Simon Kirke
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863 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Nov
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Caught me smoking in the back or whatever.
He says, I hear you play drums.
I said, well, I do, yeah.
And he said, well, I have, this was before disco, but he had a stack of 45s, a couple of turntables, and he used to go around all the village halls playing, you know, the songs of the day.
And he said, I think it would be a good idea if you brought your little drum kit and played alongside.
And I was like, whoa, whoa, I'll have to ask my parents.
And they agreed as long as it didn't affect my homework.
And I did that for about two and a half years, Billy.
Wow.
And that's where I've got what I consider to be a pretty good sense of time.
Because in one minute you'd be playing Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles and Baby Love by the Supremes and then Waltz.
Yeah.
With Jim Reeves, he'll have to go.
And then a velita, which is, you know, some kind of weird tuba pumping oompa oompa.
So I did that for two hours a night for nearly two years.
That's a good distinction, yeah.
Well, that brings me to the three biggest influences in my career were Al Jackson Jr., the number one from the Stax Band, Booker T and the MGs.
Of course, Ringo, who I had the pleasure with touring alongside in the All-Star Band.
And Charlie Watts, who was not flashy at all.
He says, I'm not good enough to be flash.
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