Dewi and I continued our mutual passion for both, and still went to their respective gigs, and we still sometimes jammed together too. My jams with Jim Ward also continued more regularly in between Stoney Road gigs and busking, and continued to be an important part of developing my skills and musical ideas.
As a band though, Stoney Road slowly began to fizzle out, as myself, Dave, and Jim began to enjoy busking together more frequently. We began to venture further afield from Mansfield, including weekends in Lincoln and other places, kipping in the back of Jim's van.
That summer we went down to Maidstone in Kent, and then on to Canterbury where we stayed for some considerable time, as we were very well received and the busking was very fruitful. Whilst there, we were offered gigs in pubs in the evenings, and usually finished off an evening's beer drinking with a kebab.
We decided to busk our way along the coast into Cornwall, where we stayed with a friend of Jim's; and along the way we stopped off at Southampton to see Hawkwind who playing were playing there that night; paying for our tickets with the coins of our proceeds from busking.
All in all, I had some seriously great fun in '87, but before the year was out; with no specific band to serve as an outlet for music; I decided to buy a Tascam Porta-studio 4-track, in order to experiment, develop and record my own musical ideas at home.
This would be something that I would be mostly focusing on for the next year or so.
No comments:
Post a Comment