{"id":284,"date":"2021-08-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/the-pilgrims-1989\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:15:00","slug":"the-pilgrims-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/the-pilgrims-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pilgrims (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<b>THE PILGRIMS (1989)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nK4eHDAqoHE\/YQqEzrbdOTI\/AAAAAAAAJpM\/61tL_KtRoHAaGNoShfYcDXyombG_qpJegCLcBGAsYHQ\/s960\/27337169_10214391886966635_7909101199336905925_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"960\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nK4eHDAqoHE\/YQqEzrbdOTI\/AAAAAAAAJpM\/61tL_KtRoHAaGNoShfYcDXyombG_qpJegCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h480\/27337169_10214391886966635_7909101199336905925_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Nick Edgington<\/b> tells us <br \/>&#8220;Another great Cov band of the late 80&#8217;s was The Pilgrims, with Greg Crabb (Formerly with the Furious Apples in the early 80&#8217;s) their charismatic lead singer. When they played sober they were really good. But if they decided in advance to have a few drinks, they changed the band name to &#8220;The Raggle Taggle Gypsies. They were much funnier then, and it was once described as &#8220;a typically tight performance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When a Cov &#8220;face&#8221;, John Westacott, (formerly a bassist with Whistler and harmonica player with Last Fair Deal inthe 70&#8217;s and with Urge (on bass) in the early 80&#8217;s, when he turned 50, the Raggle Taggle Gypsies let him join them on stage at the Colin Campbell(now the Phoenix).<br \/>This is the flyer for that gig, possibly in 1989.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;THE PILGRIMS (1989) BACK TO THE BAND INDEX Nick Edgington tells us &#8220;Another great Cov band of the late 80&#8217;s was The Pilgrims, with Greg Crabb (Formerly with the Furious Apples in the early 80&#8217;s) their charismatic lead singer. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/the-pilgrims-1989\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}