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Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: TG on June 13, 2008, 10:50:16 PM
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As I type this I am listening to 'Holidays in the sun' by the Sex Pistols. Before that it was 'Comfortably numb' by Pink Floyd.
I was a teenager at Pistols time, listening to Pink Floyd records I borrowed off my older sister. But I felt that the Pistols, Stranglers, Ramones et al were making records for ME. Not for my elder sister or my parents but for ME.
Yet here I am, 30 years later and I find Pink Floyd songs have more resonance for me. 'Comfortably numb' takes me back to the ugliness of secondary school, 'On the turning away' makes me hope for a better world.
Classics all. But I think I will have the Floyd played at my funeral. cloud9:
Or possibly 'Rock and roll' by Led Zeppelin as everybody sniffles while the curtain closes over my coffin. lol:
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Bloody youngsters ::)
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Bloody youngsters ::)
What do you remember playing on the ol' wind-up then?
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Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, (early) Elvis (before he went all Movies and Las Vegas) ~ then Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan ~ stuff like that.
Nowadays it's more likely to be some of that plus Jazz/C&W/Classical and "The Great American Songbook" (Cole Porter and the like)
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We had 'Last train to san fernando' on a 78 among others... made them all into bowls after heating them in the oven... Banghead
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I had a Lonnie Donegan version of that ~ Drove me Dad nuts ..... think he smashed it in the end.
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I had a Lonnie Donegan version of that ~ Drove me Dad nuts ..... think he smashed it in the end.
We smashed the bowl... Would have been worth millions now... prolly... the record I mean, not the bowl... noooo:
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I had a Lonnie Donegan version of that ~ Drove me Dad nuts ..... think he smashed it in the end.
We smashed the bowl... Would have been worth millions now... prolly... the record I mean, not the bowl... noooo:
Tell me about it. I lost custody of all my early records when I split with the first girl I lived with.
In later years when Mrs S#1 and I split I fortunately managed to lose custody of the Johnny Mathis and the Neil Diamond records ~ now that was a close run thing ~ she nearly gave them to me scared2:
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Do any of you listen to Saturday Live (R4 09:00) and in particular Inheritance Tracks? The idea is to name a track that made an impression growing up (inherited) and to name one that you'd pass on.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive/inheritance_tracks.shtml
I have a few of each but have difficulty coming down to a final pair. Here's one, Petite Fleur by Sidney Bechet (can't find a performance from him though). Used to hear it night after night through thin walls when I was in bed as a child. Not very happy, sadly.
http://www.youtube.com/v/M9Gmmu2ligI&hl
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Can't say I know that programme ~ most Saturday Mornings at that time I am tuned to radio 2 ~ Sounds of the Sixties with good old Brian Matthew ~ yes he is still going!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/sounds60s/
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Do any of you listen to Saturday Live (R4 09:00) and in particular Inheritance Tracks? The idea is to name a track that made an impression growing up (inherited) and to name one that you'd pass on.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive/inheritance_tracks.shtml
I have a few of each but have difficulty coming down to a final pair. Here's one, Petite Fleur by Sidney Bechet (can't find a performance from him though). Used to hear it night after night through thin walls when I was in bed as a child. Not very happy, sadly.
http://www.youtube.com/v/M9Gmmu2ligI&hl
That’s very poignant…
I don’t know the show but I will look out for it.
I can’t immediately think of an inheritance track – there are loads of brilliant songs that bring back great memories… I’ll think about it an post later.
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If it's poignant you like try this. Tres sixties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR5VWZAQDng&feature=related
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If it's poignant you like try this. Tres sixties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR5VWZAQDng&feature=related
WTF? eeek:
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I assume the WTF? eeek: Is because you can't cope without pictures as well? It is meant to look like that ~ it's called "atmospheric" you knucklehead! evil:
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Can't say I know that programme ~ most Saturday Mornings at that time I am tuned to radio 2 ~ Sounds of the Sixties with good old Brian Matthew ~ yes he is still going!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/sounds60s/
Brian Matthew eeek: He of Saturday Club fame ;D A must listen as I recall. I seem to remember listening to Radio Luxembourg quite a lot back then - at nights - on a crystal set. Pete Murray introducing a new Brenda Lee record... and subsequently being suspended! Bonus Karma points if you can remember what he said ;)
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I assume the WTF? eeek: Is because you can't cope without pictures as well? It is meant to look like that ~ it's called "atmospheric" you knucklehead! evil:
I was referring to the painful wailing… noooo:
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That’s very poignant…
Indeed it was sad32:
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I was pissed when I started this thread.
Just thought I'd share that with you. whistle:
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You should do it more often; it's got legs ;)
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I was pissed when I started this thread.
