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December 3 2015

Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan Remembered – One Year Gone

BP Fallon & The Bandits 'Still Legal', Ian McLagan, Life's A Gas, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Timeless, Vinyl

Two Dodgy Geezers – BP Fallon presents Ian McLagan with the album ‘Still Legal’ on which Mac plays Hammond organ. Photography by Crystal at The Lucky Lounge, Austin, Texas BP Fallon writes: It’s a year ago today since Ian McLagan died. It was so shocking, this effervescent man so suddenly gone. I heard the news from Austin and in New York I wept. Can I tell you how amazing Mac was/is? No need. You know. Magical on the keyboards, magical as a man, twinkling onwards through any passing storms… Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan of Small Faces/Faces, played with The Stones, was […]

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June 21 2015

The Story Of Mike Mills of REM

BP Fallon & Danny B Harvey, BP Fallon & Joe King Carrasco, BP Fallon & The Bandits 'Still Legal', Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Writing

“You want me to pay for them?!” Joe King Carrasco & BP Fallon & Mike Mills & Danny B Harvey. Photography by Mike Webber Mike Mills of REM comes to see us play and afterwards he’s saying how much he enjoyed it, the songs are great, the vibes on stage are great, the band is great, etc. I pull out the BP Fallon & The Bandits CD and the ‘BP Fallon Live In Texas’ CD and ask “Do you have these?” “No” says Mike, thanking me as he takes them. “They’re $15 each” says I and Mike says “You mean, […]

May 15 2015

BP Fallon – Thoughts On BB King

Brown Bread, Magic, Music, The Blues, Writing

I first saw BB King in 1969, at The Royal Albert Hall in London. There was this party for Release – the organisation set up by Caroline Coon and pals to assist in the legal defence of people who were getting busted – and suddenly Sgt Pilcher and his drug squad were pouring in, the smell of hash suddenly overtaken by the smell of bad vibes. “Where’s George? Where’s Eric?” Pilcher wanted to know. Pilcher was told that George Harrison and Eric Clapton had left. “They’re gone, mate”. On hearing that his pop star targets were no longer present and […]

December 4 2014

BP Fallon pays tribute to Ian McLagan who died yesterday

BP Fallon & The Bandits, Brown Bread, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll

BP Fallon presents Ian McLagan with his copies of the BP Fallon & The Bandits LP & CD on which Mac plays. Photography by Crystal Bauer BP Fallon writes: I can’t get my head around it, that this most vibey and energetic of men is… gone. We became friends yonks ago ~ Mac said it was in 1967 ~ when I interviewed the Small Faces in London as we whizzed around Hyde Park in a mini-moke and had a smoke or two. “I know BP Fallon since before he had a hat” Mac used to say. Listen, you’d never meet […]

January 5 2014

BP Fallon – Thoughts On The Everly Brothers Don & Phil

Brown Bread, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Timeless

Phil Everly (January 19th 1939 – January 3rd 2014) RIP My Auntie Betty, bless her, owned The Headfort Arms Hotel in Kells in County Meath in Ireland. Then – this is 1959 – it was a sort of hunting/shooting/landed gentry crowd who took of the hotel’s hospitality. And this kid home on holidays in Ireland from boarding school in England, this eleven year old boy flush with his first flash of this rock’n’roll thing that was to fuel him all of his life, he discovered in the hotel in his aunt’s private and sedate drawing room a radiogram. This big mahogany lump […]