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Speaker 1: you're across the Pond again with Big Phield Campion. And yes,
Speaker 1: I am across the pond. I've gone back. I've gone
Speaker 1: back to the UK. So last week I was sat
Speaker 1: in Canada and this week, well back in the UK.
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you as a little bit wetter.
Speaker 1: In fact, we had some storm warnings here and we've
Speaker 1: had a storm and it provoked a little bit of
Speaker 1: thought from me about storms. And so if you're having
Speaker 1: bad weather, it's experiencing something a little bit out of
Speaker 1: the norm. Make sure that you are, make sure that
Speaker 1: you're prepared for a Preparedness, as you know, is everything.
Speaker 1: So we have the seven piece prior planning of preparation
Speaker 1: prevents poor performance. Missed at one point, but there you go.
Speaker 1: That's because I'm a polite young man. But basically what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is if you know you've got
Speaker 1: bad weather coming, keeping on social media, keeping on the news,
Speaker 1: keeping on each other, and make sure you've got what
Speaker 1: you need to get you through a scrape about that,
Speaker 1: then there you go. Big feels tip of the day.
Speaker 1: Gets yourself ready if the bad way was coming, because
Speaker 1: they will sort you out and save your life. There
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, today I have a very special friend
Speaker 1: of mine that is going to be interviewed with me.
Speaker 1: He's he's not military. That's just some people will be
Speaker 1: saying to you, we're doing not doing military film. Well,
Speaker 1: Phil is interview and his fellow because he supports the
Speaker 1: military like nobody else. He's done absolutely loads of stuff
Speaker 1: for our veterans. And if you have a look online
Speaker 1: when we finished, and we'll tell you where to find
Speaker 1: out various bits and pieces, he'll realize that this guy
Speaker 1: turns up and supports our veterans whenever he can. He
Speaker 1: plays a trumpet, No he doesn't. He plays a coronet,
Speaker 1: and if you tell him it's a trumpet, he'll tell
Speaker 1: you it's a coronet every single time. Okay, So, without
Speaker 1: further ado, let me introduce my good old mate to
Speaker 1: the fray alista were how are you body all right?
Speaker 1: They're not too bad? Obviously you're not. You're not military?
Speaker 1: Do you have any military in your family? Friends? My
Speaker 1: dad's best mate was a Scott's Guard. My dad couldn't
Speaker 1: get in because he was too weak. Small audiences, they
Speaker 1: won't get the wee thing. They'll be dashing to the toilet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was too small. So it's either Pittman or a guardsman.
Speaker 1: So my dad moved away. I've got a family that
Speaker 1: are and friends and family that are either Scots guards
Speaker 1: or Black Watch. I couldn't serve because the knee injuries
Speaker 1: you played football for. Yeah, I played football, but I've
Speaker 1: had history of bad knees. I was gonna I think
Speaker 1: there was a football and injury. It was off had
Speaker 1: a virus that had arthritis as a reaction, so it
Speaker 1: stretched my knees and it weakened them and that was
Speaker 1: the start of it. Basically I couldn't join. Ironically, when
Speaker 1: I was going to join, I stayed on and the
Speaker 1: sixth form got A levels. So when I went down
Speaker 1: I got an application form for Sandurst. So I was
Speaker 1: planning to be a yeh. So I'm glad you weren't
Speaker 1: because you won't be saiday and there if you were. So.
Speaker 1: So that is basically, and I've tried to be a reservist,
Speaker 1: but now I've had six knee ops and every time
Speaker 1: I thought about it, that's happened. At one point I
Speaker 1: was gonna go and work for m I five, but
Speaker 1: I have another on the left knee and it was
Speaker 1: six months rehab. I thought, there's so you've taken to
Speaker 1: supporting veterans. When did you first look at veterans causes
Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. Well, I've always supported and
Speaker 1: followed veterans. I've got plenty of friends that are either
Speaker 1: Paris or Mercy and Regiment Wolfers put up in Nottingham,
Speaker 1: and obviously the Scottish connection. So I've always had an
Speaker 1: interest in history, and of course the British Army is
Speaker 1: a big part of that. My dad was a historian,
Speaker 1: always used to point out the Scottish regiments, their traditions.
