В уходящем году гитаристу Дэвиду (Дэйви) О'Листу исполнилось 65 лет, и как выясняется, он вполне активен и готовит к выпуску в марте новый альбом вместе со своей группой Second Thoughts, обещая при цифровом заказе редкий трек времён его сотрудничества с Roxy Music и альбом с фотографиями. Также у него есть учётка в "Мордокниге"
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1509938054 и сайт (с вырвиглазным оформлением)
http://www.davidolist.talktalk.net/ , откуда я и взял вышеперечисленные новости. А на закуску-история о том, откуда взялось название "The Nice" (версия Дэйви)
"On the way to the first show I was talking to P.P. Arnold, saying her band (Davy O'List, Ian Haige, Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson) ought to have a name as it didn't have one and Pat said think of one. As Pat talked about her Gospel choir experiences in the USA an idea came to me. Pat was saying her preacher was hip and he spoke to his congregation like this, 'The Nazz came down and said unto all the people.' I asked her what The Nazz meant and Pat replied it was a Negro term for Almighty God. But what does Nazz mean, I inquired? "Oh, that was the preacher's accent he means The Nice, who is God," she laughed. "The Nazz could be a good name for the band but how could we be called God but we could be called The Nice that would be reasonable," I said. Everyone laughed and agreed with my idea. Now I had a name for the group the name stuck so I took the idea of THE NICE and the new fusion music I designed and vamped up for the group, a fusion of Classical, Modern Jazz, Pop and Rock to Andrew Oldham, The Rolling Stones manager. Andrew accepted the concept was very new and exciting and gave my group a Recording Agreement and Management deal on the strength of my ideas, which I explained. The incredible audience responses we were getting from our solo spots before P.P. Arnold came on was also a major factor in getting the deal.
Then I opened The Nice booking agency, obtaining residencies at The Speakeasy Club and The Marquee Club in London. I had contact with the management at those clubs having played there with The Attack. One night at The Marquee Club we were given a special guest spot with The Jimi Hendrix Experience because we were going down so well. We went on and played the best we ever had. As we came off with the crowd roaring for more (unusual for a Marquee support group) Jimi was standing at the side of the stage he had been watching us. He stopped me and told me how nice he thought it was would we like to be on his UK tour?
A big yes was the answer and we never had to look back as everything snow balled from that night. You can read an actual interview, which was recorded while I was on tour at the official Jimi Hendrix Magazine site. I was the writer and producer of the first single by The Nice The Thoughts of EmerList Davjak, which came out at the same time we began the Jimi Hendrix tour. It was incredibly good timing as the mass teenage girl audiences who bought it got me into the top of the Top 40 for the first time. The girls were screaming at me every night when I sung The Thoughts of EmerList Davjak and when I played Inter Stella Over Drive with The Pink Floyd. I always thought The Nice should have done more on the "Teeny Bopper" circuit to achieve more single sales but The Thoughts of EmerList Davjak album has sold extremely well until this day."
