amgard
20-02-2008, 02:16 PM
Hi I'm Allan, living in Oxford, though I hail from Durham in the NorthEast.
I first heard RH on 'The Rock Machine Turns You On' which I bought in 1968, and immediately saved up(!) to buy 'Come Out Fighting Genghis Smith', so that I could hear more.
It was then I realised that John Peel regularly featured Roy on his Radio One 'Top Gear' programme, so I got to hear a lot of the 'BBC Tapes' first time around!
Whenever I could, I would see RH live, usually at Newcastle City Hall, but also one particularly disappointing gig at the Locarno Ballroom, Sunderland, when the audience wouldn't shut up. (I think the support act was Bridget St John, and John Peel was hosting that night).
I loved the long chats between songs, the anarchic banter, and the maniacal laughter, I lapped it all up.
I did manage to make (very poor - by today's standards) mono-cassette recordings of a couple of the City Hall concerts, one of which included, according to Roy, one of the first performances of 'Me and My Woman', which included an extra verse, long since deleted, (note to self - I'll dig out the words and add them here).
Over the years I dragged as many friends, enemies, future wife! to his concerts as I could and listened to the slowly evolution of not one, but two fantastic musicians/wordsmiths!...
which leads me on to Nick...
I was first aware of Nick's presence from the lyrics to McGoohan's Blues, which I shamelessly altered to suit my daughter, 'Vicki my child, she stands there with the wind in her hair' whenever I sang it in the folk clubs in the Northeast. I first got to meet and chat with Nick when he was a jack-booted skinhead selling the 'Born in Captivity' albums during Roy's interval at the 'Room at the Top' - Newcastle in 1984. I don't think he was playing publicly yet, but I got him to sign the album cover of 'BiC' anyway, wishing I had my copy of FJO with me so he could sign that - how sad am I?
Last saw R & N together at the Wycombe Town Hall, and N at Oxford, (I've got some good (IMHO) pictures of that gig if anyone is interested) and was looking forward to seeing N again at Abingdon on March 8th, until I read that it is no more :(
There's probably a load I've forgotten, and a load more I'll never remember.
Allan
I first heard RH on 'The Rock Machine Turns You On' which I bought in 1968, and immediately saved up(!) to buy 'Come Out Fighting Genghis Smith', so that I could hear more.
It was then I realised that John Peel regularly featured Roy on his Radio One 'Top Gear' programme, so I got to hear a lot of the 'BBC Tapes' first time around!
Whenever I could, I would see RH live, usually at Newcastle City Hall, but also one particularly disappointing gig at the Locarno Ballroom, Sunderland, when the audience wouldn't shut up. (I think the support act was Bridget St John, and John Peel was hosting that night).
I loved the long chats between songs, the anarchic banter, and the maniacal laughter, I lapped it all up.
I did manage to make (very poor - by today's standards) mono-cassette recordings of a couple of the City Hall concerts, one of which included, according to Roy, one of the first performances of 'Me and My Woman', which included an extra verse, long since deleted, (note to self - I'll dig out the words and add them here).
Over the years I dragged as many friends, enemies, future wife! to his concerts as I could and listened to the slowly evolution of not one, but two fantastic musicians/wordsmiths!...
which leads me on to Nick...
I was first aware of Nick's presence from the lyrics to McGoohan's Blues, which I shamelessly altered to suit my daughter, 'Vicki my child, she stands there with the wind in her hair' whenever I sang it in the folk clubs in the Northeast. I first got to meet and chat with Nick when he was a jack-booted skinhead selling the 'Born in Captivity' albums during Roy's interval at the 'Room at the Top' - Newcastle in 1984. I don't think he was playing publicly yet, but I got him to sign the album cover of 'BiC' anyway, wishing I had my copy of FJO with me so he could sign that - how sad am I?
Last saw R & N together at the Wycombe Town Hall, and N at Oxford, (I've got some good (IMHO) pictures of that gig if anyone is interested) and was looking forward to seeing N again at Abingdon on March 8th, until I read that it is no more :(
There's probably a load I've forgotten, and a load more I'll never remember.
Allan