Speaker 1: Always used to watch troop in the color and remembrance
Speaker 1: Sunday and my dad would point out, you know, spin
Speaker 1: the wheel and all that business. So I've always had
Speaker 1: a love of the forces and everything that they stand for.
Speaker 1: So it goes back to did you spend any time
Speaker 1: in Scotland? Did because the Scottish units are as we know,
Speaker 1: great great great units. A lot of visiting family Elk
Speaker 1: there I've been. I've never been to the Tattoo, but
Speaker 1: On one occasion when I was young with dad took
Speaker 1: me milk to Eddie McCastle and we had a look around.
Speaker 1: It was just after the tattoo, so but my dad
Speaker 1: would take me around and he points out, I think
Speaker 1: the Royal Scots were on on centry at the port
Speaker 1: at that time, and of course and a lot of
Speaker 1: my dad's poles were either Black Watch, Scott's Guard, a
Speaker 1: few Royal Scots thrown in so okay, so you're known
Speaker 1: for if you if you don't know Alistair and he
Speaker 1: will do after this. Alister is known for for his
Speaker 1: coronet playing all right, and everywhere we go, if there's
Speaker 1: a tune that needs to be played, then obviously Alice
Speaker 1: is there and you can you can just about get
Speaker 1: anything out of that. That ma shame that you've got Wait,
Speaker 1: can't even play that tells a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: And the Alandes started playing it publicly and realized that
Speaker 1: it was a crowd pleaser. Right. So my dad was
Speaker 1: an expit man, so when he moved to England, he
Speaker 1: got me. I wouldn't say got me. He pushed me
Speaker 1: into the span from the age of six. So I
Speaker 1: put those of you in America. Just just just explain
Speaker 1: a little bit about the brass bands. They were big,
Speaker 1: weren't they. The still are a bit sort of different
Speaker 1: to American marching bands. But a corn it corn It's
Speaker 1: very prevalent in American music. If you watch the raw
Speaker 1: Marine Corps, the Marine Corps, you'll see the corn its
Speaker 1: and the brass band Susan Marches is predominantly. That's very
Speaker 1: similar to the traditional brass bands over here. So if
Speaker 1: you know across the shore, if you think of the
Speaker 1: Marines core of music band, it's very similar to a
Speaker 1: brass band. So you've got other pieces in this band.
Speaker 1: You've got in a brass band. You have trombones, you
Speaker 1: have cornets, you'll have tenor horns, fluke or baritone, new
Speaker 1: phonium e flat B, flat bass, and percussion. It's a
Speaker 1: bit like the Kira book Coming down the Road. Basketball
Speaker 1: play the front similar, not quite as big as ones
Speaker 1: have an American Northern So I played in the brass
Speaker 1: banduntil I was twenty. Did the contesting scenes. In brass bands,
Speaker 1: you have contests and you play against each other. So
Speaker 1: played played in the sort of famous venues, Royal concert
Speaker 1: or Nottingham, played at the Royal College of Music behind
Speaker 1: the back of Albert Hall. So I had a lot
Speaker 1: of promise. So I was a principal corner player of
Speaker 1: the second section band when I was thirteen. That's where
Speaker 1: it all comes from. I actually packed up when I
Speaker 1: was twenty to actually get a better job, start playing
Speaker 1: football again and just get into a ladder kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I started playing this fing in public. I started playing
Speaker 1: this thing in public because I couldn't play football anymore
Speaker 1: because I've I've had the final knee up and that
Speaker 1: was it. So I thought what I'm going to do
Speaker 1: And what actually prompted me to play again fully en
Speaker 1: off when somebody brought me a soundtrack to all the
Speaker 1: spaghetti Westerns. So you know, you're good band, the ugly
Speaker 1: and all that, and I thought, I bet I could
Speaker 1: play that. So I bought a trumpet off the bay
Speaker 1: for a pound in India because I was a bit
Speaker 1: of a cheapskate and it cost trumpet cost the pound.
