Talk:John McCoy (musician)

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Is McCoy ashamed not to mention The Jinx

Italic text Having read the biography I noted that it missed out a certain band, whether or not that was deliberate remains a mystery, but it certainly seems as if he wants to flush that part of his story down the loo, which is a smack in the face for the guys that formed something of his past. He says he was in The Drovers, yes that was his group in Huddersfield. But strangely he omits that he then joined a group called the Jinx as guitarist and was with them for a while winning a battle of the bands competition, in fact well over a year going to play Manchester's Bell Vue club hosted by Jimmy Saville, and onto the Birdcage in Sheffield among many other gigs. He suddenly skips this entire chapter as if it never happened to say he was off to London and the big time. Well, he was in Welcome in a one room flat in Earls Court for the best part of year with around six members of the band with the whiff of the weed before Pye called the band in and Justin Hayward wrote them a song to record. He seems great at remembering some things that the fans will wow about, so it can only be selective memory disorder coupled with a dislike of that particular band that gave him a vehicle for his talents, and yes, there is a photo of that group with him standing by the van and the group he doesn't acknowledge. (----) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woztok (talk • contribs) 21:32, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

=== Sincere not McCoy's strong point in self assessment

The interview with Rock and John McCoy is quite tailor made and everything McCoy would like his fans to see and read. The mantle of ' Rock Star' appears to be his goal and self assessment with which he embraces. He talks of friendship and not really being sure of who it really refers to? but if he looked at himself and his past he would soon see that he pushed away and discarded some who were his friends, and why? -- simply because they were not useful or high enough in the A list of Rock Music. McCoy has always made moves to satisfy selfishness rather than this so called softy image he says he really is. The only bit that is true is him admitting to being two people. His father Matt pushed him and dolted on him, running him around in his Bedford van and fixing up gigs to get his son in the right places. The only relief came when McCoy had to find another band when the Drovers split, and The Jinx rescued him on that point as they had their own van and gig agent. Father Matt just quietly slipped out of it as John went off to have fun. An old friend of John's met him again at a Mammoth concert and John was 'luke warm' and you could see that he'd rather have not had to meet him, despite that friend supporting him in the early days and making the effort to see him. The friend was also doing well in the rock scene, but McCoy wasn't really interested in knowing about that. Did McCoy ever contact this friend? No, he had no intention of doing so. He mentions Tony Rees of Welcome and their get-together, Rees the singer during Welcome had his secrets, and McCoy refers to him as a friend, then quickly launches into the Gillian connection, and Rees is no more. He talks about Pop musicians not being up to much in the friends department, quite true John, but you are one of the contributors to this sorry state. (-----) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.252.216 (talk) 22:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC)