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Winterwulf

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« Reply #915 on: March 26, 2026, 08:48:04 PM »
Sad news, his drumming with Pentangle was excellent.  Jacqui McShee is now the sole surviving member  :(
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« Reply #916 on: March 27, 2026, 12:40:26 PM »
Agree he really was an excellent drummer, i was really only aware of him with his work with Pentangle a band i really love,and also with John and Bert.Reading an online obit. i was amazed with all the other people he worked with everybody from BeeGees,David Bowie,Cleo Lane and Charles Aznavour plus many others........and as  you say only Jacqui left now.

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« Reply #917 on: April 17, 2026, 08:26:08 PM »
Former radio 1 DJ and world music advocate Andy Kershaw, worthy of remembrance for his attitude that there was so much great music out there that wasn't getting heard.
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« Reply #918 on: July 16, 2026, 08:17:05 PM »
Barry Dransfield, fiddler who played on some of the greatest  English folk-rock recordings of the early 70s - Morris On, No Roses and the Fiddler's Dream. For my money, one of the best album openings of all time is on Morris On, where he opens playing the calling-on tune solo, then a brief snatch of the following jig, the calling-on again then the whole band kicks in for the jig again - https://youtu.be/D8NMfyPtPOE?si=ABvHTjrYRfYd-88v.

I'm also fond of his singing of "Cuckoo's Nest" off the same album, my parents had it taped onto a C60 cassette for playing in the car when we were on holiday, which meant said song was first on the second side. They only played it when they thought me and my sister were asleep given the lyrical content, but I think we picked it up in our sleep, they were horrified when we both sang the chorus one time:  "Some like a girl who is pretty in the face, some like a girl who is slender in the waist, but give me a girl that will wriggle and will twist, at the bottom of the belly lies the cuckoo's nest"
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« Reply #919 on: July 17, 2026, 12:23:02 PM »
Excellent post regarding the death of Barry Dransfield....agree with all your comments .Great obituary in Guardian...R.I.P.
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« Reply #920 on: Today at 09:27:27 AM »
R.I.P Frank Beard...i remember Robert Heaton saying that Frank Beard was an underrated and excellent drummer, if i remember well NMA even covered "Gimme all your lovin"":

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« Reply #921 on: Today at 09:42:53 AM »
R.I.P Frank Beard...i remember Robert Heaton saying that Frank Beard was an underrated and excellent drummer, if i remember well NMA even covered "Gimme all your lovin"

They did. Allegedly they played it during the September to November 1985 Brave New World Tour in Europe, Japan and the UK, and they most definitely played it at the Mersea Island Festival at the Essex Youth Camp on 26th July 1986, because that version is on the Clog Dancers 7" Bootleg.