^ This woman knows what she's talking about.
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.
Quote from: hatler on 22 September, 2018, 01:43:49 pmIn 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
Chas has died.
Famously sampled by Eminem of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE
Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 22 September, 2018, 02:05:43 pmFamously sampled by Eminem of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSEOK, 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.]
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.
I was more than a little surprised when I read that he'd once been in a band with Richie Blackmore.
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.