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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 :) :)

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.
 
I work for deep purple. Playing a show in oulu Finland tonight. They play a song called 'hell to pay'. Ian Gillan (singer) just introduced it by saying "lock up your horses, there's gonna be hell to pay"!
Sitting here pissing myself!
The keyboard players a massive lads fan y'nar.
If it gets up on you tube in the next few days ill hoy it up here.
Made an amazing day even better :D:cool:

How long before the mags gets wind of this and boycoutt them, their tours and albums? :cool:
 
pm me his name mate. Ill pass a message on. He loves all that..
If you do find youtube of this to post can you please post with a new thread under that title.
be worthy of its own thread and ensure folk dont miss seeing it if just added to here
thanks in anticipation!
 
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!
Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden :)
 
I saw DP in Birmingham sometime in the 90's when Blackmore was with them and it was a terrible gig. Smoke, Child in Time and Woman from Tokyo weren't even full versions. Disappointing.

Glad to hear they are not like that now.
 
Class thread this, never seen DP live, saw Sabbath a few times and was lucky enough to see RJD do Heaven and Hell. My first pay packet for my weekend job at Jump records was a fiver and DP live in Japan :)
 
Class thread this, never seen DP live, saw Sabbath a few times and was lucky enough to see RJD do Heaven and Hell. My first pay packet for my weekend job at Jump records was a fiver and DP live in Japan :)
Just a quick update for anyone interested...
Had dinner with Don Airey in Oslo last night. Apparently Ian Gillan is totally over the moon that his comment onstage the other night has been so well received! Apparently he has even been on the SMB to have a look and is very touched by what people have said. Although he is a staunch QPR fan, he apparently always looks out for the Lads results. Perhaps not a massive lads fan but a medium lads fan anarl!
 
Just a quick update for anyone interested...
Had dinner with Don Airey in Oslo last night. Apparently Ian Gillan is totally over the moon that his comment onstage the other night has been so well received! Apparently he has even been on the SMB to have a look and is very touched by what people have said. Although he is a staunch QPR fan, he apparently always looks out for the Lads results. Perhaps not a massive lads fan but a medium lads fan anarl!
I'm afraid we need to see Mr Gillan to sign up and say "Ha'way the Lads" or this never happened.
 
Aye, looking back I must have looked a bloody clip at times. I only have the joss sticks now to remind me but the funny thing about smell, it doesn't half stick in the memory and takes me right back to those days. Didn't know that about Purple at Reading. Which one was it? I was at Reading 79', Motorhead and all that, brill weekend and plenty of cans and bottles being hurled at the stage then ana'll. Happy days eh?

oh it was well before then, i was down in 79 and 80...80 was the 25th year and there was a 'historical' booklet including quotes from previous years/organisers and that fact stuck in my head, no idea what happened to the book but i still have my flag from then lol.
think it was more like the mid sixties, the guy had seen them play and figured they would be ideal for the fest...how times changed eh?
f'kin motorhead man....only time i knew what tune they were blasting into was when lemmy started to 'sing', too loud wall of noise!!
 
oh it was well before then, i was down in 79 and 80...80 was the 25th year and there was a 'historical' booklet including quotes from previous years/organisers and that fact stuck in my head, no idea what happened to the book but i still have my flag from then lol.
think it was more like the mid sixties, the guy had seen them play and figured they would be ideal for the fest...how times changed eh?
f'kin motorhead man....only time i knew what tune they were blasting into was when lemmy started to 'sing', too loud wall of noise!!
Aye, I did realise it would have been much earlier than 79, its just the way my post read. Loved Motorhead like, but you're right about the wall of noise, that was the best part for some of us:)
 
Aye, I did realise it would have been much earlier than 79, its just the way my post read. Loved Motorhead like, but you're right about the wall of noise, that was the best part for some of us:)

aye, never said it was bad ;)
was Gillan 79 or 80?....the memory is somewhat blurred but remember the bassist at that time (bernie torme?) keeping the crowd going with a nice bass solo ending with him hoyin a pint over his head, think 79 was also the NWOBHM year with a lot of the (then) new bands performing.
 
In Rock was one of the first albums I ever bought.
First band I ever saw live!
Round about '72.
 
aye, never said it was bad ;)
was Gillan 79 or 80?....the memory is somewhat blurred but remember the bassist at that time (bernie torme?) keeping the crowd going with a nice bass solo ending with him hoyin a pint over his head, think 79 was also the NWOBHM year with a lot of the (then) new bands performing.

John McCoy was Gillan's bassist, Bernie Torme was lead guitar. I saw Gillan play Reading in 1980 (I think!).
 
aye, never said it was bad ;)
was Gillan 79 or 80?....the memory is somewhat blurred but remember the bassist at that time (bernie torme?) keeping the crowd going with a nice bass solo ending with him hoyin a pint over his head, think 79 was also the NWOBHM year with a lot of the (then) new bands performing.
I think Gillan must have been Reading 80. I seem to remember Whitesnake headlining on the last night of the festival in 79.
 
Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden :)

i used to love whitesnake with them two.
saw them a canny few times but i thought coverdale sold his soul when he turned whitesnake into an airbrushed cock-rock band.
seen purple a canny few times over the years but not when they were in their prime. having said that they still do a cracking show, proper music. ian gillan has (for me) one of the best and most recognisable voices in music, even enjoyed his garth rocket and the moonshiners stuff:)
 
I think Gillan must have been Reading 80. I seem to remember Whitesnake headlining on the last night of the festival in 79.

aye, whitesnake (my top band at the time) and the police headlined, cant remember which night or who the 3rd headline act was (too much funny stuff got passed)
gillan was 80, correct, our local band White Spirit were there also before janick headed off on his rounds...great guitarist, and Slade of course who did an amazing set.
wish i still had all the stuff i bought in 80 but to be honest i think gillan sounded a little stale on that gig[DOUBLEPOST=1391769653][/DOUBLEPOST]
I think Gillan must have been Reading 80. I seem to remember Whitesnake headlining on the last night of the festival in 79.

the police were friday night iirc....all i can remember is his parka
 
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