Re: Extinction Rebellion
Johno. I formed a sort of skiffle group on the Athlone Castle. We had a guitar, washboard with thimbles on the fingers, tea chest bassist, and me on the trumpet. we found a door into an empty hold and used to go down there to practice, hard to play the trumpet in the crews accommodation.
On the way up the coast, we found a bar in Capetown that would hire us for our numbers, paid with beer. The word got around the crew and I found out they all planned to show up with half of lemons and suck on them in front of me while I played. My big solo number was "Cherry pink and apple blossom time". Impossible to play a brass instrument with someone sucking on a lemon and pulling faces and the lemon's aroma, the player gets too much spit in his mouth....barstewards, our breakthrough to the big time ruined and it was back to the hold.
Cheers, Rodders
Last edited by Rodney Mills; 31st May 2023 at 03:34 PM.
Rodney David Richard Mills
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