Speaker 1: You're you're a good player, you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: It cost me fifty quid postage and the trumpet cost
Speaker 1: the pound and it was crap. It was useless. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got I got a corn it second hand corner,
Speaker 1: and I just thought and basically what I did is
Speaker 1: I'd go down to local football matches Forest I'm a
Speaker 1: Forest fan, start playing for those of the famous Nottingham
Speaker 1: Forest team. Basically I'd play, start to play tunes that
Speaker 1: Forest would sing. Mullikin Tire is a favorite, Paul McCartney
Speaker 1: did wings. And when I was doing all this, and
Speaker 1: then sort of start to play the national anthem and
Speaker 1: sort of patriotic tunes that on request. And then and
Speaker 1: then somebody sort of an ex vet, said can you
Speaker 1: play the last Post? So I played it, and then
Speaker 1: in the PubL at the time it went quiet. Everybody
Speaker 1: sort of paid attention and people were coming up the
Speaker 1: saying and this vet particularly said he was an ex
Speaker 1: para parachute regiment, he said. He said, Well, I was
Speaker 1: in the paras used to hear that every night. He said,
Speaker 1: but I could safely say I've never heard it played
Speaker 1: as well as you've just played it. So one thing
Speaker 1: to another. When I moved down to London more recently,
Speaker 1: this was two thousand sixteen, I saw what was going
Speaker 1: off with the witch hunt with with veterans, Northern Ireland
Speaker 1: Veterans and I turned up out the blue. I spoke
Speaker 1: to some of the admin team of the organizers, and
Speaker 1: one of them, I think good Mr Horsfall said, bringing
Speaker 1: corn it, it's another voice. So I turned up on
Speaker 1: my Todd didn't know a soul and ended up at
Speaker 1: the end after the event, stood up in a pub,
Speaker 1: played all traditional regimental tunes. It went down like a
Speaker 1: house on fire, but not house on fight went down
Speaker 1: really well from there. It's people were sort of getting
Speaker 1: on or would you be able to play for us?
Speaker 1: Because you thought you're always you're you're you're in the
Speaker 1: you're a B list and now the list, I would
Speaker 1: tell you quite on the A list, people know you
Speaker 1: don't know people know you from these marchers. You turn
Speaker 1: up people like oh Alice to do yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they always say if you brought it, there's always there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's the first time I've ever seen you with it
Speaker 1: without it. Yeah. So so that we went to the
Speaker 1: Union Jack Club after and I think Wendy had to
Speaker 1: go and nearly got us thrown out. To be honest,
Speaker 1: on that day, I've got a challenge for you, right,
Speaker 1: So I've got I bought this for a pound for
Speaker 1: those of you that can't see obviously, because this is
Speaker 1: on the right. I bought this for a pound right now,
Speaker 1: I can get a note out of this, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to try and get a note out of this,
Speaker 1: right okay, and then and then I should clean the
Speaker 1: thing for us. If you get anything out of you, right,
Speaker 1: anything better than I can? No pressure? Not quite a note?
Speaker 1: Was it? Not quite? No, I'm not doing nothing at it.
Speaker 1: I've got a bugle that I found in a charity
Speaker 1: shop around here, and I knew Aliston was coming, so
Speaker 1: I thought it was about the same time as it
Speaker 1: was a pound. So I'm going to see if Alston
Speaker 1: can get anything out of it. That's amazing. I'm going
Speaker 1: to post a picture of this on my on my
Speaker 1: side of fact, I'm going to send it the soft up.
Speaker 1: I'm going to post a picture of this thing because
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna believe what he's just played it on
Speaker 1: it. It It really is. I found it in a charity
Speaker 1: shop and sat in my cabinet, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's now seen some life. I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: probably ever played that alright, because that's I've tried, and
Speaker 1: I put I'll robbed them out a mouthpiece for it.
Speaker 1: Of all these ones in the pub wants to try
Speaker 1: to play because that didn't seem big enough. That's the
Speaker 1: right one for the job. So there goes gigs that
Speaker 1: you've done, Martins that you've been on. There's a chat
Speaker 1: about what you've actually done well. So obviously the demos
Speaker 1: for the veterans, so the witch ones against Northern Ireland
Speaker 1: Veterans did the Soldier soldier at Soldier f Operations Zulu.
