{"id":2278,"date":"2021-12-12T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/?page_id=2278"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:25:54","slug":"van-winkle-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=2278","title":{"rendered":"Van Winkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<nav class=\"is-responsive wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Navigation 2\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.openMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M4 7.5h16v1.5H4z\"><\/path><path d=\"M4 15h16v1.5H4z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container\"  id=\"modal-1\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--has-modal-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--is-menu-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.initMenu\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--focusout=\"actions.handleMenuFocusout\"\n\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"-1\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-close\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-dialog\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-modal=\"state.ariaModal\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.ariaLabel\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--role=\"state.roleAttribute\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Close menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-close\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.closeMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"m13.06 12 6.47-6.47-1.06-1.06L12 10.94 5.53 4.47 4.47 5.53 10.94 12l-6.47 6.47 1.06 1.06L12 13.06l6.47 6.47 1.06-1.06L13.06 12Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-content\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.focusFirstElement\"\n\t\t\t id=\"modal-1-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/about\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">About<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Van Winkle from; Drogheda area Active; 1977 \u2013 April 78<br>Style; tbc<br>Line up;<br>Lead Vocals; Padge Reynolds<br>Lead Guitar; Hughie McCormack<br>Bass; Tommy McCann later in <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/artist-a-z\/wicked-chicken\/\">Wicked Chicken<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/artist-a-z\/rabbi\/\">Rabbi<\/a><br>Drums; Alan Barton<br>Sax; Kevin O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Play Friday Night Club, The Gem, Drogheda Jan \u201978, this is a Blues\/Rock session, the last Friday of every month. During January &#8217;78 they played a 2 hour Sunday lunchtime session at the Village Inn.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-break-up\" style=\"color:#fffb15;background-color:#1ea300\">The Break up<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sadly must enlarge on the snippet I gave you last week regarding the breakup of Van Winkle.<br>It seems that although attracting huge appreciative audiences at some gigs in the Gem, other venues were not as anxious to take them.<br>The reasons? One that I heard was that managers felt they weren\u2019t producing a commercial enough sound and it was also suggested that they were attracting the wrong \u201celement\u201d.<br>It appears in fact that the group had been booked to play at some local venues but were told latter that they were being cancelled.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-break-up\" style=\"color:#fffb15;background-color:#1ea300\">The Gem<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>So being left only with nights in the Gem and the odd gig down the country they felt, financially, that they couldn\u2019t survive \u2013 and so split.<br>Tommy McCann was later in Wicked Chicken and <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=751&amp;preview_id=751&amp;preview_nonce=dd1279c38b&amp;preview=true\">Rabbi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Winkle from; Drogheda area Active; 1977 \u2013 April 78Style; tbcLine up;Lead Vocals; Padge ReynoldsLead Guitar; Hughie McCormackBass; Tommy McCann later in Wicked Chicken &amp; RabbiDrums; Alan BartonSax; Kevin O\u2019Brien Play Friday Night Club, The Gem, Drogheda Jan \u201978, this is a Blues\/Rock session, the last Friday of every month. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13018,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6314,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2278\/revisions\/6314"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}