Friday On My Mind…

Less than 24 hours from now, I’m going to be rocking my socks off at the Glenhead Tavern in Duntocher (in my view the spiritual home of Peter Goes To Partick), with Gooshy’s band ‘Touch ‘N’ Go’.  I’ve seen Goosh once in 17 years (to get some stuff off him for the website), and am thoroughly looking forward to seeing and hearing TnG tomorrow night.

Even though we’ve been in touch for the last few months, flooding, surgery and other mad circumstances have thwarted any chance to get out and see the band, so to be able to catch them at ‘O’Donnells’ is kinda special.  It’s made all the more ‘right’ by being accompanied by my old partner-in-crime, Linda, for the first time in that same 17 year period.  (It’s scary that this much time has passed, but I guess we’re all getting on a bit now!)

See ya there?

Peter Goes To Partick (Part 2)

Thanks to these few blog entries, I’ve managed to make contact with quite a few people involved with Peter Goes To Partick.  As a result of this, I’ve now launched the brand new 100% Official Peter Goes To Partick website at petergoestopartick.com .The site contains photos of the band in its many forms, from the early days of Street Survivors and the original line-up including Gooshy, Stevie Murray and Kenny ‘Mad Dog’ McElroy right through to the final line-up of Gooshy, Stevie Doherty, Ricky Nicholson, Tommy McGroggan and Mick Burns.Hopefully the site will continue to grow, with photo and video contributions from the band themselves, the roadies and the fans.  If you’ve got anything you would like to contribute, email me at content@petergoestopartick.com .   

Working on it…

From recent contact with a reader here, I’ve been inspired to do something about the serious lack of information on the web on the band Peter Goes To Partick and pull it all together in a website.  I have the basic framework of the site in development, but what I reallly need now is some content.  I finally got some software to start digitising the PGTP tracks from my Cameron House tape  and a contact with many more tapes (and possibly even some video), so it’s just a matter of finding the time to do it.  I’ve set myself a deadline of Christmas, but with lots to do in our new house, that may be a challenge (but we’ll see).

What I need now is for more PGTP people – fans, roadies, band members (especially band members) – to come forward and help me build up the archive of information.

 Photos, stories, background info, where are they now… that kind of thing..

Let it begin.  :o)   

Peter Goes To Partick

Urgh – I can’t believe it’s nearly a year since I last posted on here! Oh well, must try harder, I guess.

Anyway….

We recently hooked up a hi-fi that still had a tape deck on it, and I’m now happily listening to an old Recording of Peter Goes To Partick, from the Cameron House on 2nd Feb 1990! I’m going to try and digitise some of the tracks, but for now here’s a list of what’s on the tape (according to the long-ago scribbled cover notes).

Jump
Saturday Night (alright for fighting)
One Night Love Affair
Hip to be Square
When I see you Smile
Hold the Line
Better Days
Hysteria
Empty Rooms

Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Summer of 69
Here I Go Again
Shape of Things To Come
Friday On My Mind
Sweet Home Alabama
Cracks Me Up
Tonight
I just Died in your Arms Tonight
Rosalie/Cowgirl’s Song
When I see You Smile

Will post more about this recording later (lunch break is over).

K

Track 6

OK – so now that I have my inaugural post out of the way, an explanation of the blog name is in order. I must just post a disclaimer that my musical tastes are many and varied and I’ve been through quite a few ‘phases’ in my life. Some were just that, some have lasted longer than others and some have recently been reignited (see below). And one more thing for the record… I like pop music. I’m not ashamed of it, I embrace it, and I will probably celebrate it on my blog. So there! Now, on to the explanation….
I’ve noticed over the years that on many albums I own, the sixth track seems to be the standout track. I first noticed this back in the late 80s and early 90s when I was going through a ‘rock’ phase in my musical life. My friend Linda and I used to follow a band called ‘Peter Goes To Partick‘ who played mostly soft metal/rock music. We managed to get a bootleg recording of a typical gig and our favourite pastime became seeking out the original artists of tracks that they covered on the tape. One of these was Poison’s ‘Talk Dirty to Me’ and it was track 6 on the album ‘Look What The Cat Dragged In’.

There were others at the time that made me first think of the Track 6 phenomenon but my memory’s really bad and I don’t remember them all right now. I plan to periodically post these as I remember them, but a more recent occurence of this got me thinking about it again and, since I had been contmplating blogging, I figured it was as good a title as any.

The recent track that prompted this was on Take That’s Never Forget: The Ultimate collection’ which has been released in the lead up to their reunion tour. Track 6 on the album is ‘Everything Changes’ which, as well as being one of my favourite TT tunes, was also sung by Mr Robert Williams, Esq, he being my favourite ‘thatter’ at the time and my favourite artist at any time since then.