Rock and Roll StoriesMy personal Spinal Tap moment came when we got locked into the Festival Hall in London by accident. We ended up wandering the maze of backstage corridors carrying a three foot high piece of cheese looking for the one door that would lead us to salvation.
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Hello Reading!! Folk 'n' Jazz!!Hell yeah!! \m/
My dad crewed for the fore-runner of the Reading Festival - the Reading Jazz and Folk Festival.
Crewing for gigs is hard work, even in the early / mid sixties when amps were less powerful - they were heavier. After much lifting and running and cabling and whatnot, young dad is exhausted and collapses in the sun to sleep (may have also involved beer) in the audience seating.
Audience arrives, sits, TV cameras arrive, jazz band go on and blare out raucous 60s beatnik jazz squawkings... dad snoozes on. TV people note sleeping man surrounded by jumping jazz fans and loud drum'n'double-bass and move in for a close up.
Dad wakes up confronted by a giant multi-lenses BBC camera, inches from his nose.
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