Speaker 1: Then there's the other Veterans against terrorism. That was when
Speaker 1: probably sort of bumped into yourself on that. We're waiting
Speaker 1: for you to go and deliver a letter to number
Speaker 1: ten and then I closed it off doing the last
Speaker 1: post and then so obviously get invited all around too
Speaker 1: if I can to do those. So I've been up
Speaker 1: to Scotland, Liverpool, Hall York just doing that support and
Speaker 1: then now and again the unfortunate sign is I'll get
Speaker 1: a phone call can I play at you know, veterans
Speaker 1: funeral and if I'm local then I always say yeah,
Speaker 1: you know always, And of course you've done the rumb
Speaker 1: with us, haven't I've done the rumball I think three times,
Speaker 1: the remembrance rumble well, we always obviously have pomp and
Speaker 1: ceremony and rightly so, and obviously Alis there was our
Speaker 1: go to sound of trumpets, Bugall's coronets. You're the mayor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I love doing the rumball, don't your football days?
Speaker 1: Did you do England games because they've always got a
Speaker 1: traveling bandon? No? Not, I think the traveling bands actually
Speaker 1: Chef Wednesday. Yeah, they're they're from Chef Wednesday. So funniest, funniest.
Speaker 1: Now I've just I've not done it officially, but we went.
Speaker 1: We played Forest played Brighton one season before Brian went
Speaker 1: up Pour this season before and I too, I went down.
Speaker 1: We had a weekend in Brighton and Forest lost Brighton one.
Speaker 1: There's a bar behind the goal and to entertain I
Speaker 1: just got the corner out and just started playing, to
Speaker 1: which everybody Brighton fans were sort of leaving, thinking what's
Speaker 1: going on here? We've just beaten them and they making
Speaker 1: more noise than we are. So it was just me
Speaker 1: on the corner, you see. So they've following year. I
Speaker 1: went and as I walked in I had to give
Speaker 1: it in because you're not allowed to take unless you're
Speaker 1: you're official, You're not allowed to take musical instruments into clubs.
Speaker 1: Now I've got a story about that. Mind what drum
Speaker 1: got taken? Long month? Health and safetybish? If somebody damages it,
Speaker 1: who is responsive, which is a load of rubbish. But
Speaker 1: so the second year I went in and the security
Speaker 1: staff said, he said, oh, great to see you. We
Speaker 1: didn't know if you were coming or not because obviously
Speaker 1: entertain them. Last year he says, we'll take it off
Speaker 1: here for obvious reasons, but we'll give it back after
Speaker 1: the match. So but that's unofficial. It's different in I've
Speaker 1: been I've played in Germany. We've got a load of
Speaker 1: German friends that we go over to Cologne and funny enough,
Speaker 1: they've got a song that they sing to lock Lowman,
Speaker 1: which is a traditional Scottish tune, so and they love it.
Speaker 1: They bring you in if you've got a musical instrument.
Speaker 1: There's none of this health and safety rubbish. It's totally different.
Speaker 1: So so I've played in German. I've played in Portugal
Speaker 1: as well, I think for for Porto Funds, which their
Speaker 1: their main tune is lyrics to Frank Sinatra's My Way.
Speaker 1: So I played that once and of course I got
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Speaker 1: What are your preferred things to support? Now? Obviously the
Speaker 1: support for the for the for the veterans community is
Speaker 1: that will continue as I've been booked for v E
Speaker 1: Day victory in Europe day later on in a year.
Speaker 1: And who's that for? Is that that? That was for
Speaker 1: the veterans of pin Hall, So I think it was
Speaker 1: first come first so it's kind of a niche thing,
Speaker 1: so I'll be doing that. Obviously, I want to sort
Speaker 1: of improve me standard because I didn't I had no
Speaker 1: idea when it would take me just for standing up
Speaker 1: a few of your plan because there's the bad pops
Speaker 1: yeah Ben, and then there's another last Claire on drums.
Speaker 1: So and I've been invited to play with the fuse
Speaker 1: Aliers up in Newcastle, but obviously we're in London, so
Speaker 1: do that because that would be phenomenal. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing, which is quite an eye open is
Speaker 1: the fact that I've I've supported veterans for the Hyde part,
Speaker 1: the Cavalry Veterans and the Hide part. And I get
Speaker 1: invited now to the official remembrance of that where we've been.
