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Bullfrog In
the musical, "Steel Town" young David Henderson dreams
of escape and a carreer in music with his band. The band I was
in whilst an apprentice at Consett Steel Works was called
Bullfrog. Here are some pictures of my band. By strange
coincidence the bands roadie from that time Les Scurr, found me
via the Internet after some 30 years and has promised to send
some pictures and thoughts from Consett. Hopefully we'll hear
some tales of a heady mix of steel works and rock n roll! Les
has been in touch with the other roadie/mate/helper: Wilf who
also still lives in Consett. Wilf and Les have promised to be
"roadies" for the shows in Consett. Looks like the
rock n roll train is about to hit town!
READ
THE BULLFROG STORY AND HEAR THE BAND 
Any band worth their salt has to have a progression of
"managers" usually making wild claims of imminent
stardom. For a while we had an Australian guy called ... wait
for it: Skippy! It was his idea that we create some publicity
for ourselves by playing in Eldon Square in Newcastle. This was
old Eldon Square before the shopping centre was built. We did
this one Saturday afternoon (see below) and Skippy skipped town
shortly after. Later we had a manager who was a Karate
instructor but that's another story.
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