  Ron Hall - Rhythm Guitar & Drinking The ProfitsBorn 16th January 1953 in Chichester, West Sussex. Insisted on living in a supermarket trolley until 17 years old - this may explain subsequent behavioural anomalies.
Grammar school education during the 1960s. Whilst the rest of the country enjoyed several years of cultural revolution, Chichester restricted it's youth renaissance activities to about seven weeks in 1968. It was during this time that a painfully adolescent Ron saw a local band at a school disco. Nothing would ever be the same again; the name of the band was Magic Shrapnel.
Something about the hideously distorted sound, appalling hairstyles, and 17-minute drum solos struck a chord with the angst-ridden Ron, and he embarked on a frenzy of musical activity, working with such bands as Sneezy Weasel, Pants and Let's Get Plastered. Eventually, he realised that to make further progress, it would be necessary to (a) learn to play an instrument and (b) do something about the acne.
 Several days with the Bert Weedon songbook and a selection of creams and potions did the trick, and Ron was sufficiently transformed to form the truly legendary Frincky Tim with a group of schoolmates. They had a strong single-mindedness about achieving their 15 minutes of fame; sadly, when it arrived, fame lasted several minutes short of the full quarter hour, and they split up due to musical differences and an unpleasant misunderstanding involving the drummer's girlfriend.
Deeply wounded by these early setbacks, Ron sought fulfillment in other areas. A short but spectacular career in the RAF was followed by a longer, but even more spectacular career in air traffic control. Emerging from these diversions in the early 1990s, Ron realised that he had survived psychedelia, heavy rock, glam rock, pub rock, volcanic rock, disco, punk, the new romantics, Britpop, grunge and Showaddywaddy without contributing a single thing to any of them. It was time to join the game again.
And so he became sound engineer with Farnham legends Watt. After some months, he realised that staring at a mixing desk without a clue how to work it was getting him nowhere. It would be much more fun to strap on a guitar without a clue how to work it. So he did, and he has never looked back.
Well, he did look back a bit, but the view was always the same - no band in their right mind would hire him.
 UNTIL.........one evening after a crate or two of Goering's Triple Strength Export Draincleaner in the company of Martin 'Goldenthroat' Hayles and Mick 'To Be Fair' Brennan, a plot was hatched; they would form a band OF THEIR VERY OWN!!!!!!!! Never mind lack of funds, questionable musical ability, advanced middle age, looks that only a mother could love and a tendency to fall over a lot - only one thing could stand in their way. They had to find a memorable name.This was the start of a nightmare journey involving libraries, public archives, NATO, dictionaries, thesauruses (or is it thesauri?), the Samaritans and, inevitably, the pub. Rejected names included Fred Zeppelin, The Faeces, The Small Faeces (patently untrue), The Beatles (could lead to litigation) and Hammer Smack The Crow Toad (for obvious reasons). Eventually, Oh Bloody Hell became Old Broody Mare which evolved into Old Blue Moses.
A few years down the line, life with Old Blue Moses has taught Ron a golden lesson - talent is an unnecessary encumbrance. Long live rock.
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