It would be good to hear. . . . . . . .



SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN ~ The Ramones



Please Simon x

Good Morning Simon, team and blogpoppets



C&P from yesterday's blog: First of all (((HUGS))) to Spike and Faye - so good to hear the op went well.



As Mr B and I are going to see Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood next week, I would like to hear:



LAYLA by Derek and the Dominos - the FULL version, of course



Or as an alternative:



WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE by Steve Winwood.



Busy today, so I might not be able to play much.



Deebee ~X~

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets!



Yes, I definitely have that Friday feeling. Shame there is work to be done before I can fully enjoy ;-)



ARFO?



Dolly Parton - 9 to 5



because life's like that sometimes.



Hope everyone has good days/weekends. I'm hoping to get the laptop working so I can download all the fab music that has been recommended. And of course, the Wittertainment podcast Mr M!



X

Morning folks (and a lovely morning it is across the estate)...



Thanks for the gift of the Bush yesterday Simon. Cloudbusting is a beautiful song, and the Donald Sutherland video was beautiful too. I know you played that for us too - we just couldn't see it due to the limitations of radio! Another thing to talk to Paul Simon about... his missed career as a comedian. This is only based on Annie Hall and the Call Me Al video, but he is so deadpan and dry in both that I can't help feeling there's a Woody Allen in there trying to get out.



Anyway..... because it's sunny, and because we all have tiny dreams of a good weekend ahead, it would cheer the world up I think to hear as the ARFO



NEVERENDING STORY - Limahl



because there isn't an age group amongst the listeners for whom this isn't a great little tune!

Morning Simon et al



Can you please play:



REMEDY - The Black Crowes



I may enjoy a glass or two of Remedy if the landing on Accrington Beach is successful this evening :-)

Morning all



Friday already? I've had a busy week and very little chance to come onto the blog, hopefully next week will be better.



ARFO for me today, please Simon:



SIR DUKE - Stevie Wonder



Thank you



Tortie x

Good morning everyone.



Ahhhh, WHSmith in the Bullring! I had a friend who had a Saturday job in their record department in c. 1972. The staff used to borrow the records to try before they bought them. When I found out I never bought one from there again. I'm sure it happened elsewhere but, as with so many things while growing up in the Midlands in the 60s and 70s, I preferred the illusion of thinking I was the first!

Good Morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow blogsters,



Apologoes for being absent the last few days. I have now caught up on all the antics here, I especially loved all the muso ramblings.



I would love to hear as the ARFO:



LIGHT MY FIRE by THE DOORS



Brilliant tune to drive home to.



Have lovely weekends all,



Madchick x



PS This may jeopardise my ARF suggestion, so I'll whisper.....sshhh ******Simon, were you really only 17 when 'The Kick Inside' came out in 1978?????******;-)

Good Morning All :)



Hope everyone is fine and dandy on this 'ere Friday!



I have done a mischief to my back :( Going to rest it a bit when the twins have gone to school.



I am tempted to ask for 'End Of The World' Skeeter Davis, or that REM song, you know...for tomorrow ;) Also Zombie Apocalypse was trending on Twitter for ages yesterday, after the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) in America issued guidance for surviving a zombie apocalypse :O Maybe I should rewatch The Walking Dead for survival techniques...



Anyway, as we have been speaking of the song writing talents of Mr Paul Simon, I would like...



Call Me Al - Paul Simon for the ARFO



I saw Ladysmith Black Mambazo on BBC Breakfast earlier this week, and they did a spontanious version of Homeless, it was very good :)

Anyway

Good Morning y'all! ARF Tom Petty - Free Falling. For Chris, Kate and Louise who embarks on her 27th birthday tomorrow.



Thanks and hope everyone has a great day and weekend.



theo

An erroneous 'Anyway' seems to have crept in at the end of my last post #9, kindly disregard it.



Going to lie down for a bit, but hopefully I will be back later...

#7 Morning Harry! The only thing I ever bought from the Bull Ring (it wasn't my town, so a visit there was rare) was a vaguely Bob Marley-ised rasta poster that sat between my Kate Bush, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie posters from 1978-81. But the rasta poster survooved the move to Manchester in '81 I think, and probably lasted until about 1983. Hippy days.......

Good to see the name 'madchickenwoman' back in the blog... I bet Simon has missed you too!!!! Another name I haven't seen for a bit on here is Deevs... where is she? I've not heard her name on Simon's show for a wee while?

