Happy Flute Fursday everyone...

Dear Simon,

Where 2 or 3 are gathered...you know the rest! Paul of Sheffield (A dear friend of this blogging fraternity) are of the same mind. We believe that Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is the best exponent of Rock Flute who ever walked the stage or graced the airwaves. We therefore humbly request a Tull track for today's opening song - preferably "We used to know" or if you want a big hit with plenty of flute how about "Bouree"? Please! You make at least 2 of us very happy if you acceded to this request and my blogging counselling chamber might not be as busy as in previous days. Have a really good show!

Well it will more than likely be the Tull and hopefully for the sake of spike's sanity it shall be but to throw some other inferior suggestions in the pot there's always Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer or even Solsbury Hill which I think features the flute....

Morning peeps!

I'm with the Rev - Tull all the way. If you want an obvious choice, how about "Living In The Past"?



First piece of folkie trivia for the day - did you know that arch bassist Dave Pegg from Fairport Convention was in Tull for years on end too? Yeah, course you did!

[Copied and pastied with updates from yesterday blog ...posting same time as Simon]





Hello Mayoblogsters who appear to be around -

The RockinRev, DemobhappyDeevs, KenmayIcallyouHey?Jude, musicgeek and lastbutnotleast Spikelet





I trust you will back my request [well I NOW know, reading the above, that you can't possibly agree to this Mr Reverend!] for a NOT Ian Anderson flute track [bl**dy LOVE the TULL but too ubiquitous by far when it comes to flutiness].



Glumpetry strikes - gotta go to Cardiff now and won't get opportunity to post when today's blog appears [ I DID! ]- hello Simon love the show ...





How 'bout Mamas & Papas California Dreamin?

or sommat by Moody Blues?

or even Moondance - Van The Man







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hit the road and I'm gone

Oh, and Rev - shall we all adopt the Iain Anderson pose for the whole of the show - let's start practising now. foot up and resting on the other knee, everyone!

Am I alone in thinking that the late 60's and 70's produced some of the finest rock music around today? And look how some of the big bands have survived or come back again. I love the early Tull stuff - and bands like Wishbone Ash, "Argus" was one of the finest albums of that period.

Would like to hear some Tull too. "Living In The Past" would cut it for me, and was a hit (well it was on one of those chart hits compilations at the time so that's good enough for me). Or just play side 1 of Thick as a Brick :-)



Down Under - Men at Work



I Know What I Like - Genesis, too much prog for one show?



For some nice music under your link after the opener, Steve Hackett's "Kim".

Can't think of any flutey tracks at the mo, so have put some David Bowie on to help me get through the morning.



HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



DeevskiBoomBoom



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Fellow Blogsters! Stand up and be counted - we need a concerted drive today - Tull, Tull, Tull, Tull, Tull!!

Morning Blog Blesspoppets



Please Simon, no Tull - no offence Rev Dave, Paul of God's country, etc. but I can't stand Jethro Tull.



What about Moondance by Van the Man, or even One Night in Bangkok from Chess?



OK - off to hide under my desk now.



Tortie



PS Love the Show Simon

A human re-design is required for a wah-wah pedal in the car to be useful. Even with cruise control I simply don't have enough limbs to play the full stearing wheel drum kit with bass and high hat pedals AND operate a wah wah pedal at the same time.

Oh Tortie! But forgiveness abounds. Come out hither. Van the Man is another of my favourite artists - my first Van album was St Dominic's Preview - have bought a number since - Avalon Sunset...

Are you there yet Spikey? Just reporting in that I have survived the humble experience in my local school - quoted Uriah Heep! Of course, we could all go for James Galway except even he said that Ian Anderson was one of the best flautists around. Praise indeed.

There you al are - and I was blogging away on yesterday's old thing...sillyoldspikeykins. Now then, we're all forgetting (probably for very good reasons) Thijs van Leer - an exceptional flautist and possesser of the worst hair-do ever (girlfriend!) So, could we all Focus on House of the King or Sylvia, but purleeeeeeeeez not Hocusbleedingpocus!

Pasted from yesterday's page.....PG was no mean flautist, but not a patch on Sir Ian of Tull. No doubt Solsbury Hill will get a play, but Wah Wah didn't, so let's continue breathing folks.....Safe journeying BabyDriver and mind the BANG I was going to tell you to mind that bollard on your way out of the car park...

How's the voice Totriechops?

or even...Tortiechops. (Fat Fingered Fursday, sorry)

Reading Ken Jude's post it is clear that the car is in itself a musical ensemble of sorts so if there is any day for music featuring the car then Love is the Drug by Roxy Music is an early shout...and Tortie is it ok to agree with you re: Tull? I can see their appeal but they don't get my juices flowing so to speak - yet I know in the ears of Spike and the blessed Rev they hold flautist supremacy...

Tullites only then for this one.....and no more floccinaucinihilipilification of said band please.... Thick As A Brick or A Passion Play?

Did the original Denver's Annie's Song have flute on it, before Galway did his flutey instrumental version? Can't quite remember.



Grumpy Van would be good too.



Am now sitting here wondering whether PG used a flute on Sledgehammer or whether he played it into his Fairlight synth thingy and did it that way? After seeing him and Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show years ago crawling around in breakers yards and rubbish tips, blowing into things and recording the sound for input to his Fairlight, you just can't be certain any more.

Right, out from under the desk now - bit dark and dusty under there!



Spikeypoos - voice bit better, throat still sore, thanks. Drinking lots of liquids - think some wine tonight will help too. :)



Music_geek - please feel free to agree anytime!

#15 - Spike, you beat me to it - I was just about to say Focus and Sylvia - I have the Old Grey Whistle Test footage of them and they ROCKED!



#21 - Indeed PG did use the Fairlight for his flutey stuff.

Beautiful South's You Keep it all in has the flute or something that sounds like it as far as my memory can be reliable. On the Sledgehammer front Ken I thinks you may be right there about the synth aspect to the flute on it...

"Said the straight man to the late man

Where have you been

I've been here and I've been there

And I've been in between."



Ahhhh, now was that Mel Collins or Ian MacDonald on flute? Rocking Rev and The Kenster will know for sure. And maybe the Nottingham one. Or can we tempt The Deeevalaaaaaaa (robot dance) back to research, as I don't have time for such frippery (ouch, too witty for my own good there!)



Anyways up, great blogging chapettes. 300 today perchance?

Can I opt for



Hocus Pocus - Focus



Heading to ChezNic tonight so hoping for a bit of Hocus Pocus meself!!!



DeevskiBoomBoom



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Frippery. Fantastic word Spikeylicious!



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Wither The Nicster btw? There's a bloghole....

Morning everyone. Firstly, can you pretend that it doesn't say Paul of Sheffield above this post, as I don't want to dilute the concerted effort espoused by the delightful Rev, whom along with myself is plainly a man of fine good taste, and the opening song should undoubtably be "We Used To Know", Jethro Tull.

This missive hopes to suggest further flutiness for a bit later in the show, in the form of "Aye Today" by The Delgados. John Peel turned me on to this band, and he was never wrong.

Speaking of The Rev reminds me of something from my sons collection,from Mercury Rev, that being "Something For Joey", also a bit flutey. (At least I think it's a flute).

I wont be posting much today as I have a lot on in the shop, but I will be listening. Cheery Bob fer noo!

Aww Spikeylicious, you missing my man?

#25 - you are right, it was Ian Macdonald on flute on "I talk to the wind"...classic album, mate!

Ah, Sir Robert of Fripp. Married to........? (It's a mystery to me)

TOYAH!!!



One of my girlie heroes, along with Siouxsie Sioux!



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Traffic Hole in My Show, a popmaster-inspired suggestion if I'm honest...

What a great album "Stand Up" is - takes me right back! Excellent licks on the guitar, brilliant flute of course....I don't wish to push the point (having spoken about humility already this morning) but it really does have to be a Tull Thursday! I don't know Simon why you didn't just bite the bullet and admit it would have to be Tull and ask us to nominate the track - one with most votes wins. Or am I being too simple?

For Show, read shoe...hole in my show is some amalgamation of thoughts in my headspace to use modern-day waffle and piffle type venacular

Hello,



Thought it was quiet on the blog. Nobody says NEW BLOG on this blog! So, copied from previous blog...



Morning All (Sounding a bit Richie Benaud there...),



Jethro Tull? Didn't they have a ridiculously long track/album called Thick As A Brick? Says it all for me!! (Sorry chaps!)

I'm with BabyDriver on California Dreaming.



Nic



P.S. NO TULL Thursday!!

King Crimson, I think Collins came after MacDonald didn't he?



Although there were no wind instruments at all in the incarnation that I saw in the 80s. Although I did wonder whether Fripp might have had some sort of wind problem to explain why he spent the whole gig seated.

YAY! You win a car sticker! Put it on the Wah Wah pedal. "I am the Passenger" video was filmed in the setting of which 60's cult TV classic? (no flutes)

DeevskiBoomBoom - Toyah was great - met her in real life in 2002 for a Songs of Praise recording in Versailles / Paris....I thought I spoke about humility this morning//!! Tull, Tull, Tull,....sorry folks the needle's stuck..!

