{"id":387,"date":"2019-03-29T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:29:21","slug":"34-my-friend-the-sun2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/34-my-friend-the-sun2\/","title":{"rendered":"34. My Friend the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Family-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" width=\"320\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Family-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Family-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Family-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dagen som Stones spelade gratis i Hyde Park, l\u00f6rdagen 5 juli 1969, jobbade jag p\u00e5 Woolworths i Finchley. Paul och jag ville g\u00e5 men kunde inte. Vi fick inte ledigt fr\u00e5n jobbet helt enkelt. Det gjorde oss riktigt arga, men det var ingenting att g\u00f6ra. Det var inte v\u00e4rt att f\u00f6rlora ett jobb f\u00f6r att se Rolling Stones och jag beh\u00f6vde pengarna. Att se Stones skulle ha varit kul, men \u00e4nnu roligare hade varit att se f\u00f6rbanden King Crimson och Family. Jag var s\u00e4rskilt angel\u00e4gen om att se Family, som redan hade sl\u00e4ppt tv\u00e5 riktigt bra album: <em>Music in a Doll\u2019s House<\/em> och <em>Entertainment<\/em>. B\u00e5da sl\u00e4pptes igen p\u00e5 CD p\u00e5 90-talet och jag k\u00f6pte sj\u00e4lvklart dem b\u00e5da.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family leddes av Roger Chapman, vars kraftfulla r\u00f6st ofta l\u00e4t som ett dement f\u00e5rs, med ett mycket snabb vibrato. Hans unika r\u00f6st, tillsammans med l\u00e5tarna, var bandets fr\u00e4msta attraktion. Chapman skrev de flesta l\u00e5tarna med gitarristen John &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Whitney och live var dom helt vilda. S\u00e5 vilda att Jimi Hendrix v\u00e4grade f\u00f6lja dem p\u00e5 scenen. Eftersom fler i bandet var multiinstrumentalister, var arrangemangen vanligtvis komplexa och intressanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Music in a Doll\u2019s House<\/em> producerades av Dave Mason fr\u00e5n bandet Traffic och var Family\u2019s enda psykedeliska album. D\u00e4refter blev de mer progg \u00e4n n\u00e5gonting annat. Deras manager vid den tiden var en som hette John Gilbert, som av en tillf\u00e4llighet \u00e4gde huset jag flyttade till n\u00e4r jag flyttade hemifr\u00e5n. Vi delade huset med hans son Ian och n\u00e5gra till (inklusive Eike Erzmoneit). Men jag hade ingen aning om vem han var d\u00e5. Gilbert var ocks\u00e5 manager \u00e5t ett annat proggband, Gentle Giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Family-Bandstand-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-395\" width=\"265\" height=\"259\"\/><figcaption>Family: Bandstand<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Till slut k\u00f6pte jag n\u00e4stan alla album som Family sl\u00e4ppte: <em>Anyway, Fearless <\/em>och<em> Bandstand <\/em>(samt dom f\u00f6rsta tv\u00e5)<em>,<\/em> men jag s\u00e5g dom aldrig live, vilket var synd. Idag, om jag vill lyssna p\u00e5 bandet, f\u00e5r jag g\u00f6ra det ensam i huset eller ensam i bilen. Min egen familj st\u00e5r inte ut med Roger Chapmans s\u00e5nginsatser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My&nbsp;Friend&nbsp;the&nbsp;Sun<\/em> \u00e4r ett fantastiskt sp\u00e5r fr\u00e5n Familys 1972 album <em>Bandstand<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-spotify wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: My Friend the Sun\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1hxnfpBTtwDUnxMH1KwFAJ?si=rlxSdup6TYKkmOxZW1Aisg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family leddes av Roger Chapman, vars kraftfulla r\u00f6st ofta l\u00e4t som ett dement f\u00e5rs, med ett mycket snabb vibrato. Hans unika r\u00f6st, tillsammans med l\u00e5tarna, var bandets fr\u00e4msta attraktion. Chapman skrev de flesta l\u00e5tarna med gitarristen John Whitney och live var dom helt vilda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[208,205,209,207,206],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-related","tag-bandstand","tag-family","tag-fearless","tag-music-in-a-dolls-house","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}