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Godfrey Arthur
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 10:14 am |
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From the keepers of the sacred word "Ni" and the Holy Grail as well as the Magical Mystery Tour, comes our own Roger Rettig dragging bar and skit-cameoed in a Monty-Python-esque piece backing up George Harrison, an Eric Idle spoof performance.
I found this clip and yup, it's Roger on a ZB!
Here's the entire skit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbRHxM4X2g
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 10:42 am
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Nice of you to add these stills, Godfrey, but it's no secret here on the SGF, I'm afraid. This was one of my earliest excursions on pedal steel and it's best enjoyed with no audio!!!
That's one of my favourite musicians on the Telecaster - singer/guitarist/songwriter Billy Bremner.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 10:45 am
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Roger, you certainly get around.  |
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Godfrey Arthur
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 11:00 am
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Nice of you to add these stills, Godfrey, but it's no secret here on the SGF, I'm afraid. This was one of my earliest excursions on pedal steel and it's best enjoyed with no audio!!!
That's one of my favourite musicians on the Telecaster - singer/guitarist/songwriter Billy Bremner. |
No way!!! Rockpile's If Sugar Was As Sweet As You Bremner? Nick Lowe Dave Edmunds???
Dang Roger what else are you hiding?
Roger you in the midst of some of my fave Brit-ology?
How could I resist?
It's classic.
"Always look on the bright side of life... too-oot, too-oot, too-oot-too-oot-too-oot..."
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 11:42 am
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Billy and I had a band together from 1972 for about seven years. Initially we were called 'Compass' but morphed into 'Fatso' (named after Billy and I who were noticeably more rotund than the other two).
Neil Innes joined us in '75 and we filmed several episodes of the Python spin-off 'Rutland Weekend Television' - the stuff with George was done at this time.
Neil, to this day, refers to this band (above) as the 'original Rutles' because we played his Beatles-like parodies first (usually on 'RWTv'.)
In 2008 they had me return to the UK for a reunion tour. Here we are posing with some Liverpool pals when we played in Birkenhead. Seen here: Billy, Brian, Neil, John Gorman and John Halsey. I'm on the far right standing with Mike 'McGear' (actually Paul McCartney's older brother). JG and MM were two-thirds of a trio named 'Scaffold' who had some novelty hits in the '60s.
Below that, me and Billy posing inside the Cavern Club.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 5 Dec 2014 11:46 am
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| Great photos, Roger. I never realised that you were one of the original Rutles. Did you play any more with George Harrison? |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 5 Dec 2014 12:31 pm
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Yes, Alan. We did a couple of gigs together. This was post-Beatles but before he did the Traveling Wilbury thing. I seem to recall that he wasn't bothered about the money!! 
I liked him, and we did have some great conversations about how great we both thought Lonnie Donegan was. (I showed him the intro for 'Dead or Alive'...)
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 5 Dec 2014 4:10 pm
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I notice one of your friends on Facebook is Peter Donegan. Is he related to Lonnie?
I envy all the opportunities you've had in your life to get out and meet people. We come from similar backgrounds, and it reinforces in me the fact that, instead of keeping my day job and working for 45 years in accountancy, which must be the most boring career anyone ever invented, I should have taken the more risky path and followed the activities that I enjoy.  |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 5 Dec 2014 5:12 pm
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Yes, Peter is Lonnie's son. I've known Peter (and his brother - David D.) fot a few years now and you'll also see Sharon Donegan there, too. Sharon is Lon's widow and I got to know her when I'd go and rehearse with Lonnie at their Brentford, Middx. home.
Peter's resemblance to My Hero is quite remarkable - he's inherited LD's facial characteristics - especially that broad smile! He does gigs using Lon's old band and, while he's not over-busy, he does quite well out of it.
I know Donegan could be difficult but he was always nice to me. At his memorial Service in May, 2003 Sharon told me that 'Lonnie thought the world of you...'
I'm very proud of that and I wish I could go back in time fifty-five years and tell young Roger Rettig what his hero would one day say.
