Hi From Somerset

[Erichalfbee]

That’s quite a line up! At the Bath and West Showground?

Yes.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'd just finished potty training

Well it was a good year to be potty trained I guess.
It was my first summer after starting university.

 

[JamezF]

That’s quite a line up! At the Bath and West Showground?

It's a fantastic line-up. I'd go to see them now but for the obvious minor health issues preventing them from continuing to perform.

The other day I saw a copy of a list of booking fees for some of the bands from around the same time. Pink Floyd were £250 a night I think. But then £250 went quite a long way back then

James

 

[rossbyjove]

We are trying to find somewhere with a bit of space around it in the vicinity of Frome, where our daughter and family live ... I feel your pain .. the 'DFL's' since Covid and the celebrity status of some of the villages in the area have a lot to answer for !

Moved to a street of Squats in old Frome in the 70s.
Used to put bands on in the old market hall.
Helped turn it into the arty, music place it became.
It's just coffee shops and shops that you have no idea what it is they are selling, other than it's expensive.
DFLs have completely ruined it and we moved to a village just outside Trowvegas.
One of the houses we squatted went for nearly half a million, on street parking and small back garden !
Prices are insane there now.
Mells has suffered the same as has Bruton.
Moving up to the Hay on Wye area some time this year.

 

[rossbyjove]

I was at a pop concert there, June 1970
Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention The Byrds Canned Heat Johnny Winter Jefferson Airplane Santana Dr John

I've seen four of those.
Waiting for a flashback now.

 

[pargyle]

Moved to a street of Squats in old Frome in the 70s.
Used to put bands on in the old market hall.
Helped turn it into the arty, music place it became.
It's just coffee shops and shops that you have no idea what it is they are selling, other than it's expensive.
DFLs have completely ruined it and we moved to a village just outside Trowvegas.
One of the houses we squatted went for nearly half a million, on street parking and small back garden !
Prices are insane there now.
Mells has suffered the same as has Bruton.
Moving up to the Hay on Wye area some time this year.

Such a lovely town as well ..we love it there - as does our daughter and family. We are very much resigned to being about 15 miles or so away from them - the dorset/somerset borders are much more realistic prices and the further west you go the more that is available but ... we are getting on a bit and we really want to be within reasonable driving distance of Frome as it seems the family are going to be there for the foreseeable future. We need a bit of space, room for a decent size workshop, room to grow things and (hopefully) bees and hens ... and even with compromises the right property, in the right place and within budget ... hard to come by.

 

[The Poot]

I was at a pop concert there, June 1970
Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention The Byrds Canned Heat Johnny Winter Jefferson Airplane Santana Dr John

I hitched down the A1 from Lincolnshire to London in 1974 to see Floyd at the Empire Pool. They were in their “reclusive phase” after the success of Dark Side and the stage was dark the whole gig. It went down as probably the worst major gig they did…..
The lifts down and back have left me with ptsd but that’s another story…