Just thought I'd share that with you. whistle:
But it was on yr birthday.... rubschin:
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I assume the WTF? eeek: Is because you can't cope without pictures as well? It is meant to look like that ~ it's called "atmospheric" you knucklehead! evil:
I was referring to the painful wailing… noooo:
eeek: eeek: eeek: I'm shocked ~ but let me work this out ~ You are 48 .... so were born in 1960. That explains it all. Such stuff was very big in the sixties but you would be too young to know that.
Oh ~ and I'll rescind the knucklehead ~ you are too young to know better.
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You should do it more often; it's got legs ;)
So it seems, give me a couple of hours and I'll be able to catch up with it. surrender:
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Psychedelic warlords.....Disappear in smoke....
Hawkwind. cloud9:
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YES
I mean the band Yes. Much derided over the last 30 years. Another band I 'borrowed' from my older sister.
A guilty pleasure perhaps. But after all these years the records still show superb musicianship and some long winded but good songs.
I saw them live in Stafford in 1977 with Donavan as support. A good night.
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Saxon - 747 (strangers in the night). I saw them in the 80's. Support act to Nazereth or UFO, cant remember which. They made my head hurt I know that. cloud9:
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Toyah Wilcox,. Gawd bless her.
You had to be there. De Monfort hall Leicester. About 1980. Very LOUD singalong stuff.
Blind drunk hanging off the balcony. No worries.
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Ted Nugent- Cat Scratch Fever. Top bloke. ;D
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Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion.
New wave record with a full choir. eeek:
Fantastic stuff.
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Ten years After - Love like a man.
Saw them at Fairfield Halls.
One of my fave tracks.
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Bickershaw(e) Festival 1972?
Also IoW with Hendrix etc.(on the QT)
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Hendrix was at the IoW Festival in 1970 .... a few weeks before he died.
Pity you missed the 1969 event. Line up was much better IMHO.
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The Cramps, Hammersmith Palais, two nights in June 1985 - I sat A levels the morning after each. Didn't get very good grades...
King Kurt at Reading University in 1987.
The Meteors at the Croydon Underground 1986.
Alien Sex Fiend at the Cartoon in Croydon, 1988.
Great memories...
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rubschin: I seem to remember my children going to see some of those people.
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They will obviously be fully-rounded, productive members of society then.
And not axe-wielding maniacs like some, err...I have said too much.
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Tsk noooo:
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Gordon Giltrap. Remember him? No? Why should you? Had a brief flirtation with the charts many years ago. Saw him at a very small venue here. Just him and some acoustic guitars and about 200 people.
An intimate, jaw dropping display of superb musicianship. cloud9:
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I do recall the name
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As do I but I cannot recall any songs by him rubschin:
From his website:
Gordon's music continues to evade categorisation, influenced as it is by the rock guitar of Hank Marvin and Pete Townshend, the folk guitar of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, and the classical guitar of Julian Bream and John Williams.
Excellent influences though.
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More Hawkwind - Silver Machine. cloud9:
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Hazel O'Connor - 8th day. What a belting record. Whatever happened to her I wonder.
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There is a track (if you can find it it) Called 'Whole lotta love on the run' in which some bugger has combined Led Zeppelins 'Whole lotta love' with Pink Floyds 'on the run' from Dark side of the Moon into one track.
On the face of it it sounds like an audio car crash, but it actually works very well.
Would be great to see/hear it live. rubschin:
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ZZ Top- gimme all your lovin. cloud9:
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If you forced me at gunpoint to name my favourite record it would be '('Don't fear) the reaper' by the Blue Oyster Cult. From the the album 'Agents of Fortune'
This also includes 'Tattoo vampire' and 'ETI'
Wall to wall guitars.
Fantastic. cloud9:
I also recommend' Cultosarus Ereuctus' by the same band.
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If you forced me at gunpoint to name my favourite record it would be '('Don't fear) the reaper' by the Blue Oyster Cult. From the the album 'Agents of Fortune'
This also includes 'Tattoo vampire' and 'ETI'
Wall to wall guitars.
Fantastic. cloud9:
I also recommend' Cultosarus Ereuctus' by the same band.
"Don't fear the reaper" would definitely feature in my top ten and I'm pretty sure that it'll be played today now that you've reminded me. A pub/club in Southampton do lots of live music, I found out one week after the event that Blue Oyster Cult played there in June this year. I would have gone just to hear that track alone. The track also feaures at the start of the film "The Stand" (Stephen King) and whenever I hear it I associate it with the rook/crow sat on the fence post at the start of the film
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A rare (I'm told) recording of Tubular Bells with Billiy Connolly doing the vocal bit, introducing the instruments bit like. cloud9:
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If you forced me at gunpoint to name my favourite record it would be '('Don't fear) the reaper' by the Blue Oyster Cult. From the the album 'Agents of Fortune'
This also includes 'Tattoo vampire' and 'ETI'
Wall to wall guitars.
