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Post by johnreardon on Nov 25, 2020 10:27:35 GMT
Back in the 60s, we supported numerous well known bands when they visited South Wales. These included: Billy Fury, Chicken Shack, Stu James & the Mojos, Georgie Fame & Blueflames, David Bowie, Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Manfred Man, Marty Wilde, The Applejacks, The Hollies, The Merseybeats, The Moody Blues, The Nashville Teens, The Pretty Things, The Searchers and The Who.
Some of them were already quite well known in the UK, such as Billy Fury and Johnny Kidd & Pirates. One or two such as David Bowie were really on the threshold of their careers. When we supported him, he was just the singer in another band from London. It was the time he changed his name to Bowie.
When we supported The Who, they had just released their 'My Generation' album. We were a 4 piece band by then as shown in the first pic
You can read memories here
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Post by infant on Nov 26, 2020 2:43:42 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read.
Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos.
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Post by Sgt Rock on Nov 26, 2020 3:31:08 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read. Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos. Rob, did read this thread, guitartalk.freeforums.net/thread/971/couple-forum . it might help to post pictures. I figured out how to post pics and John also came up with another process of how to post larger pics. |
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Post by infant on Nov 26, 2020 4:00:09 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read. Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos. Rob, did read this thread, guitartalk.freeforums.net/thread/971/couple-forum . it might help to post pictures. I figured out how to post pics and John also came up with another process of how to post larger pics. Unforunately the screenshot was bigger than 1MB so it wouldn’t upload. |
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Post by Sgt Rock on Nov 26, 2020 4:49:36 GMT
Unforunately the screenshot was bigger than 1MB so it wouldn’t upload. ok. we tried.  |
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Post by johnreardon on Nov 26, 2020 10:04:46 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read. Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos. Cheers Rob
The book is available on Amazon as paperback & kindle. Links are shown on our web site.
Paperback on Amazon.Com is:
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Post by johnreardon on Nov 26, 2020 10:15:16 GMT
Unforunately the screenshot was bigger than 1MB so it wouldn’t upload. To post larger pic, you need to put a link to a web site that hosts the image. I use my band web site to host pics, but there are places that will host images. Some are free, but as with most things, you get what you pay or don't pay for. Take a look at the link about best free ones
Another thing you could do is use something like Facebook. Post your images there in Albums. Then when you want to post, go to the album, select the picture, right click and select 'Copy Image Location' from the pop up. Then use that as the link when you select the little icon for 'Insert Image'. As long as your privacy options are not too tight in Facebook, it should work. Hopefully you should see this
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Post by Die Bullen on Dec 22, 2020 1:32:50 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read. Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos. Cheers Rob
The book is available on Amazon as paperback & kindle. Links are shown on our web site.
Paperback on Amazon.Com is:
So very cool! |
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Post by Bill h on Dec 22, 2020 2:01:11 GMT
For those of you who are just meeting John on here for the first time, he also wrote a book a few years ago about the reunion of Pieces Of Mind.. It was a pretty good read. Go to Amazon and search “birth to reunion John Reardon”. I tried adding a screenshot here but I’m finding difficult to paste or upload photos. Cheers Rob
The book is available on Amazon as paperback & kindle. Links are shown on our web site.
Paperback on Amazon.Com is:
I’m definitely ordering the books, can’t wait to read them. You might have talked about this elsewhere but can you tell me if “ducksy” is a nickname, if so what’s the story behind it. |
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Post by zontar on Dec 22, 2020 7:25:59 GMT
Cheers Rob
The book is available on Amazon as paperback & kindle. Links are shown on our web site.
Paperback on Amazon.Com is:
I’m definitely ordering the books, can’t wait to read them. You might have talked about this elsewhere but can you tell me if “ducksy” is a nickname, if so what’s the story behind it. His parents were ornithologists? or whatever you call them. Cool about the book though. |
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Post by johnreardon on Dec 22, 2020 11:00:48 GMT
Cheers Rob
The book is available on Amazon as paperback & kindle. Links are shown on our web site.
Paperback on Amazon.Com is:
I’m definitely ordering the books, can’t wait to read them. You might have talked about this elsewhere but can you tell me if “ducksy” is a nickname, if so what’s the story behind it.
It is a nickname I have had since my schooldays. Contrary to what Rhod Gilbert says in the video below, it was given to me by a little obnoxious classmate in school.
During lunch hours at my school a few of us would walk down to a local pond. Here we would feed the ducks with bread we brought to school. One of my classmates, who didn’t come down to the pond, thought it was funny and started calling me ‘Ducksy’, I think primarily to antagonise me.
Apart from 22 years spent in the Royal Air Force, I have been called that by most of my 60s friends. I have even had to use the nickname as part of my Facebook name, so people would recognise me; also including it in my ‘author’ details for my book.
When I started organising our 2013 reunion, one of my old bandmates said you have to include Ducksy as part of your Facebook name as no one will know who you are. He was right. I have now removed it from my name. It's mainly those in Wales that know me by that.
