{"id":1153,"date":"2013-10-21T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-10-21T20:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:55:21","slug":"wishbone-ash-holmfirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wishbone-ash-holmfirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishbone Ash, Holmfirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this year Lucy got 2 tickets for the Wishbone Ash tour appearance at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth. Argus and Pilgrimage are still 2 of my favourite albums. Lucy reminded me of the holiday we went on where she kept asking for Wishbone Ash to be played in the car so I guess she likes the music too.<\/p>\n<p>The supporting acts had finished by the time we got there but we got close to the front &#8211; and quite close to the speakers on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Powell (below) is the only remaining member of original line-up of Wishbone Ash.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10391046493\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2823\/10391046493_a5a3ff5228_z.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here he is with the bassist Bob Skeat who started playing with Wishbone Ash in 1998.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390866585\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5523\/10390866585_4bf8605893_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other guitarist with Andy is <b>Jyrki &#8220;Muddy&#8221; Manninen<\/b> who joined in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390884976\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3771\/10390884976_399e749643_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is Bob looking rather pensive instead of his usually smiley face.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bob Skeat, bassist by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390869836\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Skeat, bassist\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7437\/10390869836_024c176662_z.jpg\" width=\"621\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drummer, Joe Crabtree, is the youngster of the group having replaced Ray Weston in March 2007. Because of where we were (more on that at the end) this is the best shot I could get of him.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Joe Crabtree, drums by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390829494\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Crabtree, drums\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7419\/10390829494_b1a080042a_z.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Powell and Bob Skeat again.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390826665\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3707\/10390826665_ee68b78a80_z.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Powell with his Flying V guitar.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390996843\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3672\/10390996843_696e8b50ce_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Powell with Bob Skeat and Joe Crabtree<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390763714\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell and Bob Skeat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5514\/10390763714_f2d21130d7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Skeat<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bob Skeat by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390812414\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Skeat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7404\/10390812414_6362fa5aba_z.jpg\" width=\"458\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muddy , Andy Powell and Bob Skeat<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Muddy Manninen, Andy Powel and Bob Skeatl by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390805324\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Muddy Manninen, Andy Powel and Bob Skeatl\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3733\/10390805324_999e9d92c3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Powell<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Powell by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390799785\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Powell\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2818\/10390799785_646f72c743_z.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muddy Manninen, Bob Skeat and Andy Powell<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Muddy Manninen, Bob Skeat and Andy Powell by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390794554\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Muddy Manninen, Bob Skeat and Andy Powell\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7410\/10390794554_a2b54ccee5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muddy Manninen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Muddy Manninen by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390789355\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Muddy Manninen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5489\/10390789355_e1d4b8c0ac_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Crabtree<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Joe Crabtree by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390783694\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Crabtree\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2840\/10390783694_d7df1159af_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the man that allowed us to hear the vacals over the guitars and drums. The Soundman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Soundman by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390959483\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soundman\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5483\/10390959483_f8b80004a3_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we arrived we didn&#8217;t quite register that the man in front of us, leaning on the barrier was NOT standing on a box. When he stood up he was about 7 feet tall and he wasn&#8217;t ashamed to be playing air-guitar with his long arms. As a result a lot of the photos I took have a long dark section on the left.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"He was tall by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/10390903896\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"He was tall\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5507\/10390903896_9e98513fbc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this year Lucy got 2 tickets for the Wishbone Ash tour appearance at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth. Argus and Pilgrimage are still 2 of my favourite albums. Lucy reminded me of the holiday we went on where she kept asking for Wishbone Ash to be played in the car so I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}