 odd years in North and West London then back up again!

All those folk who aren't into music :-0 It's my life saver! :-D

I have just been in seventh heaven watching Queen at Wembley on TV and having a good old sing along :-D :-D :-D

I was born in North London and lived in a close area until 1970 so I went to Hammersmith, Camden etc. Can't remeber the Greyhound so possibly not. After 1970 it was Knebworth and the Local Corn Exchange as I moved up country :-D :-D

LG, I've got big hands for a girlie, will I do? :-D
Did you ever go to the Greyhound in Fulham Palace Road? Saw Ian Dury there among others.
Dave Edmunds at the Hammersmith Palais and a few other places.
Screaming Lord Sutch, just about everywhere LOL

Oh and, not music but very rock and roll, Evel Knievel coming off his bike at Wembley :-D I'm sure crashing out was all part of the act so he could gasp into a reporters mic and say 'That was my last jump' - he was right every time LOL

Thanks for replies :-D :-D

LB, mine are similar too but my go to at the mo' is The Mavericks but I wouldn't have them for my leaving party, except perhaps 'Back in your arms again'. Likewise Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 'Okie from Muskogee' , my session starter, but it would be funny!

agingrocker, I would have liked piano lessons but was sent to ballet classes instead - I hated it! Would that e a double bass or bass guitar?
I saw Alice Cooper. possibly at the ? venue in Finsbury Park. Jimi Hendrix at Spalding (yep, in Lincs) was most memorable. Loads of others because that's what we did then - wouldn't go to overcrowded overpriced events now.

Oh and Glastonbury back in the early days :-D

I played the harmonica in my teens, tempted to get another :-D
Otherwise, YouTube on headphones.

We had a piano teacher living next door when I was young and she offerd to teach me as a reward for going in and spending time with her elderly Mother. She gave up with me though when she realised I have a very small hand span :-D. I used to go to loads of gigs around London, Hyde Park, The Starlight Ballroom Greenford to name just a couple.

I used to play the piano but haven't done for years now. If I had my time again I'd be a bass player.

Lots of concerts in the past too - first time seeing Alice cooper probably the best memory.

Nowadays it's cd's and YouTube though.