“The Buxton /Chorley gig was one of many crazy road trips we did ( as did so many bands across the country) in beat up old vans, often Ford Transit sometimes a big old Bedford all of which would never be allowed near a road today, winters were such fun frozen radiators on the East Lancs or over the hills in thick fog at 1am.
The difference between us and those Liverpool lads is we didn’t have Mal Evan’s or Neil Aspinall driving just Ray
We used to play a late 3am finish each Weds at The Rockingham Club on Queen St ((appropriately ) as it was a gay club (you wouldn’t believe who was in sometimes) then in summer drive up to Buxton for breakfast, getting back home around 7am
Oh the fun we had ???!? /I feel a book coming on!!!!”
“Just to put the record straight about this mythical record… it was only a demo and never released in fact I can’t recall ever seeing or hearing a copy, I think it was just cut straight to disc but only the one copy.
We carried on after Chris left with another drummer Colin Smith we put an organ on Jimmy ?? We played a lot of the Theatre clubs and had a manager called Ray called it a day in late 1965.
I carried on in music professionally until 2014 when health caused me to quit.
I look back with good memories of The Outriders…
One New Years Eve we had a double ..Buxton Pavilion and Chorley College, we couldn’t get out of the locked gates at Buxton so drove our big van through them and got to Chorley on time”
“Hi , One of songs recorded at Nield & Hardys was Certain Memory and the other was The Girl with Green eyes
It was produced by Mike Mansfield who had just left The Dakotas (Billy J Kramer)
Green Eyes was written by Chris & myself about Ellen, Chris’s 1st wife. I wrote Certain Memory.
I saw CJH about 10 years ago with Brian Higginbottom who took the bass role after Arthur, I met up with Arthur around 2007 in High Lane when my band worked in a Country Music club
I tried to contact GJ to buy his Guild Stafford if he had it, but his wife just screamed at me down the phone.
Paul are you Ellen’s son if so say a huge hello from me.
Giles Bodoano”
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