Fantastic. cloud9:
I also recommend' Cultosarus Ereuctus' by the same band.
"Don't fear the reaper" would definitely feature in my top ten and I'm pretty sure that it'll be played today now that you've reminded me. A pub/club in Southampton do lots of live music, I found out one week after the event that Blue Oyster Cult played there in June this year. I would have gone just to hear that track alone. The track also feaures at the start of the film "The Stand" (Stephen King) and whenever I hear it I associate it with the rook/crow sat on the fence post at the start of the film
Wouldn't be the Bassett Hotel , site of the original "Concord Club" (before it moved out to Stoneham) would it? I first saw Manfred Mann there waaaaaaaaay back when.
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If you forced me at gunpoint to name my favourite record it would be '('Don't fear) the reaper' by the Blue Oyster Cult. From the the album 'Agents of Fortune'
This also includes 'Tattoo vampire' and 'ETI'
Wall to wall guitars.
Fantastic. cloud9:
I also recommend' Cultosarus Ereuctus' by the same band.
"Don't fear the reaper" would definitely feature in my top ten and I'm pretty sure that it'll be played today now that you've reminded me. A pub/club in Southampton do lots of live music, I found out one week after the event that Blue Oyster Cult played there in June this year. I would have gone just to hear that track alone. The track also feaures at the start of the film "The Stand" (Stephen King) and whenever I hear it I associate it with the rook/crow sat on the fence post at the start of the film
Wouldn't be the Bassett Hotel , site of the original "Concord Club" (before it moved out to Stoneham) would it? I first saw Manfred Mann there waaaaaaaaay back when.
No, it's The Brook, at Portswood http://www.the-brook.com/
The Concord Club still thrives, mainly jazz music I believe
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Simple Minds - Belfast Child. Wonderful. cloud9:
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Tangerine Dream. Does anyone remember them? whistle:
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Tangerine Dream. Does anyone remember them? whistle:
rubschin:
noooo:
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Oh yes!
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Tangerine Dream. Does anyone remember them? whistle:
Oh yes too
I still have a copy of Stratosphere and one other LP I can't remember the name of in a wooden chest full of old LP's. It was around that time that I discovered the music of Klaatu, still listen to them on CD
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This is possibly the saddest reliving of youth thread I have ever had the misfortune to stumble upon. noooo:
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I dug out my copy of Tubular Bells (on vinyl) last night redface:
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I dug out my copy of Tubular Bells (on vinyl) last night redface:
Then bury it again ~ quickly! Biggest load of tosh ever released! evil:
Think of this ~ Without Tubular Bells we might have been spared Sir Richard Branson ~ I rest my case.
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I was very young when I bought it, M'Lud redface:
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I like Tubular Bells... redface:
Only the first side tho like... side #2 is absolute wank.... noooo:
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Sad, sad, sad. noooo:
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I think I still have a copy of UmmaGumma somewhere rubschin:
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I played 'Roxy Music', the originally named first album by Roxy Music yesterday...
Why on earth did I buy that...? Shrugs:
Conversely, Street Life- 20 Greatest Hits which I played after is excellent... happy088
However did they manage to survive one to get to 'tother...?
Discuss this and other bands that Wenchy has never heard of... lol:
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I've heard of some of them! redface:
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whistle:
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My Dad had some of that.
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Bitch!
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Anyhoo, who has a copy of Trout Mask Replica?
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Bitch!
point:
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Anyhoo, who has a copy of Trout Mask Replica?
Me.
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I saw Beefheart once and bought the album. Never liked it though noooo:
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Not one of my favourites either.
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Who did that Crown of Creation one? Jefferson Airplane (sic)?
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Yes it was them.
I only like White Rabbit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quhj6PEboCU
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
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I dug out my copy of Tubular Bells (on vinyl) last night redface:
Viv Stanshell used to go out with my sister-in-law. He was called 'Vic' back then.
Mad as a box of frogs.
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
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I dug out my copy of Tubular Bells (on vinyl) last night redface:
Viv Stanshell used to go out with my sister-in-law. He was called 'Vic' back then.
Mad as a box of frogs.
Yup. I liked him. My cousin was in the Bonzo Dog mob. Stanshall turned up to his wedding. In body at least. We got on well. Then again, I was 10!
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
eeek:
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
My word ~ the difference a few years can make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTzwxr-ZqU
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shocked003 shocked003 shocked003
She looks like a lesbian
I also see she does painting nowadays. Perhaps she could give LL a hand
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
eeek:
If it's any consolation I've just googled Sonja Kristina ... shocked003
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Judith Durham ~ then
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and in 2007
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Judith Durham ~ then
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and in 2007
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Seems to have weathered quite well.
