Look who I bumped into at the airport in Bilbao. Yes, it’s
the delightful Lucinda Williams. Still rocking and still on tour (despite her recent stroke). Her voice is better than ever in my opinion. She really is a one-of-a-kind.
Unclassifiable!
XCH
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
HI all!
What a week we had. James and I got the train to Hereford to visit Martin in his barn, which he’s been converting into a billiard hall and observation deck to pursue his favourite pastime – observing the local wildlife.
We also met up with Stan Tippins ( legend) original Pretenders tour manager ( and former Mott the Hoople member ) and Lynn Honeyman Scott, Jimmy’s sister. We had a long chat about Jimmy’s guitars. ( see previous recent blogs)
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the guitars, at least the ones we’ve been able to track down, are now in the hands of collectors, which is a real shame as those guitars would be happier ( as I’m sure Jimmy would be ) being played by guitar greats like Johnny Marr or James W. Johnny, in case you couldn’t tell by his playing, was hugely influenced by Jimmy. In fact Johnny and I have been hanging out quite a lot lately and reminiscing about the time we spent together when he was in the Pretenders.
I include a few pictures of Jimmy’s grave stone. It made me so happy to see that guitar players have visited it recently and left their plectrums/ picks on it.
If I could track down the guitar featured on the stone, I’d buy it back and give it to Johnny Marr, but the price might be prohibitive if it’s the hands of one of those (evil) collectors. Guitars should be played. (That’s what mine seems to say every time I walk past it while it’s collecting dust. Shame on me).
All the best to everyone out there reading this, and thanks for your enthusiastic response to our announcement of upcoming dates.
And how cool is it to be supporting the Mighty Guns N’ Roses at Hyde Park!
See you there!
XCH
*While writing this, I received the sad news that Seymour Stein has passed away. Everyone the world over owes a tremendous dept to the man. A true music lover who supported all of us and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre of music.
Thank-you Seymour!
Bless you!
Nils Lofgren wearing the jacket I gave him (which I wore on my first album cover) and playing James Honeyman Scott’s Zermatis guitar at the recent Bruce Springsteen show in Hyde Park.
Now, that’s what I call flying the flag. Nice one Nils! We love you!
XCH
Still reeling over his sudden departure. I loved him since I was 14. Sadly, he couldn’t influence my primitive skills on guitar – but my hair style was all his. I fucking loved him!!!! JEFF!!!
Hi all!
We had a fantastic year thanks to everyone who came to see us. We loved seeing you at the club shows and we loved supporting and hangin out with the mighty @gunsnroses .
Can’t wait to get back on the road.
See you in ’24!
XCH
Keep reading lately about how friendly the actor Tom Cruise is. That’s funny, when I met him he was super grumpy as you can see in the picture.
You just can’t believe everything you read in the press.
XCH.
Photographed by David Vintiner for The Observer, 2023
‘Stockholm’ was released 10 years ago today.
Out now, celebrate 40 years since the release of The Pretenders’ gold and platinum certified album ‘Learning To Crawl’ with a crystal clear vinyl featuring original artwork, tracklisting and 2018 remastered audio by the album’s original producer Chris Thomas on vinyl for the first time. Get your copy through the link in bio. #LearningToCrawl40 #Pretenders
Hi all!
Here’s a picture of James in front of @jeffkoons flower dog outside the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
Beautiful, beautiful city.
We played Vitoria last night. The most fun audience ever. We love Spain.
XCH.
Hi all!
Here’s a picture of James in front of @jeffkoons flower dog outside the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
Beautiful, beautiful city.
We played Vitoria last night. The most fun audience ever. We love Spain.
XCH.
Hi all!
Our single is out. If you don’t buy it, you’ll have to answer to this guy.
We start our tour today, so hoping to see you soon.
XCH.
Photo: @kiprice
Nottingham.
We played THE RESCUE ROOMS last night and it was everything a band can ask for.
Clubs are best for rock bands, always were and still are. Clubs like THE RESCUE ROOMS (and next door’s ROCK CITY) reaffirm everything we love about what we do and why we do it.
This is home for us.
XCH
Hi all!
We play Belfast tonight which will conclude our Irish tour. The clubs have been great. The Olympia theatre in Dublin is the perfect venue. Have really enjoyed our time in Ireland. Playing the small venues is great. We can see everyone.
Thanks to everyone for coming to the shows.
XCH
Touring in the U.K.
No private jets or helicopters required.
XCH
Hey all! The band are finally about to set off to Bilbao. We really are champing at the bits! See you all soon! XCH Photo by @kiprice
HIS LORDSHIP ARE COMING! @_hislordship_
If you’re longing for some aggressive, rocking, guitar-based excellence in the definitive three piece English guitar hero mode ( JW played with Jerry Lee ), get your tickets now!
C u there
Chrissie Hynde
Hello everyone,
Some friends of mine who have spent the last year going to Ukraine to feed those made homeless by the war are now in Turkey helping earthquake victims. If you want to put your donations to good use, I can vouch for the fact that these people get the job done and whatever you give will go straight to help the earthquake victims.
XCH.
@foodforallhq
“Caroline, No was originally released as Wilson’s first solo single in March 1966. Then, the track was included as Pet Sounds’ closing track… Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde put an eclectically spacey and jazzy spin on “Caroline, No” for her 2019 solo album, Valve Bone Woe.” – Words by Matt Friedlander You can listen to Chrissie’s cover of The Beach Boys’ ‘Caroline, No’ on Spotify. #ChrissieHynde
