Nice soprano solo, he tamed its propensity to go squarky!
Very sobering Andy. Same age as me, but I bet he lived a “fuller” life than me, especially in his younger days.
He’s one of the few members to live to three score years and ten Gerald. In that album cover photo from left to right we have
Leon WIlkinson, bass, died aged 49 from chronic liver and lung disease.
Ronnie Van Zant, vocals, died aged 29 in the plane crash.
Ed King, guitar (and bass), died aged 68 from cancer, had suffered from congestive heart failure and had a heart transplant in 2017
Allen Collins, guitar, died aged 39 from pneumonia as consequence of paralysis he received 4 years earlier in a car crash when driving drunk, killed in his girlfriend in the crash. Never played guitar again after crash.
Billy Powell, keyboards, died aged 56, heart attack.
Garry Rossington, died aged 71, cause not revealed.
Artimus Pyle, drums, still alive aged 74.
That’s one heck of a death toll. I think good clean living was not high in those men’s priorities in their early years!
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Why was it Sweet Home Alabama & not Sweet Home Florida? ps I prefer Simple Man or Tuesday’s Gone.
Hi Brian. I have a soprano tuned in C not the usual B flat. It was made by Hawkes & Son before they joined forces with Boosey.
Used in the film Con Air - and the plane crashed.
Bit spooky?
Not music, but a climber. Jimmy Marshall moved Scottish winter climbing forward by decades in a single week on Ben Nevis. Climbing with Robin Smith, he put up a bold new route on Ben Nevis’ Orion Face and ascended Point Five gully in only seven hours. The previous attempt had taken 40 hours.
He also featured in an episode of the excellent 1990’s Scottish climbing documentary “The Edge”, which charted the history of Scottish climbing.
There are some good links in this news article. Some episodes of the Edge can be found on youtube. I wish this would be released on line or DVD. It is a wonderful series.
EDIT: This is the episode featuring Jimmy. All six episodes are on this guys channel. If you only watch one, watch episode two, featuring an ascent of Tower Ridge in winter, using 1930’s equipment!
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That takes me back, I recorded all episodes onto VHS & then transferred them onto CD later. I haven’t watched them for many years, but must do so now. Tnx for posting, Fraser.
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That was the Direct Route, 1400 feet (427 metres) at grade V. What made the big difference was that he adopted the use of crampons, which aroused fierce opposition from the old timers who thought that step cutting was the gentlemanly way of climbing! (Reminiscent of the AM v SSB war and the opposition to FT8! 
) Apropos of Point Five Gully, I went on a winter climbing course in Glencoe in 1974, a full week of sunshine and frost in early March. After four days of doing ice routes with the instructors, the students decided to do the Aonach Eagach on the fifth day, while the instructors went off and soloed both Zero and Point Five gullies - and beat us to the Clachaig Inn! The front point crampons and Hamish McInnes’ Terrordactyl drop ice axes made a big difference!
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Nice! I’ve heard of them but never seen one. Is it straight or curved?
Straight & silver plated. I used to extend the mouthpiece to tune down to B flat when I was in an army brass band.
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It was a response to Neil Young’s Alabama song.
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Never heard of him… (Bit of a Soul / Disco Boy me is), but his lengthy obituary made this Saturday’s Yorkshire Post.
73 Phil G4OBK
That one set me in mind of Les Barker’s poem “Have you got any news of the iceberg”. Les died a couple of months ago…
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Just announced Tina Turner at 83. I sat beside her many years ago in a lounge at Heathrow but didn’t notice as I was facing the other way till the person I was with said “have you noticed who you are sitting next to”
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One of Bill’s finest, imho…
February 23rd, 1984. Davenport Theatre, Stockport. I was there, aged 13, watching Tina Turner’s next chapter unfold. I’m pretty sure she kept this band personnel very constant for many years - and a superb band they were too.
Setlist:
-Cat People
-The Acid Queen
-Let’s Pretend We’re Married
-Hot Legs
-Get Back
-I’ll Be Where The Heart Is
-Nutbush City Limits
-Givin’ It Up For Your Love
-Night Life
-River Deep – Mountain High
-Let’s Stay Together
-Help
-Proud Mary
-Hollywood Nights (encore)
Band:
Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals
James Ralston – Guitar
Jack Bruno – Drums
Bob Feit – Bass
Chuck O’Steen – Keyboards and Vocals
Lejeune Richardson - Dancer and Vocals
Annie Behringer - Dancer and Vocals
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You probably didn’t recognise her without the syrup.
All stand for the Australian national anthem.
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