BY 1979, DAVE DECIDED ONCE MORE TO FULLY IMMERSE HIMSELF IN MUSIC. LONG TIME HAWK FANS WILL BE AWARE OF THE VAST OUTPUT OF THE BAND IN THE 80'S, MUCH OF THE REASON FOR THIS WAS SO DAVE COULD TAKE HIS MIND OFF HIS ACTING DESIRES. HIS ONLY CONCESSION IN THIS PERIOD WAS HIS SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE AS WIDOW TWANKEY IN THE 1984 PRODUCTION OF ALADDIN BY THE EXETER AND DISTRICT AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY. THE ONLY REMAINING EVIDENCE OF THIS IS A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FROM THE "DEVON BUGLE". THEY DESCRIBED DAVE'S PERFORMANCE AS "A REAL COLOSSUS OF AN ACTOR, THIS IS THE BEST TWANKEY WE'VE SEEN IN YEARS"
FAST FORWARD NOW IF YOU WILL TO 1989, DAVE IS ONCE AGAIN AT A CROSSROADS IN HIS LIFE, HE FEELS THAT THE MUSIC IS BECOMING STALE (XENON CODEX ANYONE!) AND IS UNSURE WHAT HE SHOULD DO, AND IT WAS WHILE CONTEMPLATING HIS FUTURE IN THE "BIDEFORD SPUD U LIKE" THAT DAVE REALLY THOUGHT HE HAD HIT THE JACKPOT. WHO SHOULD WALK IN LOOKING FOR A TASTY LUNCHTIME TREAT BUT TOP HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORCESE. BROCK IMMEDIATELY INTRODUCED HIMSELF, RECOMMENDED "TODAY'S SPECIAL" (TUNA AND EGG MAYONNAISE, SERVED WITH A SMALL SOFT DRINK £2.25) AND INVITED "MARTY" TO JOIN HIM. IT TRANSPIRED THAT SCORSESE WAS A BIT "PISSED" WITH ROBERT DE NIRO AND JOE PESCI AS THEY HAD LET HIM DOWN AT THE LAST MINUTE, JUST AS THEY WERE DUE TO START FILMING HIS NEW FEATURE, THE MAFIA FLICK "GOODFELLAS". APPARENTLY THE TWO HAPLESS ACTORS HAD INSTEAD DECIDED TO ATTEND A FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP THAT WAS TAKING PLACE IN NEARBY TAUNTON. DAVE SAW HIS OPPORTUNITY AND TOOK IT WITH BOTH HANDS. HE EXPLAINED TO "MARTY" (THEY WERE GETTING ON VERY WELL BY NOW) THAT HE HAD RECENTLY "WHACKED, I MEAN SACKED" HALF OF HIS BAND AND IN HIS OPINION THE REMAINING TRIO WERE IDEAL FOR THE LEADING ROLES. SCORSESE EXPLAINED THAT RAY LIOTTA WAS STILL "ONBOARD" AS THEY SAY BUT DAVE MANAGED TO CONVINCE HIM OTHERWISE. HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD THE PINT SIZED DIRECTOR " YOU KNOW WHAT MARTY, F**K LIOTTA, HE'S A F**KING USELESS ACTOR, RICHARD CHADWICK CAN ACT THAT LITTLE F**KER OFF THE STAGE, GIVE ME A F**KING SHOOTER NOW AND I'LL GO ROUND AND F**KING WHACK HIM" MARTIN WAS IMPRESSED IF A LITTLE CONCERNED WITH THE WAY THAT DAVE HAD TAKEN TO HIS PART SO NATURALLY, AND APPARENTLY HAD TO TELL HIM TO CALM DOWN AS IT WAS UPSETTING THE LOCALS AS THEY MUNCHED THEIR WAY THROUGH THEIR JACKET POTATOES. UNDETERRED, SCORSESE ASSURED DAVE HE WOULD GET CONTRACTS DRAWN UP THAT AFTERNOON. HOWEVER DISASTER ONCE MORE STRUCK JUST AS DAVE WAS ABOUT TO CALL KRIS FROM THE LOCAL TELEPHONE BOX, TO TELL HER TO CHILL THE POMAGNE. A VISIBLY SHAKEN SCORSESE RUSHED BACK IN AND TOLD DAVE THE DEAL WAS OFF AND TO MAKE HIMSELF SCARCE. APPARENTLY THE FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP WAS CANCELLED AT THE LAST MINUTE SO BOB AND JOE WERE NOW BACK IN THE FOLD, TROUBLE WAS WHEN MARTY MENTIONED DAVE TO MR PESCI HE ALLEGEDLY SAID "DAVE F**KING BROCK, THAT LITTLE F**K, NOT ONLY HAS HE PISSED OFF MY GOOD FRIEND NIK TURNER, HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING OF F**KING NOTE SINCE F**KING LEVITATION NEARLY TEN YEARS AGO, I'M GONNA GET TOOLED UP AND WHACK THE F**KER"
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