That's defeatist talk Mr Hills...! Buck up there...! non of that mopping around...! I demand that you go out and have a DAMN GOOD TIME...!
Thanks for that Gary, Not heard the CD, may take a punt on it if I find an ebay cheapie... didn't know about Mott in London this year... Mott was another band I missed... as was Uriah Heep...
Lowend...
Saw Bad Co at Earls Court in '74...
Missed GFR at Wembley in '74... I didn't know they existed until '75 when I discovered WAAB and never looked back...
ditto DP2 the first time round...
ditto Chicago (still have the vinyl boxed set live set with the most ridiculously huge poster...) what was Kath's last words...? "Don't worry, it's not loaded"... bummer...
UFO with Schenker in '78 (?) at the Hammy Odeon...
dittto UH
Travers - lucky enough to have seen that line-up twice, both at the Hammersmith Odeon, once supporting Journey, so that must have been '79...? still have a tour shirt somewhere... "Crash and Burn" tour...? Cowling was a stunning bass player... and being a Black Oak fan (there are such people! another band I missed, being in Scotland when they played a couple of shows with Nugent, and back in London when they played in Scotland - had something similar happen with the Skunk Baxter first tour with the Doobies, another miss...) seeing Aldridge was rather cool... I liked Go and Automatic Man, so seeing Thrall was a definite bonus...
Tommy Aldridge played with Gary Moore in the 80's, and played the Marquee club, that was a good night... I think Don Airey was in the line up too... saw GM a few times there... another time featured Ian Paice on drums, a third had Mark Nauseef... never saw Thin Lizzy...
I have somehow missed a stack of British acts, too... missed Nazereth too. Bret...