Catching up with yesterday’s Guardian I discover that pornography’s Richard Desmond is a jazz drummer and is in a band with Roger Daltrey, modestly named The RD Crusaders.
Given that the band formed in 2003 I’m mystified as to how this juicy nugget has eluded me until today.
Here they are doing unspeakable things to Start Me Up.
Anyone else discovered something worth sharing with the group?
Well going to Darling Daughter’s music school concert, where two bands of adorable 7-10 year olds presented their summer rock school efforts, I learned that 7 Nation Army is as simple to play as you would think, while Blink 182’s All the Small Things is not. DD opened proceedings with a five-minute bass solo.
Impressive. I’ve just bought a bass and I’m doing a three hour crash course tomorrow night. Expect sore finger tips on Tuesday. My son did local “rock schools” and 7 Nation Army was a regular choice along with Highway to Hell, Teen Spirit etc. My favourite though was The Man Who Sold The World. Obviously a cool tutor that year.
You see that Sesame Street?
You see that muppet The Count?
Do you know why they call him “The Count”?
It’s cos he a farkhing count!!!
You’d expect the proprietor of a jazz mag empire to be a decent, er, ‘jazz drummer’…
I thought the same thing. Jazz drummer = wanker.
Just back from seeing the Stones play Hamburg and I have learnt that “Ron Holz” is the second hardest working man in showbidness (after Mick).
I learnt that, as a child, my future mother-in-law used to live next-door to a (relatively successful in her time, though I’ve never heard of her) famous novelist when said noveslist was in the final chapters of her life.
What was her name? The novelist, that is.