Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

Still Life Jimi Hendrix - 'Winter Still Life' - 10 x 8 inches oil on board. Pink Floyd - 68 - Syd Barrett. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 12 x 5 inches approx   Alternative York Road - Kings Heath 1967 - [ or not ] Above - so, after the previous post that got me thinking about Silver Street , York Road , Alcester Rd Sth etc and how it would be if Jimi Hendrix did do an impromptu 'concert' in Kings Heath - seeing as he was at the Ritz and not playing officially there that night. Maybe he'd spill out and over into the street somewhere? Well, anyway - it made for an interesting flight of fancy for a fleeting moment or two. Those fleeting moments have been a surreal platform for my imagination thats lingered now for over 56 years or so! Time Flies! Alan G Brooks

Kings Heath and the Sixties.  Acrylic painting - Alan Brooks - "Sixties part one." - detail - 2010 I grew up in Kings Heath , Birmingham. Down the road from my house was York Road. In York Road was  a place called the Ritz Ballroom . Not long after The Beatles released their record "Please Please Me" in 1963 they were booked and played there. After that, heaven knows what happened, The Rolling Stones , The Kinks , Pink Floyd  Robert Plant and The Moody Blues all played there too! I heard that this piece of musical history burned down in 2013 - and was then demolished in 2015. I wasn't old enough to have seen any of those acts at the venue, but they had a lasting impact on me all the same. Alan G Brooks

or Pot Noodles - take your pick . . . Pink Floyd of 1968. Left to right Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright Acrylic and colored pencil I like doodling . . . Not having any restrictions and being free to just mess around and see what develops. The couple of pieces here are examples of what I'm talking about. More heroes of mine from 1968 - when I was an impressionable school kid - Pink Floyd and Cream. CREAM of 1968. Ginger Baker at top. Jack Bruce center. Eric Clapton bottom. Acrylic and colored pencil. Alan Brooks Onward and Upward