Blaster bates biography sample
Blaster bates biography sample
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Date: 12/09/06
The Master Blaster
Derek McIntosh ('Blaster') Bates
Demolition expert and raconteur
b.
05/02/23, d. 01/09/06
It's perhaps difficult for the younger generation to understand what effect 'Blaster' Bates had when he first came to a wider audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Here was a man who had been an engineer at Rolls Royce, a World War II bomber pilot, and an expert in demolition by explosives, who had found himself gaining wider recognition from going around Round Table societies and Rotary Clubs ("I never knew there were so many secret societies in Great Britain", he once said), talking about his work and the things that happened to him.
But 'Blaster' Bates was a born entertainer.
Rather than give the bald facts about his job, he spun anecdotes into picaresque tales which would reduce his hearers to near incontinence as he would imitate the tones and accents of the well-bred Cheshire Life ladies, artsy-fartsy TV producers