Steve and Malcolm were M.I.A. but the remaining 8 Headbangers all showed up at Gary's last night for the first gathering of the year - and what a technical disaster it was - a number of the video files refused to yield any sound and imaginations had to be put to full use.
As usual, the
Obituary section opened proceedings. There had been 17 notables passed since the last Headbang and we played 12 tracks from 11 of these - well we tried to anyway.
Can's 1976 single
I Want More was the first track to misbehave, but the rest of this section played OK. The Top 3 Most Missed were voted on as follows:
| Rick
Parfitt (Status Quo) |
Down the dustpipe/Paper Plane |
1970/2 |
| George Michael |
Somebody to love |
1992 |
| Peter Sarstedt |
Where do you go
to my lovely? |
1969 |
Other tracks played were:
| Mike
Kellie (Spooky Tooth/Only Ones drummer) |
Better by you, better than me |
1969 |
| Deke Leonard
(Man/Iceberg) |
Day and Night |
1975 |
| John Wetton (Renaissance, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music,
Asia, Uriah Heep, UK, Wishbone Ash etc bass) |
Heat of the
moment |
1982 |
| Jaki Leibezeit (Can drummer) |
I want more |
1976 |
| Pete Overend Watts (Mott the Hoople bass) |
Medley |
2013 |
| Al Jarreau |
Moonlighting |
1987 |
| Buddy Greco |
The lady is a
tramp |
1965 |
| Peter Skellern |
You're a lady |
1973 |
Others with a musical connection who had passed included:
| Alphonse
Mouzon (Weather Report drummer) |
| Allan Williams
(Beatles' first manager) |
| Yanni Alexis Mardas ("Magic Alex") |
| Maggie Roche
(Roches) |
| David Axelrod (Composer/arranger/producer) |
| Larry Coryell
(Jazz guitarist) |
The second theme, as always, is
Septuagenarians and 15 notables had achieved this milestone since our last gathering. This was where the first ballot papers were issued and the results of the Finzean jury were:
| 1 |
Doug Yule (Velvet Underground
bass/organ/vocals) |
I'm waiting for the man |
109 |
| 2 |
Jan Akkerman
(Focus guitar) |
Hocus Pocus |
102 |
| 3 |
Melanie |
Ruby Tuesday |
99 |
| 4 |
Patti Smith |
Beacause the
night |
95 |
| 5 |
Rod Evans (Deep
Purple singer) |
Hush |
88 |
| 6 |
Jimmy Buffet |
Southern Cross |
74 |
| 7 |
Dave Davies |
Death of a clown |
63 |
| 8 |
Edgar Winter |
Rock 'n' roll
boogie woogie |
57 |
| 9 |
Terry Sylvester
(Swinging Blue Jeans/Hollies) |
Long cool woman
in a black dress |
57 |
| 10 |
Marianne
Faithfull |
The ballad of
Lucy Jordan |
52 |
| 11 |
John Lees
(Barclay James Harvest vocals/guitar) |
Rock n Roll Star |
47 |
| 12 |
Jimmy Ibbotson
(Nitty Gritty Dirtband) |
Mr. Bojangles |
44 |
| 13 |
Sandie Shaw |
Hand in glove |
44 |
| 14 |
Normie Row
(Aussie singer/songwriter/actor) |
Que sera sera |
18 |
| 15 |
Dennis DeYoung
(Styx vocalist/keyboards) |
Babe |
11 |
Patti Smith and
Edgar Winter did particularly well with their relatively high placings considering they were the two tracks that didn't play in this section.
The 3rd theme was carried over from the last Headbang - Notable Absentees. Most of the suggestions were Dave's with a couple thrown in by me to make up a set of 10. Adrian Gurvitz was the one who suffered here with no sound. The voting results were:
| Beth
Orton |
She cries your name |
56 |
| Van Dyke Parks |
Heroes and
villains |
56 |
| Massive Attack |
Unfinished
Sympathy |
53 |
| Ryan Adams |
So alive |
52 |
| Divine Comedy |
National Express |
51 |
| Colosseum |
Take me back to
doomsday |
45 |
| Van der Graaf Generator |
Theme One |
38 |
| Sufjan Stevens |
For the widows
in paradise For the fatherless in Ypsilanti |
35 |
| Adrian Gervitz |
Classic |
28 |
| Starland Vocal Band |
Afternoon
Delight |
26 |
Dead heat between
Beth Orton and
Van Dyke Parks.
More to follow in the next post.
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