I had a very good school mate called Darren Branstone, his Dad loved the 50's and 60's American Swing, Big Band/Orchestra drummers and had a load of videos of Buddy Rich, Sandy Nelson and Gene Krupa...very impressive but not something I could listen to for pleasure.
He was a bit of a character was Darren's Dad; from what I remember of him, he was a career milkman, a very good amateur artist (most of the subject material was gory, Fangoria type horror vignettes) he was also a Teddy Boy, married and was divorced by a Glamorous American woman with whom he had two children; I remember he had a fascination for American muscle cars and kept several Ford Zephyrs, which had white walled tyres.... he spent a lot of his spare time fixing and polishing up the chrome... he also had a penchant for Nazi and WW2 history and memorabilia, he had tailors dummies; one with a full Waffen SS Officers Uniform on a complete with the lightning flashes and ceremonial dagger, the other with a powder blue Teddy Boys jacket....he.had a.glass.display cabinet with Military history books, several German campaign medals including an Iron Cross, an SS ring, in front of a full sized Swastica flag, he also owned and frequently played many recordings of Hitler's Rally speeches (he didn't speak a word of
German.as far as I know) and was a fully paid up, card carrying member of the National Front.
Darren inherited his love of drumming, art and American muscle cars....and had many airfix WW2 Replica airplanes and tanks in his bedroom (as did I), he was also a drummer in a marching band for a while...there back on topic.......finally........kind of.
