Young Ox

Update........Fri Aug 22nd 2.20pm
photo's page 3
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=410224&albumID=2863429

I'll be jamming tonight with Mark 'young ox' Tinker tonight at NewPortRicheyFlorida-boulevard lounge 9.30 -12.
Expect some WHO of course !
To those of you that can't make it, I'll see in the UK Nov 12th-30th.


Heres the twist......Mark is playing guitar !!!!!

Geordies

http://thewholigans.com/calendarix/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=163&uname=

BAD CO. 08.08.08

W/Simon Kirke backstage
at the hard rock

w/Mick Ralphs
talking to Simon boot Newcastle
'the voice'

This space is usually reserved for.......

........ramblings about The Wholigans, but not today
updated w/photolink aug 12th 12.45am
Updated Aug 14th (new video)

Sample meanderings and a religous experience take precedence, as this past weekend saw me side by side (literally) with rock luminaries such as Bad Co...Jack Bruce ...Badfinger..Eric Burdon and the list goes on.
I was really fortunate to have AAA /VIP backstagepasses for both shows .

The opening song...Bad Co (Mute slide video at the bottom of the blog first)




My brain is full and I might as well empty it before mother nature and father time do it for me.


SO........


Rock gods and little ole me

08.08.08 ..........AT... 8pm I was one of the lucky ones in Hollywood Florida to witness the second coming of a rock saviour (in my own particular version of rock n roll heaven)

The one they call ' The Voice'
THE VOICE ???
I hear you cry !!!
Who the hell is the voice ? ,

NO it's not that crazy little bastard that sits inside my head and spews bile
(lovely visual I know :)

But 'The Voice' I refer to is none other than the singing god that has graced this planets stages around the world in the 60's 70's 80's 90's and now in the2000's.

I refer to the man who could sing the phone book to me and I would listen intently A to Z.

He turned a simple riff and two words nearly 40 years ago into a rock song phenomenon that every musician has at one time in their life has played on guitar or uttered those magic words.....ALRIGHT NOW.

He has taken us to the bottom of a whiskey bottle and to the dispairs of a broken romance with good lovin gone bad and to a silver blue and gold rainbow in the sky.

The book I 'could' write endlesssly on a man and his music that has (and continues to do) would be an neverending story , and would have you tired out from riding the emotional rollercoaster that the music that has been (at least for me) , an integral part of my life.

How can a man so loved ,not be a household name is beyond me, yet most people on the earth are unaware of him and his music until you point out the obvious, that is that simple song & riff.

To me he is , and always will be a SINGERS SINGER.
He taught me how to sing (he doesn't know it) but he did.

Thanks Paul.

PAUL RODGERS.........'The Voice' http://paulrodgers.com/
Bad Co. (with 'The Voice' ) http://www.badcompany.com/






















Photo's of the weekend with yours truly and some Bad Co, more to follow.
http://www.arnnewsheadlines.com/badcompanylive888.htm

Can't get enough .........courtesy of LucyPiller











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Further tales (and photo's) of this past weekends brushes with rockgods coming up.
Bad Co....Jack Bruce...Eric Burdon...
and those who paved the way with peace love and understanding such as Jonathen Edwards(sunshine) came my way today
http://www.jonathanedwards.net/_pages/music.php
(listen to the track 'this island earth' ) latest cd

The Turtles

Badfinger (I think my wife is in love with you Joey) it's ok , I love you too after that fantastic show !!!
(btw...good choice of beer backstage (NBA ) and that's nowt te de wi basketball ! :)
http://www.hippiefest.net/tour.htm


Photo’s will appear here as if by magic soon enough , but let me have a coffee first !

The preceding memories were brought to you by 2 people that made it happen for me,
Lucy Piller http://allrightnow.com/
and
http://www.godfreytownsendmusic.com/
I owe you both an emotional debt I can hopefully repay someday .....thanks so much.

