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Post by Tull50 on Nov 18, 2012 17:18:11 GMT
Remy you are like my Spanish Santa, I lost this at least 15 years ago, as I know when I had it it was nearly a current show and one I was very fond of. Hometown show for Peggy too. Thanks tullist,'m uploading to youtube my DVD collection Tull and Fairport, currently only the best quality, perhaps later other lesser quality but also important I'm glad you like, Santa was ahead
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 18, 2012 21:12:27 GMT
Remy you are like my Spanish Santa, I lost this at least 15 years ago, as I know when I had it it was nearly a current show and one I was very fond of. Hometown show for Peggy too. Thanks tullist,'m uploading to youtube my DVD collection Tull and Fairport, currently only the best quality, perhaps later other lesser quality but also important I'm glad you like, Santa was ahead Remy before you upload it can we not come over (escape) for the Winter and see and hear it there? !!!! Ok it's all very pretty here when it snows blah de blah but then after two days you've had enough!! ;D
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Post by Tull50 on Nov 19, 2012 1:50:41 GMT
Thanks tullist,'m uploading to youtube my DVD collection Tull and Fairport, currently only the best quality, perhaps later other lesser quality but also important I'm glad you like, Santa was ahead Remy before you upload it can we not come over (escape) for the Winter and see and hear it there? !!!! Ok it's all very pretty here when it snows blah de blah but then after two days you've had enough!! ;D Whenever you want can come here, but do not think that everything is sun and sand ... In winter it is cold, not too much but it's cold
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 2, 2013 18:42:13 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 10, 2013 8:58:35 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 10, 2013 10:42:55 GMT
Born in 1847??? He looks good at 166 years old.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 10, 2013 22:34:19 GMT
Gotta get our hands on 'Heart of a Knave'
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 11, 2013 8:46:51 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 11, 2013 8:58:00 GMT
Gotta get our hands on 'Heart of a Knave'
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 11, 2013 14:22:47 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 11, 2013 15:54:18 GMT
Awesome promo material Graham! This would be an excellent show to see on video if it exists.
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Post by tullist on Mar 11, 2013 17:41:34 GMT
Certainly the excellent first career retro on Fairport, It All Comes Round Again should still be out there, most comes from the prior year at Cropredy, with other bits from the prior 20 years. Additionally video from that bar in Cropredy, (where they always performed warm up shows prior to Cropredy) is it the Red Lion? and elsewhere pops up from time to time on Dime and other torrent sites. Probably the one to get, of official release from this period, I forget the title but it is FC, this edition of them, in Birmingham in 1990, either may even be on You Tube in full or part, and is truly an excellent performance. While I have an understandable bias to the FC of 68-71, this otherwise is my favorite edition of the band. Also there is a wonderful cd of this period called from Cropredy to Portmeiron, I think from 90. Also I would just You Tube Fairport Convention 1988 and see what pops up. They also put out what were essentially fan bootlegs around this period (essentially bits from the 86 or 87 Cropredy)called the Boot and the Other Boot which may popup on the net, possibly at a steep price, nice cassettes but worth no more than their original price unless money is no object.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 11, 2013 17:58:03 GMT
And a good moment to interject what a nice, friendly, fun, great man was Rob Braviner...as likely as Pegg or Allcock to drink with fans after the gig and not a cliche that he was considered a band member till his untimely, surprise, too young death a few years ago.
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Post by Tull50 on Mar 11, 2013 19:14:57 GMT
Thanks for another great promo, I have several Fairport DVDs, but none of the 88 Maybe try upload the Fairport Convention - Live At Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 22/3/2003, but I'm not sure youtube allows. Maybe others where is not Dave Pegg, also are welcome...? If I have the DVD "It's All Come Round Again 1987" I'll try with this ;D
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Post by hardliner on Mar 11, 2013 22:12:09 GMT
Hi all New member here Peggy is a real big miss for me personally,probably the last of the 'personality' bass players in the Tull camp. But really were the drinking stories all true? . I loved it when Ian used to say Peggy's hobby was turning blue in front of paramedics? In the Grip of Stronger Stuff ha ha ha.
