[Johnny Brown]

Ah that's interesting, i always dreamt of somehow dropping it into the headline set at the works party.

[andy_e]

Imagine that on a big soundsystem! You'd absolutely shit yourself if you were under the influence

[northern yob]

Andrew Barker 808 state’s keyboard player, I would go so far as to say that seeing them at the gmex in 1991 blew my mind, and literally changed my life.

[cheque]

70s music photographer and video director Mick Rock.

[shurt]

70s music photographer and video director Mick Rock.

I feel like a  it of a knob for saying this but I was photographed by him for GQ magazine in my old band! It was hilarious

[Falling Down]

David Craig, academic, climber, mountaineer, poet and writer passed away this week.  I stumbled across him via a second hand copy of his wonderful ‘Native Stones’ in the early 90’s.  His book Landmarks is a brilliant collection of climbing related nature writing.  These two and his other works and books are well worth reading.

Here’s a nice piece on Gogarth and Menlove Edwards from the LRB in the 80’s. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v07/n15/david-craig/climbing

[mrjonathanr]

Enjoyed that, thanks.

[Neil F]

David Craig, academic, climber, mountaineer, poet and writer passed away this week.  I stumbled across him via a second hand copy of his wonderful ‘Native Stones’ in the early 90’s.  His book Landmarks is a brilliant collection of climbing related nature writing.  These two and his other works and books are well worth reading.

I remember climbing a bit with David's son Pete at Malham.  Did Butch Cassidy with him in 1981.  Pete had boyish good looks, long black hair and designer stubble before Andy Pollitt had been invented...

Neil Craig who did some hard routes on Shelterstone was another of David's children.

I've not seen either of them since the 80s, but my condolences go out to them in the unlikely event they read this...

Neil

[Falling Down]

More great tales Neil! (Peter is on Twitter as @petercraig200 if you want to pass on a message)

[andy_e]

I hadn't heard of David Craig, that's a great bit of writing. Thanks for posting Ben!

[Stabbsy]

I read Native Stones, probably around 25 years ago, after meeting David Craig in the outdoor shop I used to work at as a student. Around that time, I pretty much just read climbing books (alongside whatever I read for my degree), but all I wanted to read about was hard routes and gruelling mountaineering epics. Native Stones isn't that sort of book. Having gone back to it much later, I got way more out of it and could see it as a great piece of work that I didn’t have the maturity to recognise the first time.

[sxrxg]

Sir Frank Williams. Legend of F1.

[andy popp]

Congresswoman Jolene Unsoeld - as soon as I saw the the surname I stopped: Willi and Devi Unsoeld. Yes, she was wife and widow to renowned American mountaineer Willi Unsoeld, but lived a really remarkable life herself. This obituary is very worth reading:

https://www.postalley.org/2021/11/30/a-tribute-to-congresswoman-jolene-unsoeld-dead-at-89-and-her-life-of-wild-adventure/?fbclid=IwAR3cnmU0Z3lAhaYcxnqaur4zExNcxixQA-yTP73lOhdOF7jHSARtpXq9bGM

[SA Chris]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59553438

John Miles. Probably famous for one song, but what a belter.

[duncan]

Robbie Shakespeare, a musical giant in several ways, one half of the Rhythm Twins, and bassist underpinning hundreds of great records. Best live memory was on the Taxi Gang tour in 1986 or 87. This was like an old soul review with a bunch of different soloists backed by the same band. All was not well backstage and the show was running late. Whilst business was being taken care of, Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Dean Frazier and the rest of the gang gave us 90 minutes of blistering improvising over rock-solid rhythms. Masters at work.   

[Duncan Disorderly]

Robbie Shakespeare, a musical giant in several ways, one half of the Rhythm Twins, and bassist underpinning hundreds of great records. Best live memory was on the Taxi Gang tour in 1986 or 87. This was like an old soul review with a bunch of different soloists backed by the same band. All was not well backstage and the show was running late. Whilst business was being taken care of, Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Dean Frazier and the rest of the gang gave us 90 minutes of blistering improvising over rock-solid rhythms. Masters at work.   

Saw this last night... Gutted! His importance to reggae and dancehall music just can't be overstated... Guy was a proper legend!

[SA Chris]

Steve Bronski, founder of Bronski Beat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59592187

Some great songs from my youth.

[i.munro]

Robbie Shakespeare, a musical giant in several ways,

So sad !

[duncan]

Saw this last night... Gutted! His importance to reggae and dancehall music just can't be overstated... Guy was a proper legend!

Not old but I guess it's not a healthy lifestyle and he was a fuller-figured gentleman even in the 80s. What a legacy though. They were a superstar rhythm section and producers so you'd hope they've been well rewarded.

I've just remembered Mark Brydon, occasional climbing partner in the early 80s, played bass with Chakk ("Funk rock Sheffield rust belt disco industrialists") who were produced by Sly and Robbie. Two degrees of separation!

[Hoseyb]

Mike Nesmith, coolest member of the monkees. Probably not cool to admit that the monkees were a big part of my childhood, but I have headquarters on vinyl.


Listen to the band..

[SA Chris]

Old enough to remember watching their shows and thinking they were cooler than The Goodies (may have been reruns).

[Oldmanmatt]

Mike Nesmith, coolest member of the monkees. Probably not cool to admit that the monkees were a big part of my childhood, but I have headquarters on vinyl.


Listen to the band..

I watched them as a kid, 70s, so probably first runs.

Very much ruined for me by training staff playing “Daydream believer”  Every.
Fucking.
Day.
At 05:30 straight after the  Call The Hands pipe, for 14 weeks straight during basic training in 1989…
(Except the one day, when a nameless trainee, swapped the cassette for Limp Bizkit. It was worth all the punishment runs and dunking in the fire fighting tanks, in January. Nobody ever did admit it).

Edit: I lied, it wasn’t Limp Bizkit. Something very similar, but memory fails now.

Edit: HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT!
Fucking old age.

[cowboyhat]

That's a class malapropism, unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Limp Bizkits oeuvre to think of a funny song title portmanteau/ pun.

[Johnny Brown]

I mean the name is similar but the music isn't. You cant remember the track Matt? Joy Division Oven Gloves?

Edit:1989 so no, must have been something off the debut. At least one track used as a route name on there....

[Oldmanmatt]

I mean the name is similar but the music isn't. You cant remember the track Matt? Joy Division Oven Gloves?

Edit:1989 so no, must have been something off the debut. At least one track used as a route name on there....

Pretty sure it was the piss-take of a Trumpton (or similar) kids song. “Time flies by”.
I shall Google…

Edit:
Yup: