Post by Prints le Some on May 9, 2008 11:29:10 GMT
Hi, oh sorry, I saw you two looking at me, whispering and giggling, and I thought you may have recognised me. No! well I suppose you are a bit young to remember the sixties music scene .
No, not in a group, I was a solo artist, You know, all alone on a stage with just a guitar. No, I wasn't a big star, just working away trying to make a living you know. I knew a lot of big stars though, The Stones, Cliff, you know, people like that. No not close mates, not really, I saw them around you know. At clubs and gigs and things. It was a crazy time, no one was really close friends, you just kind of bumped into people in different places.
Yes, I made a few records, not anything you would have heard I am afraid. Nothing gets played much now.
Those were the days though, everything was new, all the old ways were thrown out and we took over, you know, the kids. The music was what led the way, The Beetles first record was really the beginning for a lot of people. Then The Stones, they were something else. A lot of people thought I was another Lennon, John Lennon, the Beetles, you must know them. The way I stood at the microphone and my voice, a bit like his. Maybe that was part of why I had a bit of a problem breaking into the big time. Lennon needed a group around him but I didn't have one.
I was a star here of course. The local disc jockeys played my record in the local dance halls for a while. The old blue florescent lights, course you wont know about those. Gave dandruff on your shoulder a shine. Dave, the guy who put the record out for me said that it was a close thing. If the Beetles had not already got two records in the top ten and then released another at the same time the people may have bought more of mine. Dave said that the public wasn't quite ready for my stuff though, another couple of years he said. I tried to hold on, took any gig I could get, you know pubs, clubs and stuff, but, well to be honest I got tired of the scene, you know. No, not drugs, didn't do anything like that, I had to work during the day you see, at Woolworths, drugs would have screwed me up for work, they did that to a lot of people, look at Jimmy, no Hendricks. The Osmans came along years later. Drugs got Jimmy, and Brian.
Dave said I should have kept going, a guy called Donovan came along and Dave said his success should have been mine, his fans would have been mine if only I had kept going another few years.
No, I don't see any one from the old days now, I tried to keep in touch with some of them but, you know, they get big and then have to have security people vet their mail and stuff. I know some of them would have answered if they had got my letters, but the security people would have thought I was just another wannabe. I wrote to Cliff when my wife left me in '79, third of December it was, she took the kids too, lovely kids they were, little girls, two of them, it was a bad time. I haven't seen them or her since, not even a letter. I have got lots of birthday and Christmas cards at home ready to post but I never heard where they were living. Just after I started back in the business it was, only for a few months mind, didn't get anywhere cause Dave had moved on, you know. I have the talent you see, but not the contacts that he had. I was sunk without him you see.
He, Cliff, answered me, said how glad he was to hear from me and stuff, he didn't say anything about the wife leaving, he had it typed so probably didn't want to talk about personal stuff to a secretary you know, but it cheered me up a lot to hear form him again. We met originally in a club in London you know. He asked me about my music and stuff, wished me luck but then he got called away, I would have liked to talk longer but, you know what it's like in show business, no time to stop and chat, you have to get on with things. Nice man though, Cliff.
Anyway, if you've finished with the trolley I will take it away, the boss likes the car park clear of trolleys.
No, not in a group, I was a solo artist, You know, all alone on a stage with just a guitar. No, I wasn't a big star, just working away trying to make a living you know. I knew a lot of big stars though, The Stones, Cliff, you know, people like that. No not close mates, not really, I saw them around you know. At clubs and gigs and things. It was a crazy time, no one was really close friends, you just kind of bumped into people in different places.
Yes, I made a few records, not anything you would have heard I am afraid. Nothing gets played much now.
Those were the days though, everything was new, all the old ways were thrown out and we took over, you know, the kids. The music was what led the way, The Beetles first record was really the beginning for a lot of people. Then The Stones, they were something else. A lot of people thought I was another Lennon, John Lennon, the Beetles, you must know them. The way I stood at the microphone and my voice, a bit like his. Maybe that was part of why I had a bit of a problem breaking into the big time. Lennon needed a group around him but I didn't have one.
I was a star here of course. The local disc jockeys played my record in the local dance halls for a while. The old blue florescent lights, course you wont know about those. Gave dandruff on your shoulder a shine. Dave, the guy who put the record out for me said that it was a close thing. If the Beetles had not already got two records in the top ten and then released another at the same time the people may have bought more of mine. Dave said that the public wasn't quite ready for my stuff though, another couple of years he said. I tried to hold on, took any gig I could get, you know pubs, clubs and stuff, but, well to be honest I got tired of the scene, you know. No, not drugs, didn't do anything like that, I had to work during the day you see, at Woolworths, drugs would have screwed me up for work, they did that to a lot of people, look at Jimmy, no Hendricks. The Osmans came along years later. Drugs got Jimmy, and Brian.
Dave said I should have kept going, a guy called Donovan came along and Dave said his success should have been mine, his fans would have been mine if only I had kept going another few years.
No, I don't see any one from the old days now, I tried to keep in touch with some of them but, you know, they get big and then have to have security people vet their mail and stuff. I know some of them would have answered if they had got my letters, but the security people would have thought I was just another wannabe. I wrote to Cliff when my wife left me in '79, third of December it was, she took the kids too, lovely kids they were, little girls, two of them, it was a bad time. I haven't seen them or her since, not even a letter. I have got lots of birthday and Christmas cards at home ready to post but I never heard where they were living. Just after I started back in the business it was, only for a few months mind, didn't get anywhere cause Dave had moved on, you know. I have the talent you see, but not the contacts that he had. I was sunk without him you see.
He, Cliff, answered me, said how glad he was to hear from me and stuff, he didn't say anything about the wife leaving, he had it typed so probably didn't want to talk about personal stuff to a secretary you know, but it cheered me up a lot to hear form him again. We met originally in a club in London you know. He asked me about my music and stuff, wished me luck but then he got called away, I would have liked to talk longer but, you know what it's like in show business, no time to stop and chat, you have to get on with things. Nice man though, Cliff.
Anyway, if you've finished with the trolley I will take it away, the boss likes the car park clear of trolleys.