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Then & Now - Roy Wood

sospiri said:
Just came across this - it may have been on here before but the search engine reveals nothing. Enjoy.........

Maurice :cool:

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Yes, I posted it on one of the threads - I think it was the Nightclubs one.
It was to say that the Cedar Club was not where Roy pointed out but down the road slightly and on a corner plot where still nothing has been built since the club was demolished years ago.
I commented that either he had forgotten or they thought it was better to show some buildings instead of an empty space :laughing:
 
sospiri said:
Just came across this - it may have been on here before but the search engine reveals nothing. Enjoy.........

Maurice :cool:

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Maurice I know we all have to get old , but I saw Mr Wood in The Bell about 10 yrs ago not a patch on the young lad of the 60's , overweight etc
 
WS,

At 83 last Friday I'm only too aware of that :) I'm not particularly overweight, but there's just so many things that I can't do that were still a piece of cake only 40 years ago. But if you manage to wake up in the morning, count that as a blessing.

Maurice :-)
 
sospiri said:
WS,

At 83 last Friday I'm only too aware of that :) I'm not particularly overweight, but there's just so many things that I can't do that were still a piece of cake only 40 years ago. But if you manage to wake up in the morning, count that as a blessing.

Maurice :)
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Maurice you can disguise it though , I wish he did
 
sospiri said:
And widening the picture a bit there's this.............

Maurice :cool:

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Thanks Maurice
Just had a little stroll down memory lane, had not thought about some of those songs forever.
I would see all those guys at times when they went to Rick Prices mom's house in a limo a rare sight back then
But thinking about it now it may have just been a port of call for the guys.
At the very top of Rubery village was a guy who made guitars for those rock n roll types and when passing on a road test, outside of the shop it was not uncommon to see all kinds of fancy cars there
But I can't remember the name of the guy but he was well known but his customers where famous.
It was fun to see Roy talking with the T shirt guy a real couple of Brummie's talking.
 
Bob,

All this happened after I had left Brum, but I have a few loose connections in that the late Mike Burney (sax) spent a while with Wizzard and is forever remembered on the Christmas record. Mike and I were mates and worked in the same bands for two or three years and I last met up with him at the Birmingham International Jazz Festival in 2013, I think it was. Anyway it was the same year I met up with Johnny Patrick after over 40 years. Also Jasper Carrott & Bev Bevan along with several other musicians went to the same school as me, though somewhat later than me, Moseley Grammar.

Maurice :cool:
 
sospiri said:
Bob,

All this happened after I had left Brum, but I have a few loose connections in that the late Mike Burney (sax) spent a while with Wizzard and is forever remembered on the Christmas record. Mike and I were mates and worked in the same bands for two or three years and I last met up with him at the Birmingham International Jazz Festival in 2013, I think it was. Anyway it was the same year I met up with Johnny Patrick after over 40 years. Also Jasper Carrott & Bev Bevan along with several other musicians went to the same school as me, though somewhat later than me, Moseley Grammar.

Maurice :cool:
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Ozzy was on TV here yesterday talking about his Parkinson's diagnosis then of course I read Terry Jones of Python Fame left us Tuesday the naked piano player.
 
Bob,

Sad that Ozzy has a painful form of Parkinsons, which I read in a newspaper report. And Terry Jones gone too. But many are past their three score years and ten and after that we are very much in the lap of. RIP Terry Jones.

Maurice :cool:
 
sospiri said:
WS,

At 83 last Friday I'm only too aware of that :) I'm not particularly overweight, but there's just so many things that I can't do that were still a piece of cake only 40 years ago. But if you manage to wake up in the morning, count that as a blessing.

Maurice :)
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true our maurice. I am.. my doc said you are fat pete loose some weight.or else. you are the oldest swinger in town.
as you say. mate " every morning you wake is a blessing. ,,,,
 
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Robert Ensor (bob) said:
Thanks Maurice
Just had a little stroll down memory lane, had not thought about some of those songs forever.
I would see all those guys at times when they went to Rick Prices mom's house in a limo a rare sight back then
But thinking about it now it may have just been a port of call for the guys.
At the very top of Rubery village was a guy who made guitars for those rock n roll types and when passing on a road test, outside of the shop it was not uncommon to see all kinds of fancy cars there
But I can't remember the name of the guy but he was well known but his customers where famous.
It was fun to see Roy talking with the T shirt guy a real couple of Brummie's talking.
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John Birch guitars was the guitar maker in Rubery it's worth a Google
 
sospiri said:
Bob,

All this happened after I had left Brum, but I have a few loose connections in that the late Mike Burney (sax) spent a while with Wizzard and is forever remembered on the Christmas record. Mike and I were mates and worked in the same bands for two or three years and I last met up with him at the Birmingham International Jazz Festival in 2013, I think it was. Anyway it was the same year I met up with Johnny Patrick after over 40 years. Also Jasper Carrott & Bev Bevan along with several other musicians went to the same school as me, though somewhat later than me, Moseley Grammar.

Maurice :cool:
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You might find this potted biography of Mike Burney of some interest Maurice...

britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com

Britain is no longer a country for and said "Farewell" to an old Brummie saxophonist called Mike Burney

Mike, renowned and accomplished saxophone player, who gave pleasure to innumerable audiences, working with diverse artists from both sides ...
britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com
 
Many thanks for that, Barr Beacon. Mike passed away far too early, but had a very full musical life. During my early days we gigged together doing mainly weddings, in the days when the bride & groom could hire a cheap schoolroom for the reception and the beer flowed like water. After those gigs the band returned to Lozells at 3:00am, where one of the band member's friends had a restaurant, but had long since gone to bed. We would throw little stones at his bedroom window until he reluctantly got up and cooked us all a meal. :)

For some months we also did a jazz residency at a pub in Stirchley on the bridge, the Kings Arms I think. If Mike had another better paid gig sometimes, a clarinettist from the BBC Midland Light Orchestra, who also played alto sax and whose name escapes me at the moment, depped for him. Four of us later formed a rehearsal big band, mainly a vehicle for the late Dave Grounds and myself to try out our arranging skills, and, of course, Mike played tenor sax in that.

When I moved to Dorset in 1961, some of the guys I initiallally worked with later moved to London and worked there with Nick Pentelow. Mike and I didn't meet again until the early years of this century at the Brum International Jazz Festival. The first attempt at a reunion at a jazz gig at a venue in Broad Street opposite Brindley Place failed, because Mike had damaged his lip the night before when a microphone stand hit him in the face, and Julian Argüelles was depping for him. The following year was finally successful and we were able to reminisce as he was playing in a quartet beside the big wheel outside Symphony Hall with Bournemouth drummer Johnny Gibson, who used to be in the house band at the Parkstone Jazz Club with me - he's also now a Brum resident. We met up once more after that and then I read that Mike was no longer with us. RIP Mike.

Maurice :cool:
 
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