Edward Anthony 'Tony' Ashton (1 March 1946 - 28 May 2001) was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist, and in the opinion of the cognoscenti, he was one of the most criminally under rated British rock and rollers of all time. During the eighties Ashton co-hosted a TV show with Rick Wakeman called "GasTank". The show was aired every two weeks and, on each episode, there were guests ranging from Phil Lynott to Ian Paice who sat in with the show's in-house band led by Ashton and Wakeman (others were Tony Fernandez and Chas Cronk). In between performances, the guests were interviewed by Wakeman. In 1984, Ashton was given a very small[quantify] budget to record an album for EMI in Switzerland. The result was the album Live In The Studio, recorded in less than three days.
This is a great radio session recorded in Leverkusen, Germany, on November 14, 2000. GratHovOx embodies everything uninhibited free improv can deliver. The presence of two of the genre's most prestigious veterans certainly has something to do with it. Fred Van Hove performs most of the set on a Steinway D piano. He grabs his accordion for "Foreplay/Vorspiel." Tony Oxley produces an astounding number of different sounds from his acoustic drum kit, keeping the electronics very discreet. Between them stands reedman Frank Gratkowski, using mostly instruments from the clarinet family this time around – his raspy alto sax makes an appearance in the 20-minute "Trenches/Tranches."
«Il vous est sans doute arrivé, lorsque vous regardiez un match de foot, d’insulter le type en short avec un sifflet. Ce type, c’était peut-être moi. Rassurez-vous, je ne vous en veux pas. Parfois la passion l’emporte sur la raison.
Dans ce livre, vous allez mieux comprendre, à travers mon histoire, ce personnage étrange et mystérieux qui déchaîne tant de colères : l’arbitre! Vous allez fouler les pelouses des plus grands stades et infiltrer les coulisses du foot business. …