Yep, them's the ones.
There's a reason I love those old blues numbers done in the way they were ... it takes me back.
It takes me back to 1965 when I was a member of the Arbor Youth club situated in a the pretty little village of Pyrford in Surrey.
http://www.pyrford.com/history/pyrford.html
Just a short while before this we, the youth in the locality, had mounted a campaign to have some sort of youth club in the area.
The council told us that if we could raise a certain sum of money, several thousand, they would match it and find a place for and build a club.
In a little over a year we did it, and they built us a club, where Tegg's Lane meets the Coldharbour Road. Now called the Arbor Centre.
The club entertainments team were very much 'into the scene' happening at the time.
In early 1965 they booked John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and it just happened that Eric Clapton and John McVie were part of the line up.
http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/15/05/1965
I remember helping the roadies get John's Hammond onto the stage.
The other vivid memory is Eric playing the most amazing riffs whilst watching two rather beautiful young girls dancing around their handbags (as they did in those days).
Eric was born and brought up in the next door village, Ripley, and could be seen practising out of doors from time to time as a lad.
We never did manage to get 'the Stones' who were regulars at the hotel on Eel Pie Island not far from Twickenham, where my daughter now lives.
They were outside our league.
The hotel was well known as part of the early drugs scene at the time, as well as for other 'activities'.
Every so often I delve into 'a blast from the past'. Early R&B and blues figure heavily there.
Today must be a Jethro Tull day. Perhaps 'Living in the Past'.
