Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

The current state of the Trust, given the profligate manner in which 'the six' seem intent on spending Trust funds on persuing personal vendettas (Anne Belsey's non-GDPR breach) launching power grabs (the EGM) and blaming everyone else for the failure of the extension rather than having an inclusive approach to learning lessons and doing better next time, makes it hardly surprising that people wouldn't be rushing to open their chequebooks.

 

On a note of trivia....
I note that this forum is now on Page 666. Might this perhaps be the year of the (removal of) the Beast ?

 

I don't know why the though of all those song titles by Iron Maiden came in to my head having read this, like bring your daughter to the slaughter or the number of the beast or more exactly how about the evil that men do etc etc or one last one like run to the hills might also be appropriate to the six.

 

I'm not familiar with Iron Maiden's oeuvre. However, and keen as I am to see dramatic change at the top, I am not sure that I regard them in quite the light suggested. My experience of them suggests dedicated people, out of their depth and without the management skills to seek help, who instead closed in on themselves to maintain control. There's a dreadful banality about their behaviour, rather than monstrously dictatorial behaviour - my mind keeps returning to the character of the Wizard of Oz, when his screen falls and his real nature becomes visible.

 

Leave Eddie out of it, up the Irons!

 

Why involve West Ham?? (Perhaps because The Six are forever blowing bubbles?)

 

Oh, but they're indulging in the illegal activity of diverting their donations to a related organisation, and look what happened to Anne Belsey - she got thrown out !

 

Is this an illusion to the Rolling Stones ? (I was at school with their first Manager, but memory is failing)

 

No it’s Iron-Maiden, who had a hit in ‘82 with a little tune called The Number of the Beast.

 

Not many metal heads here I guess

 

Steve Harris, Iron Maiden’s bassist is a big West Ham fan.

 

Them were the days

 

I presume that was after the Beatles had disbanded. It was plainly after Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash circa 1961. But 5/6d seventy eights were unaffordable on £4 per week wages (less 13/4d National Insurance). You young people lived in a different world.

 

I suppose flower power in the mid to late 60's followed by the so called progressive rock of Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes and not forgetting Led Zepplin and many others I could mention, then moving on to the Punk era after that it was at this point I lost interest in music prefering to go back in time to the Blues and Rock and Roll.

 

You're older than you think:
Buddy Holly died 3 February 1959 (age 22 years), Clear Lake, Iowa, United States
My daughter was in a local production of Buddy the Musical last week!

 

Led Zep, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were the start of metal, prog rock taken forward by the likes of Pink Floyd (although were psychedelic with Syd Barrett and into the Meddle/Echoes era and went prog leading up to Dark Side of the Moon), ELP, Yes, Jethro Tull and began with The Moody Blues in '67.

My thing at the moment is anything by Sandy Denny and Grace Slick, always Pink Floyd, Motorhead or Led Zep, and currently on the Bose is Jethro Tull!

Saw Steve Harris play no more than 15' in front of me last year when he was in Colchester with his side band British Lion, endless energy!

 

Thank you - I certainly feel older quite often. I can recall hearing the news on the 1 o'clock news just before going to the refectory at school. Remember what he produced in such a short time, and imagine what he would have achieved had he lived. All those 'American' and 'Coral' recordings were the highlight of my youth. You got used to new ones every month. My wife remembers Eddie Cochrane being killed late one night near where she lived between Bath and Bristol although she hadn't been to the concert (sorry gig) that evening.

 

Ah Grace Slick of Starship Fame, Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, and for those into something not quite legal you had Hawkwind and Gong, lets not forget Ronnie and Skynard, do you remember the Friday Night Rock Show with Tommy Vance on Radio 1 or who could forget the legionary John Peel?

I forgot all about Fairport Convention, but if we are talking folk, then I have just found the back catalogue of Steeleye Span some very good music beside the two singles they released.

 

At the risk of invoking the wrath of the mods at us seriously taking this thread off topic.. Last Post on music from me lol...

I prefer earlier Grace in the Jefferson Airplane days, she is now 84! Crown of Creation album is fantastic, all acid/drug fuelled rock and for the most part being completely spaced out, now obviously illegal, but so much creativity came from that era. Jefferson Airplane is just about as illegal as you can get lol.

Hawkwind, space rock, Lemmy of Motorhead played bass and sang, Silver Machine being one.

And oh yes, Tommy Vance, that was a must when I was a kid. Flimsy headphones that came with the cheapy radio cassette recorder, lay in bed and stop start record to avoid the talking so I could listen to it during the week

By the way, @Michael B, Buddy Holly's track That'll Be The Day, was covered by a skiffle band called The Quarrymen in 1958. That band formed by John Lennon later became The Beatles, with the name being taken from "Beat Music" and a play on the name of Buddy Holly's The Crickets and taking an insect form, Beetles>Beatles.
A year later Buddy Holly was killed in the air crash at age 22.

 

Yes me too the last one on Music how many knew that Dave Brock from Hawkwind fame now lives in Devon. wasn't there a TV programme called the 6.5 special? There back on track.