I used to be a big Deep Purple fan in my ****s. I've still got a garage full of Purple, Sabbath & Zeppelin vinyl albums in the garage.
I see Malcolm Young of AC/DC died today. I saw them play in a hotel in Blackpool in 1976. I'd never heard of them, but a couple of lads I worked with talked me into going. There was only a couple of hundred there, and Angus really was school age. He went round the room playing his guitar on Bon Scott's shoulders. Another band I saw dozens of times for nothing was Saxon. They played in a bar in Blackpool every few weeks when they were called Son of a Bitch. Most weeks there was less than 100 people there.
Then they sold out and went all commercial.
Just been watching David Gilmour live in Pompeii on BBC2.
Unbelievable. I recommend you watch it. So effortless.