Godfrey Townsend ….guitarist to the gods from John Entwistle to Jack Bruce and everyone inbetween.
Godfrey himself is a talent that the worlds best musicians recognize and want him right by their side…..he’s THAT good !




for now....buggar off I'll see you in a bit ;)

Songs around the campfire

OZ...some bum off the streets and Trish



















Friday July 11th we were invited........
(we being the band I sang with in L.A called ' My Generation ' )
As I was saying, we were invited by two Who nuts that I've known for about 6-7 years now.
Oz n Trish who had rented a house and invited a group of various Who nuts from a WHO forum 'relayers'.
People flew in from all over the country (obviously not to see us or the party) but for VH1 Honours The Who on July 12th.
But like so many Who concerts there usually is a gathering of the clans, hence the Friday night party.



Here is a very relaxed (see drunk) well not drunk kiddies, we just need our medicine ;) version of 'A Quick One'


We then retired to the comforts of the interior of the house as apparently the loud obnoxious broo ha ha was spilling out into the streets (god forbid you wake up L.A people at 11.30 on a Fri night fer christs sake,
WHAT ARE YOU SLEEEPING ????
IT'S THE BLEEDIN WHO MATE!!!!!

oh yeah I almost forgot, MUTE the slide video at the bottom of this page (mute is top left of slide photo)

I'll add more later, hafta run
Barry

OZ PHOTO'S
The gig http://picasaweb.google.com/iamozzie/VH1TheNight
The house party http://picasaweb.google.com/iamozzie/WhoTalk

NEWCASTLE Nov 18th :)

HOWAY THE LADS !!!!
:)
http://xrl.us/Academy2Newcastle


More UK dates
http://thewholigans.com/pages/show_dates.htm

Off to L.A today :)

All the news that's fit to print will be here after the weekend.
I'm looking forward to meeting all The Who fans and having a bit a'medicine with you lot ;}

The Who should / will tear the house down on Saturday !!!!

Watch out L.A....WHO fans are coming !!!!!!!!



ps: Atlanta miller lite chili fest(Sept 08) changed their minds and didn't book us this year....why..I don't know.
:\

Send them an email :)
http://www.theatlantachilicookoff.com/contact.htm

GIg updates JULY 7th

The Wholigans 2min tv bio+ The Who


Mute SLIDE video at bottom of blog first (mute top left corner of SLIDE photo)

N' this video is heah fah nee good reason ...at ahll like .but ah I can dee wut ah want ye knaa, sssssmybloodyblog so bugga off ;)

c'mon !

http://s6.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/MusicMan515/Wholigans-Smashing%20Videos/WholigansSmashingVideo.flv&fs=1&os=1&ap=1

http://thewholigans.blogspot.com/2008/02/november-bookings.html
London....Nov 19th + UK updates 12th-30th (tour extended)

Meanwhile back at the ranch.......

VH1 rock honours The Who on July 12th , but if you need another Who fix after the VH1 gig, I'll be in L.A for 1 night with 'My Generation' http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=150294628&blogID=399394243

at this club http://www.goodhurt.net/

with this band http://www.myspace.com/thewhomygeneration
Mike Bisch on bass
Darren Lolk (current wholigan guitarist)
Rolly Devore (drums) complete with pictures of lily drumkit.

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Clips from a show in 2006 in San Francisco
(Mute slide video at the bottom of the blog first)
Sparks



Love reign o’er me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmSSJU6v2BY

Baba O’riley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3A7hmEQ1y4

My Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMveDCZKo8

Happy Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4WwX31Sxg





A 2 hour show starting at 10.30ish.
This will be my 3rd L.A trip with these guys.
Expect a lot of Who you don't hear with The Wholigans including post Moon era. .....you better you bet
Anybody interested ?
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I hope that many of you are planning on coming out after the concert!

I have no idea how far it is from the VH1 thingy, but I believe it's close.
A lot of people are coming from WHO forums etc .

We'll go on as late as possible or as late as it takes to accomodate people that go to The Who.
I imagine it's going to be a willlllllllllllld night !

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ps:
Updated UK dates http://linkshort.com/f78c7f
Toronto photo's,burlington and healeys http://www.aprilseverin.com/index.htm

NEW VIDEOS

Mute video at the bottom of blog first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckwKb69E90
Healeys Toronto May 4th 2008



Baba o'riley.....a drummers point of view April 26th Florida vets gig



Smashing in Melbourne in April 26th 08



Amazing Journey ..through a drummers eye



and once again this video is here 'just because'

How many friends ?

