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Thread #20801 Message #1372063
Posted By: GUEST,Tunesmith
05-Jan-05 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Remember Les Cousins, in London's Soho?
Subject: RE: Remember Les Cousin's, in London's Soho?
I was talking to friend recently about Les Cousins and the conversation jogged a half-forgotten memory. I first visited Cousins in the summer of 1966. I went to an all-nighter featuring Alexis Korner ( with Danny Thompson on bass). At some point during the night, I was talking to a couple of young women who had been at the evening session which had featured John Renbourn, and I asked them what they had thought of John. " We were disappointed", they replied. I said that I'd heard that he was a great player. "Oh, his playing was fine", they replied, and then added, " but he wasn't as scruffy as we had hoped!". This remark was obviously an allusion to John's bohemian appearance on his first album cover.