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Post by Tull50 on Mar 11, 2013 23:02:26 GMT
Hi all New member here Peggy is a real big miss for me personally,probably the last of the 'personality' bass players in the Tull camp. But really were the drinking stories all true? . I loved it when Ian used to say Peggy's hobby was turning blue in front of paramedics? In the Grip of Stronger Stuff ha ha ha. Well say all legends have some truth... Welcome to the Forum hardliner! Remy
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Post by tullist on Mar 11, 2013 23:20:40 GMT
If you mean the one's Ian tells probably not, or at least embellished. But I have had drinks with him but Bernie, aka Steel Monkey, is the man to talk to. There was, last time I saw him, on a tour that got him in a bit of trouble, an unnerving pack of Tull disciples following him around, it was easier to talk to the other guys. I know he tried to move in for a second kiss from my dishy ex girlfriend, evenings bartendress at her brothers club and longtime buddy, she set him straight with a "one per customer." Utterly unmoved by his legend, preferring someone like the late zydeco king, Clifton Chenier. Even within Fairport though, which might just top even the Grateful Dead for overall conviviality points, Pegg is the friendliest performer I have ever met, and can say unequivocally I love him.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 11, 2013 23:39:16 GMT
Hi all New member here Peggy is a real big miss for me personally,probably the last of the 'personality' bass players in the Tull camp. But really were the drinking stories all true? . I loved it when Ian used to say Peggy's hobby was turning blue in front of paramedics? In the Grip of Stronger Stuff ha ha ha. I borrowed some more beer from Remy to Welcome you too! I was thirsty. ;D Rock On!
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 12, 2013 0:06:06 GMT
Let's just say 'drinking with Pegg' is in the current psychiatric diagnostic manual as a lethal suicide attempt.
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Post by ccola on Mar 12, 2013 2:57:23 GMT
Hi all New member here Peggy is a real big miss for me personally,probably the last of the 'personality' bass players in the Tull camp. But really were the drinking stories all true? . I loved it when Ian used to say Peggy's hobby was turning blue in front of paramedics? In the Grip of Stronger Stuff ha ha ha. hallo Hardliner, Peggy shares of the master masking the good local. Such shame for the ole boys.
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Post by ccola on Mar 12, 2013 3:19:05 GMT
Let's just say 'drinking with Pegg' is in the current psychiatric diagnostic manual as a lethal suicide attempt. No comfort with your idea as such. Who are ryou to say
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 12, 2013 8:51:50 GMT
Hi all New member here Peggy is a real big miss for me personally,probably the last of the 'personality' bass players in the Tull camp. But really were the drinking stories all true? . I loved it when Ian used to say Peggy's hobby was turning blue in front of paramedics? In the Grip of Stronger Stuff ha ha ha. Welcome to the Jethro Tull Forum hardliner. I do agree regarding your comments about Dave Pegg and yes, his drinking "habits" are legendary especially with Fairport although the "headmaster" rather frowned upon such things when he was with Tull, especially when taken to excess. The after show drinks in the bar after a Fairport concert are legendary as I can vouch.
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Post by hardliner on Mar 18, 2013 17:07:29 GMT
Fabulous picture,I think Peggy's had a few looking at his expresion. Peggy's pub was a fine tune mind.
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Post by Tull50 on Mar 27, 2013 17:28:03 GMT
Fairport At Rockpalast March 23, 1976
March 23, 1976 Info attached to this DVD: While Gottle o' Geer is often considered to be a "forgotten" (intentionally or not) Fairport recording, there was a real band from that recording that played live. The lineup that made the Gottle recording performed on the Rockpalast TV show for its only time.
Prior to receiving this DVD, I had only seen (3) of these songs on a compilation DVD that has been around. I was told that this particular concert was not show in its entirety on TV. However, the trader had a contact at WDR who managed to find this. I asked this trader if he might get the Steeleye Span performance from the previous year, but that was not felt to be likely. So, everybody get busy on that that one!
