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CLIVE HEWSON - BASS
STUART IKIN - DRUMS
"I MET CLIVE WHILE PLAYING FOR A LOCAL GROOVE BAND. DAMN THEY WERE GOOD BUT SADLY IT NEVER MATERIALISED, GREAT DRUMMER JOHN JONES! ANYHOO I WAS KEEN TO START MY STUFF UP AGAIN SO I ASKED CLIVE IF HE FANCIED A JAM. THANKFULLY HE SAID YES AND WE MADE SOME GREAT MUSIC TOGETHER, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO CATCH UP WITH HIM AGAIN!
SO WITH MYSELF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW AND PAUL KENNEDY SARGEANT WAS BORN!
THE TRACK WHATS GOING DOWN IS SARGEANT ALL THOSE YEARS AGO BUT WITH ADDED VOCALS BY DAVID CATTERMOLE AND MS LEE DIVINE.
IAN PAGE - BASS GUITAR
I MET IAN WHILE PLAYING FOR EVERYONE HE AND HIS BROTHER ED ARE SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSO'S IVE JAMMED WITH! HE THEN JOINED THE GRAND SOCIETY. SORRY I CANT SAY MUCH MORE I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND I DIDN'T KNOW HIM FOR LONG ENOUGH, BUT GREAT FUN! ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND WHOOOOO!!!!
IAN PLAYS BASS ON SMILIN' JOE.. ROCKIN!
JAMES COELLO - BASS GUITAR
I SAW JIMBO PLAYING IN A THREE-PIECE CALLED RISIN SUN. THEY WERE LIKE A NEW BAND BUT TRANSPORTED FROM 1971, GREAT STUFF. WE GOT TOGETHER TO PLAY ON EACH OTHERS SONGS FOR QUITE A WHILE AND THE HE INVITED ME AND KARLOS AS GUESTS TO A PAT TRAVIS GIG. WE WERE STUNNED TO SEE THE JAG DRIVING GROOVESTER AS PAT'S ORGANISER! ROCK ON!
JIMBO IS A CLASS UNTO HIMSELF AND ALWAYS LOOKS COOL, STICK A GIBSON ON HIM AND HELL ROCK IT.
STICK A BASS IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE BECOMES A MONSTER! THIS IS WHY HE HAD TO PLAY BASS ALONGSIDE BERNIE MARSDEN ON TAKEN A HOLD ON ME. BEAUTIFUL MAN!
I RECKON THAT'S A THUMBS UP FROM THE MASTER GREG RIDLEY!
ROCK ON!!!
PAUL KENNEDY
I MET PAUL WHILE AUDITIONING FOR A POPULAR BAND CALLED EVERYONE FRONTED BY THE TALENTED SEAN MAHONEY. WE ALL HIT IT OFF AND STARTED ROCKIN, BUT AS FATE GOES EVERYONE DISBANDED SO ME AND PAUL DECIDED TRY MY
STUFF, ALONG SIDE A GREAT BASS PLAYER CALLED ANDY AND ME OLE MATE STUTES. ANDY WAS OFFERED A TOUR HE COULDN'T REFUSE. GOOD LUCK MATEY WE’LL MEET AGAIN! SO IN COMES CLIVE HEWSON AND SARGEANT WAS BORN, SOUNDING COOL!
AS TIME WENT ON PAUL AGAIN JOINED MYSELF KARLOS, IAN PAGE AND TOBY MARRIOTT, TO FORM THE GRAND SOCIETY.
STEFAN JOHN - GUITAR
I MET STEF IN A PUB WHILE JAMMING BLUES, I HAD A WHITE HAMMOND AND A LESLIE IN A TOILET(JOHN).
HE TURNED UP AND BLEW EVERYONE AWAY. MR FENDER IS THE FUNKIEST BLUES SHAFT PLAYER I KNOW! WHEN HE JOINED GREG'S BAND ALONGSIDE ME KARL AND CHRIS, ILL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST REHEARSAL. WE AWAITED FOR GREG TO ARRIVE AND AS HE WALKED IN HE SAID "HELLO BOYS" PLUGGED IN HIS BASS AND WE KICKED INTO FOUR DAY CREEP. NO COCK UPS JUST ROCK, AND AT THE END WE ALL LAUGHED AND GREG JUST WINKED WITH HIS GLINT! STRAIGHT INTO STONE COLD FEVER AND HE POINTED TO STEF TO TURN UP EVEN MORE, AND STEFS FACE JUST LIT UP AND WE WERE ROCKIN! WE GOT IT BOYS!
I HAD THE GRAIN TRAIN PENNED FOR STEF TO DO HIS OWN STYLEE GUITAR LEAD. WHAT A LEAD NICE ONE MY GOOD MAN!
STUART IKIN - DRUMS
WHAT CAN I SAY STUTES' IS MY BROTHER IN LAW SO I GOTTA BE NICE, OR MY SISTER WILL KILL ME!
ONLY KIDDING.
STUTES WAS MY FIRST EVER DRUMMER AND HE WAS THERE WHEN THE ORGAN NEEDED LIFTING THE BAND NEEDED DRIVING THE REHEARSING THE SINGING WRITING, I COULD GO ON! STUTES WAS THE BACKBONE FOR COLOUR SERGEANT AND SARGEANT, HE WENT THROUGH IT ALL.
AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS JUGGLING SEVERAL FAMILIES AND RUNNING A COURIER COMPANY AND IM NOT THE EASY BIT! KNOW WHAT I MEAN! HE'S STILL AROUND NOW JUST IN THE BACKGROUND WAITING FOR A BIG TOUR! SANTANA HAD A PERCUSSIONIST, THEN SO CAN WE! STUTES IS PLAYING DRUMS ON THE TRACK WHATS GOING DOWN, NICE WORK SIR FOR A SINGLE TAKE!
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