Jump to content

Does anyone remember the open air concert held at Portland Park summer 1970?


willy j.

Recommended Posts

What about these bands..............a pocket history of Prog-Rock, and there's loads more. Can you name them? The finished list should be fantastic. I mean proper Prog-Rock bands, not stupid ones like The Pink Fairies etc.

post-3022-0-35912600-1417009703_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-31334300-1417009738_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-25462700-1417009758_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-18576500-1417009794_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-39714100-1417009821_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-86375000-1417009843_thumb.jp

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Spot on Keith, 'Weavers Answer' was/still is a Classic Prog Rock number, we used to play it at every gig, some people would ask for it again, so we often got to play it twice, wonderful

 

Family were strange, but packed with very talented musicians. If you can remember, the bass player, Rick Gretch went on to play with Clapton, Winwood and Baker in 'Blind Faith'. How bloody good was he?

 

Keep the names coming this could be really interesting.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

KL Roger has put Family back together again over the last year, but as yet I have only seen gig's advertised in London. Don't know if he is going to take them out on the road, or what the line-up will be, but he is awesome to watch live.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If that's the case KL, I must start drinking more whiskey. Think I'll struggle with the sandpaper though.

 

Agree with you, a fantastic voice.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Maggie you must enlighten me on this one (Songs from The Wood), sounds interesting.

 

Being a Prog-Rocker you may find this strange, but you must understand that as a teenager in the early 60's, all kinds of new music was influencing us, as it probably did you. The first LP I ever bought was by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. There you have it, youth was changing.

 

How about you?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Songs from the Wood is a Jethro Tull LP/CD.

You gave us a picture of another LP/CD of theirs

Willyj.

The first LP I bought was

'With the Beatles'

7" singles included Elvis, Bobby Darin and a few dodgy things one of which was

Manhattan Spiritual still love listening to them all.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I haven't heard that Tull LP Maggie, is it one of their later ones, cos there were quite a few. The reason I put 'This Was' on here is because it was their first, and we used to play 5 of the track on it.

 

Some of those singles you mentioned have stood the test of time. Just goes to show that music is eternal.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Songs from the Wood was later.

The first Tull we bought was 'Benefit'

It was in crates as we moved abroad and (without modern technology) was difficult to live without.

Music was not so easily available.

Cost came first, we only bought what we could afford.

Now our kids cannot believe we did not buy more LPs of the artists we liked.

Our Rega deck needs attention £125 for a new motor.

Not sure what to do.

Listening has changed to the 'Spotify' generation.

Fortunately or unfortunately we still enjoy the old Hi Fi.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...

..throwing a dafty in here -- about the same time or even earlier there was a 'free' (not the band !!) concert at Creswell in the dunes - I remember walking there as there was no other way to get to it and realising on arrival that I had forgot to bring the sleeping bag - oops (just as well I didn't forget the drink)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

This one's for Keith Lockey, High Pit Wilma, Mercuryg, Pilgrim and Maggie/915. MERLIN at the Rex Hotel 1969.

Some of you may remember our lead guitarist.......Harry Bryzinski. (from Guide Post)

The Band:

 

Harry Bryzinski     Lead Guitar

Simon Wallace     Drums

Willy Johnson       Bass

Doug Haley          Hammond Organ

Colin Hall             Vocals

post-3022-0-16949200-1426682474_thumb.jp

post-3022-0-70454400-1426682501_thumb.jp

Edited by willy j.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yes Maggie, those pictures are good memories, a year later we had moved down to London and playing gigs we had only dreamt of, it was a fantastic time. Would love to do it all over again.

 

Just thought some of you might remember Harry Bryzinski from Guide Post, he has a sister called Eve who still lives here. He was a fantastic guitarist, had already been professional before joining us.

 

Happy days.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create a free account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


×
×
  • Create New...