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Thread #98840   Message #3014863
Posted By: GUEST,Peter Brown
25-Oct-10 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: Bunjies folk cellar coffee house
Subject: RE: Bunjies folk cellar coffee house
I remember Bunjies with affection. I was in Henley-on-Thames playing in the back bar of a pub with a girl singer and another guitarist (we called ourselves the Highroaders, very cheesy) when a passing stranger invited us to Bunjies. We were all about 18 and had hardly ever been to London, 30 miles away. It was around 1966.
   We went and did three numbers. No restriction - hardly anyone was there. Al Stewart had the residency and was singing amazing stuff, including Paul Simon's The Sound of Silence, which we loved. I remember getting the words and chords from him during the break. He was friendly and kind with a great smile. In the corner sat Meg Ryan, the street busker. The place smelt of coffee and undergroundness.
That evening led me to the Cousins - but that's another story - and a lifelong interest in folk and blues, fostered by the feeling that I'd been involved almost from the beginning.