This is my final cache of 50 in the SS series, I hope that everybody has enjoyed solving and finding them as much as I have enjoyed setting the problems. Like many of these great artists, caches SS1 to SS49 will be retired, as convenient, once 30 finds have been logged, while SS50 will be archived sometime after 20 logged finds. Obviously, the additional clues will disappear with the caches.
So, to celebrate the conclusion of the series I thought I would enlist a few of my favourite artists from the sixties to perform the mother of all gigs. Alas some of these great musicians have now departed this life so sadly it can only take place in the imagination, of which I am not bereft; it is reality that I struggle with.
To start the show I would have possibly the best female and male groups of the 60s combining for a duet. Diana Ross and Mick Jagger performing Let’s Spend the Night Together would be awesome if somewhat mind-boggling. At their age they would need to be careful with exactly what they got up to on stage. I would then have to include my favourite solo artist, Leonard Cohen, he was brilliant when I saw him at the Hammersmith Odeon in the 70s and again at the O2 in September 2013. Next I would like to see Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler, Alan Price, John Steel and Hilton Valentine re-united for one last performance, re-visiting their house, no other group initiated me into blues music more than this group and their interpretation of it. Following on, to bring the first half of the gig to a close, I would like to see, in my opinion, the greatest blues artist of them all, “the father of modern Chicago Blues”, reincarnated on the stage, playing his interpretation of Catfish Blues.
The Beatles would have to start the second half of the programme, their contribution to 60s music and culture cannot be underestimated. A performance of “A Day In The Life” as played on August 14th, 1967 to mark the end of legal off-shore broadcasting would bring back very mixed emotions. More blues would follow, with Miss Hawkins delivering a peach of a performance. There would have to be a question mark about the mid session content, but the finale would be performed by my favourite group as a schoolboy. They really got me and I could have listened to their music all day and all of the night.
You are looking for a container whose contents may have been appreciated when working out these puzzles. Ink, quill or suitable substitutes would aid recording your proof of discovery. Stealth may be required to retrieve this cache, as although potentially a drive by, parking a car nearby tends to alert a neighbouring mutt.
Thanks for your continued interest in this series of caches, without your involvement the exercise would have been pointless and I could have led a normal life.
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