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R.I.P, Bob.
His anecdote about him auditioning for Greeny always makes me laugh. "Do you know you namesake, the famous Peter Green?" "I AM Peter Green, you twat!" Or something like that... |
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Eric: "Come on Eric, quit messin' about. Give us that old Les Paul/Marshall stuff like before..." or Mark: "Let's hear the old stuff. When is DS having a reunion?" 'No man having tasted the old wine, straightway desires the new.' I suppose some of us have to live with that. |
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Actually I was thinking more along the lines that it was 50 years of Fleetwood Mac, I forgot about Rumours.
I was hoping that Brunning would release another album from his De Luxe Blues Band, but obviously that is not to be now. I noticed on one of the pages that have sprung up since his death a comment about how he had been playing with a band fairly recently. No idea of any more info about that though. Given the past (and present?) drug abuse and/or alcohol abuse of people like Dave Walker, Danny Kirwan, Peter Green, Stevie Nicks, Bob Welch and of course Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, it seems cruel that Mr Brunning, probably one of the clean-living Mac members, who had a 30 year teaching career, should be the first to pass away.
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RIP Bob
He played bass in Long Grey Mare and I Believe My Time Ain't Long. Two favorites of mine. |
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I just spit my cereal across the room. (Don't know why i'm eating at 4 am) but wow.
This is terribly sad I can't believe it! / RIP Bob The first time we've had to say this about a member, sadly won't be the last, but hopefully not for a while! |
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He also made a claim somewhere that he played uncredited on other tracks when McVie was too drunk to play. I don't know if that is widely accepted or not though?
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Ok now here is a question of the Brunning fans. Both of you...
I knew I had read somewhere about the number of albums that Bob had released so I went looking back in the news section of this page (well the Penguin bit of this site) and found the following quote "The grandfather gave up the life of a full-time bluesman to teach, but has been playing in various line-ups and has just recorded his 43rd album." Now I was wondering how accurate that figure was... So to my count: 1 x Five's Company album 1 x Cub Scout album - Songs For Your Enjoyment 3 x Fleetwood Mac albums (Live at the Marquee, Pious Bird of Good Omen and PG's FM) I know this is one bootleg and three tracks, but.. 1 x Savoy Brown album (and that is really stretching the truth a bit) 2 x Tramp Albums 4 x Brunning Sunflower albums 8 x De Luxe Blues Band albums 3 x BB Blues Club Albums (although did he appear on all of them?) That gives us a total of 23 albums. We could stretch that further by mentioning the Rarities album, and even the Tramp 1974 album by Jo-Ann Kelly (which I think he was on some tracks). Admittedly Long Grey Mare pops up on a few albums but that would really be grasping at straws. I know he guested on a couple of albums by Bob Hall as well although I don't know which ones, etc. I'm guessing he may have turned up on albums by Dave Kelly, Danny Adler, etc, although once again I'm guessing at that. Even then, would that be classified as "recording" 43 albums. That article and the "43 albums" has annoyed and niggled at me for 10 years. I guess now is as good a time as any to ask the question...
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Maybe this 43 albums figure includes a lot of guest appearances on obscure british blues bands along the years. Don't have a clue though.
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I have seen write ups like this on other artists where they say "(so and so) has appeared on nearly 900 albums (etc.)" and this could be true for the Waddy Wachtel's of the world but the artists I was reading about (can't remember who now but will post if I do remember) were not session players by any stretch so I think it was safe to say in those cases they HAD to be including comps. However please do let those of us interested know if you come across anything he played on (where the recordings in question have not already appeared in some form) and I'll do the same if I come across anything as well. John |
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Well if you count the Allmusic.com numbers it comes to 49 or so...which would make sense. Especially as it only lists 3 of the DBB albums!
Though here is a question John, do you have the compilation of Brunning Sunflower called Long Old Road? I didn't even know it existed, and the next question is, is there anything on there that isn't on the other albums. Oh and what the hell is Disc 3? Never heard of those songs. They are listed as being written by Hutto. I've heard of J.B. Hutto but is that him, and what does he have to do with Brunning Sunflower? Was Disc 3 a short tribute disc? Thanks
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Stunning how these questions arise only AFTER his passing....
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http://www.discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=389 As far as I know that's the only way (as of now) to get that album on CD and I found the Trojan 2fers of the Sunflower albums to be of better use than the ones included in this box so I kept the Hutto disc (since they are mini LP replicas) and sold the rest (the minimalist that I am). Quote:
Still, like Chris says, we can look at his recorded works now with pride regarding the quality his body of work has (given he ended up being what might be referred to many as a "semi pro" music career next to his educational career). John |
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I think I said to you before John, I have always thought of Brunning Sunflower and De Luxe Blues Band as being like going to your local bar and seeing a really good blues band play. They weren't in the league of Fleetwood Mac, but they were enjoyable nonetheless.
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