Mute video at bottom of blog first

and this is here just because

2003 Hamburg Germany WHO convention

oh..and btw....new UK date added ...FALMOUTH Nov 14th see website tourdates for more info.

Coming to Atlanta Miller Lite Chili fest in Sept :)

OH Canada.....part deux (that's 2 eh ;)

May 22nd 2.47pm

Just got back yesterday from Canada , and I'm getting things back and running little by little.
I'll post more in a bit but the cable/computer fella is coming to tweak my connections !
(that sounds painful)
The old grey mouse ain't what she used to be :\

Talk to you hosers soon eh !
g'day.

L.A. is calling.

Here today ,gone tomorrow.

We just played last night in Melbourne Florida on the east coast
It was America's largest military vets reunion and we would like to tell every person there how proud we are of everybody who has served in the military.

I felt small amongst your presence, but very grateful you chose us to play for you, thankyou thankyou thankyou.___

_Great gig, huge stage and I got to swing the hell out of the mic :)

Darren(guitar) jumped like a loony and smashed the hell out of a very nice guitar which parts are now strewn in different homes in Florida.

The drums were *accidentally* ;) dismantled/kicked over thrown into the abyss, some drums were carried off by an enthuastic crowd never to be seen again :..oh well

We got a great video of the drums flying straight towards the cameraman (the drum hit him in the noggin I believe) sorry Mike !

The guys are headed back to Toronto now and I'll be there Wednesday.

We have a few more dates to put up ,I just have to talk to our Canadian agent tomorrow and firm them up.

We'll see some of you on Friday May 2nd http://www.bostonmanor.ca/


then Healeys on the 3rd. http://www.jeffhealeysroadhouse.com/

and so on.
Sun MAY 18TH FOR THOUSANDS http://victoriadayweekend.com/ (SEE SCHEDULE)
NO WORK MONDAY eh


It's been a long time Canada since we played up there and we are ready....boy are we ready !
Bring yer earplugs........(don't say I didn't warn you !

Should I bring snowshoes with me ? ;)

Jeff Healey ..a celebration May 3rd Toronto

There is a huge benefit / charity/celebration show in Toronto Canada May 3rd for Jeff Healey
here>>> http://www.q107.com/ConcertCalendar/Default/Details.aspx?ID=100850
featuring Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) and Jack Bruce (Cream) and numerous others.
Funds raised will be donated to the Daisy’s Eye Cancer Fund and to The Healey Family Trust.

Jeff & Ian 2006 http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17316712
or
turn off our video(click twice) at bottom of page first

Ian Gillan and Jeff Healey - When A Blind Man Cries


We are playing at Jeff's club..Healey's later that night with *special guests
http://www.jeffhealeysroadhouse.com/
Just minutes away from 'the docks'

We'd love to see you at both shows.:)
Barry
TheWholiganswebsite
TheWholigansBlog
For other Canadian shows May 1st-18th see 'Oh Canada' blog below or our site.

November bookings.updated June 23rd

LONDON Wednesday Nov 19th
The Who & Small Faces !!!!

We are very excited to announce our return to Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush London http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/ the site of the 2006 WHO convention.
http://www.dgw-hamburg.de/convention/

Ticketing tba.
Doors..7.30
Opening act the amazing tribute to The Small Faces ……The Small Fakers 8pm to 8.40
http://www.smallfakers.co.uk/

The Wholigans 9-11


Small Fakers on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq06Cuf8czQ

This gig is a mods dream !
If this gig doesn't sell out in London , I don't know what will !!!!!




http://xrl.us/Motherwell Sat Nov 22nd


The Wholigans are currently booking November 2008 dates in the UK & EU.
Interested venues please see 'Contact us' page at
http://www.thewholigans.com/
VERY FEW dates remain......thankyou... UK venues ! ;)
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March 31st
2 new shows added
Friday Nov 21st The Renfrew Ferry Glasgow http://www.the-ferry.co.uk/events.asp

Nov 22nd Motherwell (see above)

