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| bootybandy |
HelloHello, my name is Brian, and I'm an alcoholic. |
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| sticky blue |
Re: Hello
???????????????/ one of many!! - former occupational hazard - sue pusser 
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| Co-admin |
Re: HelloHmmmmmm
Who is she? A Wren? I like Wrens and WRAFS and WRACS and Nurses and French Maids and MEDICATION PLEASSSEEEEEEEEE 
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| bootybandy |
Tommo likes Wrens, don't you Tommo!! | ||||||
| Co-admin |
I love Wrens, they are practical, useful and entertaining... unlike viola players (not that I'd know anything about why Viola players would be useless but everyone else says they are useless so I'm on th eband waggon!) | ||||||
| Aaron Aardvark |
glad you go for wrens......pongo women are a bit uncouth 
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| RAB |
Not the ones I've met..  .. They've often raised their Hackle for me...(and I ain't pretty)... 
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| FFoglamp |
I used to like Crab Splits !!!!
Especailly when they appeared at Naafi bops, and I could spray them with dry ice...........oooh and Newcastle Amber. |
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| RAB |
Last Wren I thought I had...Frnk Ll**d pinched.....And I thought he was on extra practice....
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| bootybandy |
He most probably was........ | ||||||
| bootybandy |
Is Frank Lloyd still married to tha Viola player.... |
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| eastneyslapper |
Re: Hello
Hey Twink!! I wanted to PM you but I have been banned (without warning or reason) from sending private messages by admin...
If it helps, I know you, but don't have a scooby who Bill Callow was!! 
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| RAB |
Can't help you there mate. I haven't heard of Frank for a lot of years..The boy did good though... 
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| townsergeant |
Read all about him here!
http://www.beckerensemble.com/Mus...20Pages/Frank%20Lloyd%20page.html |
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| bootybandy |
Excellent stuff Bill. Top man. I hope Rab will have a look and also see a few other familiar faces within that website. | ||||||
| RAB |
.Great stuff lads, very interesting to see how some of the lads progressed so well. Just goes to show there's more to RMB musicians than 3 beat rolls and noisy brass sections. John (Polly) Perkins was one of my Section commanders when I joined up, and was always a shining example to all us "younger" lads.
But Frank still pinched me Wren, AND pipped me at the Cassel Prize...
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| Hornblower |
Re: Hello
Maybe he knows you too - a lot of people do you know... PM - don't you have to be responsible to be one of those? |
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| FFoglamp |
You have to be responsible to be able to PM other people ! 
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| Hornblower |
How come I managed to PM you then?
Oh -- waitaminute... ... I didn't did I. 
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| Hornblower |
I shared a bunk with John at the 1977 RT - bit of a squeeze it was too!!! I was in the audience for the Cassel prize that year, so I think the word 'pipped' might be a bit of a misnomer Rab me ol' bucket of lark's vomit!!!
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| RAB |
....And I was on the stage....TWICE.....
 ..Ooooooooooh I hope that doesn't sound boastful...
Opinions are entitled mate....  ..Any sour grapes I may have had have fermented into sweet sweet memories....
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| Hornblower |
No mucker not boastful!
I only remember Frank - being a horn player and knowing the piece sort of helped... The only other thing I remember is Paul Neville giveing a little speech to us shiny faced little urchins that hadn't even had chance to enter, 'cos we had such white knees. Who else was there that year? (And well done old boy - respect where it's due  )
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| RAB |
..Now you've got me mate..but I think Ronnie Murray and our own Pat "Pusser" Hill were there. The judges were Maj. Paul, Roy Nash, and Jim Mason...
I was on 1st and 3rd, and was too busy crappin' mesel' to notice too much going on around me...(as opposed to pi$$ing mesel' on the very same stage some years later)......
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| bootybandy |
Ooh, do tell. Although I assume it would have been induced by a visit to the Stag during the interval!!! |
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| RAB |
Close Brian...OK, Thursday night boring concert. Took a wee sad on and got half jaked in the pub across from Concert Hall.. ..Name..???Green Beret..???...Guest artiste was doing his thing, and I was ...well needing to go..Sid Rose wouldn't let me move, despite several requests. I finally said "Sid, I NEED to pi$$".. He replied. "Well pi$$ then"....The rest is now a well ingrained stain on every step on the stage from the Double Bass section down past the Cellists...I was drafted to Jockland soon after...
It worked then......
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| Hornblower |
Cool...
...and wet. |
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| General Melchett |
If it's any consolation Rab, you're not the only bass player ever to do that! I couldn't name names of course....... | ||||||
| Aaron Aardvark |
....and of course fanfare trumpets come in jolly useful on coaches if ever caught short. They poke out of windows (well old style coach windows) very well.
I have just had a flashback too. Can the bulger responsible for jettisoning a bog full of shite from a moving coach on the motorway please come forward and spin the dit.
