Originally Posted by
maxr
Thanks Dagger - must try that tune with chords.
OTT, but - more connections. When I was student in Glasgow in the 70s, I worked at the Crinan Hotel every holiday. Cairnbaan was under same ownership at the time. The area between Lochgilphead and Oban had an amazing bohemian social life at the time, with a unique combination of locals, visitors, yachtsmen, fisherman from the local area and the North East, hippies, drifters and artists especially in the summer, and especially around Ardfern. Craignish Castle was reputed to be inhabited for a while by a 'musicians commune' from Edinburgh (seems plausible, I visited there once), and Lunga House at Ardfern was a sort of commune for the staff of the Galley of Lorne pub, some of whom were the hippy scions of aristocratic families (Notice on bar door - 'No dogs, donkeys or ferrets'). There were characters like Boyd Keen, a Captain Pugwash-esque character in a kilt who skippered an MFV yacht called Old 797, owned by a London doctor known as Jack The Quack. 'Swinging London' seemed very straight after that.
As time went on I lost touch with the area. The question, of course, is 'Is it still like that'?
Max
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