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<center><h3> | <center><h3> The pre-Costello Rusty 1971 </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Allan Mayes </center> | <center> Allan Mayes </center> | ||
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Having just left my arty first band, I wanted to form an acoustic Crosby, Stills Nash type outfit. | Having just left my arty first band, I wanted to form an acoustic Crosby, Stills & Nash type outfit. | ||
The singer songwriter boom was in full flow and as I | The singer songwriter boom was in full flow and as I didn't know any drummers, it seemed like the obvious direction. | ||
I bullied the other two members into playing my original material or the obvious acoustic cover hits of the day. [James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Neil Young etc.] | I bullied the other two members into playing my original material or the obvious acoustic cover hits of the day. [James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Neil Young etc.] | ||
Our first gig was in October of | Our first gig was in October of '71 and we probably did a couple more gigs during the following month or so. | ||
The other two really | The other two really didn't have the commitment [or was it an obsession?] that I had, to play somewhere every night regardless of money, distance or conditions. | ||
New Years Eve 1971 – South Liverpool | |||
A local folk club manager invited me to his New Year's party at his apartment on the Southside of Liverpool. | |||
Well, in my memory | When you watch any of those horrible rock n roll biopic movies about how Lennon met McCartney or Jagger met Richards or Morrison met Manzarek, one of them usually says something like "hey man, what's that song you're playing?" | ||
Well, in my memory that's exactly how it happened with us. Or am I letting fact, fiction and fantasy confuse the reality. | |||
What is true though, is that I heard this kid paying guitar and singing in a bedroom at that party. | What is true though, is that I heard this kid paying guitar and singing in a bedroom at that party. | ||
If | If he'd been playing John Lee Hooker, Lead Belly or Eddie Cochran even, I would have just kept walking to the kitchen in my search for a fresh beer. As it happened he was almost certainly playing something from ''Big Pink'' or ''After the Goldrush'' and that was enough for me. | ||
Having just come straight from a gig, my guitar was in the car and I quickly got it [thankfully, it | Having just come straight from a gig, my guitar was in the car and I quickly got it [thankfully, it hadn't been stolen yet, after all, we were in 1970's South Liverpool] | ||
"Hey man, let's jam." Complete nonsense of course, I would never have used that phrase and I'm proud to say I've never said it in my lifetime. | |||
What is more likely is that I plinked and plonked along with him as we meandered through every Dylan, Van Morrison, Robbie Robertson song we could think of, each of us trying to out-cool the other with our knowledge of obscure acoustic gems. | What is more likely is that I plinked and plonked along with him as we meandered through every Dylan, Van Morrison, Robbie Robertson song we could think of, each of us trying to out-cool the other with our knowledge of obscure acoustic gems. | ||
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As our confidence grew we started singing with more and more gusto and it was blatantly apparent that our vocal range, singing style and limited guitar techniques were almost identical. | As our confidence grew we started singing with more and more gusto and it was blatantly apparent that our vocal range, singing style and limited guitar techniques were almost identical. | ||
At the risk of sounding completely idiotic… it was almost as though | At the risk of sounding completely idiotic… it was almost as though I'd met myself. | ||
We must have exchanged phone numbers because my diary entry of January 1st 1972 reads | We must have exchanged phone numbers because my diary entry of January 1st 1972 reads "asked Dec MacManus to join band." [Our first rehearsal was 2nd January.] | ||
….to be continued. | ….to be continued. | ||
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[[Allan Mayes]] writes about [[Rusty]]. (Part one of | [[Allan Mayes]] writes about [[Rusty]]. (Part one of five) | ||
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