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| bootybandy |
That could be one of many Double Aa. Although the warm bottle of Lucozade out of the skylight was the norm for coaches without heads, or lifting the trap door in the aisle of the coach to ditch gash. |
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| Apricot |
euuuwww, that's pretty gross guys | ||||||
| bootybandy |
Yup!!!! | ||||||
| RAB |
...Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.. Those are only the mild and censored stories Apricot.... 
I'm saying nuffing......
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| sticky blue |
Making sure you missed the prop shaft - - otherwise golden showers all round
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| townsergeant |
Of course, we mostly served during the era of no on-board facilities!
(That's bogs, to you and me!)
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| MJ |
Re: Hello
LMAO |
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| Apricot |
There are times I feel distinctly lucky not to have joined up and missed this kind of fun...
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| Hornblower |
Hey Apricot!
I can tell you it was no fun OK?
There was always a bit of 'us and them' going on when we needed to stop for a pee and of course the 'them' were in charge of the driver!! If the boss didn't want to stop, he didn't... So at the back of the bus you had the bad boys who had found some way of getting an extra couple of pints to throw down their necks and now needed to off-load it. I spent many an uncomfortable hour breaking my neck for a pit stop. Some couldn't (wouldn't?) wait and had to find any way they could to get it out of their system. I was never the type of person who could use a bottle, but I can assure you there were many that could - and did. And yes, the floor panels were removed - it was a bit un-nerving to see the prop shaft spinnning. I couldn't personally use that method either - a bit shy don't you know!!! 
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| Apricot |
I believe you!
Being a shy girly type myself, it wouldn't have been my idea of fun. You have my sympathies, although some might say the bad boys brought it on themselves by having the extra pints in the first place
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| Hornblower |
Oh I agree wholeheartedly with you Apricot! I told those bad boys! I used to say to them, "Stop being such bad boys, drinking all that alcohol - you know you'll need to stop for a waz and then where will you be when the good old boss won't stop?" But would they listen to me?
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| Apricot |
mare
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| sticky blue |
you don't 'arf know 'ow to tell 'em Stuey  - Quite - Shy - reserved person that you are
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| Hornblower |
You got it Malc!
You know me better than I realised!!!!
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| Hornblower |
x2!!!! |
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| Apricot |
Oh I'm quite sure you never encouraged them or joined in with the extra drinking. | ||||||
| lesbryan |
I would always have another and another "BUT ALWAYS CARRIED A PLASTIC BAG IN MY POCKET " just in case and then lam it whenever i could
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| bootybandy |
Nothings changed there Les.  Only now it's called a catheter.
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| lesbryan |
No your right booty when i think the things we got up to when going on the pŁ$s on bus trips and so on good times. Thoughyou lot went all over to gigs and the like .I dont think i could have done do it going on nights out and a few duty trips far enough
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| Hornblower |
Absolutely spot on there Apricot! I was one of the few good boys. Oh yes - I took some stick from the rough at the back but found it was good character building material. The likes of Rab, Tommo, Aa Aa, Botty, Jumpig et al tried their very best to indoctrinate me into their evil ways - but I resisted!! I was in the Royal Corps for the music, not their thinly disguised organised thuggery, which they preferred to call cameraderie... (Come to think of it, maybe I did indulge in the odd beer on the odd occasion - but nothing extreme you understand?) 
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| Dan A |
WASH YOUR MOUTH OU HORNBLOWER...NO ONE WILL EVER LIKE YOU IF YOU TELL LIES!!! | ||||||
| Hornblower |
Ooops! Sorry Dan, you are of course right in your assessment of my blemished character... 
I was trying to put a bit of spin on my obvious virtuousness by suggesting that I tried to join in the mayhem organised by the bad boys - but you saw through my feeble attempts at acquiescence. Not a drop passed my lips and I indeed didn't try the demon alcohol. I'm sorry I lied and promise it won't happen again. I so wish I could be accepted into the big boy's club... 
Please like me fellow thread members? 
It's important to be liked - even just a little bit! Do you like me Dan? I like you. Honest - would I lie to you?
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| RAB |
You just did matey...
Don't worry mucker, ..Jesus loves you...(this I know)...
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| General Melchett |
Carry on Jesus....... | ||||||
| RAB |
 ..I refrained from the use of the word God, as this may have implied that some obscure Drum Major past or present may have found a miniscule detail remotely likeable about our trusty old Hornblower. Now I'm sure I'm not being disrespectful to our Old Mucker...
It's just that the truth DOES sometimes hurt....
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| Hornblower |
OUCH!!!!
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| RAB |
Now don't go throwing your mute out of the pram mucker....
You KNOW we're always here for ya..!!! AND with the lack of carpets and the introduction of laminate flooring (very Church style), you probERBly wouldn't escape 2nd time around...
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| Hornblower |
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