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Rum Runner
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Peg Monkey
master brummie
Hi Folks, Happy Easter.
Peg.
Peg.
hi ted if you are still looking in could you re post your photo of the club being demolished please or if any of our members saved the photo could they re post it..we lost it when the forum was hacked some years ago
many thanks
lyn
John Fishook
New Member
A band called the Craig played there a lot? Drummer Carl Palmer?
A Sparks
master brummie
Yes, Carl Palmer was the drummer with The Craig, he was only 15 / 16 then so technically not supposed to be in clubs!
mbenne
master brummie
Strange the things we keep. I found my Rum Runner membership card tucked away in a old wallet with my very first drivers licence. I didn't own a car in those days but my mate did, which meant he never had any money and I always ended up paying for petrol and drinks. I'd just met a new girl and to impress her he suggested that that we should go to the Rum Runner in his car, also taking along his girlfriend. What an expensive night that was! It must have been around this time of year, 1972 as I remember them playing 'Your So Vain' by Carly Simon. It was quite an apt song as I recall the girl continually looking at her reflection every time we passed a mirror or shop window! The romance didn't last - my meagre wages couldn't fund the club lifestyle!
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
Oh those were the days young and broke, now just old and broke.
real long shot there was a trio who played the Rum Runner in the early 70's the vocalist was the drummer and they had a real big hit with a song called Handel with Care (the melody was based on a Handel inspired hymn) can't for the life remember their name and searches done using the title only bring up The Travelling Wilburies...any info really appreciated
remember the Rum Runner decal (the black footprint with the red background) had one on my Ford Escort's rear window
The Peddlers
I think they played the "Le Metro" Club Livery St more than the Rum Runner.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
2am Lightweights. No Purple Hearts I suspect. Does anyone know when Le Metro closed. I never went after Jugs O Henry moved to Lancaster Gate.
Hi
I was with one of the groups that regularly played at the Rum Runner. Not as a musician I was the sound engineer and roadie because I built a lot of the equipment we used. We didn't really have a name but were known as big Al's group. Alan Johnson all 6ft 4 of him.What I remember because of Als involvement with some of the early Birmingham groups we seemed to pic up ex Move base players. One of the base players with a young lady hanging on his arm, asked me when are we next on? I said about half hour or so why? Let me have the keys for your van? I gave him the keys and told him if you move it from where its parked put petrol in, not going anywhere. Some 20 mins later he returned still with the young lady hanging on his arm. Magnum were just coming off and I was moving our gear back into place. When I backed the van back down the drive all the flight cases and speaker cabinet covers were piled on one side of the van. I didn't ask.
Another night I'd built a piece of kit called a phaser I put in into a box with a pan control and a white noise generator, that makes a hissing sound and when I moved the control it sound like a jet aircraft coming in from one side passing and disappearing from the other. It was coming to the end of our set so I plugged it into the house system with the speakers hanging from the ceiling I switched it on and slowly brought the control up then rapidly moved the control.. The effect was not quite what I expected as this loud hissing sound got louder and moved from the left speaker to the right speaker with the added effect the phaser had, everyone on the club ducked. That was the second time I was told off the first time was over use of the rainbow strobe remember that. Apparently you were not supposed to run it for more than so many seconds in two minutes in case anyone in the club is photo epileptic.
After we finished there we often went to the Railway Curzon St. all the groups tended to gather there after they finished where they were playing. You would often have artists from the big groups jamming on stage. Now it would be called a super group.
Brian
I was with one of the groups that regularly played at the Rum Runner. Not as a musician I was the sound engineer and roadie because I built a lot of the equipment we used. We didn't really have a name but were known as big Al's group. Alan Johnson all 6ft 4 of him.What I remember because of Als involvement with some of the early Birmingham groups we seemed to pic up ex Move base players. One of the base players with a young lady hanging on his arm, asked me when are we next on? I said about half hour or so why? Let me have the keys for your van? I gave him the keys and told him if you move it from where its parked put petrol in, not going anywhere. Some 20 mins later he returned still with the young lady hanging on his arm. Magnum were just coming off and I was moving our gear back into place. When I backed the van back down the drive all the flight cases and speaker cabinet covers were piled on one side of the van. I didn't ask.
Another night I'd built a piece of kit called a phaser I put in into a box with a pan control and a white noise generator, that makes a hissing sound and when I moved the control it sound like a jet aircraft coming in from one side passing and disappearing from the other. It was coming to the end of our set so I plugged it into the house system with the speakers hanging from the ceiling I switched it on and slowly brought the control up then rapidly moved the control.. The effect was not quite what I expected as this loud hissing sound got louder and moved from the left speaker to the right speaker with the added effect the phaser had, everyone on the club ducked. That was the second time I was told off the first time was over use of the rainbow strobe remember that. Apparently you were not supposed to run it for more than so many seconds in two minutes in case anyone in the club is photo epileptic.
After we finished there we often went to the Railway Curzon St. all the groups tended to gather there after they finished where they were playing. You would often have artists from the big groups jamming on stage. Now it would be called a super group.
Brian