Within a few years, everything he told me came true. In addition to music lessons, he also hipped me to the ways of the world. I took guitar lessons from Coryell's teacher, who I loved. Larry Coryell and Sharon Tate lived there. My out of town cousins referred to our family as the Cleavers. In retrospect, the neighborhoods looked like movie sets. Walking around late at night, everything was quiet. Our fathers had to keep us kids out of trouble, otherwise they could lose their job. We were unbelievably blessed with very little crime. There was a heavy FBI presence, and nobody talked. He was the manager of the basketball team. General James Mattis lived nearby and I may have played basketball with him. I lived in a Y house, as did many of my friends. We lived in what we called alphabet houses. Our schools were amazing, including the most expensive school building in the country. Richland was the beneficiary of cold war funding. They kept producing plutonium throughout the cold war. Most our fathers worked at the Area, as it was called. Outside of town was very desolate until the Manhattan Project built 7 nuclear reactors to produce plutonium, which was used in the Nagasaki bomb. Richland, WA was a small town with some orchards. I've always enjoyed gigging in Newcastle albeit only a few restaurant/private party gigs in the last decade (I've some good mates in Wylam and Gosforth).ĭo you need a passport if you're in Washington? You're in Mackam country! I think there's more similarities than differences between the Geordies and Glaswegians, and both have a history of very vibrant music scenes. I was a big fan of Kitchenware Records' bands back in my student days, I still rate MacAloon as an amazing songwriter. I'm still aspiring to be able to pick like him. If anything he's got even better over the years. I still go to Martin Stephenson gigs when I get the chance he lives in the Ullapool area North-West Highland region now and does a lot of pub gigs for 30 or 40 people around Scotland. I actually shared a billing or two with Alex Kapranos' old band The Amphetamenies back in the 1990s in King Tuts Glasgow. Click to expand.Franz Ferdinand were Glasgow based for a long time, I never realised the South Shields connection.
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