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Daddy
Longlegs
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 but for
hospitalisation would have 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, told 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 |
