Post by Taylorholic78 on Jul 27, 2005 17:57:27 GMT -5
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Throughout the course of 1998 John (the artist formerly known as Nigel) expressed many thoughts, opinions, ideas and insights (or just the ramblings of a madman to some!) through a feature on this website called The Nigel Page. We thought we would bring them all back for those who might have missed them.
July 1998
JT GETS REFLECTIVE
John was asked to fill out a questionnaire for Guitar Magazine consisting of these four questions: 1) Can you describe your first paying gig, 2) At what point were you able to say, "I am now a professional guitarist?", 3) What was your worst gig and 4) What was the weirdest day (non-musician) job you've had. The following was John's reply.....
The gig that comes to mind as my "first paying gig" is a Duran Duran show at Brighton Dome in the summer of 1981. We already had a hit single, "Planet Earth," and a lot of publicity. This was the first date of the first tour we had done since this happened. It was the first time I did not have to think of all the friends I could call to fill our gig. When the house lights went down the screaming shook us all. We played the whole show in a kind of coma, wondering who the hell these people were. It was around this time I began to realize I am making a living (and a career) playing bass in this band.
Duran Duran were recording on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1983 when the call came for us to fly to London and participate in a charity show with Dire Straits benefitting The Prince's Trust. Prince Charles and Princess Diana were to be there. A lot of fuss was made about Diana being a Duran fan and Charles being a Dire Straits fan. Belive me, that night Charlie had the last laugh. I played horrendously, under-rehearsed and under the influence, I spent the thankfully short set trying to tune my guitar. (Whenever I would get real nervous I would keep retuning my guitar, thinking it out of tune when really I was playing the wrong notes!) As a constant reminder of what happens when you don't do your homework I have a bootleg album of the show; it's called "Di's Big Date"!
The weirdest non-music gig I had was in the butchers freezer at a large supermarket in Birmingham. It was a Saturday job, and most of the time I could get away with working the checkouts (only ducking into the backroom when some other local punks came in for cigarettes), or stocking the shelves - but oh, the butchery department was the short straw, freezing to death and smelling of dead meat for days afterwards.
Throughout the course of 1998 John (the artist formerly known as Nigel) expressed many thoughts, opinions, ideas and insights (or just the ramblings of a madman to some!) through a feature on this website called The Nigel Page. We thought we would bring them all back for those who might have missed them.
July 1998
JT GETS REFLECTIVE
John was asked to fill out a questionnaire for Guitar Magazine consisting of these four questions: 1) Can you describe your first paying gig, 2) At what point were you able to say, "I am now a professional guitarist?", 3) What was your worst gig and 4) What was the weirdest day (non-musician) job you've had. The following was John's reply.....
The gig that comes to mind as my "first paying gig" is a Duran Duran show at Brighton Dome in the summer of 1981. We already had a hit single, "Planet Earth," and a lot of publicity. This was the first date of the first tour we had done since this happened. It was the first time I did not have to think of all the friends I could call to fill our gig. When the house lights went down the screaming shook us all. We played the whole show in a kind of coma, wondering who the hell these people were. It was around this time I began to realize I am making a living (and a career) playing bass in this band.
Duran Duran were recording on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1983 when the call came for us to fly to London and participate in a charity show with Dire Straits benefitting The Prince's Trust. Prince Charles and Princess Diana were to be there. A lot of fuss was made about Diana being a Duran fan and Charles being a Dire Straits fan. Belive me, that night Charlie had the last laugh. I played horrendously, under-rehearsed and under the influence, I spent the thankfully short set trying to tune my guitar. (Whenever I would get real nervous I would keep retuning my guitar, thinking it out of tune when really I was playing the wrong notes!) As a constant reminder of what happens when you don't do your homework I have a bootleg album of the show; it's called "Di's Big Date"!
The weirdest non-music gig I had was in the butchers freezer at a large supermarket in Birmingham. It was a Saturday job, and most of the time I could get away with working the checkouts (only ducking into the backroom when some other local punks came in for cigarettes), or stocking the shelves - but oh, the butchery department was the short straw, freezing to death and smelling of dead meat for days afterwards.