Speaker 1: I think last year there was official state trumpeters to
Speaker 1: play official state So look, do you get trumpet envy?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah? And you know so I do go
Speaker 1: to see the band of the Raw Marines, and I
Speaker 1: go to see the guards, and and the level of
Speaker 1: expertise they've got is incredible, and sometimes I just think so.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but one of the things I've been asked
Speaker 1: because this year, the day of the remembering, for the
Speaker 1: high part, they couldn't get a state trumpeter. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but the veterans that were there on that
Speaker 1: day did ask me if I could fill in if
Speaker 1: that situation arose again, and I said, well, obviously by
Speaker 1: all means. So one of the things I'm going to
Speaker 1: look at is to learn a cavalry bugle, which is
Speaker 1: slightly different to an infantry one. I don't know that
Speaker 1: that is an infantry. That's an infantry bugle. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: your classic bugle, but a cavering one's longer. If you
Speaker 1: can picture the cavery with a troop of the color
Speaker 1: with the longer. So it's high pitched, it's a different key,
Speaker 1: it's a different no structure sound basically, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to sort of you know, learn learn those and fill
Speaker 1: in when required. So and then of course the rumble.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we haven't really talked about the rumble, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will take place somewhere. There'll be some
Speaker 1: boxing to be had or something that. Yeah, so that's something.
Speaker 1: So basically just can can continue. The work that I
Speaker 1: do is a bit demanding. As you know, I've got
Speaker 1: a new job, but I was working around Europe at
Speaker 1: the time, which means it means it's difficult to practice.
Speaker 1: I've got a new job which allows allows me to
Speaker 1: work from home a lot, and because of that, I've
Speaker 1: got the opportunity to now raise me standard. So that's
Speaker 1: I mean, you do like it's people of virgin know that.
Speaker 1: I mean, now, I don't think you're not You're not
Speaker 1: messing about it, really not not messing about but through
Speaker 1: obviously when I was younger, I showed a lot of
Speaker 1: promise and could have gone on to probably I don't
Speaker 1: know it, could have been a musician within the the army,
Speaker 1: to be honest. But but I'm of the opinion and
Speaker 1: you're probably the same obviously from your experience. If you're
Speaker 1: going to do something, you've got to do it. It's
Speaker 1: best to the ability and with the opportunity, and well
Speaker 1: where it's transpired, it's like, well, it's a fantastic place
Speaker 1: to be in and I would like to improve to
Speaker 1: to carry on and raise my standard. And the other friend,
Speaker 1: the Alis is known for everybody knows him for this.
Speaker 1: If you drink with Alista, you won't get through a
Speaker 1: single night without avoiding them. What do you think I'm
Speaker 1: talking to? Oh? I don't know riddles jokes jokes first? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna put you on the spot. Can
Speaker 1: you can you? Alistair's forever talent, So can you bush
Speaker 1: out a joke stright at the top of your head? Off?
Speaker 1: I'll give you a musical one. What's somebody nicked me
Speaker 1: air guitar last night? So I've just I've decided to
Speaker 1: play a harp. Yeah, and it's a visual thing. But
Speaker 1: people keep connects going what because I'm sort of ye
Speaker 1: can see? Yeah, So I mean I'm very musical, you
Speaker 1: know yourself. I Christmas Day, I sat in on my
Speaker 1: own and I played you to Monopoly? Have you ever
Speaker 1: played it? You two monopolies like normal monopoly, but the
Speaker 1: streets have no names. But you know a few poems
Speaker 1: as well, don't because you have your history. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: there any military permanents that that springs to mind? Not
Speaker 1: going to give you a slot he bang on military
Speaker 1: permit if you know one. Well, I love Robert Burns.
Speaker 1: I've just done it Burns Night. But my dad, apart
Speaker 1: from bring him upon Robert Burns, brought me upon Kipling. Kipling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know hawming On was even the thing that
Speaker 1: was Kipling not thinking about it. I'm talking about me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't. Yes, they did ended then and all that
Speaker 1: sort of I don't know, gunga deer and it's Tommy.
Speaker 1: Let's how fast it that? So this is for those
Speaker 1: of you that don't know. Rugard Kipling was was a
Speaker 1: very very profound poet in the day U and he
Speaker 1: was talking about areas back to the first time when
Speaker 1: the bridge went to Afghanistan years and years and years ago.
