Thursday, October 26, 2006

25 years !!!!!!






I just liked this photo, no other reason for posting it apart from that.


















Updated Wednesday 8.40am Feb 27th



New gigs +

a new Wholigans website is up.




THE WHOLIGANS
25th Anniversary
A Tribute to The Who since 82
2007 World Tour
http://www.thewholigans.com/




The Wholigans celebrate 25 years of paying tribute to the greatest rock band in the world THE WHO .


WATCH THIS SPACE
March 24th http://www.chascofiesta.net/music.asp go here and click on Saturday rock n roll tribute day

...New Port Richey Florida USA ,opening for FOGHAT



June 28th http://www.wildwingcafe.com/suwanee.html Suwanee GA



June 30th http://www.wildwingcafe.com/ new location Knoxville Tenessee



September & October...UK + Germany

Some of the shows especially the Canadian gigs will feature the band playing one of the classic Who albums in their entirety , such as.....' WHO'S NEXT '..... 'LIVE AT LEEDS ' & 'TOMMY' + a selection of The Who's greatest hits .



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.Ran across some old videos 86-ish-to-2003



.These video's are courtesy of Dave Smith former bassist for The Wholigans 86-ish-2003
These vids are from around then .
Recorded at 'rock n roll heaven' yonge & bloor Toronto Canada.


The guitarist is John Walsh (till 89?) haven't heard from him since,...John, where are you ?

Bass.Dave Smith
The drummer is Paul Holman , who I believe is still drumming in Toronto/Woodstock, who's mother makes great pickles :) ......love ya Paul and Jenny and Mrs Holman for keeping the band from starving to death : )

ME..singing duh ;)

While I'm reminiscing, good memorys and thanks go out to....

Gerard Popma ..not in this video).,,,,,,(Pete wholigan 83-84ish-? )

Steve Mckenna (now living in Ottawa) Steves health is not the best and I wish him well, .that man knew his way around an alembic bass guitar, man he had 'the sound'


In the 80's our roadie Poo...(as in shit ..not as in bear....his words ....not mine) ..

"We can't afford this place" he shouted out as we entered this fancy restaurant in Novia Scotia or Newfoundland..can't remember..anyways. We were dressed like bums and probably (more than likely ) drunk.....we quickly left.

&

Jim 'nice hair' Popma (roadie) and 'Crazy Al ' soundman, expert "cigarette" roller and connoisseur of fine alcohol. ;}


One day I will attempt to list all of The Wholigans over the years as they were all invaluable to our story.



Video's ...all from 85-ish? (a couple of 03's thrown in)


Sister disco 85 ?


Hey how about that short hair and miami vice suit huh :) .......jeez!!!!

Eminence front 85 ?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SfVSHgkNmUk

Your's truly wailing on guitar.....yeah right ;)



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Baba o'riley 86


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Magic bus 86


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Young man blues 86


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The real me 2003 WHO convention London Astoria UK


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My Generation..from Tom Wright opening photo exhibit in 2003 ,Tom was The Who's tour manager and is a friend of Petes and a celebrated rock photographer (see our links page on our site + our photo's section)



update Feb 2nd

more 80's stuff






Pinball Wizard/see me feel me/listening to you




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OH !...btw heres some video from the 2006 WHO convention in London, scroll to the bottom of the blog.


A few dodgy bits here and there, alright A LOT of dodgy bits , but it can't all be good right ;)


Footnote:

Thanks to all of you who have sent me best wishes re: my back.

I AM ready to rock n roll, as adrenaline is my only cure all fix, so that goes to show you the power of the Who's music and their fans really "HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL YOU.....NEVER FEAR !"......'Tommy'




That said ....lose yourself in the Who tour that is now and when that is said and done and you still need a WHO fix , come see us .



WE WILL WELCOME YOU TO THE CAMP as I hope you welcome us.




Barry


WHO ARE THE WHOLIGANS






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Sunday, October 15, 2006

One day you're nobody ,the next day you're on top o'the world ma !!!

























Sat Oct 14th photo's courtesy of Kirk Mason semi-official photo guy ;)
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/MusicMan515/Wholigans-Bike%20Fest%2010-14-06/.

I've tried uploading more images here but my flippin ' 2000windows Me' gives me a hard time, I guess it's time for a new dell huh :\



We played Friday Oct 13th at a local watering hole for a lot of mean ass just out of prison type characters and strippers on crack and a few die hard Who/Wholigan fans.
Nobody clapped apart from the small % of wholigans.
Lets just say Friday the 13th lived up to it's reputation as a bad..really BAD day.
The owner told us we suck and we would never be back (like we want to go back to hell!) and he tried hard to start a fight and have security kick our butts, but we kept our mouth shut,
got paid (just) It helps when your agent/manager is 6ft 5 and 250lbs !
but then we got the hell out of dodge!!!
We have never been treated with such disrespect in 25 years.....EVER !
This is not the end of the story....stay tuned. ...there is soooooooooooooo much more !

As for Saturday the 14th, it was f'n magic in New port richey Florida for an estimated few thousand crowd, although the total estimate turnout for the day I was told was 40,000 people !!!
We opened for Blue Oyster Cult whom I met and were very nice guys, and Buck Dharma came up to me and told me we rocked which was cool, but to be honest I didn't know who the hell he was until he introduced himself.
B.O.C's management however were a different story, we were told at one point to play longer so I added Naked eye close the end of the set and was planning on playing Won't get fooled again then my generation to finish, but then during Naked Eye we were told to play only one more and that was it.

Our agent/manager really wanted us to play my gen and smash ,so I had to cut WGFA(which we've never done)
So we start MY GEN and within the first few bars BOC's management tells our guy that we have to stop playing immediatly or BOC was going to cancel and leave (because they (the management)knew we were going to smash)
Our manager and our roadie tell them NO F'N WAY! ...so we play the song anyway and smash the hell out of the guitar and drums and the crowd ate it up, we absolutely destroyed the stage.

Now no disrespect to BOC but there was no way we were going to stop in the middle of MY GEN, and we weren't trying to steal the show , we were just doing what we always do and I think the BOC management was just a bit power crazy.
BOC band members watched us from side stage and complimented us afterwards and were really nice so obviously the problem didn't stem from them.
Apart from that debacle the show was greeeaaat!

BOC although I was not too familiar with a lot of their material, I did know 'godzilla' 'don't fear the reaper' and a couple of others.
They were really tight and Buck is a great guitarist and the show was excellent.

I have some photo's which I'll post eventually, but for now here is our setlist.

THE REAL ME
DROWNED
5.15
I’M ONE
WHO ARE YOU
BEHIND BLUE EYES
THE SEEKER
I CAN’T EXPLAIN
SUBSTITUTE
HAPPY JACK
BABA O’RILEY
LOVE REIGN O’ER ME
MAGIC BUS
SQUEEZE BOX
SUMMERTIME BLUES
SHAKIN ALL OVER (inc roadrunner/join together/my generation blues)
LONG LIVE ROCK
A QUICK ONE
Tommy
OVERTURE
SPARKS
ACID QUEEN
PINBALL WIZARD
I’M FREE
WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT
SEE ME FEEL ME/LISTENING TO YOU
NAKED EYE
MY GENERATION
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

You can never have enough 'Pete's'

Darren the 'Pete' from TheWhoShow in L.A. will be playing these gigs with us, as Chris can't make it.

Friday October 13th
St. Petersburg
FL
Carlies

Oct 14th
New Port Richey
Fl
Opening for Blue Oyster Cult
thttp://coteeriverbikefest.com/event1.php
Expected crowd 5000+
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