ROCK N ROLLED A Memoir by Jack Sonni

[Jules]

Jack Sonni was one of the reasons why the band really rocked during that world tour, doesnt matter how amateur he was before joining the band, his perfomance was great and not only playing guitar 

I missed him during the last DS tour 

[ARII]

New to this forum but love the debates and DS memories that they inspire. On Jack's DS experience, I really think that you'd have to really connect to MK creatively to stay in the band, particularly as a guitar player. Let's face it his other guitar players didn't last long, and most genius song-writers have a close relationship with their lead guitar player. For MK he was both and connected more creatively with the key boarders and production guys, Guy, Chuck etc.....

Met Mark in 1987 as his cleaning lady was also cleaning a friend of mines house in Notting Hill, and Eric Clapton's, (my friend was MK's neighbour and he invited us for a cup of tea) ..... he was incredibly nice, but you could tell that he was obsessed with new styles, creative directions , playing with other guitarists etc.....maybe this was part of the reason that Jack wasn't involved in the recording of OES and tour.  Also, he could have turned up for Mandela stuff, I know he'd had twins but I'm sure MK was the sort of guy you'd have to continuously connect with, be near, ensure that he didn't fly off in a different direction. You also had the great Paul Franklin on the OES Album/Tour so there was a different dynamic and appreciation required from the rythm guitarist and Phil certainly had the experience of many styles and band interactions.....Let's face it the BIA Tour was much rawer than the OES sound, but it terms of technical excellence the OES Band was immensely gifted.

Not sure if Jack would agree & cannot wait for the book.....Love the forum and hope more interesting items are discussed soon...ARII

[superval99]

Welcome to this great forum ARII!    What a lovely story!   

[ARII]

Yeah, she was a Phillipino lady, very nice too (apologies if I spelt P'pino wrong, no offence...) . She got me backstage after the Earls Court Gig (one of them) on the OES Tour, but it was really quite dull. Massive room, but only 5 strangers and Tomothy Dalton were there, plus the 6 of us she invited....Mark had food-poisoning, but Guy, John, and I think Danny were there doing the DS Courtesy bit. I was 20 yrs old and remember thinking that I was really heading to a rock & roll party when the gig ended, but it was canopes and a very bored James Bond drinking alone....Quite sad but I guess DS weren't hugely Rock & Roll off stage at least.....I'll ask Guy Fletcher if he spoke to Dalton that night on his forum..

Best Live Set for the record (in order they should be played)

Ride Across the River - Farewell to Aus
Expresso Love - San Antonio '85
Industrial Disease - Adelaide '86
So far Away (Toss up between Wembley '85 (for the most excellent outro solo, and calypso vers FTA but going for former as I've heard other too many times recently)
What it Is - Shangri-La Tour (Boston/RAH either)
Romeo & Juliet - OTN Basel (superb)
Sultans (oh this is very tricky, but have to go with RAH '96 for outro and mid solos, awesome MK axe)
Done with Bonapart - GF on Guitar and all,, Boston 2005 SGL
Goldenheart - A night in London
Je suis desole - as above
TOL - San Ant/Houston '86 (the one with solo missing (cannot recall whhich king biscuit gig it is) has better backing vocals on chorus actually but they sliced off the solo (criminal offence)
Brothers - Wembley '85 for the high paced outro solo, incredible stuff
Going Home -A night in london (Electra Strings make it sweet as....)

Oooppps, forgot the Walk of Life .......Somewhere at the start - Live in Basel 92 (the one where MK has yellow shirt....it rocks and he has such presence with crowd in that gig)
Enjoy....ARII

[dustyvalentino]

Great story about Dalton - and of course he is playing Romeo and Juliet in his car in Hot Fuzz!

Welcome.

[Pottel]

Tol was way better in uniondale, i'm gonna stick to that!

[knopfling]

Arii, welcome, and thanks for the stories.
Timothy Dalton is very good on "Chuck" this year. Glad to know he's interested in MK.

[ARII]

OK, never seen Hot Fuss or Chuck but will check them out. He was certainly my least favourite James Bond with Sean Connery top:

1. Sean Conn
2. Rog Moore
3. Pierce Bros
4. George Lazenby
5. Dan Craig
6. Tim Dalton

It's th eroyal wedding in London and it's like Xmas Eve in the office, so anyone feel free to offer Top Bond lists......or Top MK Solo's (trying to work out some of the more difficult parts of Telegraph Road this weekend, but kind of lose the thread late on....somehow (even though I have the music books....I can't get the same note to sound the same way as MK...it's incredibly annoying actually. )

[Jackal]

Casino Royale Wedding? The Spy Who Wedded Me? Dr Yes, I Do? London Eye?

Of the Bond girls, Maud Adams was my favorite. Good grief, she was hot.

Did we digress again?

[dustyvalentino]

My favourite Bond girl was teh one that turned out to be a bloke.

[Jackal]

Grace Jones?

[dustyvalentino]

Ha. Was thinking of this guy.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/bondgirl.asp

[Waterline Man]

My favourite Bond girl was teh one that turned out to be a bloke.

are you sure it wasnt this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/

[IrisRose]

Sean Connery and only Sean Connery, with Pierce Brosnan a decent substitute.   But really, only Connery.

[Jackal]

Sean Connery and only Sean Connery, with Pierce Brosnan a decent substitute.   But really, only Connery.

Agree. I'm not a great Bond anyway, the movies are just too silly, but Connery was above them all. Muscht have been hisch Schcottischnesch.

I saw one of the last ones with Daniel Craig. Think he did a very good job, except the film didn't feel like Bond ... More like any decent action movie. Might have to do with the fact that Craig is as cool as a refrigerated cucumber and that his Bond movies are completely void of the charm that marked at least the earlier Bond movies. But give me Jason Bourne anytime.