LIVEMUSIC

ROGER & FRANS PAGES

WE LOVE MUSIC

Music – especially live music – is very important in our lives, and we are extremely lucky to have some very talented friends who make music (indeed, many have done so professionally).

First we must point out that we like ALL sorts of music, and we love to see as much classical, ballet and opera as we can afford, but most of our friends seem to be involved in Rock’n’Roll – so this part of our website tends to focus on that sort of music.

THE NASHVILLE TEENS

The sixties band which had hits with Tobacco Road, Google Eye and Little Bird. Yes they’re still going strong forty two years later, and we’re proud to call them all friends. Roger plays at helping with roadie duties, organising their bookings and tending their website at www.Nashville-Teens.com .

The band primarily play very loud Rhythm & Blues. Our pal Ray Phillips is a founder member of band and has an extremely melodious voice that can sing the full range from ballad and brilliant blues through to throaty rock'n'roll. Ken Osborne on lead guitar and Simon Spratley on keyboards provide the riffs with Adrian (Spud) Metcalf on drums and our best mate Colin Pattenden on bass. Colin cut his professional teeth as a founder member of Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the early seventies.

THE KING EARL BOOGIE BAND

Who – with a different singer – have sold 23 million copies of In The Summertime when they were known as Mungo Jerry. They changed their name when their original singer - Ray Dorset - left in the mid seventies. Roger manages a web-site for them too, go look at www.KEBB.co.uk . We go to see them play whenever we can.

Our good friend Colin Earl is now the sole remaining member of the original Mungo Jerry in this band. His keyboard is complemented by Ian Campbell on lead guitar and Dave Peabody on rhythm guitar and vocals. Both are excellent guitarists. Roger loves Ian's blues guitar playing - Ian plays as much with his soul as with his fingers; he has an impressive heritage, including being a "dep" in Thin Lizzy. Mr. Peabody is pretty excellent too, having three times been awarded the accolade of "Acoustic Blues Artiste of the Year" in 1998, 2001 and 2002. (Eric Clapton has only earned the title once !) Roger and Fran also like to see Dave Peabody playing solo as he gets a much better opportunity to show off his guitar skills when alone. The band have recently acquired a new drummer, John Coghlan, ex Status Quo - his skills a greatly enhanced the bands capability and John is complemented on bass by Les Calvert, who is one of the Country's leading bass players, having played with Alexis Korner, Jonah Louie and Mike Cooper's Machine Gun Company among many others.

An older picture of the King Earl Boogie Band : L to R ; Colin Earl (keyboards) ; Alan Taylor (Chairman of the Mungo Jerry Fan Club) ; Magic Mal (then percussion, no longer with the band) ; Ian Campbell (lead guitar) ; Colin Pattenden (bass guitar, but no longer with the band) ; and Dave Peabody (rhythm guitar, joint lead guitar, vocals and hat).

THE JACKIE LYNTON BAND

Our bestest friend Colin P also plays bass guitar with this band and we rarely miss a gig. Jack Lynton is an impressive performer with a powerful voice. After a solo career in the sixties he moved on to join The Savoy Brown Blues Band in the seventies and then John Coghlan's Diesel in the eighties. Jack is also a prolific songwriter. He wrote "Again and Again" for Status Quo among many other of their "headbanging" songs; and he is also a good actor - with regular bit parts in Eastenders. Jack has his own web site at Jackielynton.com and it is well worth a visit. Jack's vocal range is magnificent and he moves easily from melodic thirties songs through to really raunchy Rock'n'Roll. Colin's bass is complemented by Greg (Hobbit) Terry-Short's excellent drumming. There are two lead guitars - Chris Bryant and Mike Windus are the regulars, although we also sometimes see both Grahame White and Ian Campbell as "deps" when Chris or Mike are out of town. Chris also plays for Arthur Brown when he cannot get a gig with Jack.

PIRATE RADIO

Goodness knows how we got involved, but it was great fun. We have befriended two lovely ladies, Mary and Pauline. who seem to organise all the publicity for Radio Caroline and Radio London - those great establishments of the sixties which helped liberate our generation and forced the BBC reform and listen to its public. We were privileged to be guests at the PIRATE RADIO RE-UNION in 2001 - together with Jacky and Colin. See pictures at the Big L web-site http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl2001/picspier1.html The picture above is Jacky & Colin and myself with Fran at the radio London studio on Clacton Pier in August 2001.

SIXTIES EVENT PROGRAMMES

click picture for 1999 programme

click picture for 2000 programme

Finally - in the summers of 1999 and 2000 there were some amazing sixties concerts put on at The Brighton Centre by a gentleman named Mike Neal . Sadly he disappeared from the scene after the 2001 gig (without paying the artistes) so the events are unlikely to be easily revived. Roger had the pleasure of working on the sound stage at both these events and the pages of the programmes are reproduced on the web. Just click on the pictures of the covers above.

They should each open as a separate web window so that when you've finished you can close that window and find yourself back here !
The 1999 programme is courtesy of Pauline Miller.

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