The sister-in-law of the keyboardist Paul Brown (Julian Paul Brown from Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come) contacted Queen in Cornwall this morning asking about the Tregye Concert. Rik Evans was at Tregye (see earlier posts below) having been involved with organising the concert and remembers Arthur Brown's performance that night in 1971, which included the same crucifixes as are featured in this film of Glastonbury from the same year...
Rik said Roger Taylor had pleaded with him to include Queen on the bill. At that stage they were still relative unknowns and sharing the bill with Hawkwind and the other bigger bands...
Arthur Brown is a real rock legend. He had a great voice, pioneered make-up and theatrics on stage and was a big influence on Alice Cooper, Kiss, Marilyn Manson etc etc. He was also good friends with Jimi Hendrix. Thats Julian Brown next to him on the album sleeve. Kingdom Come were one of the first bands to use a drum-machine. Now in 1971 that is progressive...
The Tregye concert had extensive - negative - coverage in the local media. Most of the articles make very grim reading. Rural NIMBYism 1970s stylee. 'We'll hire guards and dogs to save homes'. Ah those were the days...
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