#7 I reckon variations of that happened everywhere Harry. I think every branch of Our Price I ever went into had a turntable behind the counter, and I doubt they had a separate stock of vinyl for in-store play, especially of non-chart stuff.



Very naughty really, that first play when you know no other needle has seen the surface of your disc was very important.

#12 Good morning to you too, B&B.



Growing up in Walsall, the (almost) weekly train ride into Birmingham made me feel quite metropolitan. A new LP every other week and secondhand bargains from the market whenever the pocket money would stretch far enough. Happy, innocent days.

#14 Yes, Ken, it's no wonder they jumped. As someone reminisced a few weeks ago, the solution was weighting down the stylus with a coin or two.



I was always pleased to see the bits of paper-debris stuck to the surface of the vinyl from static. If it had those, and hadn't been cleaned, there was a fair chance it was a virgin copy. But you could never be really sure.

Ho wlovely to see MCW and Tortie! Hope other absentee (and missed) blogpoppets can also return soon.



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All this talk of vinyl! I need to find someone more able than me to go up to my loft and retrieve all my singles and LPs from yesteryear. Seem to remember conversations being had (in the early days of the blog when I was but a lurker :-) ) about a device you could buy that allows transfer of said music onto a pc. Must investigate.



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#15 My Walsall was Warrington Harry, and my Brum was Manchester, with the occasional delight of an even more metropolitan trip to Liverpool. Manchester was for book shops, record shops and poster shops. Liverpool was for guitar shops and the Mersey ferries. To be honest, they both still serve the same function. It wasn't just the staff in the record shops though was it - we used to have listening booths in our local shop, and I can remember listening to each Bowie album as it came out before buying it, and being so excited on the bus on the way home because I had a taster of what I was going to hear when I got home, and I knew it was going to be great. So for all those plays when the punter didn't buy it, that record must have gone back on the rack for someone else.

#18 Mo - PC WORLD sell a deck that will transfer to your PC for about £80. I don't know if it's any good, but was browsing last weekend! They also do one for cassettes.

Morning all....lovely morning here in the Shire, I will be ready to hand the ARFO crown @ 05.05....good luck all :-D



Julian my chimney sweep has just done for another year so a little light dusting for me now :-(

We don't have many ARFO suggestions yet, so JUS IN CASE my choice above doesn't get picked, I am going to suggest also...



BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ramones.



Because we're worth it. And because if Lucie's Mum's choice (#1) isn't picked, she'll enjoy this too.

#18 All this talk of vinyl? I've just bought a record deck and I'm in the early stages of negotiating the return of my record collection from niece. Wish me luck :-)

Morning all,



Blog seems quite busy for a Friday.



Given that you usually start with something fairly "robust", my choiuce for ARFO would be:

YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH - Meat Loaf.



But if you want a different style of opener, I would LOVE to hear



AFTER THE GOLD RUSH - Prelude.

As there's no mensh chasing today, and Gazza will pop in at about lunchtime and pick the ARFO, can someone suggest a little known album full of tunes to help pass the morning?

#20/23 I am still waiting for an offer from someone to come up and retrieve my collection ;-)



Shall have a look in PC World thanks BandB. Not sure if I kept my cassettes but I know there are many boxes of vinyl. That's me got a project if the weekend turns out to be wet.



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#26 Mo, if they're still in the attic come October, as I said last week, I'll be in Aberdeen. I'd be willing to transfer them to MP3 for you if that would help.

Morning all, from a bleary-eyed blogger.

I missed yesterday's show (quaffing vino rosa in a sunny pub garden - purely in the service of a friend, you understand!) but see from the music played that the Doobies got an airing (Ta) so they are off the list for my ARFO today.

I am listening to a motley collection on my ipod currently - Mr e bought one of those turntable thingies and the software to convert my LP's (minus teh hissing & crackles, but that's the beauty, isn't it?!) and having done one, declared it was easier to buy them online so did just that, where possible.

So my ipod is some current and some very very old stuff (to a young 'un)

My ARFO is

PAUL WELLER : BROKEN STONES

No idea why, but I love the beat, goove whatever you call it.



or STEVIE WONDER: LIVIN FOR THE CITY

In honour of the Bull Ring; as I lived in Shirley (to those who don't know, it's a suburb of Brum) it was where we went to eat cockles (indoor market) see bands (Queen at the Odeon, Rory Gallagher at the Town Hall) and generally hang around window shopping. I was also supposed to go to Warwick Uni (about the same time as Simon, 1978), but decided it was not *quite* far enough from home!

