Langstone Joe
I am the God of Hellfire! …..
…and I bring you FIRE!
For all of a certain ripe old age, you may recognise the title of this image as a reference to the hit single “Fire” from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I met them on Ryde seafront in 1968 when they were visiting the Isle of Wight to appear at the first IOW Pop Festival. Even at a distance Arthur was striking and very tall (I was 6 foot and he looked down at me like I was a Hobbit). Arthur and a couple of the chaps from his band were wandering along the promenade in their velvet jackets, flares, and cuban heel boots, and I somehow felt the need to go up and say hello. After the hello I was a bit stumped, so asked him for an autograph. I had neither paper, nor pen, so Arthur dug around in his pockets, found a scrap of paper and a pen, and proceeded to do a drawing on it, of an eye and pyramid. He explained to me that this was the “All Seeing Eye” that would watch over me. I think his chaps were a bit bored as they started swaying, I guess the lot of them had been smoking something that you don’t buy in a tobacconist. Subsequent house moves, have unfortunately resulted in me losing that scrap of paper, but the memory is still there.
…and for those of you from a younger generation here is Arthur Brown doing his thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
This is a reprocess of an image I captured a couple of years ago at sunrise when the Petersfield Lake had iced over. This time I have kept the spectacular colours exactly as they are in the Raw file, rather than desaturating them as I did last time, which was a mistake that needed rectifying.
I am the God of Hellfire! …..
…and I bring you FIRE!
For all of a certain ripe old age, you may recognise the title of this image as a reference to the hit single “Fire” from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I met them on Ryde seafront in 1968 when they were visiting the Isle of Wight to appear at the first IOW Pop Festival. Even at a distance Arthur was striking and very tall (I was 6 foot and he looked down at me like I was a Hobbit). Arthur and a couple of the chaps from his band were wandering along the promenade in their velvet jackets, flares, and cuban heel boots, and I somehow felt the need to go up and say hello. After the hello I was a bit stumped, so asked him for an autograph. I had neither paper, nor pen, so Arthur dug around in his pockets, found a scrap of paper and a pen, and proceeded to do a drawing on it, of an eye and pyramid. He explained to me that this was the “All Seeing Eye” that would watch over me. I think his chaps were a bit bored as they started swaying, I guess the lot of them had been smoking something that you don’t buy in a tobacconist. Subsequent house moves, have unfortunately resulted in me losing that scrap of paper, but the memory is still there.
…and for those of you from a younger generation here is Arthur Brown doing his thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
This is a reprocess of an image I captured a couple of years ago at sunrise when the Petersfield Lake had iced over. This time I have kept the spectacular colours exactly as they are in the Raw file, rather than desaturating them as I did last time, which was a mistake that needed rectifying.