supernaut1968
Striker
Two other favourite bands of mine posted on this thread.
Thin Lizzy - Lynott, Gorham, Robertson, Downey.....Simply fantastic live and my favourite band as a kid.
Black Sabbath - Actually preferred Dio on the vocals. Ward, Butler and Iommi.
Rifts and vocals that just needed to be turned up louder and louder.
Cozy Powell though as mentioned earlier was one terrific lad.
Used to have a kick around in the park with us.
He mentions Swindon Town on one of his albums if memory serves me correctly.
He used to have a white Alsatian.
Another story was my Labrador once walked across his new laid wet concrete floor on his garage. Me trying to shout her off without making him come to the door and then looking at these perfect paw prints left behind.
Happy Days.
Other less know great bands:
Budgie.
Preying Mantis
Diamond Head.
As someone posted earlier, football, Rock music and throw in Barbel fishing and you have my life![]()
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Met him backstage in 89 at the City Hall. Great bloke, was talking to him for what seemed like ages and he took us into Sabbath's dressing room to meet the rest of the band. When security came to kick us out, he told them it was fine and we stayed having a drink and chatting with the band.
Eventually we had to leave when the band left for their tour bus, but they hung around outside for a while and signed pictures and we met him again and he talked about motorbikes to my mate. Great drummer as well.[DOUBLEPOST=1391465690][/DOUBLEPOST]
totally love this thread - absolutely amazed there are lads on here teching for DP and who grew up knocking around with some of my favourite bands.
you think you know a forum...
absolutely love DP, and have a massive soft spot for the coverdale records. someone earlier made a bit of a dismissive remark about his cock rock stuff later in his career but whitesnake were a phemomenal blues rock band for many a year prior to the hairspray years. and even then - 1987 is a bloody great record (that i believe don airey actually played on).
i play in a couple of bands; one day in the van on the way to a gig we did the rock family tree/6 degrees of separation thing and i connected to don airey, which i was pretty pleased about, as he connected me to sabbath/purple/tull/dio just about every other 70s rock band!
Don Airey played keyboards on Judas Priest's Painkiller album, once of the heaviest albums I've ever heard.