roughy101 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 i met gene vincent around 1964, i used to sing in a group and we were a support act with them at rotherham baths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Black gloves, white frost Black crepe, white lead White sheet, black knight Jet black, dead white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Can anyone remember that Gene Vincent used to carry a knife(for protection, naturally), and he called a special name. What was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Wolf Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Can anyone remember that Gene Vincent used to carry a knife(for protection, naturally), and he called a special name. What was it? He called his knife Henry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris542071 Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 cool, thats really interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Yeah, that was it, thanks BBW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrA Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I saw Gene Vincent at the Locarno, his backing group was "Sounds Incorporated". Great night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crookesey Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 In the late fifties i was a member of a club run by The Star and i entered and won a competition to meet Gene Vincent and Eddy Cochrane at I believe the Cinema house {or Gaumont} during their tour of England just before Eddy was tragically killed. Being a bit naive in those days i didn't take any photos or any memories of the occasion I wrote to the Star but they couldn't even find any evidence of the club [i forgot the name] I went to Sheffield Archives to look it up but couldn't find any mention of it. I am sure i didn't dream the whole thing up so did anyone else go to it and if so have they got any pics or newspaper cuttings thanks Irene I think that you will find that it was The Gloops Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrA Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 I think that you will find that it was The Gloops Club. I was a member of Gloops Club as were many other kid's off the block. Then we grew up to be R & R fanatics and left Gloops to the under 13's. The rest of us devoured R & R music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expat in US Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I was at the Gene Vincent/Eddie Cochran party too. It was SO long ago and I could be wrong, but I remember Eddie Cochran wearing black leather "drainies" with a matching knee-length coat. His shirt was open neck - a lovely burnt orange color. I might have a faded news cutting somewhere but it would take me weeks to find it. There were many other parties for various stars. I know I have two cuttings from Cliff Richard parties - in the same place as the Cochran cutting. I also went to CGS and still have autographs from stage door ambushes, some signed on the back covers of those old blue exercise books we were issued. Billy Fury, Conway Twitty, Vince Eager, Tony Sheridan, are a few I recall. I spent some time with Tony Sheridan, showing him around the city. He was a very pleasant person, not big-headed at all. One of the Cliff Richard news reports with a photo showing my smiling face was the subject of a school report. If I had spent as much time on my school work as I did with various recording stars, Mr. Harvatt said, I would have done much better on my exams. But that early interviewing experience stood me in good stead later when I was involved in journalism, PR and legal research and when I did eight years as a crime "stringer" at a TV station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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