I Suppose that would depend on your age, musical taste etc...
(tehmattmonster Board Sig, Board Sig? I'll give you a Board Sig!, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:14, 1 reply)

... and whether he was actually "quite famous"

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:28, closed)

oh, come on, now.
as if you didn't know that after several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area as a band known since 1962 as The Jaybirds (its core was formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats), and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Ten Years After was founded by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons. Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire, who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:46, closed)

or that during 1970, Ten Years After released "Love like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on the band's fifth album, Cricklewood Green. The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so the members called their album Cricklewood Green. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side – one a three-minute edit at 45rpm, the other, a nine-minute live version at 33rpm. In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:50, closed)

Would it meet your exacting standards had his mother said...
"He was actually quite famous"? From what little I've bothered to read, (some Wikipedia pages, that the OP is unlikely to have edited himself this morning) I reckon that's arguable. Played at Woodstock and Isle of Wight festivals, the best known years. 8 top 40 albums. More than I've got, anyway.

Edit - I see someone else got to Wikipedia before me.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:52, closed)

Anyway, the OP is probably paraphrasing.
I'd take talent and respect of my peers over fame, any day. I have none of them, of course.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:54, closed)

If his mum had said "He's pretty shit hot."
Or even "He once had me in the back of an old bedford van" then fair dos.

Perhaps I'm being drearily pedantic, but there have only been about half a dozen "quite famous" drummers in the whole of musical history. Being notable on Wikipedia or allmusic.com isn't quite the same.

No offence to drummers or owt. Not that they'd be able to read this anyway.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:09, closed)

I agree.
You're being drearily pedantic.

I thought it was a nice story. And this is unlikely to have ever happened with John Bonham, Charlie Watts, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Art Blakey, Dave Grohl, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Jimmy Cobb (will that do? It's 6 even without the two jazz drummers), as they are either American or too rich and famous to be hanging out teaching drums at schools in Derbyshire or wherever.

Cheer up! Even some of the stories with spelling mistakes are quite enjoyable, if you can tell yourself it doesn't matter.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:53, closed)

I'm awful and I must be stopped.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 19:41, closed)

Yup.
Drearily (maybe a bit predictably) pedantic.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 23 Mar 2011, 21:34, closed)