> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Stevens > Sent: 02 September 2007 07:38 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [canals-list] Another report on the National (or > bits of it at any rate!) > > > On Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:44 PM [GMT+1=CET], > Guy Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think the first thing is to wonder whether there needs to > be "big" > > entertainment in the evenings at all. It costs quite a bit and > > genertaes no direct income. I don't imagine any boater or camper > > comes just because there are bands on in the evening. > > I remember when the entertainment in the bar in the evenings > was impromptu, > with no stage, no lighting and no amplification,just a few > people sitting > around at one end of the bar making their own music. The > people involved > usually included David Blagrove and Peter Thompson. I'd love > to see a move > back to that sort of arrangement.
Oh God! <shudder> You can't organise impromptu sessions. Trust me on this, been there, done that, got the T-shirt (both in company with Messrs. Blagrove & Thompson and many others). Yep, 15, 20 and more years ago if you put Blaggers in a bar there was probably going to be folk music and you'd have to get the ferrets in but it didn't always happen, it didn't always work when it did happen and hardly anybody could actually hear it properly when it worked. I'm also convinced that decades of pushing his voice trying to make himself heard without PA is why David's voice has deteriorated as he's got older. (It's why I simply will not play in anything larger than a small bar without PA. It wrecks the voice and my vocal cords have enough to put up with as it is) Bru