My sister ended up working in one of the offices in the Bull ring - I went to visit her one lunchtime and the beautiful girl on reception had the very strongest black country accent I had ever heard - it was like chocolate spread, it was that thick! There is nothing like it in the world, and I can say that as a brummie!

Have a special weekend y'all

Please be kind to this letter 't'. He should have been given his rightful place in post #22.



#25 - Harry... I recommend the totally insane, unfeasibly catchy, totally Dada, "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" by Mr Eno. Unsettling, daft, dark and totally listenable.

Good morning,



Why thank you for the mensh last night kind Duke of Drivetime! Lovely to share it with a bee and a sheep ;-)



#4 B&B, Gawjus choice. Had a mensh for it not too long ago when we did fairy stories.



#9 ZoeUU, Get well soon my lovely.



Not sure what to pick today. The first thing that came into my head on reading the blog was Zoe's choice.



But how's about:



MRS ROBINSON by Simon and Garfunkel



Off to Little Stars toddler group now. Sometimes feel a bit like a United Nations envoy at these things because relations can get a little strained between the little lovelies when they all want to go on the same little sit on car at the same time.



Oh, didn't get the chance to play much on the kids TV discussion day this week but just wanted to add The Flumps and Willo' the Wisp into the mix. I was too old to watch kids tv at the time but never missed an episode.



Have a good day.x

Morning all



Slightly tired this morning, but I would like to report that Rush were excellent last night, two cracking sets very well received by a full arena.



AS we had a Rush ARFO not that long ago I won't suggest anything of theirs but what about



BABA O'REILLY - THE WHO



cheers



A

#29 B&B, Spotify has it and so Eno it is.

Good morning Lord Ammo of Drive Time, Team, NYM and fellow blogpoppets!



What a lovely morning! AND it's Friday. All is good in the world.



I suggested this a couple of weeks ago and I know that Katy has also requested it, so for both of us, please play:



WHAT IS LIFE - George Harrison



Would get the weekend started nicely, I think.



Alex-Girl

My Walsall was Bovington Camp, and my Birmingham was Poole!



I may be in a position to get my turntable back out soon, some re-arrangements of where the Bluray player sits means I have room to move my CD recorder off the top deck of the HiFi rack enabling the turntable to return to it's rightful position.

Good Morning, Good Morning.



I defy anything or anyone to burst my bubble today!



I'm not even bothered whether or not my ARF gets played. (OK maybe thats pushing the truth just a little!)



So, for what its worth .....



Simon, NYM and anyone else involved with picking a good song to get the show started...



Please would you play *** TWILIGHT *** by ELO.



Thats all folks :)



Wishing you all a great day and those that are poorly, a speedy recovery.



MTF.xx

Urgh, misuse of apostrophe alert!



#31 Washing machines and tumble driers on stage Andy? And did they play La Villa Strangiato?

Following on from some of the discussions this week:



What (or who) links Kate Bush and Paul Simon?



There are probably several answers but I have just one in mind.

Good Morning Each! First things first, my ARF requeast would be to hear...



'California Man' by The Move

Umm, Paul Simon is married to Edie Brickell, who possibly has a Kate Bush record in her collection?

Hmm blog playing up again...Or was it cos I mentioned Chris Evans's name?!

Big up to him for playing The Zep's ROCK N ROLL this morning, just what I needed...air drumming, headbanging while in shower etc etc

Don't suppose it could be played twice in one day could it? Would save putting it back in it's dusty sleeve on the shelf...?! ie as the ARFO!

Morning Ken



Apostrophes are tricky little blighters aren't they!



They did indeed have the H & K washing machines and dryers on stage. La Villa Stangiato was first song of the encore, and a fine version it was too.



A

#39 Good lateral thinking Ken, but not the answer I was looking for!

#40 Yes, I heard CE play Rock n Roll, apologise for it cutting into the news headlines and then he chatted over it for 2 minutes ............ I was shouting at the radio!

If anyone thinks they don't like Joni Mitchell (soundtrack to my yoof) she has an intrumental track called One Week Last Summer on her Shine album I would highly recommend.

I got addicted to listening to that track a while back - but am ok now, so long as I remember my mantra "I can get through the day without a listen to the track..."

#37 AlexG, I give in ................ when do we find out the answer?

