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Well thanks for attending the Sunday evening soiree at the Church of Brian & the Pit Props and I am glad that it enhanced your journey through what can be a miserable old life sometimes 🙂

hiya Paul long time no see hope that you are well - Chris

Cheers Todd it is an exhilarating place to be at the right time

oh so it was you three making all that noise then - can you calm down a bit cos Richard is complaining that our fans are too rowdy 🙂

no exaggeration

Sure were John, wish we could go back

We were a rock band lol shame you didn't come and see us cos we could kick it out with the best of them we were all experienced rock musicians doing something "a little different" :-)

@@chriscuttriss I can see that now, Had friends who went to see you ,I was only 18 at the time, had to pick and chose gigs not much money..Loving it now though ..Were you Local to Derbyshire ?? I was from Tibshelf...

@@artvanwag3257 all local to Chesterfield, there was a big contingent of following in Tibshelf in fact we "headlined" the Tibshelf carnival in 1988 and were pelted with eggs on the high street as we rode in splendour through the streets on a coal wagon :-)

@@chriscuttriss sounds like tibby ,i had left by then off to stonehenge to see Hawkwind,

What Happened to the Band in the End..What role do you play ??

It was Rush's version that I liked so I decided to have a bash at it, the Xanadu thing fitted really well as a lead guitar part so I used the Burny Les Paul sustainer guitar and it made the whole thing come to life

thanks for listening Todd

ta Linda

Thanks for commenting Todd this was a long time ago - I couldn't do it now

I have got loads more but its such a pain in the ass uploading them all

This one was before I stopped taking as much gear on the road, I have got a VOX stack for the guitar on this but it was huge and heavy so I stripped it all down eventually to make the workload less, it was a huge job to transport, set up and strip down and I was largely doing it all on my own as well as at least 2 hours on stage, sometimes as many as 3. A lot of hard work involved in it all.

yes I can see you but I don't know which one you are :-)

@@chriscuttriss 🤣🤣🤣

Unfortunately circumstances changed the whole Brian & the Pit Props dynamic and my/our only option was to join The Gutterband simply to make a living; Brian was never an initial component of the deal I struck when Glenn and I joined them, but when he DID come in to the equation, it was largely beyond my control anymore. Whereas I had always stuck up for Brian and ensured he was treated fairly and with respect when the Pit Props saga was in full flow, the Gutterband was purely a money-making entity and the fun and camaraderie we had in the Pit Props was completely swamped by greed and disrespect. A shame, but that was the way it was and the modus operandi of those people running the Gutterband's "corporate strategy". That was the reason I quit in 1992 after 400+ gigs I did with them.

Many years had passed since the events of the late 80's and early 90's. There was a good turnout at the funeral all things considered

thanks for this Lee I will change it. Chris Cuttriss

OK I have made the relevant changes to the date on all three clips. I have still got my diaries of every gig that we did but I had got it in my mind that it was 1988 because we did a lot of YTV and other TV shows that year. Anyway my apologies all errors amended.

heady days never to be repeated

@@chriscuttriss I understand that. LOL

Thanks Todd!

It isn't the vibrant place now that it was back then

Thanks Todd always appreciated.

I never contrived it. It just mushroomed from me on an acoustic guitar having a laff WITH Brian, not AT Brian, with a few of my mates. 6 months later every single WMC/MW in N Derbyshire had broken all bar takings records. Grassmoor was just one of many. Brian was an enigma and had the ability to entertain people, no matter what the critics said about it all. It was, fun. Pure and simple.

the 4 on stage being the toughest (women)

Gibson Byrdland David, greatest guitar ever made

It was only ever intended as an experimental production to iron out a few engineering issues. This last master though stands up quality-wise due again to Sonarworks' processing/headphone calibration. It would not be a song I would put on any "album", but it has good moments.

I'll re-mix/master this soon its a bit bottom heavy

cheers again bro this is the best quality recording I have as yet produced due to Sonarworks' headphone calibration processing

This is autobiographical and describes a lot of the actual events in my illustrious rock and roll gigging career which lasted 40 years before I had to quit as I could no longer survive the gladiatorial arena...all the events I am describing in this song actually happened including the plug-pull :-)

Again another very difficult project-I wanted an AC/DC type riff and rawness but I could not make it happen that way, so I produced it with more of a radio-friendly dance feel. It works well though, I am pleasantly surprised when I listen to it

It was a bitch to produce -the most difficult one of all this collection

Good guitar sound.

Thanks Jim only just seen this comment to approve it. The album is the product of a great deal of hard work and I appreciate that you understand it and approve.

Comes at least near to the top of the favourite list of all the material I have ever produced. The lead guitar soars like a bird with a malevolent beauty.

Of all the songs on the Pterodactyl collection, despite it's length and complexity, this was the easiest to complete-I reckon I spent 10 TIMES more hours producing Renegade, the shortest track on the collection! So if that equation adds up, the longer the song = the easier the production process!!! Non-sequitur but nevertheless a quirky paradox. Sacrificed started out as a "Trilogy" where the mid section starts (the part where I am doing the scat singing against the guitar line), I originally was going to call that part two "The Phantom Centre" - the phantom centre being a very mysterious concept in audio engineering - it is basically that sound in stereo is emitting from a left and right sound source, yet our brains interpret the sound as summing and emanating from the centre point of the stereo image...wacky eh? Anyroad up, enough of the Carl Sagan, the final part three of the trilogy starts at the key shift to F#, and is entitled "Manifesto Of Madness", because when I originally worked on all those guitar parts, I just kept riffing away one riff after another, each previous riff having a relationship to the previous one that was instinctively derived...so in the end I had a huge manifesto of madness to make sense of, a bit like Brexit lol

I keep trying to placate your Blues-lust but it is kind of outside my remit except in a very fringe-fashion...there are aspects of the blues in this and a lot of my other tunes but I am no blues purist and when I try to sound like a blues impersonator I end up cracking up laffing at my ineptitude so I just stick to what I know which is often loud raucous rock bordering on Metal but not quite-the Everly Brothers-type vocal harmonies often pull the sound back from descending into Heavy Metal monotony I hope at least. Not that I don't like "Heavy Metal", but once that noose tightens around your creative neck it is a difficult extrication process...I try to incorporate a lot of my influences like Budgie and even the Nuge still permeates even though me and him had a tiff as ya know :-)

yes missus but not nearly as tight as they are now around me waist