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Saturday, 26 March 2016

Bowie Fest Headbang results - 25th March, 2016


OBITUARIES

The following tracks were played:

Stevie Wright (Easybeats vocalist) Friday on my mind 1966
Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) Somebody to love 1967
Keith Emerson (ELP) Hang on to a dream 1968
David Bowie Life on Mars/Heroes/Lazarus 1971
Glenn Frey (Eagles) Peaceful Easy Feeling/Take it easy 1972
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Silver Machine 1972
Dale Griffin (Mott the Hoople drummer) All the young dudes 1972
William Guest (The Pips) Midnight train to Georgia 1976
Sir Terry Wogan Floral Dance (briefly) 1978
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) September 1978
John Bradbury (Specials drummer) Free Nelson Mandela 1984
Colin Vearncombe ("Black") Wonderful Life 1986
Natalie Cole Unforgettable 1991
Craig Tarry/River Reeves/Kris Leonard/Timas Lowe (Viola Beach) Swings and Waterslides 2015
Devin Bachmann/Earl Miller II/Kyle Canter (CounterFlux) Radio Hit 2015
Sir George Martin Tribute 2016

Additionally, we played the Dr. Who Theme tune (rock version) as a tribute to recently departed Sandy McDonald, father of actor David Tennant who Gerry's wife, Heather grew up with.

There were 5 other musical connections that we didn't play any tracks for:

Robert Stigwood (promoter/label owner/manager)
Ed "Stewpot" Stewart (DJ)
Giorgio Gomelsky
Signe Toly Anderson (Jefferson Airplane vocalist pre-Grace)
Sonny James
A couple of spooky coincidences were noted. Two young bands (CounterFlux and Viola Beach) were wiped out by car accidents on different continents on the same day. Noted also that two former members of Jefferson Airplane (Paul Kantner & Signe Toly Anderson) died on the same day.

When it came to voting for the 3 Most Missed, there were some obvious candidates, with Bowie the clear winner, garnering 4 votes out of the 7 of us present. The next best was a bit of a surprise with Keith Emerson getting the nod from Colin and Dave, leaving only me advocating George Martin. Glenn Frey missed out.

SEPTUAGENARIANS

15 tracks were played, but voting was for the top 10 tracks only and this is how it turned out:

1 John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bass) Kashmir 54
2 Randy Meisner (Poco/Eagles bass) Take it to the limit 43
3 Aynsley Dunbar (drummer) Space Oddity 43
4 David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) Arnold Layne 40
5 Matthew Fisher (Procul Harum keyboards) Whiter shade of pale 39
6 Jim Cregan (Family/Cockney Rebel/Rod Stewart bass guitar) Come up and see me 32
7 Dolly Parton Jolene 17
8 J Geils Centerfold 15
9 Nedra Talley (Ronettes) Be my baby 13
10 Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) In the summertime 10
11 Tony Kaye (Yes keyboards) I've seen all good people 10
12 Robby Krieger (Doors guitarist) Touch me 9
13 Lemmy (Motorhead) Overkill 8
14 Chick Churchill (TYA keyboards) I'm going home 5
15 Peter Criss (Kiss drummer) Crazy crazy nights  

Another two new musical septuagenarians didn't have a track played:

Naomi Judd (Country singer/songwriter)
Liza Minnelli

Now it was time for the return of ORIGINAL v COVER and the following tracks were selected ("Original" first) and votes were cast
Song "Original" Cover O C
Route 66 Nat "King" Cole Dr. Feelgood   5
Sound of Silence Simon & Garfunkel Disturbed 7  
Delilah Tom Jones SAHB   7
Proud Mary CCR James Bay & Jools 4 3
War Pigs Black Sabbath Flaming Lips 3 1
Nutbush City Limits Ike & Tina Turner Beth Hart, Jeff Beck & Jools 3 2
Behind Blue Eyes Who Limp Bizkit 4 3
Reason to believe Tim Hardin Rod Stewart   7
The man who sold the world David Bowie Nirvana 1 5
Common People Pulp William Shatner/Star Trek 6 1

Overall, the "Originals" won 6 of the 10 individual contests, but the Cover versions had a few more convincing wins and gathered a total of 34 votes to just 28 for the Originals, which would have given them the result had it gone to countback. Close call, but I think the Originals have to be declared the winners, thus revenging their defeat last time - on countback.

It was noted that there were 7 never before played artistes above:

  • Nat "King" Cole (his second appearance on the night)
  • Disturbed
  • Flaming Lips
  • Beth Hart
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Tim Hardin
  • William Shatner/Star Trek


On the same topic, the last theme of the evening was other NOTABLE ABSENTEES and the results of the voting were:

David Gray Babylon 53
Petula Clark Downtown 45
Lady Gaga Bowie Tribute 45
Notting Hillbillies I think I love you too much 40
Kansas Wayward Son 33
Stiff Little Fingers Nobody's Hero 29
Wreckless Eric Whole Wide World 28
Edgar Broughton Band Silver Needle 24
Rush Spirit of the radio 19
Budgie Who do you want for your love 14

I never realised David Gray would be so popular.

For once we finished in good time - before the taxi arrived and without having to rush through the later tracks. There was, of course, time for the traditional team photo - guess who's eyes appear in the screen backdrop?:


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