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Post by accrag on Nov 15, 2008 13:22:28 GMT
remember seeing these guys at tickenham hall yrs ago speaking to pete he told me he stood in for adge cutler between henry davies(accordion ) and tommy banner who is there today. did,nt no that!
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Post by Frank Blades (Editor) on Nov 20, 2008 19:09:59 GMT
That's news to me too. I suspect that he stood in between Reg Chant and Tommy Banner as they were the accordion players - Henry Davies was the bass and tuba guy (although he came and went around the same time). And if Reg left at short notice, I guess they could well have needed a stand-in before they found Tommy, so that makes a lot of sense. Love it - it's always nice to fill in another gap (especially a gap I didn't know existed!) I always wondered how Tommy Banner, an accordion and piano player from Mid-Lothian in Scotland, ever came to the notice of Adge and co... Scotland surely can't have been their first port of call... I guess it was all contacts and reputations. Must admit that it seems to have worked out - even if he still hasn't managed to lose that Scottish accent! I bet Tommy got a real shock when he arrived in Somerset though  |
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Post by accrag on Nov 22, 2008 14:31:31 GMT
ok sorry your right my mistake it was reg chant. i think tommy did come straight from scotland to play with adge.
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Post by Frank Blades (Editor) on Mar 26, 2009 9:33:46 GMT
Just read up on Tommy's arrival in the West Country. According to the notes in the Wurzels Songbook, Tommy claims that 'The Wurzels could not get a good accordionist in England so they went to Scotland and got a bad one!' He originally took a three months booking with Adge Cutler & The Wurzels prior to beginning a contract for a round-the-world trip playing in another band; and he has been in the West Country ever since. Tommy arrived in Somerset expecting to join a "trendy pop group"...
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