Blind Drunk. almost sober at the Bridge House. Unreleased dvd in 1978,.INTRO
The thrill of this gig was seeing major recording stars, having fun on stage, we can only imaging the stress and worry they go through when the are playing to thousands of fans who are listening to ever note and every word spoken .So to see these musician on Stage enjoying them self’s, smoking drinking swearing, and just enjoying there self, not caring about the mistakes they may make, being so professional there was hardly any.
When Steve Marriott walk into the Bridge house, with Laurie O’Leary, who introduce him to me. I have known Laurie for many years. Nice to see him again
I was delighted when Stevie said ,can you give us a gig. Im just back from America and real fancy a blow. Laurie adding that he is managing Steve, I said okay you can play next week, I said it will have to be a secret gig we are only licensed for 560 customers,, he said I will do a poster and get it to you tomorrow, well was I surprise to get it the day after, Blind Drunk was the name of the band,
Featuring Matt Vinyl., Guitar Vocals, Red Wine Bass, ,splitser on Drums , Kinky keyboards, The fiddler. and plonkers galore. come along.. well come along they did over 800 .what a night Joe Brown Chas n Dave, Ronnie Lane, Jim Leverton Kirk Duncan
???and there must have been at least 20 other top class musician in the aurdience.,I knew it was going to be a great nigh ,so I arrange for it to be filmed, I got a local man it who had assured me it was his special past time using reel of video ,instead of film this would be more practical, ,at this time there were no video cassettes, that were to become the in think a few years later, Film would have cost thousands and lighting would have to be so bright it would have blinded everyone on stage. of course we listened to him because we never new any better. .it was to take us over 30 years to get them transferred to DVD. So here they are Please do not judge them by today’s standards.. they are really rough pictures but they are magical to all true Marriott friend, seeing him enjoying himself, having fun makes us realise how much we miss him now he is no longer with us. ,so enjoy these magic moments ,that can never be repeated when watching ,imagine you are with us at the gig (You may have been) like Stevie abbreviated and full of Joy, drinking Whiskey out of the bottle Smoking ,roll ups, we think? ,Ah dear, the more you look at this dvd the better it gets , because you are watching a genius at work Regards Terry Murphy.
Some of these articles are taken from the Book Bridge house Canning town, written
by Terence Murphy published by Pennant Books.
Stevie was one of the many Star to play for us and I might add play on both stages, so these dvds shows you him on the old stage, and also how he would have looked on the new one ,when he change the bands name to packet of three ,he toured America with this band and had some great gigs even thou this was a low key tour, he was soon back in his beloved Britain, for all of us to enjoy his wonderful talent ,Loyal friend Jim Liverton on bass guitar and vocals always with him,. Love you Steve. R.I.P
