bazmusicman wrote:JimN wrote:I have only ever broken one string on stage, and that was fifty years ago next June. I was messing about a bit overmuch with the tremolo arm on my Mosrite Ventures model during a performance of Orange Blossom Special. I can even remember where it was: RAF Stanmore in NW London - it was that unusual. To be honest, I've never been able to understand how strings break in (normal) performance.
I used to play at RAF Stanmore in their Social Club ....was it a Vulcan Bomber Plane that sat at the entrance?
Sadly the site is now a housing estate.
It definitely had a retired RAF aircraft at the entrance (most, if not all, RAF stations had that), but I can't recall what it was. But a Vulcan is massive, isn't it? Perhaps I'd have remembered that more readily. I remember a Spitfire outside RAF Sealand (north Wales, though near to Chester) back in the 60s and 70s.
The defence contractors GEC Marconi factory in Rochester (adjacent to Rochester "Airport") had an English Electric Lightning next to the boundary fence. it might still be there.
Edit: I ought to add that RAF Stanmore was a pukka RAF station, not USAAF. When we played there, I remember an interesting conversation with an older officer (in uniform) who had flown bomber sorties over Germany. It had been only twenty five or twenty six years earlier, of course.