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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
|  Subject: Fantasy Festival  Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:16 pm | |
| Ok it will never really happen at Avebury but if there was a Glastonbury type festival at Avebury who would you bring?
PeteG
Post your choices here folks! |
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:28 pm | |
| At the Sanctuary on the memorial stage....
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:35 pm | |
| | Personally, I've always wanted to play at Stonehenge, and to call my band Elvis Preseli and the Blues Tones |
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:41 pm | |
| hahaha!
Very good, I just ran ito trouble as had all the links playing at the same time. The Who won.
I would invite Mike Scott and as a local interest Nick Harper. |
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:58 pm | |
| Nick Harper is my favourite guitarist - top geezer too. I'd love to see him play Avebury. But...
If we're talking fantasy band, I'd want to see dead people.
Guitar/vocals - Syd Barrett, Bo Diddley and Arthur Lee
Drums - Keith Moon
Bass - John Entwhistle
Voice box synthesiser - Roger Troutman
Hammond Organ - Jimmy McGriff |
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:03 pm | |
| Is Arthur Lee dead ? I thought I saw him at the Swindon Art's Centre not that long ago.
Meant to say earlier, Julian Cope must be there please. Can he come as The Wandering Minstral wearing blue sunglasses. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:09 pm | |
| | Steve M wrote: | | Nick Harper is my favourite guitarist - top geezer too. |
Local lad as well!
I like his dad
Harpic (clean round the bend)
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:14 pm | |
| | Steve M wrote: |
If we're talking fantasy band, I'd want to see dead people.
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At Windmill hill on Julian Copes Dead Poets stage....
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:18 pm | |
| and at the Red Lion on the comedy stage
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megadrea
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:25 pm | |
| Talking of the dead
This would save the NT time clearing the circle.
I love it. (but you wont) 
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:32 pm | |
| | june wrote: | Is Arthur Lee dead ? I thought I saw him at the Swindon Art's Centre not that long ago.
Meant to say earlier, Julian Cope must be there please. Can he come as The Wandering Minstral wearing blue sunglasses. |
Oops! Sorry I meant Albert Lee.
If we are having dead people, pleeeze can we have Randy California with his surf board (for a good friend of mine). |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:38 pm | |
| at spooky old Fox Covert....
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megadrea
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:42 pm | |
| Wow, i never realised you all had such bad taste in music.  |
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:45 pm | |
| Albert Lee is great! Country Boy etc - he's an amazing guitarist.
I saw him play one Xmas - years ago, when I lived in London. It was a free gig at Chas & Dave's pub, in North London. The main band was Jerry Hogan - Hogan's Heroes - and guests included Don Everly and Buddy Emmons (top US pedal steel guitarist). UK guests included Albert Lee and BJ Cole.
It was cosmic.
YouTube (not the actual gig though):
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:49 pm | |
| | megadread wrote: | | Wow, i never realised you all had such bad taste in music. |
you have No idea!
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:55 pm | |
| Pete,
I didn't have you down a Cure fan. I nicked Disintegration from my son (I was a youngish mum) when it was on vinyl. I've got two taped copies and a CD now. I love Leonard Cohen but if I really want to get tired and emotional, its got to be Cure, Fasination Street, Plainsong, Pictures of You. Where's that bottle of red wine! |
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megadrea
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:59 pm | |
| Did anyone go to the Dark Side of the Moon concert in Roger Bolton's back garden? It was 1999 - the week of the total solar eclipse. A prog-rock tribute band called 'No' played a note-perfect rendition of Dark Side of the Moon exactly as the album!
It finished with an amazing firework display. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:03 am | |
| | june wrote: | Pete,
I didn't have you down a Cure fan. I nicked Disintegration from my son (I was a youngish mum) when it was on vinyl. I've got two taped copies and a CD now. I love Leonard Cohen but if I really want to get tired and emotional, its got to be Cure, Fasination Street, Plainsong, Pictures of You. Where's that bottle of red wine! |
Oh yes June,
I saw them several times.
I play Disintegration when I'm night driving...
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:04 am | |
| | Steve M wrote: | Did anyone go to the Dark Side of the Moon concert in Roger Bolton's back garden? It was 1999 - the week of the total solar eclipse. A prog-rock tribute band called 'No' played a note-perfect rendition of Dark Side of the Moon exactly as the album!
It finished with an amazing firework display. |
Sure did Steve,
that was the day my daughter was born.
Roger filmed it all but I think the original tapes went when his house caught fire in Bath a few years ago.
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:11 am | |
| | megadread wrote: | Talking of the dead
This would save the NT time clearing the circle.
