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Dan A · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject:

Yes I remember it well... we went on to National Emblem. From top to bottom the Band played its skin off..... you just had to be there........on completion there was a definite.... Catch a load of that b'stard....... Big Brown Music Machine.
Not the first or last time that quite remarkable little old Fosni Band did things like that.... One concert in the Free Trade Hall Manchester was very similar... all under the Baton Of the underpromoted Ron Kempton... but then again he was very musical!!!

So glad that we all remember one gig with so much pride.......... can remember a few others not quite so fondly!!!!!!
Dan
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Chart1218 · On audition Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Derby

Can't agree more guys, that gig was probably the only time thatI can actually remember the hair on the back of my neck standing up.....and that wasn't because it was to long Dan!!!!..................well said Botty Bundy!!

bootybandy · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

I Thank Yew...
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FFoglamp · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:21 am Post subject:

Well, thats it. After reading the last few threads, I'm going to dust down the old tape and play it. Critical review coming soon !!!!

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bootybandy · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

FFoglamp · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:44 am Post subject:

Does anyone remember Korean Folk Song ? We did that for a season, good piece !!!! (Especially with 5 different tuned percussion parts, and only 1 me).
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bootybandy · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:29 am Post subject:

But you are worth five mortals Mark.....
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Dan A · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

Mark i do recall Tom Plummer and Tommy Lawton helping you out in the Korean piece..... but good stuff anyway. Ron was a remarkable musician. and encouraged to be so too.... Malc Payne always came under his very beady eye and ear!!!!! as the euph and cello player. Ron loved the guys and always talks about that band when I am fortunate to meet him.
However, he does not like to be reminded of losing his magazine in Belfast......mag for his 9mm....... he virtually unpacked the pantech himselve looking for his helmet box where he had left it....... I think at the time it was a Court Martial and £20 a round and he had 10...... A real good man..... quirky!!!! but excellent boss.
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bootybandy · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

That was the one where the Matelot security guy assigned to the band wore his shoulder holster with his 9mm "OUTSIDE" of his jacket. Very covert that one...Lol
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General Melchett · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

I never knew Ron Kempton, however George Morrison always spoke very highly of him to me. He always said that he was the most musical Boss that he'd played under, and never reached the promotion potential he deserved. I liked the stories most however as his "office" was at the Ship Inn in Limekilns! Seemed like a top Boss....!
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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

Ron was a fabbo bloke......I stayed at his pub in sarnie a few times.....cant remember much about it though.

bootybandy · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

I spent a new year's eve there with Mac McD, George Tate, George Morrison, Al Lyall, Johnny Griff, et al. Ron and his then wife, Barbara were superb hosts.

Excellent fun, can't remember sod all about it, which is quite normal when you get a mixture like that. Was the pub called the Crispin? Can't remember. It was also frequented by some RAF types from a local base who got given a bit of stick that night.

Everybody that had anything to say about Ron always had a good word to say about him.

I remember when he bought a new car in FOSNI, it was a Fiat estate and PINK!!! By the time he left the main gate of Cochrane and drove to the band room there was a telephone call waiting for him from Dave Lambert in Raleigh Band saying what he thought of a "Pink Car" and giving him some stick. That's the kind of boss he was that you could call him at any time and have a chat.

A great boss and a pleasure to be in his band. One of a kind.

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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:

yes the Crispin. He had this little jack russel dog thingy too....mmmm and a spooky white fluffy cat that slept in the shower.

It jumped out at you after you had had a few and you thought it was a spook.

Dan A · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject:

Ron was not bothered who he spoke to or who he mixed with... rank did not matter as long as you were musical or looked after his musicians. He loved his guys... play well, play with passion or go on draft somewhere else. Whatever you do be passionate about it..... great guy I do not see him as much as i shouls but i count him as afriend.
What great things might have been achieved if he had been PDM with McD as his striker..
Dan
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FFoglamp · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Hear Hear !!!!!! Dan.

Best 4 musical years of my life, in FOSNI/Ship Inn with Ron.

It was Ron and Mac that press ganged me into joining the short lived seniors band at Pompey a few years back. I wouldn't have come out of retirement for anyone else.

Visited Ron and Barbara last, August 05, with John Aylmore, whilst down for our troop run.

(Thats Deal in Europe)
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