RIP and Dave

[Jaded]

Chas has died.

[Duckfoot1606]

Sad news, the song “Rabbit” still makes me chuckle

A

[hatler]

In one of my more surreal gig-going moments, I went to see Eric Clapton play at the Rainbow Finsbury, with Chas & Dave supporting.

Eric's encore included them all on stage. Fabulous.

[Butterfly]

RIP Chas. 

[Jurek]

In one of my more surreal gig-going moments, I went to see Eric Clapton play at the Rainbow Finsbury, with Chas & Dave supporting.

Eric's encore included them all on stage. Fabulous.

That sounds a bit err..... twisted

[Jakob W]

In one of my more surreal gig-going moments, I went to see Eric Clapton play at the Rainbow Finsbury, with Chas & Dave supporting.

Eric's encore included them all on stage. Fabulous.

That sounds a bit err..... twisted

I wonder whether they'd worked with Clapton as session musicians previously?

[Exit Stage Left]

Famously sampled by Eminem of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE

Via Labi Siffre.
https://youtu.be/xKISdd2mKzU?t=129



Dave is well known for his Gypsy caravan painting.
http://www.countryfile.com/countryside/my-country-life-one-man-and-his-wagon

[IanDG]

Chas and Dave opened at Knebworth when I saw Led Zeppelin

[Gattopardo]

In one of my more surreal gig-going moments, I went to see Eric Clapton play at the Rainbow Finsbury, with Chas & Dave supporting.

Eric's encore included them all on stage. Fabulous.

Did Clapton go on a racist rant?

[Gattopardo]

Chas has died.

Well he has given it a rest.

[Exit Stage Left]

I was introduced to cockney 'knees up' culture at the Divers Arms in Herne Bay when I was a student at the University of Kent in the late 1970s.

Chas 'n Dave were the sophisticated end of that spectrum of folk music.
Here's part of their 'Christmas Knees Up' from 1982, featuring Eric Clapton.

https://youtu.be/hbiwhqvoWg8?t=386

[mattc]

Famously sampled by Eminem of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE

OK, I'll bite - please elucidate!

[of course there is no pop song ever written that isn't enhanced by the occasional "gerrrtcha!". More versatile than a cowbell.]

[sg37409]

I still love the line,
“Pot the red then
Screw back,
For the yellow, green,  brown, blue, pink and black !”

[Peter]

This is sad.  They are probably better known for their comedy numbers but I preferred their pseudo-Fats Domino compositions, such as "There Ain't No Pleasing You".  That one in particular is a gift to harmony and theory teachers.  They knew their stuff.  Chas was playing bass in a group that topped the bill over the Beatles early in their career and then was in Head, Hands and Feet with Albert Lee.  A great all-round musician.

RIP.

[rob]

Famously sampled by Eminem of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE

OK, I'll bite - please elucidate!

[of course there is no pop song ever written that isn't enhanced by the occasional "gerrrtcha!". More versatile than a cowbell.]

Eminem samples the Labi Siffre track on ‘my name is’.   Chas and Dave were session musicians on the original track.

[mattc]

Thanks. By chance I heard the Labi Siffre track a couple of hours ago, and the penny dropped.

[Mr Larrington]

There was a pub yclept "Chas'n'Daves" on the Green Line in Stoke Newington when I lived there in the 1980s.  Ghastly hole it was too.  I hope Mr Hodges was not personally involved.

[Efrogwr]

There was a pub yclept "Chas'n'Daves" on the Green Line in Stoke Newington when I lived there in the 1980s.  Ghastly hole it was too.  I hope Mr Hodges was not personally involved.

He might have been... Chas'n'Dave did own a pub on Green Lanes, but I don 't remember* it as a ghastly hole. I went to some good gigs there in the mid 80s....

Upthread there are references to C&D and more interesting music. They were Rebel Rousers (as in Cliff Bennett and the...) their version of Got to Get You Into My Life was a cracker.

* some of my memories of the time may be a little inaccurate.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

One of my colleagues has a dad who is a Londoner and when she was little she pointed out that Chas n Dave sounded like him. Her dad told her that before she was born, he had been in the band with them and they were know as Chas and Dave and Ian.

[Redjeep!]

I was more than a little surprised when I read that he'd once been in a band with Richie Blackmore.

[spesh]

I was more than a little surprised when I read that he'd once been in a band with Richie Blackmore.

Twice - for one gig, he was Deep Purple's bassist because Roger Glover was ill.

Chas Hodges has just remembered another unlikely episode from an eventful life. He can't quite believe he'd forgotten it. He and his partner Dave Peacock – no surnames from hereon in, because they are and will always be Chas & Dave – have been talking about Ritchie Blackmore, Chas's bandmate in the Outlaws back in the early 60s. They've been trying to work out which one of Blackmore's weddings they both went to. "He'd just come back with Deep Purple from somewhere," suggests Dave.

And then lightning strikes Chas. "I forgot all about it, but we did a tour with them." By "we", he means Heads Hands and Feet, his pre-Chas & Dave band. "And I sat in with them when their bass player was ill. It was up in Scotland and I did a gig with them. I played with Deep Purple." And it's true: for one night only, on 8 March 1971, at Aberdeen Music Hall, Chas Hodges was Deep Purple's bassist.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/26/chas-and-dave-interview