Peter Bellamy As Concertina Player

[fidjit]

Take a look at "Wake the Vaulted Echoes", the CD set from Free Reed Records of Petter Bellamy's works.

 

Details at

 

Wake the Vaulted Echos

 

I agree with Chis, the anglo style is distinctive but I remember this style amongst singers here in the UK in the 70s - perhaps copied from Peter's playing.

 

Howard Mitchell

 

Just seen the date on this post as 2003 Dam I knew that Vaulted was out of stock. I'm really trying to get hold of this Bellamy epic !!

I know It's in the States. but Neil says it's to be re-printed soon.

 

Sad to say I never saw him live and can only listen to his rechordings in wonderment. (He's better when not trying to sing like an old man).

 

Chas

Edited December 12, 2007 by fidjit

[Paul Read]

Sad to say I never saw him live and can only listen to his rechordings in wonderment.

Chas

 

Yes did do some variable chords

[meltzer]

Just seen the date on this post as 2003 Dam I knew that Vaulted was out of stock. I'm really tring to get hold of this Bellamy epic !!

I know It's in the States. but Neil says it's to be re-printed soon.

Great news. I'll certainly be getting it.

 

It was the CD reissues of some of Peter's stuff that made me want to pick up the anglo after a gap of *cough* years.

[Dan Worrall]

... I know from a recent post of yours that you have a penchant for buying instruments once owned by famous players, like Alf Edwards!

Dan,

 

As a matter of fact, far from having a penchant for them, the Alf Edwards instrument (which is now my "favourite squeeze") is the only one I've ever bought knowing for a fact that it was once owned by a famous player. However, coincidentally I have just been offered another very famous English concertina, but "mum's the word" for now...

 

Hi Stephen,

 

Even with just Alf's you are in a different league than most of us!

 

The only concertina I have that even comes close to celebrity status (and not very close) is an Aeola that once belonged to Whistling Bill Anderson's father. Anderson was a country music star of sorts back in the 50s and 60s. I bought that instrument because it is a good player, and had never heard of Whistling Bill or his father before I bought it. Once I knew its story, I spotted a $2.00 used book...an autobiography of old Bill...in a used book store. I snapped it up to see what Bill and his father were like. Apparently, old Whistling Bill was not on good terms with dear old Dad, and called him 'completely unmusical'. So I have a Wheatstone that once belonged to the completely unmusical father of a B list country crooner!

[asdormire]

The only concertina I have that even comes close to celebrity status (and not very close) is an Aeola that once belonged to Whistling Bill Anderson's father. Anderson was a country music star of sorts back in the 50s and 60s. I bought that instrument because it is a good player, and had never heard of Whistling Bill or his father before I bought it. Once I knew its story, I spotted a $2.00 used book...an autobiography of old Bill...in a used book store. I snapped it up to see what Bill and his father were like. Apparently, old Whistling Bill was not on good terms with dear old Dad, and called him 'completely unmusical'. So I have a Wheatstone that once belonged to the completely unmusical father of a B list country crooner!

 

Actually, shouldn't that be Whispering Bill Anderson?

 

Alan

[Dan Worrall]

Actually, shouldn't that be Whispering Bill Anderson?

 

Alan

 

Wow...somebody knows him. I have a famous concertina!

 

You're right Alan, my mistake. He whispered, not whistled.

 

Cheers,

Dan

[Constant Screamer]

This "aged" topic just now caught my eye because of my fondness for Peter Bellamy and his unique style. Back in the mid 1970s...right around the time I SAW and HEARD my first concertina player...I was hosting a "folk" music program in southern New Hampshire when I got a phone call from this guy with an English accent....he said his name was Peter Bellamy and he was bouncing around the USA doing some gigs...heard about my program and wanted to know if he could come on the air and play? I'd never heard of him...but thought why not.

 

I wish the story had a great ending...but Peter wasn't sure exactly WHEN he'd be in the area...we weren't able to co-ordinate a date...and he fell from my memory. Then in the early 80s when I started PLAYING concertina...I stumbled upon his music and felt VERY cheated that fate hadn't delivered him to my studio that distant year.

 

What an artist.