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A bit of nostalgic chat. Your favourite Cropredy moment involving Fairport, with or without guests.
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Nick Reg
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 05:56:10 PM » |
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Metal Matty 1992
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Amethyst (Jenny)
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2017, 06:06:13 PM » |
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Aussie Floyd with the rain bucketting down on us, and green lasers shining across and up the field with the diamonds of raindrops dripping through... ipunforgettable.
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Farnsfield Acoustic ... Notts
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Poor Will (Bill)
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2017, 06:07:12 PM » |
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The last time Sloth was played with the extended Full House lineup (Can't recall the year of the top of my head)
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In the words of the Zen Master " Don't just do something, sit there"
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2017, 06:09:18 PM » |
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Aussie Floyd with the rain bucketting down on us, and green lasers shining across and up the field with the diamonds of raindrops dripping through... ipunforgettable.
Sorry Jenny, I probably haven't explained myself very well. It is meant to be a Fairport moment. By guests I meant people who played with them during their sets). Unless Aussie Floyd did that? I wasn't there that year. |
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2017, 06:14:44 PM » |
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The last time Sloth was played with the extended Full House lineup (Can't recall the year of the top of my head)
2007? |
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2017, 06:31:33 PM » |
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The extended lineup playing at the 40th anniversary show. I welled up with the emotion of it all. RT, Jerry, Swarb et al. Bloody marvellous.
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David W
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2017, 06:48:17 PM » |
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Not there myself but Swarb deciding to play Sir Pat's, nicking Ric's fiddle and making it happen.
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2017, 07:02:54 PM » |
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RT's last performance, "Tear Stained Letter".
That band was the best Fairport ever, even though it wasn't Fairport.
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Nick Reg
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2017, 07:24:42 PM » |
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RT's last performance, "Tear Stained Letter".
That band was the best Fairport ever, even though it wasn't Fairport.
They did an even better version of that a few years earlier with solos passing down the line and back again. RT, Ric, Chris , Maart, Pete Zorn etc. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2017, 07:32:34 PM » |
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RT's last performance, "Tear Stained Letter".
That band was the best Fairport ever, even though it wasn't Fairport.
That was an epic sing along. Forced to pick a single moment. RT again. 'Put it There Pal', Richard Thompson, 1996, in a tempest. There should be a plaque, for the greatest guitar solo ever played on British soil. |
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but BEING PAID -- what will compare with it? |
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Amethyst (Jenny)
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2017, 07:33:27 PM » |
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Aussie Floyd with the rain bucketting down on us, and green lasers shining across and up the field with the diamonds of raindrops dripping through... ipunforgettable.
Sorry Jenny, I probably haven't explained myself very well. It is meant to be a Fairport moment. By guests I meant people who played with them during their sets). Unless Aussie Floyd did that? I wasn't there that year. Oops.. sorry, but does it matter that much.. it was my fave moment at Cropredy after all.... |
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2017, 07:45:46 PM » |
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Aussie Floyd with the rain bucketting down on us, and green lasers shining across and up the field with the diamonds of raindrops dripping through... ipunforgettable.
Sorry Jenny, I probably haven't explained myself very well. It is meant to be a Fairport moment. By guests I meant people who played with them during their sets). Unless Aussie Floyd did that? I wasn't there that year. Oops.. sorry, but does it matter that much.. it was my fave moment at Cropredy after all.... Fair enough. I'm struggling to isolate mine. Like Jules I was in tears in 2007 at the wonder of it all and particularly the Friday night Liege & Lief performance. The band rampaging through Ramble On with Percy in, I think, 1992 is another highlight. Any performance of One More Chance or John The Gun because they are rare things. But probably my absolute favourite was Swarb's Lemons anecdote that stopped the set in its tracks and had everyone in hysterics. Not sure of the year. Possibly 2012. |
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2017, 09:26:35 PM » |
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So many to consider. If I'm allowed Broughton Castle '81, it would be the moment they introduced Jude. A complete surprise
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« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2017, 10:36:21 PM » |
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Chris & Kellie While's ultimate version of WKWTTG in 2008. Thank goodness it was captured for posterity on a live album.
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« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2017, 10:48:49 PM » |
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My first Cropredy in the back garden 1977. A small crowd, the band mingling with the punters. Shortly before the band came on, in the sunset, Sandy and Trevor arrived and I almost stumbled into them when meeting them on the path.  |
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« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2017, 11:05:45 PM » |
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The Friday night of the anniversary two-parter wherein Mrs K, having earlier been generously gifted hot doughnuts by a passing festival goer woke from a deep slumber to be greeted by Ashley Hutchings' narration. "**** me, are we really only up to 1970?" she mumbled, before sinking gratefully back to the turf.
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2017, 11:14:06 PM » |
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My first Cropredy in the back garden 1977. A small crowd, the band mingling with the punters. Shortly before the band came on, in the sunset, Sandy and Trevor arrived and I almost stumbled into them when meeting them on the path. I'm going to vote for this one! Jules |
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Andy Tuck
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« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2017, 11:16:54 PM » |
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When they were doing the tribute to Sandy and Robert Plant came on to sing the Battle of Evermore.
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Still listening to the telepathic pirate radio show from the flying teapot.....
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Jim
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« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2017, 11:17:15 PM » |
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Not there myself but Swarb deciding to play Sir Pat's, nicking Ric's fiddle and making it happen.
this |
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