#45 The connection is Steve Gadd. He played drums on KB's Directors Cut and also played the superb drums on PS's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". Huge career - played on Steely Dan's Aja as well as numerous recordings and tours with the likes of Chick Corea. He is touring with Clapton at the moment so lucky Deebee will hear the marvels he creates with a drum kit next week!

#37 - is it Elvis? - Graceland by PS and King of the Mountain by Katie?

Only 20 ARF requests so far!



Where is everyone?



MTF.xx

ARF - would love to hear my personal favourite:



SQUEEZE - UP THE JUNCTION



Have a great weekend everybody!

#46 #47 - Shucks.....



Top man Steve Gadd! I was wondering for a moment if I had missed Paul Simon's duet with Rolf Harris.



#44 - Suzie... Joni Mitchell is the best. Not the young, high-pitched, Big Yellow Taxi Joni (though she was good, she may not have lasted), but the grew-up-through-Court & Spark, Hissing, Hejira, Mingus Joni, as her writing developed and the Marlboros dropped her voice an octave. I love all her work, but mainly the "as she gets older" work. And I love the fact that she's an awkward, uncompromising old cuss. An interviewer once asked her what she thought of the endless new songer songwriters endlessly compared to her. And her answer went something to the effect of, "Listen, if you are talking about good writers in rock music, there's me, there's bobby, and there's Lenny - after that I really don't care!" Which I thought was funny. Long live Joni. Favourite song - "Song for Sharon", or "Shades of Scarlett Conquering".

#22 BaxterandBertie... yes, either song for me by The Ramones is good!



To date I have never heard any ARF that are remotely like your choice or mine as the songs played are all of a similar ilk... if that's the correct word!



Simon, or his song-picker, never likes my choices of ARF... the only time I had one played was when Chris Evans played 'Out of Time' by Chris Farlowe...



xx

Morning All,



Friday already my goodness, been a great week, so will stick with my suggestion for a cheery ARF



'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing' Leo Sayer



Have a good day everybody

#27 Thanking you most kindly for the offer, Harry. Let's hope they are down before then though.



Suzi - you got a mensh yesterday, didn't you?



I am having the sort of day where a backdrop of my fave choons would be perfect (sat at my desk, not running from meeting to meeting). Why oh why did I leave my ipod at home?



X

Good morning you fab Blogpoppets and, of course, Simon The Totally Gawjus Dude, The Fine Team and the Wonderful NYM,



Oh what a beautiful morning! Great time with the gals last night (scary drive home along winding dark roads woooo hoooo!!!) An invigorating run at 6.30 this morning - truly a beautiful morning, blue skies and sunshine :). Done the weekly shop and may have bought a car for the elderGB to learn in! I'm now plugged in to Mumford & Sons (not Noah and the Whale as I intimated yesterday) and thoroughly enjoying it!



My ARFO suggestion and I'm aware I may be a little late but hey ho here goes...



THIS GARDEN - THE LEVELLERS



A bit different from The Who, AC/DC, et al so why don't you give it a go?



Off to concentrate on Mumford, his Sons and getting the shopping popped away.



Laters sweet pataters



~ xx

#53 my request (and I think Billie's too) of The Doobie Bros was played, I can see from the list - but have not heard the show.

Maybe I'll subject the family to a listen again night, as oppose to the live ARF show which I am not particularly keen on. Always seems to be people asking for the same inane stuff (apart from our ARFO songs which are of course, it goes without saying, worthy of a show of their own!)

#51 - LuciesMum... I plug away in the vain hope of either Drive in Saturday or Baby I Love You. But to be fair, I did have an ARFO a few months back with Metal Guru, which, if I had my own national radio show, I'd probably open every show with... if only for the first few bars of "yeah yeah yeahs" and backing vocals!

Morning All,



#29 Just finished listening to Mr Eno and agree completely with your asessment but when I got tot he last track I literally stopped typing. I had to flick back to Spotify to make sure that it hadn't inadvertantly starting playing someone else. What a beautifully haunting track Taking Tiger Mountain is. Just lovely!



Onto to the third time of listening but will be ready for another recommendation from the mighty blogpoppets.



Please help me expand my musical horizons



Ta muchly



A.

#54 - really must preview / proof read before posting. ElderGB will learn to drive in the car, he will not be completing his A level courses sitting in a car.



