The story in pictures
1986 Supertramp Other Stuff
I have so many photos from this last tour before my initial retirement in 1986 that I have created a page especially for them. In time I will get around to putting specific names to faces, but for now, a great deal of these photos were taken in Berlin, at a club that was hired for us to have an end of tour party.
This page also serves as a kind of epilogue to the story so far....not to say I won't add further chapters at some point about my touring since 2004 and how things have changed since those early days...
The most thanks for working with Supertramp must go to Rick and Sue Davies. For it was immediately after this tour that Sue asked me if I would co-manage the band with her. It was such an honour to be asked, and I thought deep and long about it. In the end I did not take the offer, purely because I did not want to live in Los Angeles. No other reason, and I look back and feel OK about it to this day. Thankfully Sue remained in contact with me and the following tour asked me again to be their tour manager. That was in 1988, but by this time I had truly stopped touring. I remain close friends with them to this day, and when I came out of my tour managing retirement in 2004, I went on to tour manage the Supertramp 40th anniversary 2010/11 World tour.
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A very special thank you to Dougie is in order to finish off my website. It was the friendship on this last tour that helped me through it all. I went on to spend quite a bit of time with him after I stopped touring and have the fondest memories of those times to this day xxx
I had to edit this photo, I can't possibly tell you why though..............
I include this brief YouTube clip of a section of one song on the 2011 show that Supertramp played in the castle at Carcassonne because it was the first and only time in all the shows I was present at through 3 World tours with the band that I 'sat in the deckchair'. This position was open to all men willing to strip down to their swimming briefs and sit through pretty much the whole of 'Another Man's Woman', reading a newspaper.....