Speaker 1: And he also acknowledged that there was a problem with
Speaker 1: troops when they came home. And Tommy is an example
Speaker 1: of what he found out a glass of Tommy, Right,
Speaker 1: I went into a pabbling ass to get a pint
Speaker 1: of beer the publican he happn't said we serve no
Speaker 1: red coats here. The girl has been alight behind the bar.
Speaker 1: They laughed and giggled. Fit to die. I act into
Speaker 1: the street again. It to myself die. Well, it's Tommy
Speaker 1: this and Tommy that, and Tommy go away. But it's
Speaker 1: thank you, Mr Atkins. When the band begins to play.
Speaker 1: I went into a theater as sober as I could be.
Speaker 1: They gave a drunk civilian room, but they hadn't none
Speaker 1: for me. They sent me to the galleries and round
Speaker 1: the music calls. But when it comes to fighting, Lord,
Speaker 1: they shoved me and the stalls. And it's Tommy this
Speaker 1: and Tommy that, and Tommy wait outside. But it's special
Speaker 1: train for Akins. When the troops chips on the tide,
Speaker 1: the troops chips on the time me boys, the troop
Speaker 1: ships on the tide. Yes, it's special train for Atkins.
Speaker 1: When the troops chips on the tide. We ain't no
Speaker 1: drunken soldiers. We ain't no blackguards too. We're single men
Speaker 1: in barracks, most remarkable like you. And if sometimes our
Speaker 1: conduct ain't on your fancy paints, well, single men in
Speaker 1: barracks don't grow into plaster saints. And it's Tommy this
Speaker 1: and Tommy that, and Tommy as you sold. It's thin
Speaker 1: red line of eroes. When the drums begin to roll,
Speaker 1: you talk of better food for us, and scores and
Speaker 1: fires and all will wait for extra rations if you
Speaker 1: treat as rational, don't mess around the cup room slops,
Speaker 1: and prove it to our face. The widow's uniform is
Speaker 1: not the soldier man's disgrace, and it's Tommy this and
Speaker 1: Tommy that, and check him out, the brute, but it's
Speaker 1: savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot,
Speaker 1: and it's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please. Well,
Speaker 1: Tommy ain't a blooming full you bet that Tommy sees. Yeah, fantastic,
Speaker 1: And the message of that poem for me is still
Speaker 1: pertinent today. And when I looked at the soldiers, you know,
Speaker 1: especially when my old my old original unit were stationed
Speaker 1: in town of the Princess of Old as well, they
Speaker 1: could not get into a single boozer in town. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're quite prepared to get soldiers of seventeen years old
Speaker 1: fight on the front line, okay, and they're quite prepared
Speaker 1: to stick medals on the chest when they come home,
Speaker 1: and rightly so. But they won't let them in the
Speaker 1: boozers for love no money and Rochard Kipling. You know,
Speaker 1: in the days of the Red Coats. We are talking
Speaker 1: Afghanistan in the first time around, which was years and
Speaker 1: years and years ago. So it's not it's not really
Speaker 1: a problem that we've never had. It's uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's I can't really understand it because well, as you know,
Speaker 1: I support them, and I see that they deserve better.