~ xx

#55 yup between 17.29 and 17.57 it would appear you got a mensh! Definitely worth listening again I should think. I did hear it but couldn't remember what day!



x

#57 - JPA - Awww shucks... that's exactly what it has always done to me too. "We climbed and we climbed, oh how we climbed, over the stars to the snow....." I love the whole album. If you can cope, have a crack at the one he did before it, "Here Come The Warm Jets" (MORE insane, and the most aggressive, unpleasant guitar solo from Robert Fripp!) and the one after it "Another Green World", which is stunningly stunningly gorgeous, and very different, and an extremely influential album, containing a well-known theme tune used on a BBC programme from the day of its release until now! And if the clocks have stopped in your house, "Before and After Science" is brilliant too, with some more gorgeous songs about his then relationship with Julie Christie... Lovely Brian.



Wonder what Harry thought of TTM?

Just in time to wish you all Good Morning!



Hello Drivetime Construction Team - would you please play THE IMMIGRANT SONG - ZEP

as the ARFO?





Thanks AlexG for suggesting 'our song' .



Hi Chickster - nice to see you back.



Harry - if you still have some listening time - The RG Morrison 'Farewell My Lovely' (2010).

I've avoided asking for an ARFO today as I know my chances are so slim. But, as I can't think of a better way to start a weekend, how about:



WHY DON'T WE GET DRUNK AND SCREW by JIMMY BUFFET

Reckon thats clinched it Harry :)



MTF.xx

#58 I didn't think otherwise until you brought it to my attention Toots. Now I have an image of elder GB sitting in an old, brown Ford Fiesta (isn't that everyone's first car?) with his books LOL.



Glad you had a lovely evening. Girlie nights are good for the soul!



x

#39 Ken Jude, I didn't realise that Paul Simon is married to Edie Brickell...



I can remember seeing her way back in the 80s at the SECC in Glasgow, supporting Bob Dylan and she was better than he was.... she sang in tune and spoke to the audience, whereas Bob barely uttered a word... he 'mumbled' a bit though!

#64 First car? Mark One Ford Escort, light blue, 1100cc, and I loved it :-)

#65 I saw the same show at the Birmingham NEC. I've seen Dylan several times but he was at his worst that night. I saw him backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and he didn't even have his guitar plugged in, the lead just dangled along the stage, but at least he was semi-coherent.

my first car was a bright yellow Mini....still drive a MINI now!

#66 - Mini Clubman "L" reg, mustardy yellow, paid fifty pounds for it, sold it for £40.



#67 - ditto.... but when he decides to be in the room with you he can still be magnificent. Love Dylan - uncompromising old hobo.

#57 & #60 ...... just finished listening for the second time ........ just lovely :-)



#61 KatyMac ...... RG Morrison on the turntable (in a manner of speaking) :-)

Not sure if I've missed the boat now but here's my ARFO suggestions anyway:



For a chilled out start to the weekend how about 'You're the best thing' by The Style Council?



Or to blow the week's cobwebs away what about 'Hush' by Kula Shaker?



Have a fab weekend everyone x

#67 Harry the Snapper.... glad you found Bob Dylan to be in the same mood as I did... I was sitting beside a woman who told me she was a journalist and she said we were luckier than the previous time she saw him because that night, he mostly kept his back to th audience, so at least we saw a front view of him... even though he had his grumpy face on!!!



I found the review from that night (7 June 1989) and part of it said....

"Shambling on with his young and feisty band with a fast punked-up version of Subterranean Homesick Blues... the sound never got much better but grizzled Bob was always in potent rough and ready form. Ripping through songs chiefly from his early catalogue with a proper rock 'n' roll disregard for the near-religious esteem in which they are held by some of his disciples.



Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again was hammered out a pace younger stadium-rockers would find it difficult to match. Much loved lyrics were spat out quickly in accents slurred and somewhat self-parodying as if to pre-empt any easy singalongaBob."



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#68 Posh Soul Lady.... snap... my first car was also a Mini... dark green, or should I say 'British Racing green' and I have often fancied a Mini but couldn't fit my rather long, chunky Basset Hounds in the back so I drive an R32 Golf hatchback and the Bassets fit snugly in the back!

#72 LuciesMum, I'm not a big fan of Dylan so I wasn't too disappointed but Mrs Snapper adores him and was really quite upset. She went to see him at Stirling Castle about 10 years ago (I stayed at home) and reported that he was much better.

