Blodwyn Pig & Bonzo

[tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey,

 You've often seen me mention Mick Abrahams as one of my favorite and 
often overlooked guitarists. Part of my "canned response" to all those 
polls as Tangerine man put it. Well, check it out. I emailed the guy 
today and was more than thoroughly surprised when within minutes I 
actually got a reply from him! Now that's way cool for a rocker to 
actually read and answer mails sent to him via their website 
http://www.mickaby.freeola.com/

Anyways, on top of my Blodwyn Pig related questions to him I of course 
had to toss in an question about their halcyon days with Zep.
Here' his reply to that:

> Hi Nech,


>            That’s a lot of questions mate ! ...............(snipped

for brevity)...................... As far as Led Zeppelin goes , if you 
go to >http://www.myspace.com/blodwynpig  and look at the various blogs 
there is a story about me and John Bonham which is true and >quite a 
laugh . Best I can do for you at this time Hope it’s ok.

> Be Well Mick Abrahams.


So thanks to Mick Abrahams, I have broken down and gotten a myspace 
account so all the young girls can google me ; )  I strongly suggest you 
check out both Mick's site and the myspace one as there are some way 
cool vids and songs there and you'll see my way why I do like them so. 
Mick rocks. His live versions of Cat's Squirrel will blow you away.

As far as Bonzo from the Blodwyn Blog:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.controlcenter&Mytoken=F1A51E06-706C-44B9-AA852322516864D961968996


Incidentally there was another humorous event at the Chrysalis offices 
at about the same time. I had been called into the office of  Doug Darcy 
on my way to the studios one morning and had been captured by John 
Bonham & Stan Webb on the way in, and made our way to the nearest pub 
and proceeded to get riotously pissed! ( they made me do it, I didn't 
want to really!) we were totally steamed by the time we got back to the 
offices and we were in a playful frame of mind to say the least. Poor 
old Doug Darcy has never been the same since 3 drunken musos burst into 
his office armed with rolls of gaffer tape and proceeded to mummify him 
from the neck downwards to his feet! His screaming protests were to no 
avail, the unfortunate agency manager was then frogmarched to the lift 
and sent up and down 5 floors a few times to see what the effect would 
be! As if that was not enough fun we then hit upon the brilliant plan of 
taking him to the roundabout in Oxford Circus and leaving him there 
whilst watching from a safe distance across the road from a local 
booser. He hopped around asking passers by to help him but to no avail, 
most people thought he was an idiot escapologist who had just simply 
screwed his act up! We did however have the decency to tell someone at 
the office of his whereabouts and someone was dispatched to free him.

We then concentrated our combined drunken efforts on destroying the 
office of Bill Harry the Chrysalis publicist by piling up all his 
furniture in the middle of the room and hanging his typewriters out of 
the window attached to a piece of rope.As he was always pissed ( this 
particular day being no exception) he didn't seem to notice. To complete 
a good days work we finished off by changing all the name plates on the 
doors and peeing in most of the metal waste paper bins. I don't remember 
much more about the rest of the day except to say I didn't make it to 
the studio! Fortunately Jack was just doing overdubs that day so I 
wasn't needed for any work,which was just as well!

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nech