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Awwww I was 5 and at Pilgrims Way Primary 😊

Back at 'the castle' Hadfield (my school) ...when he was my teacher, - the Music was always Excellent with some tracks reminding me of Daddy's 8 tracks, reel-to-reel and vinyl... - only in later life, at a party, would I discover the music of Jimmy Hendrix and Instantly LOVE IT!!! ...it took the rise of the Internet for my education to become further advanced and learn that my best music teacher from all of my schooling was buddies with one Jimmy Hendrix!!! ...in youth, we have PRIVILEGES!!! ...often it takes our whole lifetime to realize......

My soul is overflowing...thanks. toots.

Saw him perform at the Cardiff hall near Collie, Western Australia. True blues.

rip victor

Sucks so bland

R.I.P MR HICKLING!!! ...I still cannot believe that you are no longer with us!!! - this is for you! th-cam.com/video/78Aa_yVwQPw/w-d-xo.html

Ciaophas!!

Saw him lots at the Joiners arms Chorley early 80,s,,,very talented guy and still going strong at 82.

Love this song!

Wow couldn’t believe it when this just popped up on my you tube channel… Tony Crabtree , my brother I miss him so much so it was lovely to see this I have saved it… Thank you who ever you are for sharing this xx

Him I am making a short portrait of Bruce Kent and wold love to be able to use some clips of your footage. it is not for profit. :)

I did not know Tom but if he was friends with Pete Cowap, He would have been a friend of mine for sure ! I knew Pete back in the 60's in The Bahamas. He was a fabulous musician and taught me much as a young guitar player myself. I have missed him as a friend ever since. May Pete and Tom rest in peace and forever jam in eternity !

My gorgeous daddy 😍

A friend of mine picked up a CD of Tonys after watching him play a gig at the Elizabeth hall in Olham during the beer festival. He gave me the CD. It was one of Folk songs he had recorded which included Arthur Mcbride and other classics. I was gutted that i lost it and would love to hear it again. If there is anyone out there that has it get it uploaded or send me a message and i will do it. His beautiful voice should be remembered.

My mum ran that pub :)

i first discovered Victor at the Black Horse in Werneth..he was the backdrop to our lovely community. One of my heroes.

This was actually a combined Anti Nuclear Campaign - CND demo. But, the Anti Nuclear Campaign seems to have been forgotten by both political, and social historians in the UK. On a lighter note, both Killing Joke and, The Pop Group were great that day.

I was there, very memorable. Thanks for posting.

Hi there.... Would it be possible to discuss using some of this footage in a short film I am presently making. Thanks you.

Wasn’t he star! RIP Tom

Could someone please help a lot of people out. At 1m 35 seconds someone is sitting at a bus stop. WHERE IS IT? I can't think of a location in Farnham that fits with that shot.

Tony I wish I could have spoken to you about what happened and confronted you about it, my poor mum has suffered because of what happened and everyone thinks you were this lovely blind man looking at the comments on your videos but I know different...you and my grandmother ruined her life and iff anyone really knew you they would probably be horrified

Oh dear I remember that night....fab even though I looked 3 sheets to the wind.ha. Always great to hear you guys.x👍

I played this many times with Victor B when No Change transformed themselves into the Blues Train - last played with Victor at Dot Bromley's 60th in March 2009 (Gary Bromley was a long time stalwart with Victor), a gap of just about 26 years! Before that me and Steve Scott - The Trend - used to go to the 'big' Surrey in Glossop and for 20p entrance fee be entranced by Victor and a whole load of pro musicians playing the blues - Norman Beaker, Paul Burgess (10 CC), Lol Creme, Muscle Shoals Brass Section and many more. In a pub! In Glossop! Invitably there was a fight outside - sometimes optional and sometimes not - Glossop was a frontier town for late teens in those days. I later played with Victor in the pub myself, some of those memories include Cliff White - landlord extrodinaire - flicking the main room lights on and off in excitement - and Alf 'Alright Mate' fromPeak Auto Spares from over the road doing trumpet solo's. The lead guitarist, Nick 'Sparky' Clarke went on to form the legendary North West region band Yessir - have a look elsewhere on TH-cam, they were great. These were some of the best days of my life...............................

Thanks for showing these clips, I used to see Tony with a band from Rochdale named " Nirvana", what a amazing musician he was. A great loss.

Used to watch Victor every Friday night at the Black Horse in Werneth, Oldham, late 80s/early 90s. Fantastic times. RIP Chris (Jones?), his brilliant guitarist.

totally obsessed with this song....... beautiful

So sorry to hear of JOhns passing, he was one of the best, knew him from being 12 , learnt me a lot , brilliant drummers great singer , and a very witty man , you will be missed ,

Superb scenes from Heywood. Great to see this famous loco back in business.

So sorry to learn of John's passing. I have been trying to track him down for the last ten years, and do a gig with him. We were friends until I joined the Army in 1962, and I was probably the first guitarist to work with him, aged fifteen, in and around Oldham, playing songs by Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent and others. Even then, he was an outstanding drummer! R.I.P. John.

wonderful,thanks for uploading :) just how I'd like to remember him :)

Its Victor! :) Used to watch him in the late 80s in the Hardman Hotel in Liverpool, what a performer. Always remember the court house song though dont know the name of the song and awesome performance of Hey Joe.

Brill, thanks for uploading this Bill, RIP JK, one of the good guys no doubt.

Many fond memories of tony, I had guitar lessons from him in wardle. He turned me on 2 some great music, inc hendrix, steely dan, james taylor, michael Mcdonald and john martin etc

So sad to hear on BBC Radio 4 this morning of the sad end of Tony Crabtree on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrv9z - well worth a listen on the iPlayer. I met Tony playing in a bar in San Antonio, Ibiza, and we became friends. I will never forget him saying "Give us a look", and investigating my face with his sensitive musical fingers ...... I feel a song coming on!

love this Tony.

Nice one Bill, the talent rolls on.

hi guys any chance someone has tonys version of jealous guy or even better some of the album this tune was on loved him as a man hero worshiped him as a musician was at his funeral with Stew Yates Dezi Donnelly please someone put some more of his stuff on here !!!!!

Your Uncle Bob probably has copies of most of the videos I`ve done of Dark Horses but, if he hasn`t, I`ll send you a DVD. I`m John T`s brother Bill and I`ve done quite a few recordings over the years. I`m not sure it`s a good idea to put phone numbers and addresses on the TH-cam comments section (because it`s public) so if you send your address details use my Tapptoons email address. Google "Tapptoons" for the homepage and you`ll see it.

I`m okay Dave and I hope you and yours are doing well also.

Sorry Bill I'm being awfully ignorant, hullo and how you doing.

Sorry, no I didn`t. I had to leave after the Dark Theory set.

Great Stuff Bill did you happen to get any of The Lol Goodman set.

xxx

I know Victor he is a good man

Write the lyric please!~

nice i like it GOOD OOOOOO YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH U ROCK IT MAN!~THANK U FOR SHARING I LOVE IT!~

Thank you for putting this video up. Tommy was my uncle and i'm so proud to be related to him. He was such a lovely lovely man and is missed by everyone, at least we can still listen to him through his music.

Thank you for putting this up. Tom will be sadly missed here in Halifax too. Robert, Richard & Derek .