#67 #72 I used to know someone who proudly claimed to have, by accident, seen Dylan's first appearance in the UK at somewhere like Bunjies in Covent Garden, had liked him and so sought out his next gig somewhere equally tiny, and had gone on to see every single concert or gig he had ever played in the UK, and this was in about 1995. Her line was that one in twenty of his gigs are worth attending, but that that one will be better than any other gig you'll see. I have seen him five times, and one was beautiful, the others ranging from 'okay' to 'appalling'. And that's what I love him for. Nowadays you can barely tell which song he's doing as they all sound horribly the same, but on a night when he wants to be he can still be mesmerising. And he should have had the Nobel Prize by now!



#70 - so glad you liked that Harry. Eno is one of the few performers whose work genuinely can be described as 'art' for me, in that it stands up to comparison with great painters and writers rather than just other songwriters. And what a body of work over forty years. He once told a story that he ended up in Roxy Music by accident because he met Bryan Ferry at a bus stop or something, and that if he had got on the bus at the next stop and never met him he would probably have ended up being an art teacher.

ARFternoon Blogdoods!



Bless you, LuciesMum @13. Thank you for noticing my absinthe - all this talk of vinyl, Brum and ARFO choices has tempted me back in to Blogsville .... (albeit in installments as it won't let me post en masse for some reason ...)

#62 That's reminded me of another potential ARFO:



IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE - Alan Jackson / Jimmy Buffet



Would be very appropriate for Drive Time!





I had not heard of Jimmy B until we went to New Orleans and found ourselves in his Margaritaville bar. Lot of fun and some excellent live music (and a lot of stuffed parrots).

I love my vinyl collection. Some of it I inherited from my parents but most of it is the result of my hard saving as an 80s teenager - I feel I have a fine collection of Duran Duran 12" singles to boast of! You can't beat the static crackle of vinyl. I just wish I could work out how the vinyl/mp3 record player thingy works so that I can stick it all on my isplod!



As for Brum, I'm really getting to like it now. It's been 16 months since I moved from the Sarf East to The Midlands and I have to say, there's no shortage of excellent gig venues in Brum. Also did my Christmas shopping there - a lot less walking than doing it in London.

#75 Dylan does seem to attract a certain kind of fan(atic). A good friend of mine, who used to run the Warwick University student union bar in the 80s, had 'DYLAN' tattooed inside his bottom lip and had the most amazing collection of bootlegs of Dylan's live shows, nearly all unlistenable because that's what most of the shows were like.

Nic and I went to see The Manic Street Preachers last night in Wolverhampton. They said that The Civic Hall is one of their favourite ever venues and it certainly came across in their performance - loud, lively, assured .... and rousing beyond belief!



So, for my ARF today may I request the amazingly wonderful



DESIGN FOR LIFE - MANIC STREET PREACHERS



Thank you!



Happy Friday everyone.



Deevs

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#75 B&B, have you read Eno's "A Year in Appendices"? A delightful read, very insightful and observant, in places laugh out loud funny and in others very poignant. Can't remember which year it is but he was working with U2 and James so there is a lot about how he approached producing them.

Gawd - that was hard work! No big posts, and then only every 3 minutes .....



PETA ...... !?!?!?



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#77 AlexG, at the risk mentioning yet another of my former girlfriends, I was introduced to Jimmy Buffet (and the world of the 'Parrothead') by a young woman in Jacksonville, Florida, c. 1978. We went to see him play in a tiny bar and it was terrific fun. Happy days!

#80 Wolverhampton Civic Hall was the venue for my first ever gig! Humble Pie with Steve Marriott, 1971

LOL Harry, the rest of us have no chance now!



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#81 - Alex - yes, years ago, and I must get a copy. I met him about five years ago on another book he was involved with. Have to say - he is beautiful. If I were a girl... He has the most wonderful blue eyes, and I can see why back in the day Bryan Ferry got fed up with the girls screaming at Eno instead of him.



#83 - absolute corker Harry. "At the risk of..."!! You didn't write Hi Fidelity under a pseudonym did you?

LOL Harry @84. It's a nice venue - we're back there tonight for Ed Byrne - shame they wouldn't let us take our camp beds really ....!



My first gig was at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1983 - Wham! on their Club Fantastic Tour.



Pass the shuttlecocks ......



Deevs

x

#86 Sorry! I must sound like a dreadful womaniser but so many artist/songs remind me of women. I'm not sure my brain can separate the two ;-)

#77 Great choice! Heard it on R2 in the car the other day. Can't imagine it was CLP so must have been on the way back from Physio at lunchtime the other day. I can remember which roundabout I was at but not which day ;-)



X

#87 I saw that tour in Aberdeen, Deevs!



