Howard Eggleton
Having seen many messages on your website where people are looking for old long lost friends. I wonder if you could put up such a message for me - when you get a free moment which is never often in your case - to find a really great friend and colleague who I played with between 1963 and 1964 on the American bases in France, mainly.
His name is Howard Eggleton; he then lived at a number in Pelham Crescent, Beeston, Nottingham. A top-flight drummer and one of the most placid, pleasant and humorous musicians I've ever known. I mentioned him, his wife, Margaret and their Alsatian dog "Lady" in
the autobiography. We corresponded for a brief while after I came back to London - where I was living near my parents' place in Maida Vale at the time, in Summer 1964. I then got tied up on the London Jazz circuit, got busy at last, and we lost touch. The 'phone number that Howard had then is obviously in someone else's name now. I did try it. I just wondered if any Nottingham musicians who were around in the 1960s knew him and know where I could get in touch with him and Margaret again. We were, up until parting company, in the Gunter Gelsov band THE RENA COMBO, mostly at Army bases in the Verdun area from early 1964 to Summer that year. I hope we can be put in touch again.
Joe Silmon