HW: Father and son

[colm mcwilliams]

I have never been that impressed with danny thompsons style of drumming when
he was in hawkwind. Strangley though when i saw him drum at the hawkestra
gig for both hawkwind and bedouin i thought he was pretty good!

cheers

colm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Medford" <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: 30 April 2001 21:50
Subject: Re: HW: Father and son


> In message <013701c0d1af$7f316740$e434883e at jds>, Jill Strobridge
> <jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK> writes
> >Danny Thompson of Pentangle was / is  Danny Thompson's dad.     Dad
> >is reported to have been proud enough of his son's achievement to
> >announce it on-stage once!
>
> Indeed- I saw DT sr. at Cropredy in '87 and he talked about going to see
> "the boy" playing with the Hawks- though he also said "and I thought he
> was going to be a musician!" In general he seemed pretty pleased though.
> He also commented that someone had asked him if  RICHARD Thompson
> was his son- which would probably be a biological impossibility, there
can't
> be many years between them, so he wasn't too flattered! (although I don't
> think any of us could dispute that Richard T is more of a musician than
> Danny jr).
> --
> Nick Medford
>