jon

Just got nack from shopping...partly for the neigbours cat...and we are having a visitor for tea sun afternoon. Making pizza with chorizo, prawns etc..... A choc tart prepared with dark choc and ground almonds inb the pastry. A rice pud made with ftresh vanulla  pod and some cream...served with confiture du lait[just a little] Brebis and han samwhiches. Longue de chat. Entertaining is fun..... Get the band/boys /guitars together and talk to me.

And younger musicians welcome.

So how many of you can still play the guitar?Are you willing to play.....do you want to have fun? Come on you only live once...or twice?

Hawkwind......not my fav...but would go to hear them sometimes as one of my good friends brother played bass guitar in the band.

King Crimson?????  

Jon agrees with you about Dionne Warick and Dusty she was amazing.....she sang with so much feeling. Peter Frampton......yes I liked Peter...the Herd......boys I am pretty certain that he played guitar!Seen him do so. Queen...before they were Queen....they had a stall in Ken market and played their forst gig at The Royal colege of Art.I liked Freddie when he was less flamboyant....infact massievly shy.Jaqui it is not a girlie thing its about different tastes. Sharon can be good to watch and gentle when she is in a good mood.....  

Quintessance.......lived in NottingHillGate near to me! Everythings great in NottingHillGate.  

Are you a good guitarist/musician? You know that there must be a reason for a gathering of musicians.....for a jam. Organised one......meeting other guitarists must be difficult....anyone play electric violin?

Cooperlola.....you seem to like all the artists....on my" do not like list" Funny how we all like different music. Any one involved /played with a band.....after the sixties?

And you do not have to have an addictive nature to be talented. I like Amy Winehouses voice...it is not amazing...interests me...at the moment.....but I would be happy if she found the skill to live.Life is a balance of skills and self control.I managed a band and many of my friends were in the music industry but I did not become engaged in the art of taking drugs....                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Not sure what was going on at the Brit awards but it did seem a little unstylish. If Peter Green had only been more "together" his life would have been a whole lot better. So the answer to the fundemantal question.......an interesting life....Mrs Osborne..... stronge woman.....but not my role model.

Maybe Artsole it is a matter of taste...certainly The Who never filled me with excitement......never got me rushing to the RSG studios....and Sex Pistols...no.....Pink Floyd...no. My taste....surely m ost of you the same.   Cat Stevens.....Donovan...Tim Harding. Spooky Tooth......Writing on the Wall...

I agree that she was not a good choice for the Brit awards and  it was a strange family gathering where she...Sharon made a run for the black frocks and her husband managed a few slured words.The brightest spark in the family was the Osborne daughter.The whole show did not seem filled with excitement or sense of appreciation. I do enjkoy the ex factor and American idol.....as I love to see people win and achieve their dreams...and although there is a clear number one the programme is a forum to show talent......and there is still talent out there. Dreams are an impperative part of life...as is music.      

Russet House Sharon Osborne is a survivor...she is surviving...aagainst all odds she still seems to love Ossie....got over her cancer...made herself more attractive and taken a bigger potion in confidence.Not mad keen on swaring...especialling for the sake of it...but that aside you have think  five  times before condemn  her.

Do you miss those days filled with music?Did you have luck with your songs......very difficult buisness the music industry!

Well gluestick as you came from Essex.....and I came from East London.The Small Faces/The Proof..My best friend in those days was very  romantically involved with Peter Green for several years..... in those days ...[she lived in East Ham].The group which I managed came from Putney, Stratford.E.15 and the other two were from outside London somwhere.They were good. Me.....I neither read music or play it...usedto dance to it. As you know Jon is female...in the real sense of the word! However my other half is a John  and plays guitar rather well.Plays Flamenco, modern jazz/funk...... Glue stick may be Colin or Carol......your not the easiest bunch. Saw Peter play a few years ago in Shepherds Bush London......an incredably sad experience it was. Eric Clapton sold his sole after Cream.Jack Bruce wrote some very good songs. Remember Beautiful Day anyone...or Esperanto?

No Raindog not following any programme..... Alexis Korner...although talented was not to my taste musically

Gluestick do you play blues or.......you are never to old to enjoy music....and necver too young either.

Raindog...there was a little more to the story of Peter Green than being shy...yes he was. He was...as I see it ...a little finer[as a guitarist]than Eric Clapton. Did any of you go to The    Marquee in Wardour street London? Long John Baldry.The Move......Ten Years After.....of course...... and Skye Wine.

Fleetwood Mac was Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Danny Kirwin. Not sure what the other team was......[.should they have been allowed to keep the name]....but Kristine Perfect was John McVies wife.The true Fleetwood Mac sibblings of John Mayal father of the British blues.There was Free...Chicken Shack...Ten years After...and

who did you play your 60s blues music with Mr Glue stick?

Tough on the outside......so much pain on the inside. She has not lived a simple or easy life.Everything is so intriquate about her life...it would be...I feel unfair to pass judgement.

Yes there is a responsability attached to operating a "help service".However if you are looking for legal advice....in detail you would be refered to a specialist.There have to be limitations on what a person can expect as a service for 100 pounds per year.Could be...as it was in my case..talking to a Notaire...and reporting back to me.A good web designer...recomendations.Help finding a decent roofer for my windmill.Any one interested in taking photos of the garden etc in exchange for a few days holiday.I guesse in many cases it is about "getting to know"lots of people and being able to unmite them to help each other.Very rewarding. The company in question...well sometimes took too long getting back to me.....and the roofer was unreliable.So if they may have sold the buisness because they were tired...had enough...who knows? I do not see that [with ougoings...they did have helpers to take care of calls and advertising rates] how they were going to m ake a fortune?  

Mick Fleetwood was a presenter for the Brit awards a few years back????????Mick Fleetwood...the drummer from the late sixties/early seventies?

I do agree with most of what you have said....but if the operator of the buisness of providing help is genuine and  can gain respect...and keep that respect he/she will  find the answer  each time they are posed with a question...and direct the member/client towards  a recomended builder/translator/notaire/immobilier...whatever the case may be.The forum has limiations as well as great assests. Of course there are rogues out there...in every shape and form and in every profession........surely most of us have been through some stress ..its modern day life.Solicitors, builders, hoteliers....all able to try to "pull the wool" yet we must still have some trust.

She said that she was a solicitor or lawyer.....however I had never seen any proof....or asked for it. I can only imagine that these people made the "advisory centre" work for them......as it appeared to be their only form of occupation. This forum is extreemly helpfull but one is never sure of getting a reply to a posed question......and sometimes there are many conflicting replies.When you are proposing to venture to a different country to live or you are questioning buying or not...It could be helpfull if it appears that there is "someone there who has some interest in your case/situation"Someone who is actually living in France and knows and touches on all the daily activities. Real legal stuff can be sorted out in the normal manner and you do not expect legal matters to be managed within a fee or one or two hundred pounds per year. People are still buying in my area ............ However I think that the view of dream filled lives and blissfull retirement depend on ones own financial situation/resources...Here there or anywhere.Money has never grown on trees of any kind and not too much comes to those who prefer to be lazy. So factaul, unbiased information...I agree is exactly what all people need when they are proposing/have moved on to France.