Here we all are on May 8th, 2003. Chas 'n' Dave, Joe Brown, Bill Wyman, Bert Weedon, Bruce Welch, Chas McDevitt, Albert Lee, Brian May and others all there to pay their respects to Britain's most important musician.
Me with Peter and Sharon on the same day:
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Micky Byrne
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Posted 6 Dec 2014 7:46 am
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O.M.G Roger....I remember those days well...was it 100 years ago?? What's Billy Bremner upto these days?? Great player, I used him on dep jobs a few times...and remember him with the "King Pins" at the "Red Cow" ..I think it was the Red Cow Brentford?.....time flys mate 
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 6 Dec 2014 10:59 am
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| Lonnie Donegan was the greatest influence I ever had. It was he who turned me on to buy my first guitar. It was he who directed me to Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, etc. In fact it was he who initiated the British public into old-time American folk music long, long before the "folk era". |
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Roy Heap
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Posted 7 Dec 2014 3:25 am
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Hi Micky mate, I am only nit picking but the Red Cow was in Hammersmith you are thinking of the Red Lion in Brentford. I spent most of my young life there watching Gerry Hogan, Gordon Huntley and many other great Steelies. I would finished my days work in the record shop in Chiswick and straight up to the Red Lion for the night. The Griffin circuit was where great country was played for several years and you could almost catch a steel somewhere.
Roger, Lonnie done an album with steel on the tracks do know the title of it and was you the steelplayer ? |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 4:10 am
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Roger, I've seen John Halsey play with the band Timebox in '68 at the Sunbury Rhythm and Blues Festival. They played before Jerry Lee Lewis. Coming from a small town in Germany and being only fourteen then, I've never seen such a big group of rockers. Scary for me, but Timebox were very brave.
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 5:34 am
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Joachim: Timebox were a really good band, especially guitarist Ollie Halsall. How was Jerry Lee back then - can you remember now?
Here's a shot of John, Neil Innes, me and Albert Lee - taken at a gig I sat in on in London in October.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 5:38 am
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Roy: I don't know what album that was, I'm afraid. Lonnie always told me that he didn't much care for steel guitar although when I played guitar with him he'd have me play steel on a couple of songs ('I Wanna Go Home' springs to mind).
I think I have pretty much everything Donegan ever recorded here but I'll frreely admit that his later stuff didn't interest me much - he seemed to have 'lost the plot' somehow and chose some questionable material. I will check through it all, though, and see if there's a steel player credited.
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Roy Heap
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 6:41 am
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| Roger, found one titled Country Roads with Roger McCrew on pedal steel. I don't the name ,no doubt recorded in Ireland? |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 6:47 am
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That's Roger McKew, Roy.
Roger played guitar with Lonnie in the '70s and recorded with him in the USA - it may have been that occasion. Roger only briefly dabbled with steel guitar and was always unashamedly dismissive of his efforts!
I've known Roger for many years and worked alongside him in the '80 with Joe Brown and in the '90s in Freddie Starr's band. He used to consistently beat me at snooker!!! (Unlike Billy Bremner - I'd usually beat him!)
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 7:31 am
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Roger, I'm pretty sure that Ollie Halsall played only vibes on this occasion. I've read that he became this incredible guitar in only two or three years when the group continued as Patto.
I can't remember much about what Mr.Lewis played except "High Heel Sneakers". Except the surroundings which was kind of mods vs. rockers. I remember that Mike Patto said from the stage after being consistantly hassled by them: "You rockers are ten years out of date".
Thanks for your interest, I like the memories 
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 7:39 am
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Roger McKew, I think the album he plays on is called Joe Brown's Brewery.
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 7:42 am
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'Joe Brown's Home Brew' was the name of the band.
Mike Patto was an outspoken individual! I didn't know him well although we did play golf together a couple of times. He died tragically young.
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 8 Dec 2014 10:20 am
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| ...Here's a shot of John, Neil Innes, me and Albert Lee - taken at a gig I sat in on in London in October... |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbrFqL2D_8
I believe this was at that event. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Tony Glassman
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Posted 9 Dec 2014 12:32 pm
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Roger, so that's Lonnie Donegan's kid? Well, it's nice to see his "Son Arise"  |
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