I was going to ask if Vin Garbutt was still persona non grata, but assiduous research shows he’s no longer with us.

I was at the ODG yesterday!

My son used to work on Emmerdale and got to know Freddie quite well. A lovely chap, he says.

I remember the wretched Five Star on a children’s phone in programme. One astute youngster asked “Why are you so f*****g crap”?

I wonder what would have happened had they put Kylie on at Reading 30 years ago? The bottles would have been flying!

OBE? Pah! A mate of mine got a CBE for polishing the seat of his pants in the Civil Service for 30 years.
An award isn’t worth a bucketful of warm spit.

We saw him at Colne Municipal Hall. They used to have damned good gigs there – Steve Earle, Albert Collins, Albert King. I could go on.

As we left the gig, I heard a man saying to his 12 or 13 year old son; “and that’s what happens when you take drugs”

Blue Horizon label!

Never saw Fleetwood Mac – I was due to in 1968, but was hospitalised the previous night after the car i hitch hiked home in crashed into a lamppost.
I believe that Spencer’s main contribution was on stage […]

I thought it was fab.

Subscribed.

When you do the “5th Beatle” podcast, I hope you will include Donovan, who taught them all they knew.

Just heard the news that Jake Black, aka the Very Reverend D Wayne Love, died today.

Say hello to my son.

At the end of the show, did they go on the revolving stage and wave at the audience, like in the olden days?

I never thought of that. I don’t think I’d make a very good forensic accountant.

Tedeschi Trucks band roll along nicely with two drummers.
I find Mickey Hart’s stickwork rather lumpen, and can’t understand why the Dead invited him to return after his dad pinched all their money.

I remember my dad, a real opera buff, saying “That lad can sing, lovely dark brown voice” after he saw Scott on Top of the Pops.
Praise indeed from him.
I saw the Walker Brothers in 1967, on a package tour with […]

SteveT: I recommended the podcast to Ian Clayton. He got back to me an hour later, saying how much he enjoyed it and that he owes you a pint!

Believe it or not, I saw him perform solo at a riverside pub near Whalley in the Ribble Valley, Lancs, about ten years ago. A competent performer of Americana, playing Keyboard, banjo and guitar.
Of course, […]

Sad news that their keyboard player and flautist Kofi Burbridge died yesterday.