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| Hornblower |
More Fleet BandiesWhere's the Jumpig's 'tache?
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| Pablo |
Whose that on the Double Bass??? Wearing an "Apron" for Orchestral for God's sake !Tut! Tutc! A True and Genuine Chatham rebel huh? | ||
| Pablo |
OK!!! So I said Orchestral! He is playing an ORCHESTRAL Instrument even though it's a Mil Band. Should NOT be wearing the Apron, He's improperly dressed. Put him on Defaulters and punish him |
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| MrJpig |
I can answer both of those.
1. I was but a bairn when this piccy was taken. The mowzer didn`t get cultivated until approx 1982....doesn`t he look young,,,bless! Another selubrious setting !! 2. As you quite rightly corrected yourself PABBERS it is a Milly Band set up which means the next number would probably have seen me sat behind a small factory (BBb Bombardon) which tends to cover you in industrial amounts of Gob....... or twanging away on a Bass guitar which being my own would have got scratched on the tunic buttons!! MORE IMPORTANTLY if I didn`t wear an apron I would have had to clean my BRASSES !! Bite any harder could I..........OR COULD I?? 
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH   .
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| General Melchett |
Don't know about then chaps, but it's de-rigeur these days for Euphs and Basses! | ||
| RAB |
..Crikey Melchy, you don't half come away with some over-intelligent words when you're addressing (in this case dressing) we bass players..
Thank Heaven for Google Search...
For those who can't be bothered... if something is de rigeur, it is necessary if you want to be thought fashionable or if you want to follow a custom... 
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| Hornblower |
Cut a record I did with Chatham band in t'summer of 77. It were called 'Victory at Sea' and was part of one of a Reader's Digest' collection of Military Music. I still have a good vinyl copy of it which I intend to (eventually) didgitise. Anyway, George Tate was playing his Double Bass on the record and it can clearly be heard as a very low (of course) rumble under the brass factories. Lovely! Just thought I'd share that with you... 
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| RAB |
Ahaa..All very impressive HornyB... But have you been to China wi' yer Auntie Fanny's Orchestra..??? Ey..??? Ey..??? Wellllllll ......Ave yer.??? 
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| Hornblower |
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Can't say I've cut me teeth on that one Rab! 
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| townsergeant |
My 'good friend' DW can be spotted next to Monns and beyond the whizzing arm & baton, I can see a fossil!
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Cruel Billy.
True, but cruel.
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| Hornblower |
OK - this is a very ancient set of piccies of Fleet Band cruising in the Med... Circa 1972
Anyone recognise any of the shipmates? For you Les, so that you can also get involved - what was the type of ship? Tough, I know - but you might be able to have a good go at it... 
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| Hornblower |
Hey! Here's a good question for all you bulgers... 
Who's the Drum Major? Come on, concentrate - you might even get it right!!! (That's not a clue BTW) |
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| admin |
Ye gads... WAY before my time! Doens't look like a bulger though! | ||
| riknoc310 |
Is the ship a GMD (guilded missile destroyer) a guess at the D/M Paddy Weeks | ||
| Hornblower |
Well done!!!
It is a GMD - lovely ships them, stacks of room. Although Me, Dave Bromley and Andy Cunningham had to share a 3 stack bunk in a corridor (Oh OK Les, gangway!) Not so happy days... And yes, it is Paddy Weeks who was actually a Bulge Major! Sooooo, what other names can you come up with dear readers? There are at least 2 other forumers in the piccies - so we should end up with a fair few names. Come on Ivor and 2rd Clarinet, where are you? |
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| RAB |
..Eyesight and memory failing HB...
Is that Andy Cunningham and James M.B. on top two liquorice sticks.?? |
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| Hornblower |
Andy Cunningham - yes. (Skin & essence as ever!)
James M.B? Nope - Bob Gill. (Famous for the immortal poem, Whether the weather is wet Or whether the weather is dry Whenever you wear a raincoat You must always wear a tie. Nice bloke, didn't even know why all of us were laughing.) |
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| ivorsouth |
OK HB. Here goes. Geoff Gooderham, your good self, my even better self, Andy Cunningham, Bob Gill, George Fenlon, Jack Frost, Gaz Davies, George Bingham, Bob Richardson, Taff Kinsey, Geoff Truss, Dave Le Sueur, Andy Mytum, Tad Marriott, Alan West, Toby Philpott, Keith Bowering, John Adamson, Jock Appleby. The name of the other sax player escapes me but if my memory serves me correct wasn't Andy henderson on that trip? Keep the pics coming Stu. My album is "catching up" after all these years. Look forward to seeing you sometime "at the bar". All the best, Ivor. | ||
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Now that's what I call a round of applause.... It would have been even bigger if you'd got the name 'Murray'
Well done Ivor! |
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| bootybandy |
That would be Mick the Barber. | ||
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And that'd be right Botty!
