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Fu ck me, this Grim Reaper **** is getting hooorin' close to me neighbourhood.
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Bloody hell.
Possibly the best band I ever saw.
Definitely the best band I ever saw that I'd never heard of.
RIP min.Comment
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Two-Tone tour November 79 at Hass’s Ruffles on Diamond St?Originally posted by donsdaft View Post
The nasty brain protein can do its worst on the senility front, but that is probably the best gig I have ever attended in Aberdeen, out of hunners, and I will go up the cremmy lum singing Monkey Man.Last edited by 57vintage; 20-12-2022, 07:46 AM.Comment
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I was at that one, but I meant Special AKA at Ruffles, a wee bit earlier.
Outstanding sound.Comment
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I didn’t see that, and have never heard of it. My first exposure was to The Coventry Specials, third on the bill to The Clash at the Music Hall in 78, with the brave and magnificent Suicide wedged in the middle, the best act of the night.Originally posted by donsdaft View PostLast edited by 57vintage; 20-12-2022, 08:52 AM.Comment
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It wasn't well attended.
We mostly went on a Tuesday, doing the leaning on the bar ready to criticise bit when WHAM, everyone was up dancing.
What a sound, Rico on trombone completed the evening.Comment
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I had the great pleasure to attend this gig also (along with half the Abmad board it seems) the three acts were mind blowing one of my best gigs ever, Ghost town was and remains a song of the times. Social commentary at its best.Originally posted by donsdaft View Post
Edit.. Sorry I was referring to the 2tone tour with the Specials, Selector, and Madness, at the old Palis in Diamond st.Last edited by stewarty27; 20-12-2022, 10:38 AM.Comment
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Didn't The Beat play that night as well?
Possibly a different gig.Comment
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Very sad to read about Terry Hall and only 63.
I liked the Specials a lot, but I also have a lot of time for his many other records he released, to me a very underrated songwriter.Comment
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No, just the three that stewarty mentioned. All were on top of their game. Next day they played at Ayr Pavilion, and the day after, Madness signed to Stiff and were replaced by Dexys Midnight Runners (top Red and Banffshire loon Jim Paterson on trombone) and they played the rest of the tour from Carlisle onwards.Originally posted by donsdaft View PostComment
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Terry definitive account.
The Specials. Terry. This is what happened.
We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album.
Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve.
And everything turns to ****.
Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought.
He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver.
This is serious. Like life-threatening serious.
He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy.
There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold.
Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes.
The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain.
It then goes quiet.
Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away.
15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough.
Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December.
The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend.
Horace.Comment
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Maxi Jazz, 65. What a band Faithless were. Never saw a bad gig of theirs. Sad daysComment
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ANother sad piece of news in what has been a sad week for deaths of music people. I realised he was older than the rest of the group, but hadn't realised he was 65.Originally posted by DondyDan View Post
Martin Duffy of Felt/Primal Scream died this week too.Comment
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