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…

 

[pargyle]

That brought back a few memories - Portsmouth was great for music in the late 60's & early 70's.

I saw Led Zeppelin at Portsmouth Guildhall in 1971.. There used to be almost daily gigs down here between 1968 and 1971 .. The Guildhall, South Parade Pier, Kimbells Ballroom, The Kings Theatre - at least three folk clubs I attended all had music with big names (or perhaps not so big at the time). Mott the Hoople and Black Sabbath probably account for some of my current hearing loss - peoples ears were bleeding near the stage ! Ralph McTell and Al Stewart at the KIngs Theatre left a lasting impression when I heard Streets of London for the first time ... I watched South Parade Pier burn down from the roof of Woolworths, Southsea, (where I was working at that time) when they were filming Tommy. Plus, of course, the IOW festival ... what little I can remember of it !

I've just watched a program on BBC4 documenting the life of Alan Hull (of Lindisfarne and considered to the the British Bob Dylan) - saw them with Van Der Graaf Generator and Genesis in 1971. Worth a nostaligic watch on I-player.

Unbelievable the bands we had down here and really how little the gigs cost by comparison to the cost these days..

 

[Penninetrader]

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

You would need a mortgage to buy a ticket to that these days

 

[Newbeeneil]

That brought back a few memories - Portsmouth was great for music in the late 60's & early 70's.

I saw Led Zeppelin at Portsmouth Guildhall in 1971.. There used to be almost daily gigs down here between 1968 and 1971 .. The Guildhall, South Parade Pier, Kimbells Ballroom, The Kings Theatre - at least three folk clubs I attended all had music with big names (or perhaps not so big at the time). Mott the Hoople and Black Sabbath probably account for some of my current hearing loss - peoples ears were bleeding near the stage ! Ralph McTell and Al Stewart at the KIngs Theatre left a lasting impression when I heard Streets of London for the first time ... I watched South Parade Pier burn down from the roof of Woolworths, Southsea, (where I was working at that time) when they were filming Tommy. Plus, of course, the IOW festival ... what little I can remember of it !

I've just watched a program on BBC4 documenting the life of Alan Hull (of Lindisfarne and considered to the the British Bob Dylan) - saw them with Van Der Graaf Generator and Genesis in 1971. Worth a nostaligic watch on I-player.

Unbelievable the bands we had down here and really how little the gigs cost by comparison to the cost these days..

I saw the same documentary about Alan Hull. Took me back to the times in the mid 70’s watching Jack the Lad ( a spin off from the original Lindisfarne) in pubs and uni’s in north London.
Saw many other up and coming bands at that time including a great line up at the ”Summer of ‘74” gig at the Valley.
Oh happy days

 

[rossbyjove]

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 thing about Frome is it's a very thin veneer of the population who make the town what it is.
About 3000, they had a vote on the towns future direction and out of about 30,000 people, only that number responded (the trendy groovers)
The rest could not give a damn and they could be living anywhere.
Wish you good luck in your search.

 

[rossbyjove]

I saw the same documentary about Alan Hull. Took me back to the times in the mid 70’s watching Jack the Lad ( a spin off from the original Lindisfarne) in pubs and uni’s in north London.
Saw many other up and coming bands at that time including a great line up at the ”Summer of ‘74” gig at the Valley.
Oh happy days

I lived in a tipi near Rothbury for a while (stupid place for a tipi) was a window cleaner.
Got a lift from Rod Clements their bass player, told me he used to be a window cleaner in .......Rothbury !

 

[rossbyjove]

You would need a mortgage to buy a ticket to that these days

I was trying to buy a ticket for Dylan recently and the prices were crazy, fortunately they sold out in 24 hours, so that put paid to that.
Then I remembered I had already seen him live at Blackbush in the 70s !

 

[pargyle]

I was trying to buy a ticket for Dylan recently and the prices were crazy, fortunately they sold out in 24 hours, so that put paid to that.
Then I remembered I had already seen him live at Blackbush in the 70s !

One off the bucket list then ? - Dylan was one of the performers who sounded the same live as he did on the records .. I saw the Beach Boys at the Alambra in Bradford (1967 ?) they had just released Good Vibrations - they did their best but it bore little resemblance to the studio version. Great experience though at the time ... Lulu was the warm up act and was booed off stage she was so bad ...