Free Appreciation Society
Magazine Issue #159
November
2021
After a bit of a break we are back... and a few changes. Firstly the magazine is being printed on a new machine and this has make the tiny text from those old newspaper articles a bit clearer and sharper. Yes, it's still very small, but even I can see the difference with my crappy near vision! So that's the good news. Sadly the second change isn't quite so good. When the printing was done Gary (who has been printing the magazine since issue #100) took the copy round to the finishers (fold, staple and crop) to find they had closed and completely sold up. Basically there as an empty unit where they had been. The business wasn't been sold as a going concern, it ceased to trade completely. It was a bit of a shock and meant somewhere else had to be found quite quickly, which Gary has done, and is much appreciated. So everything has been finished but it appears some adjustments may be required to balance things, and of course we've lost our 'mates rate'. Teething problems. So we are working on it. As things were quite settled regards this final stage of the magazine production, and we got a very good price with people we'd used for a long time, it's all a bit sad really. This kind of thing always causes issues for us, but more than that we are sad to see our friends go out of business in this way. It's somewhat disconcerting, and I have to say, I hate this kind of change in things, I'm getting too old for this shit... but...
Anyway, here we are... and here we go...
Free Appreciation Society Magazine - Issue #159
This is the first instalment of our FAS 'My Brother Jake / Free Live!' quadrilogy! Here we work through the first couple of months of 1971 and Free were busy. So we have comprehensive details on the American tour in January. Lots of new minutiae about the shows, the Detroit 'Tube Works' TV broadcast uncovered and confirmed, along with reviews, tickets, adverts, posters and press, as the group play a highly successful series of gigs around the USA. We then begin our look at the UK tour, which started pretty much as soon as they got back home in February, and this leads us into the next issue (#160), due in December.
Also in this middle of this issue is a full reproduction of the rare Free / Amazing Blondel tour programme from the 1971 UK tour. This hardly ever comes up for sale these days, and when it does it's very expensive. Here it's reproduced in pretty much it's original size, and this does have a few nice images I've never seen anywhere else; the photograph of Andy Fraser asleep next to Simon Kirke while travelling is priceless, and long unseen. Life on the road, so glamorous!
A hugely comprehensive issue. Enjoy!
56 pages absolutely packed with FREE!
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