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Rich

another exiled mariner I suppose......

About Me



Well, I've been on here for a while now looking after the Too Hot (ska band) 'space but now I've left the band I thought it's about time I got my own bit of myspace to hang out in. Besides, it's the easiest way to keep in touch, innit?

I play brass instruments (horns!) and also guitar and spend an unhealthy amount of time in my music room. I'll stick a photo on here soon so you know where I'll be if I'm not online. Beer and rugby also feature quite highly in my life along with food (Love it. Lots of it!)

Tea with milk, no sugar please.

This makes me laugh - "Tesco Vs Denmark" from Time Trumpet

and this is "Coverage of people buying a house and then living in it" from That Mitchell and Webb Look


I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

music, my kids, rugby (union not league), food (eating or cooking), lego (especially technic), Grimsby Town FC (it's a birthright), music, beer, music

I'd like to meet:

Ideally my mum and dad again or my uncle Jack but that's not going to happen so....

Ian the landlord of The Bolton, my local pub in Brixham
Brian May (Super-nice guy and awesome guitarist. Look, I know he's not classed as cool but have you listened to those first few Queen albums? Brian is a legend. I'm right, you're wrong)
Bexy, Rab Butler, Mickey and the rest of the Templars skins for a beer or two 'cos it's been a while
Frank Zappa (I know this can't happen either but...)
Kev Crowe (drummer of The Wildcards and The Mighty Atoms) for a beer or two
The Reoffenders
Brian Setzer
Like-minded musicians who want to put a band together

Why aren't you listening to Mike Porter? And while you're at it, check out Tor Rubble. He's a lovely chap and very talented too!

Music:

Tower Of Power, Smoke Like A Fish, Fishbone, Frank Zappa, Carcass, Mastodon, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, The Specials, Mike Keneally, Yello, Anthrax, Queens Of The Stone Age, Ministry, Dave Lee Roth, (early) Van Halen, Madness, Black Sabbath, Steve Vai, Prong, Stray Cats and Brian Setzer solo or orchestra stuff, Death Angel, Desmond Dekker, Corrosion of Conformity, Trouble, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Deep Purple and obviously Led Zeppelin

Movies:

The Sting, This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, 1941, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Wicker Man (original! not the shit remake), American Werewolf in London, Shaun of the Dead, Gregory's Girl, Ginger Snaps, Ong-Bak, Braindead, Jaws, American Graffiti, Moby Dick (for fuck's sake, no-one try and remake this please), MArs Attacks, Ghost World,

Television:

The Simpsons, Outlaws, Phoenix Nights, Peepshow, The Thick Of It, Man to Man with Dean Learner,

Books:

comics - The Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, Ultimates by Mark Millar et al, anything by Alan Moore (haven't read a bad one yet)

not comics - Flashman series and other books by George Macdonald Fraser, old Jacques Cousteau books, Moby Dick, John King's football trilogy, Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May novels

Heroes:

Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin

My Blog

Good Charlotte

Now, never let it be said that I'm intolerant of other people's music taste but for God's sake, what is the point of Good Charlotte? Fake American punk rock is wrong. Why the rant? Well, Heather Morph...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:16:00 PST

Tower of Power

just got 3 Tower of Power albums on CD off ebay - Urban Renewal, Back to Oakland and Bump City. I've always loved ToP, probably because I'm a horn player (although listening to them causes inferiority...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Zappa!

I just got Frank Zappa's Trance-Fusion CD! Totally awesome, there's some incredible guitar playing on this album, I'm blown away by it. He's sadly missed. ...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST

Skindred

Just got back from seeing Skindred at Exeter Phoenix with Heather and Hoover. Top night, Skindred were dead good again. Benji just gets better and better as a frontman. Support band Dub Trio were coo...
Posted by Rich on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:57:00 PST

wahey!

I've got a trombone at last! No, I didn't need one but let's be honest, I didn't really need the 2nd trumpet (Or the fretless bass, the cornet, the 2nd and 3rd guitars, the Marshall rackmount power a...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:34:00 PST

Calling Orson

No not the Robin Williams series but the band.... Went to see John, Heather and Justin's last gig as Calling Orson las night and very good it was too. I'd list the songs they played but I had perhaps ...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:19:00 PST

Prong and other stuff

I'm on a voyage of rediscovery, redisovering loads of music I love but had forgotten that I love. If you get my drift. In the past few weeks I have listened to Devin Townsend's Accelerated Evolu...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:07:00 PST

Muse

Heather Morphy Richards (possibly not her real name) of The Reoffenders took me to see Muse last night at Birmingham NEC. I'd never seen them before except on telly but had heard a lot of their stuff...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:54:00 PST

setlist of the best band you've never heard in your life but might do soon

Teardrop Explodes - Reward Blondie - One Way or Another The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go ? The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK The Sex Pistols - Pretty V...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:10:00 PST

people

I'm a bit overwhelmed to be honest. Since I left the band and set up my own space, etc., I've had so many nice messages/comments/emails asking how I am and what I'm up to or doing next that it's made ...
Posted by Rich on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:05:00 PST