The tracks are: 01. Introduction (English translation welcome) 02. come and Get It 03. The Limey's Lament (Swarb explains the roots of this song) 04. Sir B. McKenzie... 05. Dan's Acoustic Thing 06. When First Into This Country 07. Our Band (I) 08. Lay Me DOwn Easy 09. Cropredy Capers 10. Dirty Linen 11. Our Band (II) 12. Closing (English translation welcome)
Note that the 2nd "Our Band" is not shown on the Rockpalast archive website.
The lineup for this version of Fairport Convention (while the record was billed as "Fairport", the background on stage includes "Convention" so I'll use that here as well
Dave Swarbrick: vocals, violin, mandolin, autoharp Dave Pegg: bass, mandolin, vocals Bruce Rowland: drums Dan Ar Braz: guitars, vocals Roger Burridge: violin, mandolin Bob Brady: piano, vocals
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 22, 2015 10:13:46 GMT
www.banburyguardian.co.uk/Peggy’s bass to raise tidy sum for hospiceSaturday 21 March 2015 Link to on line articlePeggy and the Tracey Bullard signature bass NNL-150316-113940001A one-off, signature bass guitar autographed by folk and rock icons such as Robert Plant, Ralph McTell, Steve Ashley and Danny Thompson is being auctioned for charity. The acoustic bass was was made for Dave ‘Peggy’ Pegg of Fairport Convention and can be seen in action in the band’s most recent YouTube video of their new song, John Condon. After the death from cancer of his former pub landlady, Tracey Bullard, Peggy decided to put the guitar – now decorated with many folk and rock stars’ autographs – up on Ebay to raise money for Katharine House Hospice, where Tracey was cared for in her final days. Peggy said: “It’s been renamed the Tracey Bullard Signature Bass after a lovely lady called Tracey Bullard who lived in Barford St Michael and used to run our pub up the road, The George . She sadly died last year and spent her last week in the wonderful Katharine House Hospice. “This one-off guitar was made for me by the Osark Guitar Company and I was going to auction it at our Fairport festival last year in aid of Katharine House Hospice but with Tracey passing away a couple of weeks before our festival I thought I’d rename it the Tracey Bullard Signature Bass. It’s got all these wonderful people’s signatures on it, Bob Harris, Robert Plant, Steve Ashley, all of the Fairport Convention, the great bass player Danny Thompson, Ralph McTell – our great friend fron Fairport Convention – and lots of other famous folkies and rockers. We’ve put it on eBay to try to raise some money for Katharine House Hospice.” Tracey Bullard’s son, Spencer Richards said he was very touched by Peggy’s idea. He said: “It’s an incredible gesture by Dave for such a fantastic cause. You’d be hard pushed to live in Banbury and not have had something to do with fundraising for the hospice. “We all go back 20 to 30 years to the 80s, when Dave was living in Barford and playing with Jethro Tull and mum and I were running The George. “Dave and I have had many sessions together. This auction is a great idea for raising money for the hospice.” The bass is advertised on eBay and the sale ends tomorrow (Friday) at 9.05am. For the technically minded it has a magnetic pick-up and a blender control to mix the acoustic bridge pick-up in with the magnetic pick-up. It is in pristine condition and comes with a hard case. Readers can see Dave Pegg explain his auction on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9AxZkYFgrAAnd he can be seen playing the instrument on the latest Fairport Convention video of John Condon at www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PxOoXFtGMBidding on Monday stood at £1,560. Peggy said: “There is a guy from Frankfurt who usually wins our auction for the first two tickets for the festival, which we auction on eBay. “He’s a true diehard Fairport fan and I think he will be bidding!”
