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Roderick Charles Macpherson (1897 - 1963)
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Son of Donald Waller Macpherson and Ethel Mary (Cubitt) Macpherson
Brother of Donald Hugh Macpherson
[children unknown]
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Biography
Roderick was born in 1897. He was the son of Donald Macpherson and Ethel Cubitt. He was educated at Winchester College from 1911-14 following which he attended the Royal Military College in Camberley, Surrey. Then he joined the Royal Highlanders as a 2/Lt on 16th June 1915. Almost immediately he transferred to the RFC as an Observer with No.7 Squadron on the RE5. On 21st July 1915, he and his pilot, Captain G.D.Mills, were engaged in a reconnaissance-following which his pilot submitted this combat report: We were just over Cambrai after completing the reconnaissance, when I saw a machine approaching about 500 feet higher than ourselves. I thought at first it was a Martinsyde Scout until it was level with us when it turned in and fired about 30 rounds with a machine gun at us. Lieut Macpherson opened on it and fired about 40 rounds (from the Lewis Gun). The hostile machine followed for about 5 minutes and then apparently went off after another English machine to the South. No damage was sustained.
However 2/Lt Macpherson's flying career was short, as here described in a narrative penned by him during his POW de-brief in 1919: I had also about 6 homing pigeons in parachutes to be dropped near Poix (roughly North from Landrecies). I believe this to have been the first experiment with Pigeons. On turning North from the route of our reconnaissance to drop the pigeons we sighted a German aeroplane making for us & attacked. I was armed only with a rifle and a Lewis gun, stripped, & with the stock fitted to facilitate using it from the shoulder, no mounting being provided on our Hi Tim. You are with us on Sound Magazine. Because of this is the first interview from Turkiye, I like to open with a cliché question, I’m pretty sure that you’ve answered a lot, can you tell us about you and your very first beginnings about the interest to guitar sound, guitar playing and of course pickups? I started playing guitar relatively late around the age of 15 I guess and as with all of us, once the bug had bitten I was hooked. After finishing school I set off playing in a variety of bands both here in the UK and then in Germany. I quickly found out that making a living from music wasn’t as easy as I thought so I returned to the UK and started teaching guitar privately, steadily building up a good roster of students which kept me going and learning at the same time. Also at this time I was very actively involved in a metal band with my wife on vocals and we toured the UK extensively as well as opening for other main touring acts and doing several sessions for Radio-1. It was through the teaching that I started working for British blues rock singer Elkie Brooks – after teaching her son guitar I was soon being asked to play on tracks in her studio leading to whole albums and then becoming part of her touring band which I did through most of the ‘90s. Coming from a predominantly rock and metal playing background and finding myself in a band with some seriously good session players was a real eye opener and a steep learning curve but it did me a lot of good and I learnt masses about playing, production and writing. For the past 10 years I’ve played in an Ozzy tribute band here in the UK – essentially a group of my closest friends which still gives me the chance to get out and play without the pressure of touring all the time. It also gives me the opportunity to test pickups in a live environment which is something I’ve always done since day one and have grown to rely on as the final bench mar Scottish poet and professor Roderick Watson (born 1943) is a Scottish poet. He is a professor emeritus in English Studies at the University of Stirling. Watson was born on 12th May 1943 in Aberdeen. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University before doing postgraduate study at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. He was later to write a critical study of MacDiarmid, whom he met and befriended as a student. Watson later taught at the University of Victoria in Canada, before coming back to Scotland and joining the University of Stirling. He has written and lectured widely on Scottish literature and cultural identity, and served as General Editor of the Canongate Classics reprint series since the start of the project in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is currently the co-editor (with Linda Dryden) of The Journal of Stevenson Studies. He has published two main volumes of verse over the years, and has featured in numerous periodicals and anthologies. After an early pamphlet he published his debut work True History on the Walls in 1976, and this was followed by the Luath Press publication Into the Blue Wavelengths in 2004. Upon its publication it was lauded by Philip Hobsbaum, who labelled Watson as a "poet of introspection and retrospection". .Tim Mills (Bare Knuckle Pickups) Interview
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