Post of picture of YOU playing your RIC

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:25 am

You should have had a TV show, Brian - "The Medway Family". Cool!!

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:23 am

Brian.... how MOD of you!.... great pix!

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:27 am

Howard,

Strangely enough, Meddy's People actually made a number of television appearances in Canada. A couple nationally televised events and a number of local appearances.

We were'nt exactly the Monkees mind you in any sense. We were a lot more like the Who. We were a pretty heavy rock band for our day. Not a band that you would build a musical sitcom around. Maybe if they had reality TV back then they would have found us very interesting. LOL

Pegasus though was the result of personal musical evolution. That band was more cutting edge in many respects.

There were only three of us and we relied on the bass and drums to create an interesting interplay with bluesy rock guitar playing and vocals. Unfortunately my singing has been compared to Jack Bruce and my guitar playing to Claptons very often throughout my music career. Probably one of the reasons that we did not quite click was that I sounded too much like them. It was never my intent to emulate them. Sometimes that's just how it is.

Listen to Gary Moore for example. He uses Clapton's, 60's "woman tone" in a much better way than Clapton ever did in my books. But then again, others may differ in opinion. There are some die hard "Clapton is god" fans out there that would consider my opinion in that matter to be blasphemy.

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:30 am

Yeh Kent, we started off with three mods and a redneck. We ended up as four rednecks. LOL

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:42 am

Clapton is God? My religion espouses the worship of many gods - Hendrix, Clapton, Gilmour, Vai, Moore, etc.......... not limited to guitarists, either - Johnnie Johnson for instance!

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:01 pm

Yeh Howard,

I like your taste in G men. You have to add SRV to that list as well as Jeff Beck, EVH, Jimmy Page, Rory Gallagher and you are right the list would be huge. I did not even mention my fav bass players. We could write for days. LOL

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:06 pm

Further to my previous post, there is nothing better than to see a woman play guitar well. Bonnie Rait for example. She rocks my plimsolls

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:38 pm

Mmmmmmm..... Bonnie Rait - oh yeah!

I just plucked a few out of thin air, Brian. A definitive list would be pages long and open to all sorts of argument. Not to mention a list of great Aussies.

I could add some non-rockers like Al Dimeola, Lee Ritenour, etc.

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:47 pm

"Kiss My Axe" "Elegant Gypsy"

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:49 pm

"I could add some non-rockers like Al Dimeola"

Sorry Howard I could'nt resist. Those two titles just go so well together.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:04 pm

As you can see, Brian, I'm a bit of a Dimeola fan:

Left to right, top to bottom:

Land Of The Midnight Sun
The Best Of The Manhattan Years
Heart Of The Immigrants
Cielo e Terra
Splendido Hotel
Electric Rendezvous
The Infinite Desire
Elegant Gypsy
Soaring Through A Dream
Casino
Kiss My Axe
Orange And Blue

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:07 pm

Jeez are you missing any?

Lets see???????

Orange and Blue
Heart of the Immigrant
The Best of Al Di Meola - The Manhattan Years
Kiss My Axe
World Sinfonia
Tirami Su
Soaring Through A Dream
Cielo e Terra
Scenario
Passion, Grace, & Fire
Tour De Force - Live
Electric Rendezvous
Splendido Hotel
Friday Night In San Francisco
Casino
Elegant Gypsy
Land of the Midnight Sun
With Return To Forever:

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:08 pm

And Aitche's foot.

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:15 pm

Aitche's Foot Paul? Its not on my list. That must be a new release. LOL

Howard you should get a check up. That's an obsession you've got going on there.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:23 pm

The ol' blue slipper sneaks in again!

There are a number of holes in the collection, Brian and Paul. They're usually only available as imports here - Dimeola is considered 'obscure' by the mainstream music stores. It's been a while since I've had another serious look around....... maybe in a month or so when the footy season is over!!

It's a relatively inexpensive obsession, Brian. Compare it to my 'Rickaholism'!!

Think I've got terminal thread drift.......