Dave (not 'Rainbow') : Are you the same 'Davie Graham' who appears in the UK edition of LIAGB? (Please forgive me if, as I expect, this question has been asked & answered before...)

I wanted to know that too!

He's not.
I've asked too :D

He's very flattered though and feels lucky hehehe
right?
:D

Could the Dave who is Rainbow please come down and eat his curry before it gets cold?!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

He has a son Eddie rather than a daughter Molly which has lead to some confusion. Eddie's only two and finds these things tricky...

I think we've now convinced him that he's a boy. (He certainly knows how to punch.) Eddie that is. Dunno about Dave.

I thought that they were probably separate people, given that detail, but making sure seemed like a good idea: The "other" David Graham was amongst the other attendees at Jasper's Brighton appearance, and we conversed briefly then, but as I didn't introduce myself to him I wondered afterwards (when I saw "our" Dave's surname again) whether I'd met another fforumite without either of us realising this...

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No. 'Our' Dave definitely lives up here. A Geordie by birth but living in Yorkshire. (We'll let him for a bit.)

In my world Davey Graham is a musican - and a profoundly influential one at that, with an entire generation of British players, from John Renbourn to Bert Jansch (and by extension, Nick Drake), following in his footsteps. His influence spilled across the Atlantic too, with Paul Simon playing Graham's song "Anji" (named after Angie Bowie) on 'The Sounds of Silence'. Davey Graham is arguably the best acoustic fingerstyle guitarist of all time - not one of those flashy virtuosi whose technique overrides all other concerns; he is a musician for whom nuance and musical aesthetic come first, with his prodigious skill on the guitar merely supporting the sounds he produces. He's also almost certifiably barking mad these days though, sadly (erm, none of this goes any further than this Fforum, right?!)

I don't think I've ever been referred to as 'Davey' either.

Sadly not me in LIAGB, but same name, so suitably happy. And have appeared in the credits of WOLP too, so am in two out of the three books! Wahay!

Eddie is often referred to as a girl though, no matter what clothes we put on him. He can be there in blue trousers and blue shirt and people still say 'isn't she pretty'.

He *is* cute though.

There are too many Daves. In general. I would have been a Dave, had I been a boy. But thankfully, I'm a girl, so that's one less Dave to be confused about :)

I was called fred at university. I shared a house with another Dave, and we had 3 mates called Dave. All 5 of us were in the kitchen at one point, when the phone rang. 'Call for Dave' they said.

I said 'oh, just call me Fred or something'. Luckily they decided on Fred rather than something... I'm sure half my uni friends don't know I'm actually called Dave...

Oh that's funny :)

I'm on the opposite side, any other girl called Beatriz is either over 80 or under 8...

I used to hate my name because it was so unusual, now I quite like it :)

At school it was Matthew that was the most popular name. At one point, in 3 classes (which was only about 25 people) there were 5 matthews.

When I was younger it was Christopher that was more popular. In one class there were three Christophers, Christopher Robinson, Christopher Taylor 1 & Christopher Taylor 2.

I know a lot more Daves now than I used to. Including an Alex who is called Dave. & a Dave who isn't actually a person.

There were three Johns in my A-level physics group, and they used to confuse our lovely but very scatty teacher (another John!) by sitting together in lessons. In the end, he just gave up and addressed them collectively as "Johns".



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

my husband had a college professor named Jonathan C. Reed....that is also my husband's name.... The professor got confused when Jon went into his class and handed in his registrar's slip and asked if he was in the right class. (the slip had my husband's name, not the professors and the professor kept saying "why do you have this paper with my name on it..." LOL)

My 50 year old step-mother in law's called Beatrix (with an x not a z though, ScarletBea), though she's universally known as Bunny - and even kinda looks like one too. Heh.

I'm sure I've read studies into popular names and the reasoning behind them - wasn't it on here someone was saying that soon there'd be a lot of Harrys and Hermionies coming through for instance?

My wife works in a nursery school and just out of interest I asked her what names are common amongst very young children at the moment. Apparently they have four girls called Holly (all Christmas birthdays!) and, strangely enough, three boys called Zak in the class right now.

Five years ago when I taught nursery children they were all Hannahs and um Harrys actually



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

oh yes, in my A level German class, there were three Lucys (one a Lucie). Two Louises (not counting us with Louise as a middle name). There was also an Adéle. I forget most of the others. Nevermind.

Kylie was a popular name around the mid 80s. Though, I don't know any kylies in my year.

My A level Social Biology class - of about 12 pupils - had Gillian, Julie, Julia, Jonathon and John, plus, I think, Sarah and Sara.

When Mike O'Dowell joined Film Unit, we already had enough Mike's, so we asked him if he'd ever been known as anything else. He answered 'Stan', and that was that, for the next three years.

And I haven't the faintest idea what Squig, Hobbit, Fuzzy, Reg, and Brian are called by their parents. I do know that both Ven and Sherlock are really called Wendy (he he he )

My class had three bens, two of whom were Ben D Smiths, another Smith and four Daves.

Out of thirty.



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