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Title: Pa Amb Oli Band 30th Anniversary Night 'Bulldog' Beatles View count: 29 Rating: 0 (0 ratings) Description: On Saturday 12th August 2009 the Pa Amb Oli band celebrated their 30th anniversary by inviting all band members old and present including guests to play a concert at the Sa Fonda bar in Deia. The present band line-up includes the four original members Tomás (Bass) and Juan Graves (Rhythm), Jordi Ramone (Drums) and David Templeton (Vocals and Harmonica) along with Brendan McCann (Lead) and Frances (Vocals and B/Vs). Various guest musicians and singers helped out on the night including Andrew Lloyd Weber on boogie woogie piano along with some fine ranch and roll vocals from Patrick McCann and some superb raunch and roll from the Goughs Blog, Barbar and Dickon while criss-cross rhythms and happy vibes were percussively provided in the background by Hamish McDonald. (Note: Please feel free to input in Comment re name checking of other guests) Warning: These recordings are very rough n ready outtakes from the night. In his book Bread and Oil Tomás Graves explains the origins of the Pa Amb Oli band. At the end of the sixties the cafés in our village closed at 11.00 at night so the party would move on to someone or others house. The music was funky or latin, played on a Phillips portable gramophone and when the batteries gave out the music would continue with a guitar and whatever percussion could be found in the kitchen. These jam sessions were loosely translated as sesions de pa amb oli. At a village fiesta in 1971 some of us offered to put the music to the Miss Local Tourism contest and formed a one-night group calling ourselves Pa Amb Oli. In 1978 the English painter David Templeton settled down in the village. He earned a living doing 20 minute portraits of the tourists in the hotels in Magalluf, but his gift for reproducing a face on paper was complemented by his ability to imitate any voice or accent. He had never sung before in public but at a party he began to imitate Dylan, Elvis, Lennon and Jagger, while my brother Juan accompanied him on guitar. In 1979 they performed with a couple of French musicians at the Pension Mundial Can Quet. The band was billed again as Pa Amb Oli, a name which had now become a catch-all for any musical activity. On April 11th 1980 ?Por Que Non? Productions (Promoters of local groups Kevin Ayers, Offbeats, and Sex Beatles) organised a gig at the St. Germain club in the Port de Sóller; the flyer announced; for the first time; The Pa Amb Oli Band. The name and original line-up still rocks today: Tomás and Juan Graves (guitar and bass), Dave Templeton, vocals, and Jordi Ramone on drums. The song list was mainly rock and roll standards. Thirty years have gone by and the song list is still mainly rock and roll but weve performed over a thousand ones. Weve had such illustrious guests and regulars as Joan Bibiloni, Ramón Farrán, or Ollie Halsall on drums, Kevin Ayers and Archie Leggett on bass, Michael Shefrin and Mike Oldfield on guitars, Hugo Napier, Jeremy Lynton and Paul Mathews on sax, while on vocals guests include Frances Baxter, Tamsin Babar and Samuel Blob Gough, Mike McDonald, Charlie Ainley, Little Charles Walker, Eric Burdon, Hamish McDonald, Rachel Ayers, Curtis Jones, Natalia Farrán, Sarah Jane Morris, Catherine Zeta Jones; on percussion Phil Shepherd and Carmen GGG, and Dito Vidal on harmonica. Over the years weve played over a thousand rock classics in hundreds of gigs: sleazy empty music bars or packed sweaty pubs, all night village fiestas (in which its normal to go on stage at 5.00 am), benefit concerts, weddings and birthdays, even a couple of gigs for a captive audience at Palma jail. See also: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuning-Up-Dawn-Memoir-Majorca/dp/0007128185 Tags: pa amb oli band, 30th anniversary, deia, mallorca, bar sa fonda, tomás graves, david templeton, bulldog, the beatles, steve rawson, Author: MrSteverawson |