Speaker 1: To be honest, no, I do think so do. Your
Speaker 1: passion certainly does shine through when it comes to veterans
Speaker 1: issues and that sort of stuff, because, like I say,
Speaker 1: you've you've you've witnessed probably as much as I have
Speaker 1: around town of people not being allowed in. Only the
Speaker 1: other night we went out to celebrate, to celebrate Independence Day,
Speaker 1: and the trumpet came, the coronet came, yeah, and Alista
Speaker 1: played played played the national anthem in the pub and
Speaker 1: was told the don't the shut up basically yeah, which
Speaker 1: is beggar's belief. And for those of you in America
Speaker 1: who probably think, well, if you could imagine going into
Speaker 1: a public American know your your star spangled banner and
Speaker 1: having people booming here s some turnly shut up I've
Speaker 1: got to tell you now, it took a lot of
Speaker 1: restraints from all of those concerned not to start Tommy
Speaker 1: this and Tommy that around the park, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was it was quite insane, wasn't it. So that
Speaker 1: from the level of support that we actually get sometimes
Speaker 1: doesn't represent the amount of effort that guys put in
Speaker 1: to put themselves in that position in the first place,
Speaker 1: does it. Yeah, Well, so anything else you want to
Speaker 1: talk about? What he just well, you know, obviously at
Speaker 1: the Rumball since being becoming part of it, I think
Speaker 1: one of the things that when I've met the Americans
Speaker 1: as well, I mean I remember, I think I don't
Speaker 1: think you were there at the time at the Rumball
Speaker 1: last year. The atmosphere before is kind of electric and
Speaker 1: it's buzzing, and I think one of the being able
Speaker 1: to play. We were sat there and you know, the
Speaker 1: boxes were sort of running around and you just want
Speaker 1: to get out and have a fight. But basically, Rad,
Speaker 1: you're a good friend and my good friend at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, what can you play out now? So I
Speaker 1: played the Rocky team and there was myself, Rad Drexel,
Speaker 1: and John Snyder that just they loved it. And it
Speaker 1: really kind of sort of you can pack. John Snyder
Speaker 1: actually looks like your typical boxing coach from downtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1: And he had big old fans on him, great big arms,
Speaker 1: and director looks like the guy he's training. He's a
Speaker 1: monster of a man like. He just looks like a boxer.
Speaker 1: He got you know, pub those squash head all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Did that? I mean you can imagine them.
Speaker 1: Can you play as a tune on the trumpet? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: talking and I mean one of the things. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Seth who you fight twice fought twice, did
Speaker 1: ask me if I was going to play taps, and
Speaker 1: obviously not. I played the last post. But as we've
Speaker 1: got to know them and talking to the Americans about
Speaker 1: my history and and all that, because my history does
Speaker 1: my love of history does extend to American as well.
Speaker 1: So SUSA is a is a favorite of my you know,
Speaker 1: some of it does marches so and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: talking to Rad said that, you know how we do
Speaker 1: the rumble kind of quite regularly split around the country,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you ever get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: come over and play taps for us, then you know,
Speaker 1: please do so. So you know, I'd love to do that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think there's I think I think there's there's there's route.
Speaker 1: There's certainly roally on this show for a bit more
Speaker 1: a bit more coroner playing it, and there's certainly some
Speaker 1: more roofs and poetry. And if you like that poetry
Speaker 1: to day show, please let me know and I will
Speaker 1: I will endeavor to get some more recorded and perhaps
Speaker 1: we'll we'll have a poetry slot, because I think military
Speaker 1: poetry does actually get the point across sometimes and when
Speaker 1: you look back across the ages, soldier in its ethos
Speaker 1: and its ways and the way it materializes afterwards doesn't
Speaker 1: actually change too much. Technology changes, battlefield methods of operation change,
Speaker 1: but the actual heart and soul of the soldier and
Speaker 1: the actual things that he suffers when he gets back
Speaker 1: from battle haven't really changed much in in centuries. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have thought, to be honest and to think that
Speaker 1: we're still getting problems with people once they finished on
Speaker 1: the battlefield. It's something that is very close to my heart,
Speaker 1: is something i'd like to see sorted out. And alistair
Speaker 1: goes a long way for us. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you quickly before you go. If you can built
Speaker 1: another tune out on the on the on the on
Speaker 1: the now famous bugle, if you can get another tune
Speaker 1: out on that, we'll have a quick word before before
Speaker 1: I wrap this up. But Alista, I'll let you say
Speaker 1: you good buying it in your in the best way
Speaker 1: you know how, and you can play whatever you like
Speaker 1: on that on the spot. Put it on the spot.
Speaker 1: This is called a raus and you'll probably not it
Speaker 1: more than me. It's get out back there, you go,
Speaker 1: absolutely super Thank you very much, Gas. I will see
Speaker 1: you again later on. So that was that was Alista
Speaker 1: weird and he really is behind our troops. And like
Speaker 1: I say, if there's a if there's a big thing
Speaker 1: going on in town, then supporting our veterans, you can
Speaker 1: almost let your bottom dollar Alista will be there in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, helping out another. Say, tremendous
Speaker 1: military knowledge and a tremendous historical military knowledge as well,
Speaker 1: And it won't be the last time we'll be here
Speaker 1: in from Alister, I'm absolutely sure. So we're all round
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