![]() I asked Pete if he would come to the rehearsal. Peter Daltrey was also a post boy at ABC and one day we were delivering the mail and I heard Pete quietly singing to himself and in turn, this caught my ear. After several auditions for a singer, Danny, Steve, and I knew we needed someone of more vocal substance. I got a job as a post boy at ABC Television. The three of us got on and played instrumentals at the school halls to rehearse. He said he knew this guy at work (Steve) who played bass guitar. By this time, Danny and I toyed with starting a group. How did you and the other band members meet?ĮDDIE: I knew Danny as a kid, and Dan met Steve Clark when Danny became a tool maker. My eldest daughter used to play the flute. I play a little bit of piano, sitar, and cello.ĮDDIE: My father played the tuba in the Coldstream Guard who are the Queen’s band, and he played regularly at Buckingham Palace. I’m most flattered to be compared with Brian Jones. Duane was my inspiration to study the guitar. We produced an instrumental by Sir Paul titled “Rockestra”. I worked with Duane on many projects and got him together with ‘Sir Paul’. I never thought I would meet him, let alone work with him and become a close friend and have been for 40 years. When we were in our early teens, we were influenced by the great rock ‘n’ roll guitar legend, Duane Eddy. What was the first instrument you picked up? I understand you’re a bit like Brian Jones in being able to play multiple instruments?ĮDDIE: Danny Bridgman (Kaleidoscope’s drummer) and I knew each other since we were about 4 years old. That’s when we joined Fontana Records and were taken under the wing of an in-house producer, Dick Leahy. My main feeling was to contact a record company. It certainly fired us to move in a more adventurous place in the music industry. It was at a club in London (the Marquee) and all three acts were superb. It was in a club where we saw Alexis Korner, Tom Jones, and The Rolling Stones. It was this that started us on our journey into our greatest love – music. What are your earliest musical memories, such as the first musical event you attended?ĮDDIE: We started playing in school halls - pubs and clubs. RIP Eddie! Thanks also to my friend Joe Viglione, who put me in touch with Eddie all those years ago. I regret that action and given the sad news that Eddie passed away this week, I decided to resurrect the interview to provide further background on this genial man. I had posted this interview along with Peter’s back in 2014, but took them down later. This interview was originally scheduled to appear in Big Takeover, but Eddie was ill at the time and his responses, which he so thoughtfully wrote out and mailed to me, are reproduced below. A short Coda recalls material from Variation 1 before bringing the piece crashing to a close.I had the great honor of conversing with Eddie Pumer, guitarist and songwriter from Kaleidoscope UK. ![]() Later, a contrasting theme briefly interrupts, but the moto perpetuo returns, eventually acting as a descant to the reintroduction of the Brugg Song in its entirety. The finale, Variation 5, starts with a moto perpetuo . Variation 4, a slow ballad, is once again based on the opening bar. Variation 3 uses a waltz-like theme with a central theme derived from the rising third figure. The short interlude which is Variation 2 plays on the interval of a seventh midway through the song. Variation 1 is based on the dotted rhythm which permeates the song. The introduction is inspired by the many rising intervals which start phrases within the song, and the main theme is then introduced. The variations are based on tiny extracts of the theme, the whole piece therefore resembling the effect of a kaleidoscope, which juxtaposes small fragments of colour in a constantly changing pattern. The lyrics tell of the geography, people and traditions of this charming and historic town, which is situated in the north of Switzerland, near to the German border, about halfway between Basel and Zurich. It is a set of five variations of on the ‘Brugger Lied’ (Brugg Song) which is the traditional song of the town of Brugg. It was composed simultaneously for concert band, brass band and fanfare band for use in all three divisions. M & B Kuhn) as the test piece the Aargau and Waadtland Cantonal Music Festivals held in May and June 2003. Kaleidoscope was commissioned by the Aargau and Waadtland Music Associations (Switzerland) with financial support from the town of Brugg and the City Pharmacy, Brugg (Dr.
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