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Better that I have anyway surrender:
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
eeek:
If it's any consolation I've just googled Sonja Kristina ... shocked003
I had quite forgotten about her
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Better that I have anyway surrender:
happy100
I bet she is really shallow and self-absorbed though. noooo:
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Oh yes!! cloud9:
Strange I used to fantasise about Grace Slick rubschin:
You, and half the western world at the time ;)
eeek:
If it's any consolation I've just googled Sonja Kristina ... shocked003
I had quite forgotten about her
I should have... confused:
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I quite like this thread even though I have no idea what anyone's talking about. surrender:
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I quite like this thread even though I have no idea what anyone's talking about. surrender:
Sooner than you think my boy. . .
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Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Doies that make sense?
It used to noooo:
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In a vague memory sort of way....
My youngest nephew phoned me up some time ago with a fragment of a Led Zepp lyric asking me for the title eeek:
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You are officially crumbley
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I think so increasingly; but in a pleasant, avuncular Abbey Crunch sort of way angel1
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Abbey Road cloud9:
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A rare (I'm told) recording of Tubular Bells with Billiy Connolly doing the vocal bit, introducing the instruments bit like. cloud9
scared2: Not sure why but Tubular Bells really gave me the creeps and Hergest Ridge was even worse. I will be having nightmares tonight. scared2:
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Umma Gumma
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Music in a Doll's House. happy088
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I saw Wishbone Ash once. And Jethro Tull redface:
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Thick as a brick happy088 happy088
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I went to the only rock festival ever to be held in Wigan noooo:
The Grateful Dead played
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I saw Humble Pie at the 1971 Hyde Park concert. It rained ~ beer cans and bottles. eeek:
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Saturday night again.
The soundtrack to the musical 'Wicked' that we had the pleasure of seeing recently. I loved it. Mrs TG was a bit bored. whistle:
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XTC - Sgt Rock. cloud9:
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Deep Purple live at the Empire....Smoke on the water. 1970 I think. cloud9:
Invisible Touch tour, Genesis, Round Hey Park Leeds, June 1987. Bloody awesome and very fond memories. cloud9:
Saw Howard Jones in some random little theatre in Berken'ed 3 or 4 years ago. Quite good.
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The Scorpions again. 'the Zoo'. Trying to download the live version which is stupendous.
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Which brings us to rock guitarists. Leaving aside the obvious like Page, Blackmore &c.
The above Scorpions guitarist Michaels Schenker is a good 'un. Lent a whole new sound to UFO in the 80's.
Any others boys?
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Brian May of course. Though I never saw Queen with Freddie I have seen and heard Brian May. Listening to 'tear it up' from 'The Works' album. A lesser known Queen head banging track. fantastic!
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REO Speedwagon, 'keep on loving you' which apart from being a classic guitar based rock song also contains the immortal lines that every man with a troublesome ex wife can relate to : "instead you just lay still in the grass all coiled up and hissing" cloud9:
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That other guitarist bloke- I can't remember his name like... redface:
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Bert Weedon? whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMpT4DG4G8
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Bert Weedon? whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMpT4DG4G8
Nope... noooo:
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George Formby?
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Mick Taylor
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Which brings us to rock guitarists. Leaving aside the obvious like Page, Blackmore &c.
The above Scorpions guitarist Michaels Schenker is a good 'un. Lent a whole new sound to UFO in the 80's.
Any others boys?
I've got plenty of Michael Schenker stuff, and I'm sure I've mentioned Joe Bonamassa in here before. Robert Cray is a different style of guitarist, but also makes for great listening
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeAAmFWbLDg
Now playing at chez Barman... redface:
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See what happens when LL flees the country noooo:
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See what happens when LL flees the country noooo:
Now playin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFM0pYyUcY
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Presumably also on LL's banned list noooo:
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Presumably also on LL's banned list noooo:
Nope! cloud9:
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Now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv61McgYYrM
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I love Asian music, especially this one. Used with great effect in the Spike Lee movie (not this clip (though curiously headbanging)) 'The Inside Man' with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOlgbfFy3k
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Ha!
I was a young man once. cloud9:
I have a horrible feeling I have a vinyl copy upstairs somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw
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Drivers Seat.
A 1978 one hit wonder. Great song.
I used to have a picture disc single I think. No doubt worth millions. Or possibly not.
They have a website gawd bless 'em.
http://www.sniffnthetears.com/
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Jaysus! The Steve Gibbons Band are still going. cloud9:
http://www.stevegibbonsband.com/
Their version of 'Tulane' remains a classic. Well, its really good anyway. happy088