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Adrian Kerridge RIP – from Joe Meek to the DC5
Adrian Kerridge is possibly not a name you are familiar with and in keeping with the RockHistory objective we have worked here to shine a light on his many achievements. Starting as a general studio dog’s body in the mid 1950s he spent many hours working with a young Joe Meek travelling around the country…
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The tape is rolling
Another good interview in the can this time with Phill Brown who started as a Tape Op at Olympic Studios learning to record the extraordinary bands that passed through those fabled walls before moving, via Canada, to the new Island Records studio in Basing Street where he made his mark and then beyond to the world of…
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Jim Cregan gets that Rod the Mod fellow
A while ago now various of us spent an amusing afternoon cruising up and down the Thames river picking up and dropping off various reprobates at public houses and getting them to sit and swap stories about their life on the road with bands big and small and the extraordinary things that they did to amuse themselves.…
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Shirley Collins and the dangers in those 60s coffee bars
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Judy Dyble traces the route from Americana to British folk-rock royalty
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the lovely but late Kevin Ayers talks about Jimi and more
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Chris Spedding plays us in on his career
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Mike Berry turned down John & Paul’s song writing offer
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Mel Gale touring with the Electric Light Orchestra
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the late ‘Big’ Jim Sullivan picked guitar on all those hits
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the late Neil Christian’s exceptional choice of Guitarists