Peee esss, how lovely to have you back in the fold.



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Hey Deevs - nice to see you. I'm having probs posting long comments too. Bit of a nuisance, eh?



Andy - glad you weren't disappointed last night.



Bob Dylan? Don't have any of his stuff at all although I kinda like what I've heard on t' radio.



Going back to the lyric v the music / musicality of a song. I guess the tune grabs my attention first but I can't think of many tunes that make the hairs on my neck stand up. Once my attention has been caught, I do tend to focus on the lyrics and their meaning. The one tune that does move me to tears is Highland Cathedral, so moving! Quite amazingly it's a relatively new tune written by 2 Germans in the early 80s. Beautiful.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRacaXCm0UE&feature=related



~ xx

My first car was a Morris Traveller [!] - the half-timbered kind which was a dirty pale blue colour.

I picked up the old banger for next to nothing just after I qualified.



I was desperate to use my new skills - by driving back and forth every day from Camden Town where I worked to North Finchley where I lived - across Hampstead Heath one way or through Highgate Village - right past where my daughter now lives.



The car survived about 4 months of this punishing routine and I was forced to scrap it - but ..

picked up a LOT of money for the numberplate. Bonus car indeed.



I then bought a Ford Escort.



PS. In Camden, my first [as a student and then full time] job was at Cecil Sharp House - off Regents Park Road - which was the headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society - a centre of much folkie activity and archive material including the world famous Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

The Librarian was a lovely American lady called Barbara. We became friends.

At the time, her sister in the States was the girlfriend of ...



.... Robert Allen Zimmerman.





:^)

Re vinyl LPs, I read an article in Saturday's Daily Express.....



"Sales of vinyl record albums are undergoing a resurgence and are now at their highest level since 2007. Although sales are well below their historic peak, 234,471 Long Play records were sold last year, a rise of 7 per cent on 2009, according to new figures from the British Phonographic Industry."



https://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/246818/Vinyl-groovy-again-as-the-LP-makes-a-musical-comeback

Afternoon all!



I am back having sorted out most of my issues with the new laptop my office have provided me. So it would seem remiss of me not to suggest a U2 tune to start. How about "Vertigo" loud and proud.



GB

#92 That makes you practically related, Katy!!



Deevs, lovely to see you back here. Missed you!



Harry, you do make me laugh!



B&B, for some reason Mr Eno always makes me think of Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff. Not sure why - very unfair of me, I am sure!

Ooooh, forgot to mention above - my first car was a red mini - I totally loved her and was so sad when I had to sell her. She was called 'Miss Vernilini (?sp). She was given her name in a kind of convoluted way and although not particularly catchy, it stuck. She took me, and some of my worldly possessions, from my single life in Scotland to married life in Lincolnshire. We pootled back and forth between Stamford and Peterborough for nearly a year through hail and shine. Had to sell her when we moved abroad :( A colleague's son was most impressed when he saw her as she had 'wideys' - wide wheels - I have to say it did add to her cuteness.



KatyM - I can just imagine you in your Morris traveller - gorgeous wee cars - full of character.



~ xx

#95 AlexG, I hope I make you laugh in a pleasant way!



And I think you're right, Eno in his Roxy days with his balding head and long blonde hair certainly resembled Riff-Raff. Not so much now that he keeps it well trimmed.

Katy, posting in tranches as long rambling comments never seem to get through. My gawjus Granda' had a Morris Minor which smelled of green tree air freshener. It was theeee most pampered car ever. He never took her out in the winter and whilst she was laid up during the worst of the weather her engine was lovingly covered with an old overcoat and candlewick bedspread!?! Should it rain whilst he was out driving, she was always dried off before she went back in the garage.



~ xx

Afternoon all,



Thanks for missing me Luciesmum, Mo and Katy!



My first car was a rusty old orange Chrysler Horizon which set me back the grand sum of £100! (Put a Chrysler Horizon in your life!♫♪) When I stopped harassing the poor drivers of St Albans and passed my test, and when the gearbox finally gave up the ghost, I moved on to a mini.



Nice to see you back Simon, Ken and Deevs.

Deevs - Jezza's playing your tune :^)





PS Manics Live - IMHO the best. 'You Stole The Sun ...' wow