In the News Dave Greenfield RIP

[johnboy]

My favourite group of all time, The Stranglers keyboard player Dave Greenfield has left us.

 

[ogr1]

Golden brown no longer. RIP.

 

[Cougar377]

No more heroes. RIP. One of the best punk era bands.

I saw them when I was still at school in the late 70's, at a rock festival in Loch Lomond Bear Park.
Some idiot tried to get in without a ticket and some how found himself in one of the bear compounds, where he ended up being chased up a tree by bears, before being rescued by the park rangers.
I think the NME later reported that JJ Burnel heard about it and got him a free ticket.!

 

[Dark Angel]

Peaches. RIP.

 

[ogr1]

No more heroes. RIP. One of the best punk era bands.

I saw them when I was still at school in the late 70's, at a rock festival in Loch Lomond Bear Park.
Some idiot tried to get in without a ticket and some how found himself in one of the bear compounds, where he ended up being chased up a tree by bears, before being rescued by the park rangers.
I think the NME later reported that JJ Burnel heard about it and got him a free ticket.!

The tree bears...Irish?

 

[Lee337]

Saw them in a big top at the Elephant Fayre in Cornwall many years ago, probably early 80's.

They were on the same bill as Souxsie & the Banshees, John Cooper Clarke. From memory the Stranglers wasn't even on the bill, they just turned up.

 

[T.C.]

Not quite an RIP moment, but health related and seems appropriate in this thread, I see that Don Powel, drummer with Slade (My favourite band in the 70's and I still have a lot of their albums) has suffered quite a big stroke.

Get well soon Don