And another thing, prog rock - hate the stuff (Sorry again chaps!). Self indulgent twaddle. Thanks goodness for Punk.



Nic, from the Stop Tull Campaign...lol...

OK Rev, I'm going to have to "push the point" - No Tull - simples!



Paul of Sheff - "Something for Joey" is flutey, but it's not been a hit, as far as I know.

"Bouree" Simon it has to be "Bouree" - please, Simon play "Bouree" by JETHRO TULL...think I'm going bonkers ...can somone please rescue me! Now!

Nic



Rick Wakeman's great when he's on Countdown tho!



DeevskiBoomBoom



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Sorry Nic, didn't see you there (forgot to refresh the page) - I'm with you in the Stop Tull Campaign :)

Tortie - glad someone else is with me on No Tull!



Nic



P.S. Is this now a game of Tull of War?!

Tull, tull, Tull, Tull....gosh...getting hysteric...think I need counselling.... Tull Simon please....

#34 music_geek Big Respec there bro'

#35 Jolly spiffing suggestion there Revster!

#37 If Sir Richie played the flute it wouldn't just be the flute, it would be M&S flute. As for your PS, you risk the wrath of the Rev to name just one!

Can't keep up!

Rev - I remember as if it were yesterday dancing through the corridors at school a la Toyah, singing It's a Mystery! Bliss. And did you see a very young Ms Wilcox in Quadrophenia the other night?



Don't really know enough about Tull other than Ian Anderson is really scary!



DeevskiBoomBoom



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Slight interruption gfolks - I have to see someone before I resume the Tull campaign - see you later!

#47 Rev, Calm down dear, it's only a blog!



#46 - Nic - No Tull, No Tull!

#38 - He used to sit down in all his gigs. He learnt to play sitting down and couldn't play properly standing up (guess who saw "Prog Britannia" on BBC4 last year?!?)

I saw Mr. Anderson at Dave Pegg's 60th birthday bash at Brum Town Hall a couple of years ago. Time may have taken his hair but his playing and singing is still superb...

Cheryl - Surely it was Iths a Mithtery...

Spikeydoodles - Richie Benaud is indeed the best when it comes to cricket commentary - a master of his art.

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the Rev - Simon, please NO TULL!



Nic

Deevs,

....you should have been singing " It's a mythtery " if we're being pendantic. Can I say "Tull free zone", but have no altenative suggestion ?

Morning Rev.

Deff NO to Bonkers Focus/ Hocus Pocus nonsense...it's demented !!

Tortie, you are right about Something For Joey not being a hit, but I don't want it as a show opener (Hopefully that's reserved for Tull--Go Rev!), and as such I dont think it has to have been a hit. Just good, and it is.

Seriously late now, so gotta go.

The Corrs must've used flutes at some point .... ?

#53 And a car sticker for you - I never knew that. Keep up DeevalaWahWahWallahBoomgirl, (and any other blogpoppets for that matter) answer to #39 is.......to be announced after the break. (anyone else loathe that TV dumbing-down device?)

ironic that I spell pedantic incorrectly, no ?

TULL, TULL, TULL.......Focus......TULL, TULL, TULL......we're a bit schizophrenic (cue werewolf joke and guffawnessity)

Ticketyboo - Great minds...and are you calling me pedantic?



PedantNic

My wife owns some pendants!

Didn't want to be too pedantic and point that out Ticketyboo.

No Tull is quicker to type as the blog seems to be zipping along today.

Right - back to work!

Ticketypendantincndboo - we didn't notice....

It would appear I'm calling you pendantic today. !!!

Cos I can be - pedantic, that is. Could someone please explain what's so great about prog rock stuff, cos I just don't get it...come on those of you with massive muso brains - come and have a go...



Nic, gauntlet layerer downer

In the words of the great Richie Benaud - we could be on for a Century before lunch today...top shot...



Nic

Nic, there is little more prog rocky than a gauntlet. You seem to have nailed it.

yeah..I'm on Nic's side "if we think you're hard enough...

PendantNic would be ok...

Nic, darling darling love of my life



Prog: it's all about the wizzardy hats and sily capes - dufus!!



Lots of love



Me



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Prog rock...is it not just about badly dressed men; off their " faces " on recreational tea !!!

Leave my beloved proggetry alone you beasts! :( Sulkyinconsolablespike ;(

Beast ? bit harsh there surely, merely speaking the hard, painful truth..it's just pooh !!

Hi modders ..

