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Moe Armstrong Cliff Carrison
Steve Hayton Kurt Palomaki Peter Arnesen
Tim Sharman (the band's
manager), writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2008 said:
"As to
memories and memorabilia, that is a tough one. Long time passing, and it
was the sixties you know ! Like the man said, if you remember... In fact,
since getting together digitally a few years back, I have had
correspondence with Steve who genuinely asked me if I could fill in some
of the blanks in his memory of several years spent in Europe.
So much stuff has got lost over the
years, from my hands, at least and although I recall the club
(Friars) I can think of nowhere to look for material. I do remember
finding some date sheets online which brought back a few bad memories
(such as gigging twice with Black Sabbath).
I have to admit that it is strange
to me the recent interest in that period because it was not so glamorous
to live through it, at the centre of the whirlwind (I did eight plus years
in the business in London with time in jazz before that). Even here in
Poland there is a great following for British rock of the period, and it
never ceases to amaze me to see whole sections in CD racks here devoted to
such fleeting moments as Blodwyn Pig or Climax Blues Band.
Anyway, as a historian myself,
albeit of business, I am all in favour of recording and understanding the
past, so all power to you and best regards to Aylesbury. Its been a
while..."
The band had imploded by
1970. Armstrong has suffered from forms of mental illness for over 30
years and now professionally helps other sufferers. Nothing further is
known of Carrison. Steve Hayton died in 2006. Peter Arneson went on to
play in Kala, which also featured Dave Codling and Shiva from Quintessence
(who played Friars several times) as well as Carol Grimes (who played
Friars with her London Boogie Band in 1976). Arneson played Friars again
in 1975 as part of the Hunter Ronson Band and then did a lot of session
work including the Rubettes (!) Palomaki gradually fell out of love with
the music scene turning his hand to art.
Additionally, Tim Sharman, Daddy Longlegs' manager, wrote this for the
Friars Aylesbury website in 2008:
What can I say - Kurt is in North Carolina, painting, I am in Poland,
Steve Hayton, guitarist supreme
very sadly died about 18 months ago; but at least he made
the
sixties dream - he was living for
years on Tobago with a dusky maiden and a hammock with a view of
the ocean. Moe Armstrong the 'vocalist', front man, turned out to be genuinely crazy and not
just acting or tripping. But
miraculously he got it together and is now a highly respected
trainer of people who look after other schizophrenics. He even had a presidential medal from
Clinton. Drummer Cliff Carrison is lost but not reported deceased, as is the second guitarist Gary
Holderman. Pianist Pete Arnesen has
returned to his Austrian roots and now
teaches Jazz and Rock at the esteemed Mozarteum in
Salzburg, where, in fact, he studied.
Moe Armstrong's Official
Site
Kurt Palamaki Official
Site
Daddy Longlegs Official Site
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