A new venue last night - Aidan's place worked out great and most of us could actually walk home from it too. The technicians and furniture removers had been hard at it in the afternoon to ensure the event went smoothly - and, for once, it did.
Gerry, Dave, Colin, late addition Jeb and I warmed up with a couple of pints in the Douglas beforehand, then we all walked along to Aidan's where our host plus Gary and Andy were waiting. Malcolm had pre-warned us that he would be a late arrival as family were descending on them, but, in the end, everything over-ran and he couldn't make it.
Usual start to the evening with the
Obituaries section, where we played 9 tracks, in sequence of their passing:
| Walter
Becker |
Reeling in the years |
| Holger Czukay (Can) |
I want more |
| Don Williams |
Tribute |
| Grant Hart (Hüsker Dü) |
Pink turns to blue |
| Charles Bradley |
Changes |
| Jack Good |
6-5 Special intro |
| Tom Petty |
American Girl |
| Eamonn
Campbell (Dubliners) |
Dirty Old Town |
| George Young |
Friday on my
Mind |
| Antoine "Fats" Domino |
Blue Monday |
| Malcolm Young |
Hell's Bells |
| Charles Manson |
Never learn not
to love you (Beach Boys) |
| David Cassidy |
Tribute |
| Johnny Hallyday |
Tribute |
The show of hands produced 3 nominations for
Most Missed, with the majority going for
Tom Petty. Single votes were received for
Fats Domino and
Walter Becker.
In addition to the above, the following musical notables had recently passed, but we didn't acknowledge them in any way:
| Hedley
Jones |
Designed first solid body
electric guitar |
| Murray Lerner |
Documentary
maker - Newport, IoW etc |
| Harold Pendleton |
Founder of the
Marquee Club - booked the Stones' first gig and established the Reading
Festival |
| Tom Paley |
Pioneer of the
American folk revival renowned for his duets with Woody Guthrie and running
into trouble with the McCarthyites. Member of the New Lost City Ramblers who
influenced Dylan |
| Phil Miller |
Prog rock/jazz
guitarist, part of the Canterbury scene |
| Paul Buckmaster |
Arranger/Orchestrator
- Bowie, Elton etc etc |
| Dudley
Simpson |
Composer/conductor
- incidental music for Dr. Who, Blake's 7 etc |
| Lil Peep |
NY rapper |
| Keith Chegwin |
"Cheggers" |
By tradition,
Septuagenarians is the next theme. As many as 24 had achieved this milestone since the last Headbang, but only 9 were deemed worthy of a play. This was the first written vote of the evening and, once again, this demonstrated the eclectic range of tastes of our group. A few yellow cards were waved - and ignored - and these were reflected in some of the votes - but some took completely the opposite view. Here's the results anyway:
| 1 |
Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy) |
Whisky in the jar |
62 |
| 2= |
Joe Walsh |
Life's been good |
53 |
| 2= |
Lol Crème |
The Dean and I |
53 |
| 4 |
Don Felder |
One of these
nights |
48 |
| 5 |
Meat Loaf |
Paradise by the
dashboard light |
43 |
| 6 |
Brian Johnson |
You shook me all
night long |
29 |
| 7 |
Dave Pegg |
The hanging song |
27 |
| 8 |
Timothy B Schmit |
Rose of Cimarron |
23 |
| 9 |
Sammy Hagar |
Bad motor
scooter |
22 |
Montrose's lead singer fared worst with 4 of the Headbangers, but one of our group voted
Sammy Hagar as his favourite. Conversely, equal second placed
Joe Walsh also received the minimum vote from a single Headbanger. One man's meat ......
For the record, the other 15 Septuagenarians who did not merit a play were:
| James
Pankow |
Chicago trombonist |
| Donna Jean Godchaux |
Singer with
Grateful Dead from 1972 to 1979 |
| Bob Catley |
Lead singer of
Magnum |
| Gerry Conway |
Drummer for Cat
Stevens/Jethro Tull/Fairport Convention |
| Barbara Dickson |
|
| Martin Turner |
Bass and lead
vocals for Wishbone Ash |
| Sheila Ferguson |
Lead singer -
Three Degrees |
| Bob Weir |
Grateful Dead |
| Glenn Tipton |
Judas Priest
guitar |
| Peter Noone |
Herman |
| Buck Dharma |
Blue Oyster Cult
vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of Don't Fear the Reaper |
| Clare Torry |
Vocalist on
Great Gig in the Sky |
| John Wilson |
Drummer with
Them and Taste |
| Jim Messina |
Buffalo
Springfield/Poco/Loggins & Messina |
| Ken Sinnaeve |
Bass -
Streetheart/Loverboy |
The 3rd theme of the evening was
New(ish) Artistes, which had been carried forward from previous sessions, and we played 6 fairly recent live recordings from Jool's Later show:
| Jamie T |
Power over men |
| Rag 'n' Bone Man |
Human |
| Benjamin Booker |
Right on you |
| Beth Ditto |
Fire |
| Dave |
Picture Me |
| Future Islands |
Cave |
The only unanamity here was that they were all good performances - the Headbangers couldn't decide which were the better/best, although
Future Islands and
Jamie T maybe fared a little better than the others.
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