Sleeve brushes with semi-famous people
In my capacity as co moderator for some very interesting Yahoo groups oriented around progressive rock I have found that how amazingly approachable rock musicians can be who are not famous. I suppose within their group of friends and acquaintances some prog rock stars are very amiable too, but I wouldn't know, as I am definitely not that connected in the prog world.
But I have had the opportunity to share emails with some musicians that I really admire such as Richard Chadwick of Hawkwind and Mick Brockett of Nektar. Richard is the drummer for the 'wind and Mick is Nektar's lighting specialist. I have found them to be incredibly interesting people as well as helpful and friendly. In fact meeting the two bands of Caravan and Nektar was quite a revelation to me when I went to the North East Art Rock Festival (NEARfest) in June. I have been listening to these bands for literally decades (scary thought) and frankly they never made it even remotely "big". Frankly very few prog bands have barring Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, and perhaps the Moody Blues. Come to think of it only Yes and the MB's have made it big as prog musicians because like what Genesis did or not to become big they definitely left the prog genre to do so.
Anyway so Mick B was looking for a lighting specialist from the '70 era Hawkwind group as Nektar has just re assembled to begin touring and promote a new album and a remastered back catalog. Richard on the other hand made practically begged me to buy his branch project from Hawkwind making it easier for me to acquire it from England without all the hassle of exchange rates. Yes ok they both had ulterior motives and I was NOT the focus of their initial attention. (I mean my ego might be big but not that big) but it was still very nice to get to know these semi-famous people in an intimate basis.
This blog isn't called musings and meandering for nuttin'!!!
In my capacity as co moderator for some very interesting Yahoo groups oriented around progressive rock I have found that how amazingly approachable rock musicians can be who are not famous. I suppose within their group of friends and acquaintances some prog rock stars are very amiable too, but I wouldn't know, as I am definitely not that connected in the prog world.
But I have had the opportunity to share emails with some musicians that I really admire such as Richard Chadwick of Hawkwind and Mick Brockett of Nektar. Richard is the drummer for the 'wind and Mick is Nektar's lighting specialist. I have found them to be incredibly interesting people as well as helpful and friendly. In fact meeting the two bands of Caravan and Nektar was quite a revelation to me when I went to the North East Art Rock Festival (NEARfest) in June. I have been listening to these bands for literally decades (scary thought) and frankly they never made it even remotely "big". Frankly very few prog bands have barring Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, and perhaps the Moody Blues. Come to think of it only Yes and the MB's have made it big as prog musicians because like what Genesis did or not to become big they definitely left the prog genre to do so.
Anyway so Mick B was looking for a lighting specialist from the '70 era Hawkwind group as Nektar has just re assembled to begin touring and promote a new album and a remastered back catalog. Richard on the other hand made practically begged me to buy his branch project from Hawkwind making it easier for me to acquire it from England without all the hassle of exchange rates. Yes ok they both had ulterior motives and I was NOT the focus of their initial attention. (I mean my ego might be big but not that big) but it was still very nice to get to know these semi-famous people in an intimate basis.
This blog isn't called musings and meandering for nuttin'!!!
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