BTW even though this was broadcast, there is some bad language in it. Interesting observation from Midge Ure, who was really nice, about Bob Geldof. He mentioned Bob, in a bad way, a few times during the couple of days filming in Belfast.
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Post by Die Bullen on Dec 22, 2020 14:18:45 GMT
I was also going to ask what Ducksy meant- thanks for sharing
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Post by zontar on Dec 23, 2020 2:35:14 GMT
I'm glad a couple of nicknames people had for me faded away
They weren't insulting or anything, I just didn't like them, they didn't suit me.
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Post by Die Bullen on Dec 23, 2020 2:47:24 GMT
I'm glad a couple of nicknames people had for me faded away They weren't insulting or anything, I just didn't like them, they didn't suit me. Throughout my life I never really had nicknames, at least not that I knew of |
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Post by Bill h on Dec 23, 2020 2:57:42 GMT
I'm glad a couple of nicknames people had for me faded away They weren't insulting or anything, I just didn't like them, they didn't suit me. Throughout my life I never really had nicknames, at least not that I knew of [br In my childhood day my friends and family called me “Billy”. The y sort of fell off as I got older but I’m still called that by the friends I grew up with. |
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Post by johnreardon on Dec 23, 2020 9:24:37 GMT
Throughout my life I never really had nicknames, at least not that I knew of [br In my childhood day my friends and family called me “Billy”. The y sort of fell off as I got older but I’m still called that by the friends I grew up with. Going off on a tangent, I had a childhood cat called Billy.
It was the days before cat flaps, so he often stayed out overnight. Anyway during one spell of extremely (for us) bad weather, we found him in the morning, frozen to death in our outside coal bunker. None of us heard him meowing to get in, so we just assumed he had crawled in and went to sleep. Shame I liked Billy. |
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Post by Die Bullen on Dec 23, 2020 13:45:34 GMT
[br In my childhood day my friends and family called me “Billy”. The y sort of fell off as I got older but I’m still called that by the friends I grew up with. Going off on a tangent, I had a childhood cat called Billy.
It was the days before cat flaps, so he often stayed out overnight. Anyway during one spell of extremely (for us) bad weather, we found him in the morning, frozen to death in our outside coal bunker. None of us heard him meowing to get in, so we just assumed he had crawled in and went to sleep. Shame I liked Billy. Good lord how awful! |
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Post by Bill h on Dec 23, 2020 14:08:28 GMT
[br In my childhood day my friends and family called me “Billy”. The y sort of fell off as I got older but I’m still called that by the friends I grew up with. Going off on a tangent, I had a childhood cat called Billy.
It was the days before cat flaps, so he often stayed out overnight. Anyway during one spell of extremely (for us) bad weather, we found him in the morning, frozen to death in our outside coal bunker. None of us heard him meowing to get in, so we just assumed he had crawled in and went to sleep. Shame I liked Billy. Lol, let’s get the thread back on the tracks with a question. In the beginning, when you were doing these very early support gigs, did you have any idea The Who was to going to blow up into the band they became. |
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Post by johnreardon on Dec 23, 2020 14:18:17 GMT
Going off on a tangent, I had a childhood cat called Billy.
It was the days before cat flaps, so he often stayed out overnight. Anyway during one spell of extremely (for us) bad weather, we found him in the morning, frozen to death in our outside coal bunker. None of us heard him meowing to get in, so we just assumed he had crawled in and went to sleep. Shame I liked Billy. Lol, let’s get the thread back on the tracks with a question. In the beginning, when you were doing these very early support gigs, did you have any indies The Who was to going to blow up into the band they became. Not really. I have just recorded an audio file for the museum I mentioned elsewhere. I finish it off with:
So, was this gig special at the time? To be honest, to me it wasn’t.
Yes, it did influence our playing as a four piece, particularly with using larger cabinets, but it’s only time that has shown, what an achievement it was.
This was hammered home to me when Rhod Gilbert mentioned it, after a clip of us was used on the Graham Norton show in June 2016.
BTW in case you don't know, Graham Norton is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian who has a Friday night show, during the season on BBC1. It attracts 3-4 million viewers.
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Post by Die Bullen on Dec 23, 2020 15:05:35 GMT
Funny, not a special gig at the time!
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Post by zontar on Dec 24, 2020 7:49:39 GMT
Lol, let’s get the thread back on the tracks with a question. In the beginning, when you were doing these very early support gigs, did you have any indies The Who was to going to blow up into the band they became. Not really. I have just recorded an audio file for the museum I mentioned elsewhere. I finish it off with:
So, was this gig special at the time? To be honest, to me it wasn’t.
Yes, it did influence our playing as a four piece, particularly with using larger cabinets, but it’s only time that has shown, what an achievement it was.
This was hammered home to me when Rhod Gilbert mentioned it, after a clip of us was used on the Graham Norton show in June 2016.
BTW in case you don't know, Graham Norton is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian who has a Friday night show, during the season on BBC1. It attracts 3-4 million viewers.
I like watching Graham Norton--he (and/or his writers) come up with the silliest things, and he get the interviewees to play along. |
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