Box and Fiddle
Year 18 No 04
December 1994
A Tribute to Stan Peacock - Obituary
by Ian Cruickshanks & Peter Straughan
Stan Peacock was a member of Rob Gordon’s Band for some 12 years and along with ourselves traveled the length and breadth of the U.K. and several times to the Far East. He must have been the perfect bandsman for Rob, as he was always punctual and immaculately turned out and always regarded it as a serious job to the best of his ability.
He was a great asset to Rob for all kinds of work but particularly at the Modern Sequence dances where you need a good drummer for those rhythms. Stan was also very good company, an important factor when you are travelling together so much, and a great joker. Often, while we were all intent on reading music, Stan was watching the dancers and if we heard a wee tap, tap on the hi-hat, we knew he had spotted something amusing happening among the dancers and was drawing our attention to it!
One particular time when Rob was collecting pieces of antique Japanese china, he picked up a particularly nice dish somewhere in England. The next morning, whilst packing the car, Stan handed the ‘dish’ to Rob (the ‘dish’ had been swopped for a similar shaped one from a junk shop) and just let it slip out of the paper bag and onto the road where it smashed into a thousand bits! That was the only time I ever saw Rob completely and utterly speechless! Stan had the ability to keep a straight face at times like that and laugh about it afterwards.
He will be sadly missed by us now, both for his musicianship and his company.
And by Ian Powrie
It is with deep regret that I note the passing of Stan Peacock. He played with me in the late forties and early fifties and even though this was early in his playing life, he had that tasty tidy sound which was always associated with him.
He was always so immaculately turned out and I found him to be a thorough gentleman socially.
I have many fond recollections of the time he was with me and extend my sincere sympathies to his wife and family.
by Ian Cruickshanks & Peter Straughan
Stan Peacock was a member of Rob Gordon’s Band for some 12 years and along with ourselves traveled the length and breadth of the U.K. and several times to the Far East. He must have been the perfect bandsman for Rob, as he was always punctual and immaculately turned out and always regarded it as a serious job to the best of his ability.
He was a great asset to Rob for all kinds of work but particularly at the Modern Sequence dances where you need a good drummer for those rhythms. Stan was also very good company, an important factor when you are travelling together so much, and a great joker. Often, while we were all intent on reading music, Stan was watching the dancers and if we heard a wee tap, tap on the hi-hat, we knew he had spotted something amusing happening among the dancers and was drawing our attention to it!
One particular time when Rob was collecting pieces of antique Japanese china, he picked up a particularly nice dish somewhere in England. The next morning, whilst packing the car, Stan handed the ‘dish’ to Rob (the ‘dish’ had been swopped for a similar shaped one from a junk shop) and just let it slip out of the paper bag and onto the road where it smashed into a thousand bits! That was the only time I ever saw Rob completely and utterly speechless! Stan had the ability to keep a straight face at times like that and laugh about it afterwards.
He will be sadly missed by us now, both for his musicianship and his company.
And by Ian Powrie
It is with deep regret that I note the passing of Stan Peacock. He played with me in the late forties and early fifties and even though this was early in his playing life, he had that tasty tidy sound which was always associated with him.
He was always so immaculately turned out and I found him to be a thorough gentleman socially.
I have many fond recollections of the time he was with me and extend my sincere sympathies to his wife and family.