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Re: Phillip McCann -Reply

Oh dear, I seem to have upset someone again! I have read your mail with interest but
am rather at a loss as to why you think I was putting him down. I merely, said as
much as I knew, that he had been doing a bit at JJB............what's wrong with
that?

Monkey


Edy Van Asch wrote:

> Monkey,
>
> as some on the list already know, I am a great admirer of Phillip McCann as some
> other 1000 people in the UK and over the world.
> I feel you are a little bit humiliating somebody who surely was the best cornet
> players for ages in the whole brassband movement.
> So I can not let go your reaction unchallenged.
>
> I do not know, but maybe you came in too late or you were not too much
> interested in what Phillip has reached. I surely know they won more (and not a
> little bit!)  titles, had more concerts,... than DAF, BNFL or JJB in their whole
> history together although I really respect JJB and I know quite some of its
> players personnaly.
> About Phillips conducting:
> 1. Phillip left with Sellers after he had raised them from the bottom to
> champion section beating e.g. Dyke in the regionals, good results at the Open
> (e.g. Revelation), etc. Meanwhile a lot of top bands were stealing his cornet
> players all around Phillip had raised again himself (money, money, money).
> Phillip left Sellers when some of them starting playing another piece on a
> concert. Say no more!
> 2. Phillip left/had to leave Fodens after he brought them back the traditional
> sound after Howard left. Everybody has to make up his own mind if that was what
> he did or Fodens (they still might have been called "Britannia") really wanted.
> Many highly regarded names like e.g. Gordon Higginbottom agree with that.
> It should have been interesting to see what Fodens should have done with Phillip
> in stead of Nick conducting, although I have the greatest respect for Nick and
> well deserved through all his efforts with other bands. Now Phillip did not get
> a decent chance.
> 3. Phillip was asked to conduct Rothwell at the nationals this year. He refused
> because he  has a little bit enough for the moment being. He did the sectionals
> for them because of previous relations with Doug Blackledge, who was asked to
> leave Rothwell. At the end Richard Evans took them to the nationals.
>
> I just feel one should respect his heroes, even if you do not play in the same
> band, or you hated him when you were perhaps some yeras ago with DAF because he
> was going only for the best.
> On the other hand, you never know (and we should be better off without knowing)
> why people leave or are sacked indeed.
>
> To my taste, Phillip will never be sacked and a lot of bands, also the English
> top bands, can learn a lot of him!
>
> With respect,
>
> Edy Van Asch,
> Tenor Horn
> Metropole Brass Band (Belgium)
>
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