Indeed, Neurotic Outsiders became regulars at the Hollywood club, with a cavalcade of celebrity friends making guest appearances. And started playing down there every Monday. Let’s do this again,’” Jones recalled of the first Neurotic Outsiders show to Yahoo! “And we started rehearsing. “It was one of them things again when the four of us was playing, we’re like, ‘Oh, this is cool. When the initial show went well, it “rekindled an incredibly strong urge” in McKagan to get back to performing. Still, the chance to perform with Jones - whom he called a “personal hero” - was too tough to ignore. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, I had never played sober in my entire life,” McKagan admitted in his autobiography It’s So Easy: And Other Lies. “Up to this point I had not played a live show sober. Unfortunately the 2005 race was deviled by very light winds, slowing the field's approach to the finish line, and Le Bon had to be airlifted off the yacht in order to continue the band's tour.It was Sorum who recruited the other musicians for what was meant to be a one-off performance to raise funds for a friend with cancer.įor McKagan, the concert had deeper meaning. The bassist had emerged from rehab earlier that year, working to become sober following a lifetime of alcohol abuse that had brought him close to death. They had a special dinner and borrowed the yacht from Clark to race in the Fastnet once more, this time to raise awareness of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution that had helped them so many years before. In August 2005 most of the original 1985 crew reunited for the 20th anniversary of the race, which was the idea of Simon Le Bon who took time out from Duran Duran's Astronaut Tour. Clark says that she has become one of his biggest passions in life. He races her, maintains her, and invites local children for visits and outings on the yacht. The yacht took part in Cowes Week and a few other small races while owned by Le Bon and the Berrows.ĭrum was later sold to Scottish businessman Sir Arnold Clark, who renamed her the Arnold Clark Drum. Le Bon wrote and performed the song " Grey Lady Of The Sea" for the film's soundtrack it was his first solo musical venture. The documentary film Drum - The Journey Of A Lifetime is about the yacht and crew during the Whitbread race. This months-long trek took them around the globe, through high seas, hot sun, icy storms, and days of becalmed boredom. The boat was salvaged and refurbished (at an estimated cost of 400,000 pounds) just in time to take part in the trio's biggest yachting ambition: the 1985-86 Whitbread Round the World Race. The search and rescue diver was Petty Officer Air Crewman (POACMN) Larry "Scouse" Slater of 771 Naval Air Squadron who later appeared as guest of honor on This Is Your Life on 9 April 1986, with Simon Le Bon making an appearance at the end of the programme. Le Bon and several other crew members were trapped under the hull for forty minutes, before being rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. It was unfortunate that the build process was interrupted by the untimely death of the original owner leading to deficiencies in the original build program.)ĭuring the 1985 Fastnet race off the coast of England, the experimental keel broke off, causing the yacht to capsize. In that process it was subsequently found that the keel was never correctly attached - this is why the keel failed in the Fastnet Race in 1985. The yacht was then purchased at this time by Le Bon and the Berrow bros - but there was a good deal of uncertainty about build as the boat was moved to different shipyards.
Rob James tragically died in a yachting accident off Salcombe in Devon before the yacht was completed. (Footnote: The yacht was not in fact commissioned by Le Bon - it was originally built for Rob James the husband of famous round the world sailor Naiomi James. August 10th 1985 was the start of the 608 miles Fastnet Race from Cowes, Isle of Wight, around the Fastnet Rock on the south coast of Ireland and back to Plymouth, with 24 crew on board. As a warm up to the Whitbread they entered the Fastnet race for crew training and to test the boat and equipment. Drum was a yacht owned in the mid-1980s by Simon Le Bon and Paul and Michael Berrow, who commissioned yachtsman Skip Novak to build with the purpose of taking part in the 1985 Whitbread Round the World Race.
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