Nov 14th Falmouth (see http://www.thewholigans.com/ for more details)

Sunday Nov 23rd ...2nd last UK SHOW....Sutton in Ashfield
http://www.thediamonduk.com/frames.html
more coming soon ,see website for more shows:)
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JUST ADDED !
Mon Nov 24th Telfords Warehouse Chester
http://xrl.us/Telfords

http://xrl.us/Telfordstickets

all others see our site http://www.thewholigans.com/

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Mon March 17th

An email was sent out to our mailing list subscribers concerning some UK dates being announced + other shows and personal messages.
If you want to be kept up to date , please join our mailing list at The Wholigans.com on the home page.
We do not share your address with any 3rd parties.....I hate it..you hate it....so thats not happening !:)
Emails are usually about once a month....give or take.

btw...if you don't see your town in the gig listings , please contact the venues and give them our website
TheWholigans.com
and tell them you demand (in a nice way of course) to see The Wholigans and have the bombastic music of
The Who pounding into your chest !!!!....asap
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Coming soon .... The Wholigans message board

Oh Canada...our home and native land.

2008 Canadian Shows
blog updated Friday April 4th 11.45am*
note:new sidebar links

Watch this space between now and Thursday/Friday .....
for 3 possibly / more than likely 4 new Canadian shows .
1 a bit north of T.O,
2 east of T.O .
and a new club opening in T.O.
:)



March 3rd Jeff Healey passes on.
Jeff finally 'see's the light' .........another good man gone.
The Wholigans were honored to have shared the stage with Jeff in the 80's.
1 COOL CAT.
http://www.jeffhealey.com/
Hey Jeff, give Hendrix a couple of pointers when you meet him ;)
Condolence book http://www.jeffhealey.com/wishes


NEW SHOWS ADDED....
Midland Ontario
May 9th http://www.twistedpines.com/index.php?show=126

The Wholigans will perform on Friday May 9
following a showing of ...
Amazing Journey - The Story of the Who. http://xrl.us/AMAZINGJOURNEY
at the North Simcoe Sports & Recreation Centre. Festival kick-off $32


Date change....... Burlington now May 2nd from the 10th
http://www.thewholigans.com/

****More Canadian dates to be added in a while, Montreal,Peterborough,Oshawa,Ottawa,
Waiting for the ink to dry before we can confirm. ****


http://xrl.us/Smashing07 not for the faint of heart ;)
http://www.thewholigans.com/pages/video/my_generation.htm

' You guy's are still around ? ' ..........Tour......April /May 2008




Hey!..... isn't that Dave 'gater'Smith on bass from the 80's Wholigans lineup ?_________________________________________


The Canadian Wholigans will be the same band that toured Germany last October.Barry/Roger.....Darren Lolk/Pete....Dave'gater'Smith/the ox....Darren A./Keith

1982....ah I remember it well :)

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Florida , April Wholigans are...
Barry/Roger.....Darren.A/Keith.....Mark/ 'young ox'........& .Darren L./Pete



ps: 4 photo's of 2006 convention added to top of this blog http://thewholigans.blogspot.com/2006/04/pure-madness-aka-2006-who-convention.html
No biggy really,just thought you may want to see.

hmmmm ?

What's that smell ?
Could it be the smell of gaffa tape in my future ?

Maybe sooner than I thought, who knows ;\
(not that soon though ;\



What's gaffa tape you say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape

1001 uses for gaffa tape ( for those of you that have waaay too much time on your hands ! )http://www.ducttapeguys.com/new_intro/index.html

http://people.bath.ac.uk/su2bc/cgi/gaffer/start.pl

PS: the music you hear is a video close to the bottom of the blog attached to the 'slide' photo's.

Video by 'Ozzie' 2003 Live at Leeds

It's not all about zepp you know !

Dec 10th 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsGZVyom9LM

+Free New years eve concert with 'the voice'

http://www.eq.tv/watch/paulrodgers

http://www.paulrodgers.com/news.html

A good man gone.

http://www.myspace.com/brunobruno3

Lost a musician friend yesterday to a heart attack at 49 .

