December 19, 2005
Paramounts at Club Riga: Comments from the after-show celebrations
While early pictures from Gary's Sunday gig in Southend are already coming in, here's a few more from Saturdays Paramounts reunion (from Roland's camera):
Robin Trower: I haven't played those songs for 40 years. I won't get my head around what's happened for a month. We're gonna do this every 40 years.
Gary Brooker: Robin Trower … such marvellous playing … notes full of meaning.
Chris Copping: It's fantastic to play with Rob … all that he's learned in this time. It's like a black bluesman, this surge of electricity comes from him when he's playing.
Mick Brownlee: I've had a pretty terrible year [his illness] and right now I feel great, on top of the world. This was only sorted out less than a week ago. Robin and I got together when he played Dartford. I told him this was happening and said we'll get your Mum and Dad along. And Robin said I'll come along but I won't play. And then he said, “I might get up and play one or two.”
Franky Brooker: Suddenly Robin was ringing us asking what numbers we were doing. Then Gary sent an email! [His first] Chris Copping was very impressed.
Dave Bronze: An unforgettable occasion. Magic, the only word for it. Forty years on and no rehearsal … and they can still play like that.