Yes, Don was a special one. I saw him mid 70's in west London, Zappa too, but not Knebworth '75. (Big fan of Roy Harper too - followed him everywhere - been playing "Lords Prayer" to death only recently too, buy we digress.)
Ian On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:33 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Horse, > > The Captain is a part of Quality, quite on topic. I saw Pink Floyd in > England in 1975, perhaps I saw the Captain at the same time and didn't > remember, maybe I didn't know what had hit me, although I had been > introduced to the Captain by Zappa fans. Maybe there were substances > present that affected my memory at the time, can't remember. So I > looked it up, and sure enough I musta seen him. Out there in > Knebworth. We must have been at the same concert! Along with 80,000 > others. We got there early to get near the stage, and put our blanket > down. Pink was doing Wish You Were Here, and Roy Harper came on to > sing "Have a Cigar", and maybe some more. I think he also played as a > backup band. Then during the plane crash song on Dark side, a small > plane on a cable came over us on fire. Pink had some great back up > vocalists, and lots of lighting effects. They were the last ones on > stage because we had to wait until it got dark, then there were the > fireworks I think. I can't remember if it rained or not, that year, > but I do remember the bus ride back to London took forever because > there were cars broken down all over the road. > > I went there a few years later for an all day Jazz festival. Not > quite as good, but OK. > > I used to go to concerts at the Hammersmith back then, or Wembly if I > wanted to fight the crowds. I actually lived near Hammersmith in the > late 80's out in Ravenscourt Park on King street, so it was an easy > walk to the concerts (and to the river pubs for that matter). My > favorite that I remember was the Pat Metheney Group. He is quit a > guitarist, makes all sorts of sounds. Of course Santana was always > good. > > Small World, Hey? > > Mark > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Horse <[email protected]> wrote: >> I saw the good Captain twice (that I remember - could have been more!). Once >> with the original Magic Band (I think) in 1972 and again in 1975 along with >> Pink Floyd and Steve Miller Band. The Floyd crowd didn't know what hit them. >> >> Sorry - way off topic. I'll shut up now. >> >> Horse >> >> >> On 18/12/2010 19:07, 118 wrote: >>> >>> Hi Horse, >>> >>> Yes, another one. I was a fan of his in the early '70's, Trout Mask >>> Replica, and all that. A good friend of Zappa's too. Never saw him >>> perform though. It was an interesting time for music. >>> >>> Mark >> >> -- >> >> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production >> deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." >> — Frank Zappa >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
