FURTHER to Glenn Hughes (former member of Trapeze and Deep Purple and now part of the excellent Black Country Communion) not remembering if he had ever played a gig in our fair city before (The Press May 23).
Well, I will certainly remember his appearance at the Grand Opera House that night because it was one of the most memorable rock concerts I have attended in recent years.
Full marks to the Opera House for securing his services, and his supporting act, the incredible Joanne Shaw Taylor – boy, can she play the guitar!
It's not often someone can get me on my feet to perform my “air guitar” – so apologies to those around me in the dress circle who witnessed a 62-year-old in meltdown.
Memo to the Grand Opera House – any chance of bringing my all-time guitar hero, Joe Satriani, to York? Oh puleeze!
Finally, could I jog Mr Roy Hughes’ memory again (Letters May 25) – was Roy, like me, part of the audience in the Museum Gardens (late 1960s, early 1970s?) when the mighty Hawkwind almost blew the library’s foundations away?
Alan Glasby, Charlanie Court, Wigginton, York.
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