O/T Cover versions

[loyalmiller]

Not a Phil Collins fan, in fact as a person I think he's a cock but his version of 'groovy kind of love' is far better than the Mindbenders original.

[monty_rhodes]

Not a Phil Collins fan, in fact as a person I think he's a cock but his version of 'groovy kind of love' is far better than the Mindbenders original.

Never heard the Collins version. Mindbenders never the same after Wayne Fontana walked out. Road Runner and Game of Love were pretty good. Pretty sure I met WF at the Twist Club in Rotherham around 1965. He was a mate of a band called Mike Condor and the Drifters who hailed from Rotherham and were on at the Twist Club.

[mikemiller]

Was your old mate, Kempo, with you? By his reckoning he would have been four years old at the time, so the doormen might not have let him in!

[monty_rhodes]

Was your old mate, Kempo, with you? By his reckoning he would have been four years old at the time, so the doormen might not have let him in!

This is the place. I think that Stuart Hope was the son of the landlord of the Bridge Inn and seem to remember he was killed in a motorbike crash?
https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...t-68_15578.htm

[BigLadonOS]

Never heard the Collins version. Mindbenders never the same after Wayne Fontana walked out. Road Runner and Game of Love were pretty good. Pretty sure I met WF at the Twist Club in Rotherham around 1965. He was a mate of a band called Mike Condor and the Drifters who hailed from Rotherham and were on at the Twist Club.

I have this Fontana track.......... ****ing ace track too.

[LincsMiller]

Never heard the Collins version. Mindbenders never the same after Wayne Fontana walked out. Road Runner and Game of Love were pretty good. Pretty sure I met WF at the Twist Club in Rotherham around 1965. He was a mate of a band called Mike Condor and the Drifters who hailed from Rotherham and were on at the Twist Club.

Talking of the Twist Club, found this on Ebay, (USA) Anyone know a S.Dawson i wonder? .














On the topic of cover versions, Harry Nillsons " Without You" is a million miles different from
Badfingers original version

[monty_rhodes]

Talking of the Twist Club, found this on Ebay, (USA) Anyone know a S.Dawson i wonder? .














On the topic of cover versions, Harry Nillsons " Without You" is a million miles different from
Badfingers original version

The Twist Club card was on offer at $21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't know who S.Dawson was sadly.

[LincsMiller]

The Twist Club card was on offer at $21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't know who S.Dawson was sadly.

£3.24 today Monty, I can't remember how much the membership was. I was a regular and never needed a card to get in.
The building itself ( Sheffield Rd swimming baths) had very little ambience , just a large mirror ball suspended from the glass roof , but it had a good vibe Sunday nights and loads of pubs within 200 yards!! Happy days

[CTMilller]

N[QUOTE=LincsMiller;39011198]Talking of the Twist Club, found this on Ebay, (USA) Anyone know a S.Dawson i wonder.


"S Dawson" surely must be Stuart "Dinky" Dawson whose name has been mentioned a few times on this board and also on various Rotherham history related groups on Facebook.

Dinky was a pioneering sound engineer for some of the great bands of the sixties and seventies - including the original Pete Green version of Fleeetwood Mac and, after he moved to the US, notably for The Byrds. He grew up in Greasborough and was involved in the burgeoning music scene around Rotherham in the very early sixties. He may well have DJ'd at the Twist Club. I know he was involved with Peter Stringfellow's musical ventures at the time.

We need Sugar Tiler back for this. He was the one who first raised his name in one of his quiz questions on here. Famously Dinky took the whole Byrds entourage round to his mums house for a cup of tea when they were touring the UK. The band coach fetched up in Greasborough and there is a photo in circulation of them all outside the house. (One of Sugar's friends is in the picture.)

[monty_rhodes]

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Talking of the Twist Club, found this on Ebay, (USA) Anyone know a S.Dawson i wonder.


"S Dawson" surely must be Stuart "Dinky" Dawson whose name has been mentioned a few times on this board and also on various Rotherham history related groups on Facebook.

Dinky was a pioneering sound engineer for some of the great bands of the sixties and seventies - including the original Pete Green version of Fleeetwood Mac and, after he moved to the US, notably for The Byrds. He grew up in Greasborough and was involved in the burgeoning music scene around Rotherham in the very early sixties. He may well have DJ'd at the Twist Club. I know he was involved with Peter Stringfellow's musical ventures at the time.

We need Sugar Tiler back for this. He was the one who first raised his name in one of his quiz questions on here. Famously Dinky took the whole Byrds entourage round to his mums house for a cup of tea when they were touring the UK. The band coach fetched up in Greasborough and there is a photo in circulation of them all outside the house. (One of Sugar's friends is in the picture.)

Wow, CT, that's impressive! The ticket is probably a snip at £3.24.