Post by rockinronnie on Mar 1, 2014 21:30:05 GMT
Some things in life are just too good to be true. Getting invited to come over to England for an interview with one of you musical heroes is one of them. That doesn't happen often. It would become a unforgettable experience for us. Although the beginning of our trip was quite a disaster. We managed to miss our boat to England!! We couldn't believe it. So there we were at 07:30 in the morning, still in Holland, no boat and an appointment with John later that day, which obviously had to be cancelled. The worst part was that we had to call John about this, and the fact that we had to wait a few hours to call him because it was much too early for that. So three hours later we finally made the phonecall and told him what happened. He simply replied that this has happened to him lots of times before and that we shouldn't be worried. It was no problem to do the interview the next day. What a relief!!
It would turn out to be a great day with John and his lovely wife Gillie. We did the interview in the morning and they took us out to lunch after that. We also got to ride in John's army truck and had a drink in the local pub with him before we left. As a fan you can't wish for more, can you?
John and Gillie, thank you both for your warm welcome and we hope too see you again soon.
You wanna know what we talked about? Here it is.
John, the obviuos first question from all the fans, what have you been doing over the last few years?
Well, still playing, doing small drumclinics. Been playing with other bands, doing local gigs and stuff and playing in Germany quite a lot. But it's just in the weekends really. I've been also doing some recording. Do you remember the band Fairport Convention? They used to have a guitarist called Martin Allcock. Martin's been doing solo albums and I'm playing on his last album called Serving suggestions. And he's gonna get me on his next album. It's very good.
It's very unusual for me to play rock and folk. I really enjoyed it. I played on four tracks on the album.
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It would turn out to be a great day with John and his lovely wife Gillie. We did the interview in the morning and they took us out to lunch after that. We also got to ride in John's army truck and had a drink in the local pub with him before we left. As a fan you can't wish for more, can you?
John and Gillie, thank you both for your warm welcome and we hope too see you again soon.
You wanna know what we talked about? Here it is.
John, the obviuos first question from all the fans, what have you been doing over the last few years?
Well, still playing, doing small drumclinics. Been playing with other bands, doing local gigs and stuff and playing in Germany quite a lot. But it's just in the weekends really. I've been also doing some recording. Do you remember the band Fairport Convention? They used to have a guitarist called Martin Allcock. Martin's been doing solo albums and I'm playing on his last album called Serving suggestions. And he's gonna get me on his next album. It's very good.
It's very unusual for me to play rock and folk. I really enjoyed it. I played on four tracks on the album.
READ MORE HERE: users.telenet.be/quolink/InterviewE4.htm