I love it. (but you wont) |
Eeeeeeeee.. it takes me back. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:37 am | |
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I lost this LP.
Must buy another copy...
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PeteG
Age : 99
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Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
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PeteG
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megadrea
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:40 am | |
| I never heard that before except for a instrumental on one of my kids games.
What a lovely song. Would love to hear that with just an acoustic guitar round the camp fire. :heaven |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:46 am | |
| its dead easy to play.
For the rock version we will have to go to the wklb layby
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megadrea
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:48 am | |
| I just listened to some of their tracks.
Do you know if they ever did a totally acoustic album. ? |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:50 am | |
| if they did I haven't heard it yet
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megadrea
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:52 am | |
| Shame, was just getting interested, and may just have bought it.
Oh well, back to the gabba.  |
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
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tonyh
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tonyh
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BumblingB
Joined : 19 Jan 2008
Posts : 215
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:33 am | |
| Well of course there was an Avebury festival!
Wasn't there? |
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:51 am | |
| | BumblingB wrote: | Well of course there was an Avebury festival!
Wasn't there? |
Well..
I think I can say Categorically..
Cat, Categ, Categorica, Categorically.
Yep..
I can say Categorically....
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tonyh
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:49 pm | |
| | BumblingB wrote: | Well of course there was an Avebury festival!
Wasn't there? |
According to Andy Worthsingtons book a group of travellers were moved on from Savernake forest in summer 1985 and they discovered the Silbury car park.
They camped for a day or two then the local law turned up and told them to F*ck Off!
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tonyh
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PeteG
Age : 99
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Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:04 pm | |
| Avebury often has the Dark Side Of Morris group from Dartmoor who like to Keep Music Evil!
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:40 pm | |
| I spent three months in Morocco and had the fortune to hear a lot of Berber Drummers...
This is such a short film and I have found it difficult to find any footage that really show the absolute brilliance of these Guys...
For Me... Best in the World..
Tony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeYeTvPId4
Morocco - The smell of Jasmin at night. The call to prayers and the sound of the drums
Not forgetting...
The routine of have a gun pointed at me...
Sigh.
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BumblingB
Joined : 19 Jan 2008
Posts : 215
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:42 pm | |
| | PeteG wrote: | | BumblingB wrote: | Well of course there was an Avebury festival!
Wasn't there? |
According to Andy Worthsingtons book a group of travellers were moved on from Savernake forest in summer 1985 and they discovered the Silbury car park.
They camped for a day or two then the local law turned up and told them to F*ck Off!
PeteG |
Is that another in addition to the Avebury Free Festival of 22-24th May 1981?
They were at Silbury! |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:44 pm | |
| your right. I got the year wrong.
we need some monkey chanting....
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:58 pm | |
| | tonyh wrote: | I spent three months in Morocco and had the fortune to hear a lot of Berber Drummers...
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I had the privelege of spending nearly a year there ('70) and have to agree , one memorable festival near Asni involved taking a camel up a hill to have it's throat cut but the drummers solo and collectively en route were easily the best I had heard and much more more to my taste than the Rio samba schools .
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:00 pm | |
| I think it was 71 when I was there...
Thing's didn't work out as I thought they might and so I can't say I had a good time...
I have never been back and have never had the desire to..
But the smell and the sounds will remain with me forever..
One thing I did miss then I returned home, was a nice glass of Mint Tea...
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| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:11 pm | |
| | tonyh wrote: | I think it was 71 when I was there...
Thing's didn't work out as I thought they might and so I can't say I had a good time...
I have never been back and have never had the desire to..
But the smell and the sounds will remain with me forever..
One thing I did miss then I returned home, was a nice glass of Mint Tea...
Tony |
I went back about 78 but that was very much a fortnights tourist holiday didn't enjoy nearly as much . Mint tea is not quite the same when made here maybe it's the granulated sugar instead of a great chunk . I remember eating a tagine in a Moroccan retaraunt in Regent's Street or nearby and thinking "this is good ,but it's nothing like the real thing " . The "cookies " were quite memorable too.
A friend has just moved there .
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:23 pm | |
| I had forgotten about the cookies..
There was a grocery shop that would 'swap' a cup of milk and two cookies for a few coloured felt tip pens... wonderful !!!
I also liked ( when I had some money) a fried doughnut type thing that had a egg in it... The vendor would fry it up while you waited on the street.
Absolutely no I idea what that was now...
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Fantasy Festival Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:07 pm | |
| on the comedy stage Bill Bailey talks about stonehenge and avebury while the local druid makes an idiot out of himself (again)
PeteG
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