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 30, 2015 10:22:15 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on May 30, 2016 13:25:44 GMT
A rather fine piece about the sixties Birmingham band The Uglys which for a short time had Dave Pegg in their ranks. www.brumbeat.net/uglys.htm
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Post by bunkerfan on May 30, 2016 19:10:56 GMT
A rather fine piece about the sixties Birmingham band The Uglys which for a short time had Dave Pegg in their ranks. www.brumbeat.net/uglys.htmPeggy certainly had youthful looks then.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 15, 2016 7:47:09 GMT
www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/salute-dave-swarbricks-singingA salute to Dave Swarbrick's singingThe legendary Fairport Convention fiddler also had a voice to reckon with by Graham FullerTuesday, 14 June 2016 When folk rock’s demon fiddler Dave Swarbrick died at 75 on 3 June, it was barely noticed that Real Gone Music released Fairport Convention’s Live in Finland 1971 the same day. Featuring the lineup of Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks (drums), Simon Nicol (guitar), and Dave Pegg (bass), which performed at the annual Ruisrock festival that 22 August, the disc features seven songs played with such force and briskness you’d think they wanted to get the hell away from the Archipelago Sea. Either that or they wanted to show the Finns that they could rock as hard as fellow festival acts the Kinks, Canned Heat, Jeff Beck, and the Pink Fairies. Live in Finland is a much punchier set – if a little less ethnic-sounding – than House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour (the 10-track 2001 reissue), which had been recorded on the Full House tour in September 1970 and had featured Richard Thompson on lead and Nicol on rhythm. (Pictured below, back row, Pegg, Nicol, Thompson; front, Mattacks, Swarbrick) Fairport ConventionLive in Finland emphasizes Fairport’s musicianship – Swarbrick’s violin duetting with Nicol’s viola on “Bridge on the River Ash” and racing his guitar to the death on “Matty Groves”. But the character of Swarbrick's singing on “The Journeyman’s Grace” and “Sir Patrick Spens” indicates – as the latter number and “Staines Morris” had done on “House Full” – how his vocal delivery, more than Nicol’s deadpan voice or Pegg’s yokelly one, was coming to define Fairport’s folkiness as much as his plangent, eldritch, and jaunty fiddle-playing (or his mellower mandolin-twanging). Sandy Denny had left Fairport (for the first time) after recording 1969's epochal Liege & Lief and no one was capable of matching the melancholy beauty of her singing. Yet Swarbrick’s gave the band’s traditional songs and new compositions a dangerous masculine timbre that often conveyed the fatalistic aura of betrayals, seductions, military defeats, and other calamities in Old Albion, or off its shores. He could sing tenderly: “Now Be Thankful” – worth hearing beside “Benedictus” by Denny’s pals the Strawbs – is simultaneously a song of gratitude (for the “red, red rose” – a symbol of life's bounty or something else?) and, per Thompson, a plaint for the English capacity for medieval suffering. Tenderest of all is "Rosie" – the Fairport perennial that bowed as the title track of their 1973 album, featured Denny on backing vocals prior to her rejoining the band, and was subsequently performed by Swarbrick's post-Fairport combo Whippersnapper. He had supposedly written the pseudonymous song about trying to help one of his wives (not his widow Jill) through drug addiction. It could apply equally well to Denny's fatal drift into alcoholism. He once said he never got over her early death. Swarbrick could sing mirthfully. “Angel Delight” – which commemorates the Hertfordshire pub where the band was staying when a lorry crashed into Swarb’s room – is one of the most affectionate autobiographical comic songs ever written about a chapter in a group’s career. “I quite like a breast of chicken /And I’m crazy about aspic and roast quails /But the sight to make my pulse rate quicken /Is a dozen nice fat snails,” Swarbrick salivates before the others join in: “On the other hand, there’s Pegg on the bass /Whose tastes in food are very much wider /You’ll see a smile light up his face /At a couple of kippers and a glass of cider.” Dave SwarbrickHe could also sing with urgency and tension. Words recounting a thrice-bungled execution tumble out of him as his bow-scraping becomes hoarse to the point of Hendrix-y on “The Hanging Song,” the climax of the “Babbacombe” Lee concept album. Frequently, he sounded crafty – and, with that dangling fag (pictured above left), he looked it, too: you can see the randy