You can all join in

[Edthefolkie]

A bunch of us lads lived in half a big terraced house round the corner from Ladbroke Grove around 1971, and there was a copy of You Can All Join In hanging around; can't remember now who owned it. Got played a lot.

I bet Iain Matthews looks fed up on the cover cos he's freezing!

One of us owned a Track Records (I think) sampler with If I Had a Ribbon Bow on it - Judy Dyble vocal refrain.

My God there was an eclectic collection of records in that place - we played Who's Next incessantly and we also had gems like At The Hop by Danny and the Juniors and an ancient Sandy Powell 78 - Wi' 'Er 'Ed Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm, B side Sandy Among The Nudists.  

Rather a lot of Moody Blues & Bread too, lowering the tone a bit. Oops sorry, thread creep......        

[mik]

ladbroke grove 71!!!! wow!!! You have lived my dream - Hawkwind, the fairies, The mountain Grill, great stuff missed it all by ten years   mind there is an upside I'd rather be 43 than 53  

A bunch of us lads lived in half a big terraced house round the corner from Ladbroke Grove around 1971, and there was a copy of You Can All Join In hanging around; can't remember now who owned it. Got played a lot.

I bet Iain Matthews looks fed up on the cover cos he's freezing!

One of us owned a Track Records (I think) sampler with If I Had a Ribbon Bow on it - Judy Dyble vocal refrain.

My God there was an eclectic collection of records in that place - we played Who's Next incessantly and we also had gems like At The Hop by Danny and the Juniors and an ancient Sandy Powell 78 - Wi' 'Er 'Ed Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm, B side Sandy Among The Nudists.  

Rather a lot of Moody Blues & Bread too, lowering the tone a bit. Oops sorry, thread creep......        

[jude]

ladbroke grove 71!!!! wow!!! You have lived my dream - Hawkwind, the fairies, The mountain Grill, great stuff missed it all by ten years   mind there is an upside I'd rather be 43 than 53  

A bunch of us lads lived in half a big terraced house round the corner from Ladbroke Grove around 1971, and there was a copy of You Can All Join In hanging around; can't remember now who owned it. Got played a lot.

I lived there then as well, (not in the same house as Edthefolkie obviously,) but in Elgin Crescent.
Really missed Portobello market when we moved out of London in 1973.....................

I expect our paths crossed quite a bit

[jamesc]

Yes, I am looking at a copy of Bumpers now, when I brought it it was something in old money on a market stall, saw a copy of it at a car boot the other week,

[mik]

ladbroke grove 71!!!! wow!!! You have lived my dream - Hawkwind, the fairies, The mountain Grill, great stuff missed it all by ten years   mind there is an upside I'd rather be 43 than 53  

A bunch of us lads lived in half a big terraced house round the corner from Ladbroke Grove around 1971, and there was a copy of You Can All Join In hanging around; can't remember now who owned it. Got played a lot.

I lived there then as well, (not in the same house as Edthefolkie obviously,) but in Elgin Crescent.
Really missed Portobello market when we moved out of London in 1973.....................

I expect our paths crossed quite a bit

I stayed many nites with a pal in the early eighties above honest johns in Portobello Road - few years after the heyday of that ladbroke grove scene - he was always pointing out things like the house they fillumed Performance in and in that big pub near the yard where virgin was - the earl of gransden I think it was - was lemmy!! who is much smaller than you expect.starstruck daze!!!

[malcolm weaver]

Re: You Can All Join In......are you aware of the pink Island CD box set ..Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal..which does its best to cover all of the Island sampler albums between 1967 and 1972. Although you miss out on the artwork of the vinyl era there is a lot of info relating to the artists and the samplers etc.

[Nick Reg]

This month's Record Collector mag (with The Who on the front) has a diagram identifying all those on the cover of YCAJI.

[Staffan]

One of us owned a Track Records (I think) sampler with If I Had a Ribbon Bow on it - Judy Dyble vocal refrain.

      

I found it in my LP shelf. "Backtrack 2". Among the tracks: Under my thumb-Who, Desdemona-Marsha Hunt and  Hendrix´Purple Haze! Great resord but the only of the Backtrack albums to  include Fairport.
I must admit that I never bought the other samplers mentioned. It seemed that I already had the tracks I was interested in on different LP:s. I have a feeling that they didn´t precede the albums the tracks were taken from but rather came out after the original albume had been out on the market for some time.

[Anne Dunn]

The Word November 2004 had an article on the "glory days" of the sampler album: You Can All Join In, Nice Enough To Eat and Bumpers were the classics from Island. I still love them. Nice Enough To Eat introduced the world to King Crimson and Nick Drake - need I say more? In the Foreword to his Sandy Denny Songbook, Maartin Allcock mentions You Can All Join In and says how excited he was that he later got to play with musicians who feature in that famous photo.

I have them all and I love them.

The story I have is that the bloke in the glasses is Ian Anderson (now of fRoots but he used to be in a band back then). Supposedly they thought he was Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.  

[Nick Reg]

The Word November 2004 had an article on the "glory days" of the sampler album: You Can All Join In, Nice Enough To Eat and Bumpers were the classics from Island. I still love them. Nice Enough To Eat introduced the world to King Crimson and Nick Drake - need I say more? In the Foreword to his Sandy Denny Songbook, Maartin Allcock mentions You Can All Join In and says how excited he was that he later got to play with musicians who feature in that famous photo.

I have them all and I love them.

The story I have is that the bloke in the glasses is Ian Anderson (now of fRoots but he used to be in a band back then). Supposedly they thought he was Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.  

Both Ian's are in the picture, perhaps they were just making sure they'd got the right one!!

[Chris]

Ian Anderson (now of fRoots but he used to be in a band back then).

WAs, and still is - the band is Tiger Moth. You'll note he was involved with The Imagined Village, and showed up at the Festival Hall - along with Tom Robinson (who plonked himself down beside me)

[Anne Dunn]

Chris, yes I did know that but I didn't have a lot of time to do my post!

I did see Ian after the qu's, but didn't spot him again during the performance.

[Chris]

He lent Billy Bragg his amp....

[Anne Dunn]

I thoiught he might join in on the ceilidh number at the end  
(sorry all about the thread drift   )