Graham Bond doesn't mean anything to younger folk but that band was great on stage. Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Dick Heckstall-Smith and John McLaughlin. What a line up. How many bands were formed by his former members and those of John Mayall and Alexis Korner? Never a better time for live bands, many of them not chart bands but excellent nevertheless.
Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way. Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away The start and end of the transfer window for Nigel?
Yes. Saw Steam Packet. Most memorable as the supposedly stingy Rod Stewart bought a bunch of us 16 year olds a vodka in the bar. Also for getting a kiss off Marsha Hunt. Though why she was there is a mystery as she didn't sing with them.
Somewhat similar experience . I was once dispatched to the ladies toilets to retrieve Julie Driscoll to get her on stage as the Packet were about to start their session & she'd gone AWOL ! She was there alright, but unlike you I didn't manage to get a peck off her. Missed opportunity.
"Alexis Korner was born in Paris to an Austrian father and Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa. He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of the Second World War. One memory of his youth was listening to a record by Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid. He said, "From then on all I wanted to do was play the blues."