hunter ogling the “maiden” he comes across in the fields in “The Bonny Black Hare”; ironically, she exhausts him so quickly he has to promise to come back the next day. Folk revivalist Bert Lloyd sang the 1966 version that Swarbrick played on; Martin Carthy was the singer when he and Swarbrick teamed up (though in later years they traded vocals on it); but Swarb made it his bawdy (and strangely sinister) own on 1971's Angel Delight. Toward the end of Swarbrick’s decade with Fairport (1969-79), he led the band on two traditional songs transformed into epics – and included on otherwise mediocre albums – that should by now have elevated him to the pantheon of electric folk’s masters of vocal phrasing. His almost a cappella rendition of the 12-minute “The Bonny Bunch of Roses” (a 1977 LP title track) mournfully recounts an overheard conversation between the deposed French empress Marie Louise and her son Napoleon II about his exiled father’s failure to overcome the unity of the English, Scots, and (some) Irish. It’s an aching dirge about the part destiny plays in the roll of history. Swarbrick’s final Fairport masterpiece was “Jack Orion”. Fourteenth-century in origin, the tale of a harper whose lady love is raped by his servant was rediscovered (as “Glasgerion”, Child Ballad 67) by Bert Lloyd, whose 1966 version replaced the harper with fiddler Jack and featured Swarbrick’s playing; Swarbrick subsequently accompanied Martin Carthy on their 1968 cut. Lloyd also introduced it to Bert Jansch, who played it solo and on Pentangle’s nearly nineteen-minute 1970 version. (Pictured below: life after Fairport) Dave SwarbrickThough the Fairport “Jack Orion” that appears on 1978’s Tippler’s Tales is seven minutes shorter than Pentangle’s, it's more dramatic thanks to Swarbrick’s forging it from five differently paced tunes that build symphonically toward a chilling climax. His singing shifts from jaunty (Jack entertaining the castle court) to inviting (the virginal princess), merry (Jack), sly (Tom, the servant), to tormented (the princess on discovering it was Tom not Jack who penetrated her in the darkness of her bower). The final shift is from rage – “Tom, m’boy come here to me,” Jack howls – to matter of fact: “He hung him from his own gatepost /High as a willow tree,” after which the song fades on Swarbrick’s throbbing fiddle. “M’boy” is the capper. “My boy” would have sounded stern, schoolmasterly, not aplopectic with sexual jealousy. The only member of Fairport Convention I’ve ever spoken to is Dave Pegg, who at the time was playing bass with Jethro Tull; their publicist had got me backstage after a 1993 concert in Jones Beach, Long Island, New York. Pegg seemed pleased I wanted to talk about Fairport. I told him I thought Swarbrick was a great singer. “Well,” he said, not wishing to offend his old mate, “...a great musician.” "Swarb the Voice" is an acquired taste, I allow, but he filled the air with more devils and angels than most. Read the latest new music reviews on theartsdesk
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 15, 2016 8:37:09 GMT
Fairport Convention: The Witham, Barnard CastleFairport Convention: From left, Gerry Conway, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Ric Sanders, Chris Leslie THEY walked on stage relaxed and easy as though they were walking into their own living rooms. And with up to 49 years experience of touring, the five members of Fairport Convention are probably as familiar with some of the stages they play on as with their own homes.
On Saturday night it was the turn of Barnard Castlem to provide a full house and a rousing welcome to this near legendary folk-rock band on the last date of their current tour. Led by Simon Nicol, the one original band member, they were in great voice and brilliant instrumental form, and none more so than drummer, Gerry Conway, whose solo on the cajon (to you and me, the wooden box he was sitting on) demonstrated his consummate skill as percussionist. Myths and Heroes, the title track of their latest album, provided the opener to the evening along with numerous tracks from the past – the mournful anthem to lost youth, John Condon, the lyrical instrumental, Portmerion, Ralph McTell’s Clear Water, and by special request the early version of Scottish ballad, Sir Patrick Spens. And of course no-one will think of crudite and dips in the same way again.
The evening was tinged with sadness at the news a week ago of the death of Dave Swarbrick, the highly-influential songwriter and early band member. Otherwise, this was a triumphant evening with a packed house marking the band’s first, but hopefully not last, visit to the Witham.
Laurence Sach
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