Bet you're upset you didn't get in there first with the list of names, eh?
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| bootybandy |
I would have got there earlier but have been sailing all weekend.... harumph... | ||
| RAB |
Shame Brian..If you could just learn how to countermarch yer dinghy, you could have been back a day earlier...
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| bootybandy |
Dinghy?? Dinghy???? I have now got a fleet of the little beggars.... Rear Commodore Bootybandy...Lol. | ||
| 2nd Clarinet |
Stu, I salute you on your pics. God, they bring back memories.... Don't I look skin! The ship is .................D18. Well done Ivor, (you sad b*@%#$d) for naming them all, well nearly, Ron Mackay on cornet? Who is the little baton waver? Bandmaster Williams in the pic where we are seated and Ron waving the baton in the standing one....? Is the trip to Istanbul, we seem to have Valletta Habour in the background of one picture. Once again Stu, well done and keep them coming. 
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| Hornblower |
Yes Bob you're right on both counts - Istanbul to Valetta harbour. (Or vice versa).
You're also correct on the two bandies' names. I was in touch via e mail with Ron Mackay shortly before he passed away. He enjoyed those times too. It was a good band with an awful lot of characters. (Or was it a lot of awful characters? Sometimes, but boy we sure knew how to enjoy our free time!!!) Ivor, Andy wasn't on that trip. In fact, I'm not sure that he'd been rated by then. Stuey |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Well.........if it is that trip it must be D18....... No clues Stu... Let's see if there are some old salties out there. . |
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| Quasijock |
That would be HMS ANTRIM. Later to be sold to Chile in 1984 | ||
| 2nd Clarinet |
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That correct reply took 8 minutes...... Google must be slow at this time of the day! . |
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| bootybandy |
http://www.answers.com/topic/hms-antrim
Never served on her myself, but did do the HMS Kent Kiel trip. |
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| Hornblower |
There ya go Bob - you caught one!!! Bits of clues littering other threads though.... |
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| Quasijock |
Only went on Antrim once for a few beers with an oppo I joined up with. I actually had an invite to the decommissioning CPO's Mess do but was on Swiftsure at the time at sea....... | ||
| Hornblower |
Ahhhh Keiler Woche!!! Now that was some brilliant gig - and kept me of Royal Tourneys a number of times. (All those Drum Majors lining up to shout at me *shudder*) |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
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Is that the one where we came back to England via the Kiel canal? 197? . |
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Ickle Til,
These or some of these pic's must be pre 72 with Goerge Felony there, I left in 71 and George left before me. As for Kiel now there is a gig that invoke's many a good memory especially in the day's of PAGS, when we rehearsed only in the morning's for our two gig's in the time we were there, happy day's and many memorie's, like Stan DG and Bob(Raincoat) Gill and the rabbit story, day's gone but not forgotten. Adios Mi Amigo. |
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Whoop's totally cocked again up made myself ten years older than I am, back to the drawing board and another siesta.
Bye Bye and Adios, ignore me I do. |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
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Senile old sod, go back to your rest room..... . |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Mick You'd be a candidate for....Soylent Green .
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
OK OK OK
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| Hornblower |
Give yer brains a pull through Mick!!! George was there for ages after 72 - at least 2 years. If he did leave before you, he came back, probably when the coast was clear and you weren't coming back... 
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Ok so you and the rest of the alcofrolic  dogends addled my brain,so I lost ten years what the heck, I will put down to having to survive you know who for most of my 25(yes25)years as a RMB, I will bore you one day with my TF history, it began in 1959 and ended in 1971, ok so you are not interested  I understand.
Nite Nite Ickle  Til.
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| 2nd Clarinet |
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You did it again!!!!!!!! You said '71. TF was still there when I left in '81. Mick, the 'Soylent Corporation' has been given your address. DEFINATELY a Soylent Green prospect. Happy eating....... . |
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
I did it on purpoise just to make sure you are paying attention, and for the first time in your life you obviously were.
Bye Bye. |
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