Gerry and the Pacemakers

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:04 pm

That whole story sounds apocryphal to me (in plain English, "bulls**t"). He claims that when he was done, the TRC said "...backer".

Only if he had it on backwards. Think about it...

The story as he tells it:

1. In order to avoid damaging his new guitar on tour, he builds a box for it.

2. He forgets that inside and outside dimensions are two different numbers, varying by exactly twice the material thickness. He builds the box too short.

3. In order to avoid building another protective box, he saws the end off the headstock of the new guitar.

4. Thus damaging the guitar.

5. This is a perfect example of fuzzy reasoning.

Can anyone post a legitimate picture of this bodge job?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:24 pm

Maybe he was a little bit angry.

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:45 pm

Peter! Don't tell me that it was the 360 12V64!!!??? He got one the same time George Harrison got his. There has recently been an interest in that particular guitar. That -- for guitar history's sake -- would be horrible!

ratso · Post by **ratso** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:37 pm

Gerry at the Cavern playin' thru those cool Selmer Zodiac 30's!

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:48 pm

I bet they wish they still had those!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:12 pm

I gotta get one of the EPI basses. I love these old photos.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:40 pm

Don there was a female singer in Liverpool quite well rated by those on the Merseybeat circuit called Beryl Marsden but she was not related to Gerry, I make an assumption that she may be the one you are thinking of.

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:37 am

Beryl Marsden played at the Iron Door Club at 13 Temple St. in Liverpool in the early 1960s.

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:45 am

Bob, I'm sure I've posted this before but here's Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits signing my Epiphone bass.

rick12dr · Post by **rick12dr** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:16 am

Roy,
No, that's not it.I know if someone said the name, it would click in my memory.And no, Not Jane Asher....

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:43 pm

DON
Elkie Brooks is sister of Tony Mansfield who was the drummer in Dakotas

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:07 pm

Paul. Here is a photo of Gerry in New York with his Rickenbacker 12 string. I will have to let you decide on its legitimacy.

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:19 pm

Don: Lulu's brother, Billy Lawrie wrote co-wrote a number of songs with Maurice Gibb in the early 1970s.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:37 pm

thought i'd share this

Gerry when introducing what for me was one of his best songs, if not the best, says this, first time I heard it had me in stiches as they say.

"You know back in the early sixties I fell deeply in love with a young girl, but one day she said to me "Gerry I think we should stop seeing each other".

I was gutted so that night I thought how can I get her back, so I wrote this song and sent it to her on a tape. A couple of days later she rang me and said Gerry let's get back together. That lady is now my wife and you know somedays I wish

I'd never wrote the bloody song"

great humour

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:20 pm

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. I won the photo and the business card, plus an autograph sheet of the band in a recent auction.