Bruno was a friend I came upon (at least 10+ years ago)through Chris Bacon(wholigan guitarist) and Ray Harris (a one time wholigan bassist)and good friend.

Those 3 guys (along with singer Peter) were in a south Florida band in the late 70'/80's called Z-Cars who were very popular back then, and just recently in the summer had filmed a reunion concert/movie along with other popular Florida bands of the time including one with Johnny Depp.

Zcars on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/zedcars

The movie is due out soon.

http://www.myspace.com/sheilawitkinmemorial

+ see video below (featuring Bruno,Chris and Ray)

Bruno was keen to drum for The Wholigans at one time as he knew a lot of Who songs as he played them in zcars, and we met a number of times over the years and even played in Miami/FtLauderdale.

Bruno wasn't a close close friend but he meant a lot to Ray and Chris, and through them I met a great guy ....and any friend of those guys is a friend of mine.

Bruno I'll miss you man, I hope they have a bloody ceasar waitng backstage at the great gig in the sky for you.

Barry

Z-CARS 2007 http://a693.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/40/l_29030036b22e43d3266528a4f2a2f7c4.jpg

A night at the Agora on youtube...a documentary on Florida bands of the late 70's early 80's. Look for Chris,Ray & Bruno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otLy7eYeVk for more details.

Ironically Bruno is the last one commenting on the video.

"You cannot escape the black hole of rock n roll"

New blog title photo

As you can see up above I've changed the photo.
Yes I KNOW I'm looking older now, but hell what do you want ? ;\ it's been 25 years++++
Those photo's were taken around 1981-2-3ish (I'm not sure)
I'm going to change the photo title perodically, to show The Wholigans over the years.
Later,
Barry





ps:the guy on the right is wassisname?
ooh I can't remember?
you know..it's that little singer fella who's in that orrible band from sheperds bush innit ?
who is ee again ?
uhm?

1986-7ish ? or so
Rock n roll Heaven Toronto 'Who are you'


btw: I was messing arond today and marked some of my favourite video's/songs on youtube today.
The video's run from Sinatra to Sabbath , so be prepared.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWholigans

Finally !

Click photo to see larger image.

I've been sent some photo's from Germany.

The Wholigans

Best viewed as slideshow on full page.

Nowt to de with The Who like....(mehbees a little bit)

http://www.toffs.com/invt/nba001 crackin short that mind !

....but ye canna gan rang wi some Lindisfarne ya bugga !

Update 8.20pm Wednesday Dec 5th

Wolfgangsvault added a Lindisfarne concert after I mailed them about not having any,and lo and behold they put some up ! :)

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/lindisfarne-concert/20052842-4119.html

'Fog on the Tyne' 1971.........old grey whistle test

Geordie heroes through and through :)
by ....those were the days.

'Clear White Light' 25th anniversary at Newcastle City hall 1995.
Unfortunately I missed this one, but just watching it makes me feel like I was there.:)

'We can swing together' 1978

More Lindisfarne http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lindisfarne&search=Search

TRIVIA.....there is a connection between Lindisfarne and The Who.

hint....it was a famous concert played together, what was it ?

The prize is a pat on the back (nee lookin at the concert years tour book!!!!)

Kahll yersel a Who fan,ye shood knaa this one man !

Last one , gets a roond in !

The ansaa is at the bottom fer all ye daft clarts !
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Geordies only, others enter at own risk!
http://www.newcastle-online.com/geordies.shtml

http://www.geordie.org.uk/translate.htm

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Famous geordies http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/100northeastheroes/tm_headline=&method=full&objectid=18543148&siteid=50081-name_page.html#story_continue

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Blaydon races http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTSb5FW3aoo&feature=related

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Blaydon2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeWGFrmWkQ&feature=related

Newcastle http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Ncl/ncl.htm

http://newcastle.soccer24-7.com/chants.html

The Newcastle Evening Chronicle(local paper) talks aboot mesel.
(that's myself in English)...http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/search.cfm?query=the+wholigans&num=10&start=0&searchscope=50081&gobut.x=11&gobut.y=11




















Trivia answer
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/charlton-1974.html

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/charl74-order.html