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Hi Mac,

Spent many a weekend in the Howff and Bungalow masel so more than likely bumped into you there!!

Alex

Ok, here ye go!!!! First gig at the Apollo, Suzi Quatro, The Arrows and Cozy Powells Hammer 1975(?). Best gig at the Apollo would have to be the final 3 night run Stutus Quo`s live album, how the balcony survived fuck knows. Seen Roxy, Zappa, Stones, Eagles, Skynyrd and several more to mention at th...

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Ah`m no tellin cos yeeze wudnae beleeve mi!!!

Can`t make it, sorry. My ball and chain doesn`t stretch 400 miles!

As mentioned earlier by Pgcc launches very much do depend on tides, however, calculations are made taking into account several other factors such the tonnage of the ship, it`s length, the angle of the slipway to the river, checker plates port or starboard, aft or forehead first. Quite ofetn the rive...

I`m just scrolling through old threads and came upon this, I`m interested, what happened with it in the end?

That is definitely the Govan yard (the old Fairfield yard), I should know as I served my apprenticeship there in the late 70`s. I`ve been to quite a few launchings and they are fairly impressive, especially with the larger ships I worked on. However, the earlier picture didn`t look like Govan as I d...

I got my hands on `Shades of Scotland` from a second hand shop on Charing Cross Road, excellent.

Many thanks to you both, I`ll be giving both a good look. For your information, I appeared in one of Oscars doc`s when he was filiming at Davy United football ground, behind Polmadie railway works and am trying to get my hands on it, apart from his other stuff of course. Also, didn`t he take the pho...

When living in Glasgow we would go to the Lahore indian restuarant under he Central bridge on Argyl Street. This was was ritual carried out every Friday & Saturday night before hitting the Penthouse. The food was stunning with an excellent menu and you knew you were onto a good thing when you wo...

I`m trying to get my hands on any work by photographer Oscar Marzaroli who also produced some fine documentaries circa 60` & 70`s. I`ve been in contact with the Scottish Film Archives and heard nothing yet!!