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Topic: gigs
Posted By: BEN 1STETSON
Subject: gigs
Date Posted: 19-December-2010 at 17:21
 I REMEMBER PLAYIN THE GROVE WITH MY FIRST BAND..WHEATSTONE BRIDGE..FEATURING..MARIA DOWDALL..ON KEYBOARDS AND VOCALS..AND GUS CURTIS ON GUITAR AND VOCALS..HE WENT ON TO BE ..THIN LIZZYS..STAGE MANAGER..ONE SONG STICKS OUT...RIDE MY SEESAW..BY ..THE MOODY BLUES..I AM STILL A CTIVE IN THE MUSIC BUISNESS..HAVE A BAND CALLED..THE THROWBACKS..GOIN ON...LOVE TO REMEMBER ..THE GROVE..ROCK ON PEOPLE....BEN------------- buttons |
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Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 19-December-2010 at 20:31
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I remember the band well BS but could not remember the name. We used to
hang out with Maria a bit on regular nights. How is she now? Married with ten kids I bet. I might be mixed up a bit with Oulton (Tennis Club), but didn't Phil (Skid Row) play in the Grove a couple of times? |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 19-December-2010 at 22:20
Welcome to the site, Ben!  ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 20-December-2010 at 20:52
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Hi Ben
I played in a band with Maria's brother Gerry. Harvest Research about the same time. Welcome to the site
PS I think Gerry pinched most of her gear ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
BEN 1STETSON wrote:Posted By: BEN 1STETSON
Date Posted: 21-December-2010 at 19:26
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I REMEMBER..HARVEST RESEARCH...IF YOU LOOK UP SHOWBANDS AND GROUPS WEBSITE..YOULL SEE A PHOTOOF WHEATSTONE BRIDGE..THERE MAY BE A PIC OF HARVEST RESEARCH..MARIA PUT UP THE PIC OF..WHEATSTONE BRIDGE...CHECK IT OUT...HAPPY XMAS TO ONE AND ALL....BEN ------------- buttons |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 21-December-2010 at 20:05
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Welcome Ben and Happy XMas to you ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 28-December-2010 at 02:57
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ARF! that brings back memories
http://www.irish-showbands.com/images/spotlight/wheatstone-7 -26-69- ggx.htm |
Posted By: ShortHairHippie
Date Posted: 24-October-2022 at 18:58
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I am sitting in the Foggy Dew pub for the first time in a few years...am going to see the Pretty Reckless gig in the Olympia tonight...the pint of Guinness is nice,but at €6 a pint,it's kind of leaving a bad taste in my mouth...🤘 ------------- upon us all,a little rain must fall |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 24-October-2022 at 23:39
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Enjoy Sean even with the price of the Guinness 👍👍 ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 25-October-2022 at 11:55
| When I started drinking it cost 1 shilling and eight pence for a pint (1969) - then people went mad because the price went up to a half crown (you could only get 8 pints for a pound). There were no such things as hills, or dirt back then. |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 25-October-2022 at 13:52
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Great days Sean. Pints were affordable then Richie Ryan of Fine Gael started upping the price in 1974's budget. 😡😡
------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: ShortHairHippie
Date Posted: 26-October-2022 at 11:37
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thanks Pat,was a great gig ------------- upon us all,a little rain must fall |
Posted By: Rahenyrhythm
Date Posted: 30-October-2022 at 22:22
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I remember, when I was 16 and a pint cost 18 pence in the Old Sheiling in Raheny, saying if it ever went close to a pound for a pint I'd be giving it up - I'd barely started drinking and was parroting what I heard all the oul fellas saying in the pub!!! Of course I'm still drinking away 50 years later and the days when it only cost a pound are long gone...!!! 💷🙄
------------- One of its legs is both the same |
Posted By: ShortHairHippie
Date Posted: 31-October-2022 at 11:21
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Gerry,I've being hearing that for years,ha ha...a pint of Guinness in my local is a fiver now,and that's the cheapest in the town,and the lads are still going for pints. ------------- upon us all,a little rain must fall |
Posted By: Rahenyrhythm
Date Posted: 31-October-2022 at 12:38
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Lol, I know Sean 😂😂. We make eejits of ourselves (well, me anyway!) declaring this, that, and the other, and then doing exactly the thing we told everyone we wouldn't do... 😅😅😅
------------- One of its legs is both the same |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 31-October-2022 at 15:18
Back when I started working and the pint cost a half crown, the union rate for a tradesman (mechanic, plumber, carpenter) was around 14 pound ten shillings a week - Electricians made about 18 pound. That equates to earning 144 pints a week - or 720 euro by today's standard... I can only drink about 78 pints a week so consider myself ahead of the game.----I made that up |
Posted By: Rahenyrhythm
Date Posted: 31-October-2022 at 15:28
   Sean... ------------- One of its legs is both the same |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 09-November-2022 at 22:16
I wonder how this song would go down today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsvJSiSwzk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsvJSiSwzk
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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 10-November-2022 at 00:11
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Lol Pogue. I'd say today Les "Carrot Top" Andersen would get the dumplings smashed into his face by both ladies 😂😂😂 ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |