by jetharrisfanclub » Tue May 04, 2010 9:57 am
Hi Mike, Peter and Dave
Sorry have to admit I have never come onto this portion of the site, actually don’t really know what made me this time, but as I have, thought I would just respond, and I’ll try and keep it as short as possible.
In July 2008 I decided to hold a 70th Birthday for Jet in July 2009, I found a venue (capable of holding 300 people) and main bands, and had in mind a few surprises for Jet. I then sent out a snail mail shot to all current members of the Jet Harris Fan Club, as well as past members (approx 350 letters were sent out), I also started a thread on this site (well the old site then) and continued to take it to the top of the main board for, maybe a month six weeks, can’t actually remember how long now. On top of this I had a flyer produced which Leo’s Den kindly sent out with ever item they sold as well as advertising the party on their web site. By the January of 2009, despite all of this I barely had 100 tickets sold, so I took the decision to continue with the party, but scrap most of the idea’s that I had, as they would all have cost money, including getting a professional video made. Thankfully in the end we sold 160 tickets, which covered the cost of the event, just. I believe it was a success and will forever be greatful to Kevin Dean who appeared for free that evening (not even expenses and he had to have an overnight stay).
Of course due to the lack of funds the video of the evening was recorded from my own cam-corder, operated by my daughter and son-in-law, and yes I agree the general sound and quality is bad, and here again I have to thank Jet, Kevin and The Rapiers for allowing its release at all, which is why it has been released only to those who attended and why each is numbered, so that hopefully they will not be found on ebay.
Hope this explains things a little and Mike no offence taken I asure you, I know the DVD isn’t a master piece, it is meant as a memento of the evening, Dave I’m sorry you couldn’t make the evening but hope you see why I could only offer the DVD as I did and Peter sorry you somehow missed hearing about the event, don’t know what else I could have done.
Dave Holbrook