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Thread #98550 Message #1952270
Posted By: bubblyrat
30-Jan-07 - 08:19 AM
Thread Name: Nutters in Folk Clubs
Subject: RE: Nutters in Folk Clubs
Like I said in the other thread, there was a bloke who used to go to the "Den of Folk " in Gosport around 1970.He couldn"t sing,or play the guitar, but could turn nasty if he didn"t get a spot, so he was often allowed a self-penned diatribe or two.He reckoned that he had a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun in his garden--it was generally agreed that he did,indeed,own something like that !!! So if you refused him a spot,it was best not to fly over his house !!In the same area, we had a bloke called Sean Kennedy,who ended up in the local Cuckoo"s nest after going berserk & kicking his TV to death.He wrote some quite interesting songs,actually !!Then there was Jon Isherwood, of course, but he wasn"t a Nutter nutter-----He was a Genius nutter !! Oddly enough,there actually seem to be MORE about today,not less,Graham !! I could name several I have encountered in the last 5 years !!