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Worst Gigs |
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'Hippy Trouble'
by John From AFGM |
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With my old band from York uni days.-"Expensive" great
name we thought - we could see the album covers...'TOO Expensive!....'Even
MORE Expensive!'... 'AMAZINGLY Expensive'.... You get the picture.
No albums ensued but many gigs played in the outer
reaches of Yorkshire. However, support gig with Bob Marley and the Wailers
securely under our belt, we were invited to play the "Architects' Ball" at
Eaton Square in London, a reasonably prestigious event as it turned out. |
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All seven of us - (we were a soul covers band) with our
pretty basic equipment piled into the back of a large van owned by friendly
hippy called Woof (?) and made our way to the big smoke.
The place was full of very hairy and laid-back people who, I thought, didn't
look very much like the sort who would appreciate the finer points of some
obscure Motown hits. I wasn't wrong. We played, increasingly desperately to
a largely disinterested bunch. |
Half-way through our set, and in fact half way through a
song, a particularly disgruntled hippy and girlfriend strode out, and to
show his disdain, pulled out our power supply from its sockets en route,
leaving us dead in the water.
Most worst gigs are, I suspect, due to being the wrong band in the wrong
place...and unlike the Blues Brothers, we didn't have a version of Rawhide
to get us out of trouble!
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