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Hi everyone, trying to do some basic research on a New Zealand guitarist who toured the UK with Jr Walker's All Stars sometime in the late 60s just wanting to know if anyone would have pics or info on Jr Walker tourdates/venues from the time?

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Hi kris I'm off to the twisted wheel Manc today will ask some of the guys who went the wheel in the 6ts if they have any material

If you visit twistedwheel.net or twistedwheel club forum you may get some info

Think I've seen some old flyers on there with jr and his all stars they were on at the wheel quite alot back in the day

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Pretty certain the man played the California Ballroom, Dunstable around '68/'69, no pics or info, DtheDrug might have a bit of info, the Bedford/Letchworth crowd used to go up there.....when it was worthwhile :)

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Pretty certain the man played the California Ballroom, Dunstable around '68/'69, no pics or info, DtheDrug might have a bit of info, the Bedford/Letchworth crowd used to go up there.....when it was worthwhile :)

Jr Walker played TCB in 1969 .

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HI Kris when is your next soul night inNZ . MOUSE.

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Pretty certain the man played the California Ballroom, Dunstable around '68/'69, no pics or info, DtheDrug might have a bit of info, the Bedford/Letchworth crowd used to go up there.....when it was worthwhile :thumbsup:

Saw Junior at Ilford Palais around the time that the reissue of 'Road Runner' was in the UK charts - probably the same tour as this one, in fact

It was, I think, the second gig that I ever went to completely on my own, with no 'supervison' from an older friend or family member (the first being Marv Johnson at Basildon Tiffany's, a couple of months earlier).

Intended to snap some pictures, but my Brownie was taken from me at the door by a bouncer and I had to recialm it after the gig...:thumbup:

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I saw him there in I think 1975, sorry no pics though :no:

Jr Walker was a regular yearly visitor to TCB , and played there conscutively from 1973 to 1978 . In 1974 , he shared the bill with Edwin Starr .

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Pretty much just worried about any Jr Walker UK shows from 68/69. Definitely no later than that as he'd left the UK by then. Trying to piece together this guitarist's activities in the UK at that time & the timing/evidence of the Jr Walker tour is tough to ascertain as it is right around a few other things, like a semi-aborted Jeff Beck tour as a bassist. It doesn't help that he was known by at least 3 psuedonyms at the time :thumbsup: Ideally would love a picture of the band onstage or something like that, highly unlikely though I know...

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Malc, had to laugh mate. In the Jr Walker Ram Jam clip we get the bloody French translation all the way through right, and then at the end we get the French for Coca-Cola and chewing gum and then inexplicable silence when he says "purple hearts, french blues, roaring twenties, black bombers"

I can imagine the French bloke frantically scrambling through his French/English dictionary, shaking his head thinking to himself "What the Fook" (in French obviously)

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Malc, had to laugh mate. In the Jr Walker Ram Jam clip we get the bloody French translation all the way through right, and then at the end we get the French for Coca-Cola and chewing gum and then inexplicable silence when he says "purple hearts, french blues, roaring twenties, black bombers"

I can imagine the French bloke frantically scrambling through his French/English dictionary, shaking his head thinking to himself "What the Fook" (in French obviously)

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" ce qui la ferk " :lol:

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" ce qui la ferk " :lol:

Malc

WTFs that :thumbsup:

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WTFs that :thumbsup:

A ferk ? it is something a man and a lady does now and again .

Sorry Dave , I forgot that you are like me and cannot remember the last time that happened :lol:

Enough frivolity , this was started as a serious thread , and in respect of being so , needs to be brought back on track : have any of the clips shown the guitarist Kris ?

Malc

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Ok, back on track. Kris, you don't say if you already know who it is or if you just require tour info.

Would it be this guy, Doug Jerebine aka Jesse Harper. Here's the cached page from Google which should show the highlighted keywords

https://webcache.goog...ww.google.co.uk

The relevant paragraph near the bottom of the group photo

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https://www.wordworx....esseharper.html

If any local musician deserves the word 'legend' it is Doug Jerebine. Acknowledged in the 60s as the country's most versatile and adventurous guitarist, he played in leading Auckland club band The Embers and seminal psychedelic group The Brew, and as a session musician on countless recordings, before leaving for England in 1968. There he worked with the likes of Jeff Beck and Jr. Walker, and recorded a groundbreaking album of his own songs. Currently based in Britain, Jerebine has paid several recent visits to New Zealand, during which he and Billy T.K. have rekindled their musical camaraderie.

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Jr Walker played TCB in 1969 .

Malc

Jan 11th 1969 to be exact

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jr walker played the calli 21st october 1967 and again 11th january 1969 admission was 12/- .the line up was JR WALKER---WILLIE WOODS guitar. JAMES GRAVES drums. VIC THOMAS organ.these were their only 60s apearances but also performed five times in the 70s

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Hi everyone, trying to do some basic research on a New Zealand guitarist who toured the UK with Jr Walker's All Stars sometime in the late 60s just wanting to know if anyone would have pics or info on Jr Walker tourdates/venues from the time?

i can definitely tell you they played the twisted wheel in manchester on the night of june 22 1968 as it was my 17th birthday and i had booked ticketsfor 5 of us lads from sheffield as it was a sell out! got shotgun played as a request !!!they had also played the mojo in sheffield at an alniter about 2 weeks earlier, the reason i went to the wheel to see him again,a consumate showman/entertainer/musician. brilliant Edited by roggert
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Jr. Walker played High Wycombe town hall Jan 20th. 69, only about 25 in as I remember.

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Storming I went with Alan Rhodes (he was Dj'ing) to see J.W in Morley Leeds all dayer

This clip reminds me of a incident in Selby one Sunday. After a very hectic weekend lad jumps out of car and starts dancing in road cars just driving around him great smashing days..........

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jr walker played the calli 21st october 1967 and again 11th january 1969 admission was 12/- .the line up was JR WALKER---WILLIE WOODS guitar. JAMES GRAVES drums. VIC THOMAS organ.

...Saw a mate just now who also saw JW + the AS on tour here in early 1969. He pulled out and showed me his copy of the 'Road Runner' album that he got Junior and the other musicians to sign on that tour, and those would appear to be the signatures of the four group members who signed it.

Said mate also says that he has no recollection of any non-caucasian, non-American band members (I'm assuming the guy Chris is asking about is white) playing with Junior at any of the gigs he saw in the 60s and early 70s - and I know he saw them a few times at least.

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I saw them at Wakefield Mecca in the late 60's. As I recall, all the band were black.

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Jan 11th 1969 to be exact

And it only seems like yesterday, but I'm buggered if I can remember what I did this morning LOL

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:D HI ALL....TOP MAN I DID A FEW GIGS IN THE MID 70s - love all his music, and if i play SHOTGUN IT'S A RED & WHITE DEMO but ROADRUNNER Must only be played on a Green & Waite Demo, Again it's all to do with the SPIRIT OF 69, Here is my contribution, to this thread :lol: Dave the ROADIE,

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