Post by youngpumpkin on Aug 28, 2019 10:39:22 GMT -5
Chris! What was the name of Jenny Biers dog? I also asked Richard what happened to Jenny Bier and apparently she went to manage a recording studio in France. I also never managed to contact her which I regret as she was such a nice person. I hope that you are keeping well Chris. Are you still in Navado City and if so where?
Post by youngpumpkin on Nov 24, 2013 13:36:57 GMT -5
Quzz kid your post has brought back many more happy memories to me. Chris do you remember the auction for the house in Phillamore Place? I used to deliver the new stock of records from South Wharf Road up to the Virgin shop above the shoe shop in Oxford Street. There were people sitting on the floor listening to albums on headphones. Richard Branson bought a Manor House from the grandmother of a school friend of Chris Amson's which Richard Branson then turned in to a recording studio called The Manor. It has it's own chapel in the grounds and I can remember us painting the swimming pool which was in the grounds. The Grand Union Canal went through the grounds. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield was recorded there. It was a very different recording studio to that of the rather dull EMI studios in Abbey Road. Bands and artists could stay there. There were plenty of parties there and Ricard Branson an Nick Powel appeared on the roof dressed up as Bonny and Clyde complete with toy sub-machine guns. Getting back to the double pole double throw switches I remember delivering some to Martin Barre's house. Do you remember the groupies bursting out of the wardrobe in the hotel bedroom at the Maddison Square Gardens concert. They got the wrong room!
Post by youngpumpkin on Nov 19, 2013 19:31:48 GMT -5
I seem to remember that the leather belt pitch was outside Mothercare and opposite Selfridges in Oxford Street. There was also the Italian Water Ice Cream Man and of course the Hari Khrishna that went past twice a day in their bright orange robes. Also the man with a sandwich board which stated ' Too much protein causes lust'. Buy a booklet for 2 Shillings and Sixpence. (Sadly he died about 10 years ago) but the sandwich board is in the Museum of London. I asked Richard Branson and Penny Pyke what happened to Jenny and they told me that she had a job at a recording studio in France. Sadly I never managed to track her down. I often wonder what happened to her and Don as they were very nice people. James Strangeways parents lived in Iden near Rye in Sussex and James used to sleep in an enormous Tipee Tent. Again I don't know what happened to him. I think that Jonathan, James and Nick all went to school with Richard at Stowe but I might be wrong. Do you remember the Rainbow Restaurant above Bibba in Kensington High Street? Also the flat above the electrical shop in Goodge Street. James left his Crash rescue vehicle outside it despite numerous parking tickets being put on it but then one day they sent a giant pick up truck (the ones they used for double decker buses when they broke down) to remove it and take it to the pound.
Post by youngpumpkin on Oct 20, 2013 16:44:03 GMT -5
Chris Do you remember Jenny Bier who used to run the Help advisory service at Virgin in South Wharf Road ? They then moved Help to behind Victoria station. Virgin then Moved to Vernon Yard Notting Hill Gate. Also Virgin opened a shop above a shoe shop in Oxford Street and one in Liverpool. Jenny and Don's flat was in Endymion Road Finsbury Park. What was their shaggy dog called? Another person around at that time was James Strangeways (Lemon Pseudio Phenominum). He had a couple of vehicles a van which he sign painted Grubbs Boots co and an ex RAF Crash Rescue Vehicle (which was used to take the Rolling Stones in to Hyde Park for their 1979 Concert). Was it Terry Ellis of Chrysalis/Island Records that was managing Tull at the time?
Post by youngpumpkin on Aug 16, 2013 10:18:16 GMT -5
I am trying to remember who the Putney VCS3 Synthesizer you tried out belonged to? Was it from a British band called BB Blunder? The VCS3 Synthesizer did not have a keyboard. I also remember going through a large number of double pole double throw switches. Was it Martin that used them? Do you remember the large underground rehearsal studio in the caverns below Leicester Square in London?
Post by youngpumpkin on Aug 9, 2013 16:35:31 GMT -5
I can not remember if Tull played at the Roundhouse but I do remember bands such as Pink Floyd, The Who etc. did play there. There was the well known water ice cream shop - Marine Ices opposite. The house D.J. at the time was Jeff Dexter. Am I correct in thinking that the Tull p.a. split up the sound in to Treble, Medium and Bass before putting them back together again? There was a clever device which could tell if the speakers where in phase a bit like a signal generator and a handset which would light up a green bulb if the speaker was in phase or a red bulb if out of phase. Also seem to remember that they went through a lot of double pole double throw switches.
Post by youngpumpkin on Aug 9, 2013 6:50:44 GMT -5
I believe that at that time the equipment was maintained by IES (International Entertainment Services) who were based in a large warehouse amongst some residential buildings in Chalk Farm close to Primrose Hill North London. One of the first Mini-Moogs I ever saw was brought in for Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer and delivered to the IES warehouse in Chalk Farm. On the opposite side of the rail bridge was The Roundhouse which at the time many bands played there on a Sunday afternoon. It was an old engine shed were many of the popular and also less popular bands played.