"Beyond the Yardbirds, the boy who’d made a guitar from a cigar box had seen Shotgun Express live, and was blown away by Rod’s vocals. They went off and got drunk. The zip-fingered rocker lured Rod into his new group, and Rod brought me. About which Beck didn’t seem too excited."

"Jeff did warm to me in the end. At one point I went round to his flat with a bunch of my own precious blues records under my arm to cheer him up. It was vinyl that I would never set eyes on again. Shortly afterwards I was fired from the Jeff Beck Group." bit.ly/3vfqOQj

Tune in to BBC Oxfordshire after 9pm to hear David Ambrose and ashley goodall chat with Fleur🌙 of BBC Upload. Looking forward to hearing the inside story of their work in the music industry! #HowToBeARockStar

It's #BrianAuger's birthday! The keyboardist played with #LongJohnBaldry, #VicBriggs and vocalists #RodStewart and #JulieDriscoll in #Steampacket, later taking Julie as he formed Brian Auger and #TheTrinity, with #DavidAmbrose on bass. On Fire indeed! bit.ly/3exvKtz

Following their massive success with #ThisWheel'sOnFire, Brian Auger and The Trinity were invited to appear on The #Monkee's chaotic television spectacular 33 Revolutions Per Monkee. Read the full story in #DavidAmbrose's memoir #HowToBeARockStar from LittleWingBooks.com

"Since he was the one who had talked me into joining #JeffBeck, Rod must have been feeling guilty about my sacking. He called to say that he’d got me onto a package tour featuring the #WalkerBrothers, #EngelbertHumperdinck & #CatStevens, whose band had #Hendrix on bass."

"I was a big fan of Cat Stevens’s songwriting. When I joined his band on that strangest of bills, one of #JeffBeck’s exes, the superb #MickeyWaller, was on drums and the guitarist was the exceptional session man #RayRussell." #DavidAmbrose in #HowToBeARockStar

Leema Seven THE WENDY JAMES @Courtney CREEM Yeah Little Wing Books great contribution to #PopArt - loved the Dave david ambrose lateral pop thinking - more de Bono than Bono U2 Cerys Matthews @garthcart1 @quantick #books Grand Scheme #blues Mick Fleetwood Sir Rod Stewart #read

"Mum & Dad must have realised that my days at Byam Shaw were numbered. My love of art had been eclipsed by my obsession with rock‘n’roll. Their dreams for me were about to be dashed. Being in the Blues Messengers was all that mattered" #HowToBeARockStar youtu.be/rBZ1PbdO2wI

"The Cheynes were slick & professional. They had a hard, blues-influenced sound & more than looked the part. A one-eyed man could see that they were going places. They released their debut single in Nov 1963. The first time I heard it I was utterly gobsmacked." #HowToBeARockStar

Dave Ambrose: "Invitations to play bass flooded in. One was at a joint called The Brush and Palette in Queensway. How to describe it? Imagine a strip joint crossed with a life-drawing class and you might get the picture: basically a sleazy strip show disguised as an art tableau"

The most rivetting 7 minutes' watch you'll spend today! Listen to bass player David Ambrose explain the days leading to the formation of #FleetwoodMac, playing with #PeterGreen and Mick Fleetwood. Full story in #HowToBeARockStar from Little Wing Books! bit.ly/3BqgYhM

"I became part of semi-pro Fingernail Five, with the future abstract painter Ralph Freeman. We were going places. We must have been, we had a manager. If you liked him, John Scott was your typical sharp-suited, fake tan-faced, tough-talking Svengali. If you didn’t, he was a spiv"

David Ambrose played bass with his friend #PeterGreen on guitar in both #ShotgunExpress and #Looner'sLimited (aka The Peter B's) - he should have joined him in #FleetwoodMac. In this interview David reveals what it was like being around the guitar god: bit.ly/3zqrnsj

"I confess to having been taken aback when Peter Green and I were sitting on a bus one day and he turned to stare deeply into my eyes. For a moment I feared he was going to confess undying love for me. What he actually said was, ‘Dave, you’ve got the blues. And so have I.’"

"I got a call from #PeteBardens. He’d left Them to throw in his lot with Mick Fleetwood, who had quit the #BoStreetRunners to do his own thing. They were launching a new instrumental band, #LoonersLtd, in the style of #BookerT&TheMGs. Of all the useless rock‘n’roll names…"

Beck's Bolero: "#TheWho’s #KeithMoon & #JohnEntwistle agreed to do some experimental recording with #Beck & #JimmyPage, along with pianist #NickyHopkins. But Entwistle lost his nerve at the last minute, fearing the wrath of #Townshend, and withdrew. #JohnPaulJones stepped in."

"#MickeyMost insisted that Jeff sang instead of Rod, who sang backing. I played bass on it. So those who were there insist. I can’t actually remember having done so, and the history books record the bassist as having been John Paul Jones. Who knows?" bit.ly/3eK72pZ

"#MickFleetwood fell in with #BrianJones, which was by no means a bad move. Being seen with the chippy-ruffian #Stones, feted and fawned-over at the same events, was doing him & #PeteBardens no harm whatsoever. The pair of them milked it to the brim - who could blame them?"

BBC Kent Leo Ulph playing Dave Ambrose interview on #PeterGreen this eve 9-10 pm BBC Upload for new insights re his book how to be a Rock star. Via Little Wing Books