Now see what you've done to Spike... compassion good people compassion!!! by the way just seen some of the popular topics this blog covers as told below under the Categories bar include 'astcyl' now what is that when it's at home???

Cheryl - Sily? Huh? So, 2 think it's about clothes and, as yet, no defences for prog rock...



Nic

You've upset me now. Simon, bring on Mellotron Monday, Moog Monday, Twiddlybits Tuesday, Wakeman Wednesday, Tull Thursday and replace ARF with PFM, ELP or, or, or.....*sniffles*

a song that's changed your life..Mine would be Hocus Pocus..lead to loss of sanity.

Got it!!!! My vote for tonight's Flute Fursday opener goes to:-



Sing - The Carpenters



Sorted.



SillyDeevskiBoomBoom



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Spikeydoodles - If you love it that much, defend it, or at least explain why you love it, cos I just don't get it...sorry an' all...



Nic

SexyNic



When you meet my aunt ask her - she loved Jon Anderson and the whole Yes thing.



Me

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Music_geek - 'astcyl' is that something you take before listening to prog rock, or performing it?

#81 - I didn't get it too, until I watched the afore-mentioned "Prog britannia" - now I still don't get it, but have a grounding in it's history and pedigree. It's still all warlocks to me!

DivineDeevs,



YES Dear...



The Cannickean

No, we're alright now, medicated and stable. Talking of genres, I was reminded last night sitting in a pub watching Arsenal claw a point from Villa, how locked in we become to things that don't actually matter, and yet they do! They become real. Never seen such vehemence. I used to quite happily say "I don't like R&B cos it has no relevance to me" (little rap poetry there, good spot, like it) but I LOVE New York by Alicia, especially with that rapchap on Jools Hootenanny. So, for all our weddedness to things we love/don't love....Do any of us have a clue what it's like to be in Haiti right now? Sorry Rev, stole your Thought For The Day there. Keep lovin' blogsters, and sorry for calling you beasts. Didn't mean it......

Tricky - very good...lol...

Deevs forgot the x sorry!



Nic



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Thanks hon ... x



Spikeylicious, the whole "I don't like" thing really gets my goat (her name's Mabel, btw). Especially when applied to food. "I can't stand Indian / Chinese / Italian - I had it once and ewwww" will send me into a reet auld Deevah paddystrop. Sorry, you tried it ONCE?!?! Did you eat an entire Nation's worth of tucker in one sitting!?!?



Give peas a chance!



DeevskiBoomBoomLovedUp



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Spike - Fair point and well made. But I still don't get prog rock!!



Nic

Spike now see that's what I call perspective in motion...like poetry but makes a lot more sense and yes, first Alicia Keyes song I've liked since her first one yet I too wouldn't be big into RnB cos it says nothin to me...I think I may have plagarised your line there somewhat. And yes the 16 year old pulled from the rubble that was in the news this morning, she matters. Everything else is inconsequential, yet without the everything else we would find it hard to function. It's just a matter of placing the empHAsis on the right things in the right places :) Sorry Rev, I'm sure you could have put that across a lot more eloquently...

Deevs - That's pasta joke...sorry, I'll get my goat...sorry coat..



Nic



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Loving the love poppetry. Nic, Deevs, you were obviously made for each other, as were music and me. x all around my hat x (thinks to self...must dig Steely Dan out again...no, not proggy enough, ahhhh, found it....Smashing Pumpkins!)

Spike, Deevs and I are the Independent Republic of Cheznicia - is gud yes!



Nic

Spikeylicious, I am having a reet pants day, clock watching til I can be in Cannock again tonight.



Thank you - that comment (#92) really, really made me smile a huge massive soppy smile!



Cheryl xx

Labels are bad, you either like something or you don't. I missed out on years of listening to Emmylou and others because I "didn't like" country.



Open ears, listen, decide if you like. Works every time, labels unnecessary.



But Prog's great! :-)

Don't get me started on r 'n' b. Since when did Alicia Keys sing Rhythmn and Blues? ;-)

Ken - good point! I also don't like to pay too much attention to what critics think of things when they review. One person's "one star" is another person's Oscar contender, so tend not to read book / new album / film / tv show reviews.



DeevskiBoomBoom



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#90 music_geek, you did it perfectly, thank you.

#89 Nic, oh Nic, and I wanted your babies? They could have been progpunks.......sorry Deeeeeeeevalaaaahhhhh (robot dance)......he's all yours!

Ken - If there were no labels, you would struggle to do your shopping. There, that's my thought for the day. And just a boundary required for the century now...shhh quiet Richie...



Nic

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