Missedmychance
Prowler
Hi fans, just a quick mention for the site administrator team that the member named Tim Whatit's was in fact Tim Nash. He was my bestist school mate, friend and fellow musician. I played second guitar in a band called Gambit which had Paul Sears (who Lived in a flat opposite me in Teviot St Poplar) on drums, Roy Middleton (who lived at Gipsey Hill Crystal Palace) and a guy called Winston who played bass and lived at Forestgate.
I ducked out of the group thing when Roy and Winston refused to play at a youth club because we were going to do a few covers. The gig went ahead without the said two but we teamed up with Tim and the band he was in that were doing late 60s stuff. It was a good night but the writing was on the wall with all the disagreements and artistic direction so I left. The band carried on for a while and I remember meeting up with them at a reversal and they then had a guy on guitar from Canning Town who was Linda Lewis brother.
Had some informal jams with Steve Harris who was a friend of the band and quite honestly everyone in a band knew every other person locally in bands.
I heard that Paul Sears played with Tim and Steve in Gipseys Kiss but never got to see them, I think I had sort of left the scene.
Tim got married to Sue, had a son called Ben and moved to North Norfolk. He is now divorced, remarried and is living in New Zealand with his wife Kieren and new son Sam.
I still strum acoustic guitar and play in a local church near Romford (Brentwood)
Hope this info fills a few gaps on the site.
Perhaps I missed a big opportunity to carry on with my apprenticeship but I know the tremendous amount of work and effort that Steve Harris and the guys put into their music and that they resisted the temptation to emulate punk bands to get a record deal, and I wasn't talented enough... though who knows with time....
I ducked out of the group thing when Roy and Winston refused to play at a youth club because we were going to do a few covers. The gig went ahead without the said two but we teamed up with Tim and the band he was in that were doing late 60s stuff. It was a good night but the writing was on the wall with all the disagreements and artistic direction so I left. The band carried on for a while and I remember meeting up with them at a reversal and they then had a guy on guitar from Canning Town who was Linda Lewis brother.
Had some informal jams with Steve Harris who was a friend of the band and quite honestly everyone in a band knew every other person locally in bands.
I heard that Paul Sears played with Tim and Steve in Gipseys Kiss but never got to see them, I think I had sort of left the scene.
Tim got married to Sue, had a son called Ben and moved to North Norfolk. He is now divorced, remarried and is living in New Zealand with his wife Kieren and new son Sam.
I still strum acoustic guitar and play in a local church near Romford (Brentwood)
Hope this info fills a few gaps on the site.
Perhaps I missed a big opportunity to carry on with my apprenticeship but I know the tremendous amount of work and effort that Steve Harris and the guys put into their music and that they resisted the temptation to emulate punk bands to get a record deal, and I wasn't talented enough... though who knows with time....