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Aye I know what you mean but full marks for trying to follow your dream

Brilliant what did you play? It's great fun playing in a band ain't it

Yep another era we all went our separate ways in 69 for marriages and children etc. I can still recall my two moments of fame. I was 'loaned out' to another band for a couple of weeks in 67 and had a gig in the support act for 'the Baron Knights' on my return we had a gig as the support act for...

Thanks very much nice to know

We started off in 64 as the explosive 4 (I kid you not!!) then we changed to the Bargees and finished up as "The Strawberry Vine"

Certainly wasn't us we didn't do Albertross and you would be hard pushed to find anyone that would say we were very good!

The only thing I have in common with mick jagger is his wrinkles!

Could well be my mom was circular that is she was as wide as she was tall! But so was her heart and her smile and she loved being around young people so you never know she might have said hello

Yep that's right Rick was actually English but his family moved to Canada when he was young they returned when he was about 12 because his dad needed an operation its to my eternal regret that I totally lost contact with them all in about 69/70

I wish I could, most of our family photos were lost in transit when my mom moved to Devon after my father's death

Well Stone me yep that's where we started Rick and me were in the boys brigade dave and another lad can't remember his name started it off they left and Keith and Allan joined when the youth club transferred to ellisons canteen for a while, well I'm speechless fancy being remembered nearly 60...

I did yes mate

Strange your surname was the same as ours my mom worked there in the late 70s in an office where she used to have to use a comptometer her name was Dorothy (dot) Shaw

Just the once I recall and twice in the other one and a few times in Ellison canteen would you believe!

Yep that's great ta I dont have a computer or anything like that so I'm a bit slow trying to work things out but your right we had loads of fun and after 5 years although we were quite proficient by then we gave it all up for marriages and kids!

I was just scrolling through some articles and seen some mention of Witton Perry Barr etc. Like most lads in the mid to late 60's I was in a 'group' the four of us Keith, Rick, Allen and myself used to play all around the area a lot of times in the Holte pub on a Thursday night ,(67) we probably...

Great stuff thanks very much

Hi yes of course I lived in Radnor Road which ran along the rear of the the picture house along to hampstead Road I lived there from 1951 to 1963 when we moved to Erdington.

Hi all early last year before lockdown I was browsing through our local library and found a book called the girl from Guildford Street which is probably well known to the members of this group. Well living at villa cross from 1951 to 1963 it was a real treat to know everywhere she went and to...