Gigs

BENN GUNN – CREW

  • James Devlin – Flute Vocals [Gear: Muramatsu, AKG mike, WEM reverb, Marshall, JBL]  
  • Davy Lawson – Guitar [Gear : Gibson Les Paul, Hi-Watt]
  • Brian Devlin – Bass [Gear : Gibson EBO , Hi-Watt]
  • Dave Clark – Drums 
  • George Murray Melville – Head Roadie
  • Malcolm Smith – Sound
  • Brian Strachan – Roadie
  • Brian Smith – Manager.
    • “I’d rather give up some profit margin so I can sleep soundly at night’ –  10% but did buy the beers .. now and again.
    • Brian ran ‘FOOLS‘ –  a clothes shop at the bottom of Morningside, opposite Canny Man’s.
  • Neil Ross – REL Studio Engineer
  • Tom Kidd – Photographer
  • Heather – Manager – supported us during our early gigs

REL Recording – 1975

  • Mid 1975 we reformed for gigs and a studio session which was paid for by Polygram
  • Dave had returned to full time education,  so some of our drummer friends sat in:
    • 1975 : Andy Munro – (Mama Flyer)  for a couple of gigs.
      • Andy is now a solo artist (professional theatre act).
    • 1975 : Dave Swanson – (East West)  for couple of gigs and the REL recording.
    • 1975 : Jim Burns – Jim was our mainstay drummer during 1975. Huge bass drum, ala Ginger Baker.

Repertoire

The following list is about 80% of the tunes we played. Based on Free, Rory Gallagher , Taste, Tull, Hendrix , Cream.
Solidly mainly blues numbers and our own compositions.

  1. Young And Schoolin’ (Benn Gunn) (Fond of an apostrophe)  –   slow fast rock number
  2. Caught Me Leavin’ (Benn Gunn) (Fond of an apostrophe)
  3. Bye The Bye (Benn Gunn)
  4. To Be Seen With You(Benn Gunn)
  5. During The Bell(Benn Gunn)
  6. Just Like That JLT(Benn Gunn) (JLT is a Tommy Cooper trubute) instrumental
  7. 12 bar slide guitar solo with lawson bottleneck stuff
  8. God Rest Yea Merry Gentlemen (traditional arrangement we did for Christmas. Flute based instrumental, very much before the Jethro Tull version .. both bloody awful.
  9. Hands Up (Rory Gallagher, Taste)
  10. Feel So Good (Rory Gallagher)
  11. Play In Time (Jethro Tull – Flute Instrumental )
  12. Serenade To A Cockoo  (Roland Kirk) – G minor blues
  13. Cats Squirrel (Jethro Tull)
  14. Fire and Water (Free)
  15. Wishing Well (Free)
  16. Plynth (Jeff Beck) – was, for us, a good opening number
  17. Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green) – what a shape were we in !
  18. All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix version)
  19. Comin Home (Herbie Mann) – C minor blues for flute
  20. Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix)
  21. Help myself Ill be there (Benn Gunn) – No idea but not the motown version – no where to hide

Gigs 1973 and 1974 – (part)

1973 this is just a fragment of our diary it is from our busiest time there are loads of gigs missing particularly the Borders. i.e. Duns and other Scottish gigs at Napier College, Edinburgh College Of Commerce – Sighthill, Glasgow University and The International Club, all of which we have no records.
At the Harness at Tollcross –  we were the regular house band.

1973

  • March 23rd Harness Edinburgh March
  • March 24th Harness Edinburgh
  • April 16th Harness Edinburgh
  • April 28th Peel Hospital – Galashields
  • May 4th Felicity’s party Morningside at the Mercison Youth Club, Edinburgh
  • May 8th Herriot Watt University edinburgh
  • May 17th Cephas Club West End Edinburgh
  • May 25th Harness Edinburgh
  • May 31st Queen Margaret Margaret’s College Edinburgh
  • June 6th Queen Margaret Margaret’s College Edinburgh
  • June 7th Kings Hotel Hawick
  • June 15th Harness Edinburgh
  • June 16th Gala-shields
  • June 17th Kirckaldy
  • June 26th Stephenson’s College Gig Was At Tiffany Tiffany”s Club
  • July 2nd Royal Albert Hotel – Kirkcaldy
  • July 13th Royal Albert Hotel – Kirkcaldy
  • July 14th Alberfeldy
  • July 15th Queens Hotel – Dundee
  • July 21st Harness – Edinburgh
  • August 3rd Falkland Bar – Kirkcaldy
  • August 5th Falkland Bar – Kirkcaldy
  • August 10th Falkland Bar – Kirkcaldy
  • August 20th George Square Theatre – Edinburgh
  • August 24th Kirkcaldy
  • August 26th Kirkcaldy
  • September 9th kirkcaldy
  • September 19th Edinburgh College of Commerce – Sighthill
  • September 29th Seaforth at Drysart
  • October 12th Harness Time : 20:00-21:30
  • October 12th Napier College Time : 22:00-23:30 joint gig with Factory Evening and was titled “Magic Fantastic”
  • October 19th Edinburgh University support for Manfred Mann
  • October 20th Glasgow University – Queen Margaret College support for Chicken Shack
  • October 31st – Dance unknown location
  • December 17th Leith Town Hall – Stevenson College freshers 11 00 – 12 30

1974

1974 kept hardly any diary entries for pub gigs or our recording sessions at Radio Edinburgh Limited. We were giggling every Friday, Saturday night and Sunday lunchtime,  mainly because we got a good deal on the REL – full P.A. hire was pickup mid Friday afternoon and returned Monday morning. [1000 watt PA  – 18″ JBLs, Marshall PA columns, cables, microphones, etc.], some small gigs with stairs did cause a few problems.

  • January 11th Sunderland Polytechnic Students union 9 30 – 10 30
  • January 18th Northumberland College of Education – Portland
  • February 14th Edinburgh University – Teviot Row
  • no date – Freekie Frankie’s Freshers Frolics
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