hostage

[judge roy bean]

thought this was a thread about another matter, i don't take hostages, i hang the buggers for talking unkindly to the whores









justice you sons of bitches!!!

[general jack o'niell]

a live recording from november 1978 has just surfaced courtesy of kevin mcmillan, tho i suspect the hand of willie d somewhere along the way, it includes an amusing namecheck on radio clyde by richard park, yes, that richard park in the days of the tach, pageboy hairdo and specsavers.

the sound quality is dreadful, due to the passing of time and i suspect the recording device that was originally used, but it will bring me hours of joy listening to it.

it includes a couple of original tracks that i think were only ever performed once or twice and even i had forgotten they existed, judging by the lyrics of a 14 yr old they maybe should have remained buried!!!

one only for the converted, mockers need not apply

[big tony]

i detect the hand of willie d

i've listened carefully and you can hear him blethering at the end of every track, tho richard park does play a blinder!!!!

[general jack o'niell]

gabba gabba i salute me

no other bugger will!!!!

[vinyl junkie]

I found an old vinyl recording of "He aint heavy" by Horizon at the bottom of my Box of Things Past at the back of my cupboard. Is it worth anything as a collector's item or would any Hostage band members like an unusual ashtray?

[general jack o'niell]

tsk tsk tsk, its well known only one would have any use for an ashtray and he already has a copy, kept in mint condition and treasured, tho never actually listened to.

plus i don't think there would be any value, but maybe i'll ask my neighbour mrs. strain, she might flog it for 47p for you, i won't make any gags about chris having a boxful, which wouldn't be true, don't want to go another ten years before jamie speaks to me again!!!!

i know the radio has three copies, all donated, by mistake i hope, i'd really like a copy of a zodiacs disc and any other local bands from the sixties, it is part of our musical heritage after all, non of this cd nonsense, anybody can do that nowadays, the first of big bills cd's was a bit special tho, and i have a couple of robert blacks and the melons.

off topic but, best wishes to hinton, without him and wee alex this thread would never have exsisted, because there wouldn't have been a hostage or a horizon come to that!!!

[Frosty]

I've just heard yesterday about Hinton.
Thanks for mentioning it General Jack , and I know it is a wee bit of thread but I also must wish the great man all my best wishes to.

All the best H.
fROSTY

[general jack o'niell]

wish i cud tell you more frosty but i don't know.

it makes an event thats rumoured and mentioned elsewhere all the more important, you never know when it will be too late for one of these things. not that i'm expecting to hear bad news perish the very thought

[general jack o'niell]

here a wee taster, filmed in the picture house campbeltown, courtesy of willie D on camera, which was supplied by mister hinton craig of the sound centre, longrow (first colour video camera in town, sadly it died on my wedding day, but can't have been me that broke it as you see this was filmed a year earlier) i'm saying august 1982, think thats correct, light supplied by john moore community centre, picture house supplied by Mr. george durnan snr.

as you can see, i'm wearing a hat, not the hat, but it's still a hat, hence the recent hat jokes are very much out of date. featuring on DRUMS all the way from melbourne australia via some slumming in the west coast and horizon, Mr. Jimi "THE ROCK", no i don't look like bono, Mcgeachy, on BASS, via some more slumming in the perriwinkles and horizon, now fronting the Democrats, Mr "DJ the dog", on GUITAR, the person responsible for bringing this to the masses, plus the clips of other HOSTAGE classics, Mr "Dunoon", on lead guitar, soon to be appearing in good surf conditions at a beach near you!!!! Mr "Dedalus" and last but by no means least. on VOCALS courtesy of some seventies based hallucination, the one, the only "GENERAL JACK O'NIELL"

this was probably one of the last times this five appeared on the same stage, as Dedalus left to further his education soon afterwards, Jimi and DJthedog went on to gain notoriaty with Horizon, Dunoon, went back to his day job in the burroo, Willie D went on to bring the best lighting show on earth to a show happening near you and the General left to roll a few, it had been a hard day!!!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=47As8Fn5loM

sound and picture quality not up to todays standards but were ahead of their time as the first CD had still to be released, crowd noises provided by Mr A Mcalister, Mr D Bissett, Mr S Barnett, MR C McRae and the Elusive Dr D among others.

[bill]

Makes me realise how lucky we were in the sixties to have bands like The Zodiacs,Regents and Mysterions

[Bitter End]

Dinna furgit aboot the Sceptres ---- Bill !.

[bill]

Aye,forgot about them

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I'd have been dancing to it. Heck, I might dance now.

[4th gen Suthen']

Still a fan of Tom Petty then Gen Jack? Sweltered?!

[Sweltered]

tsk, tsk, tsk not a mention for being in the crowd, or for runnin messages or nuthin. Hmph, typical.

Ye can get yir ain hat next time