A classic album really, although hardly mainstream. In all honesty I've always believed it was inspired by LSDQuote:
Originally Posted by Steph
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A classic album really, although hardly mainstream. In all honesty I've always believed it was inspired by LSDQuote:
Originally Posted by Steph
T of P?Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
That's what i heard... surprised me as i believe it's a popular race in the region of 400 starters...Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
I'm certainly hoping that some races will be able to go ahead long before that. But i wasn't surprised that Borrowdale fell by the wayside, considering how popular it is.
I think a key factor in races going ahead will have a lot to do with whether the RO has a "can do" attitude or not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Prety much sums up the content of the entire thread ;)Quote:
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There's a trip down memory lane I had completely forgotten about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steph
On tonight's local news a slimy looking car dealer was getting excited about his showroom now being open and talking about the changes that customers would notice. He also said that "test drives would be discouraged".
I wouldn't have thought he was going to sell many cars as only a drongo would buy one without a test drive!
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Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Mmmh. I have driven nothing but Mercedes C-Class for over 25 years. I didn't test drive any of them. I didn't test drive my Citroen SM either (82,000 miles in 2 1/2 years), or my Cosworth Scorpio,...
Is it too late to start? :)
I'm repeatedly amazed at the erudition of the contributors to this forum. I had no idea that a lark has more than one tongue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
You've done well to be so repeatedly amazed after such a short time on the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
Welcome - love the first post by the way ;)
Ah! So people do read my posts!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
Larks’ tongues in retrospect
BLM demonstration in London today and one of their many concerns/grievances is that black peoples lives are more at risk than white peoples from Coronavirus.
So what do they do, gather in their thousands in breach of the social distancing guidelines. Press and TV journalists in amongst them.
Those who were wildly misreporting and hounding Dominic Cummings, especially the BBC, have gone very quiet in their condemnation of the event.
One rule for one etc........
Last week The Times was challenged on its photographer's participation in the scrum outside DC's house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
The response was that it withdrew him; and printed a Press Association picture!
Since you took my post with such graciousness, I might (depending on how generous I feel) deliberately give you the opportunity to turn the tables in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Remember Lee Rigby?
No murder is right. Race shouldn't even come in to it.
Justice most be done.
Wasn't Lee Rigby murdered by two radical Muslims (whether they were indeed ever linked to Isis etc i don't know).
Not sure what that's got to do with the Black Lives Matter protests, or the current shocking goings-on in America.
Having said that, yes the fact that a large demonstration appears to be happening without any condemnation is pretty appalling.
No surprise though... i recall hundreds of public/police/NHS all gathering together in a crowd on Westminster Bridge to clap every thursday, when everyone else was being told to "Stay Home and Save Lives".
All lives matter Travs.
No need to add anything else.
I paid penance by listening to some Captain Beefheart...but only some, after which I felt so purged of sin after such excoriating self-flagellation that I rewarded myself with Schubert's Quintet in C.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
On reflection it may be worth committing more solecisms.:)
Has graham got double trouble again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
Not quite sure what anyone can do about that, except be even more careful. I have been reading a little about the history of tuberculosis which is interesting in how devastating that was for centuries, here's something from it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
In 1900 it was estimated that the death rate for TB for white Americans was between 190 and 200 per 100,000. Among black Americans the comparable figure was 400 deaths per 100,000.
https://tbfacts.org/history-tb/
I never suggested that they didn't... just questioned what Lee Rigby's murder had to do with anything going on at the moment... didn't your post say "justice must be done"...? as far as i'm aware, the murderer(s) of Lee Rigby are in jail...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
A man of catholic tastes indeed. I'm glad to have played my part in helping you to achieve your state of redemption. Personally, I chose to listen to some Van Morrison and Kelly Joe Phelps (separately), in preference to cutting the garden hedge, and have just chosen Grace Slick to listen to in the car to try to change the mood and fire me up on the way to the start of a run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Grace Slick - Lovely voice, regularly listened to in this household.
Mmmh. I used to like Van Morrison*. Front row at a concert once in Hull - I could have touched the hem of the garment! But he has made the same album over and over for...nearly fifty years!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
A steadily declining career from Astral Weeks? As with Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Elvis Presley (Rock 'n' Roll). Does artistic genius develop with experience or just become a matter of improving technique?
After all ...even Dylan's best decades are behind him.
* Dear Ivan has never quite developed into a decent human being and it was at that concert that he finished a song, stretched out his left arm and just let go of the neck of his Stratocaster.
Clearly the roady should have been there to catch it. Clearly.
The roady was at the side of the stage.
Simple physics came into play.
I then heard the clatter of a expensive guitar bouncing up and down, saw the death look from The Man and the look of fear in the roady's eyes.
Rock 'n' roll? All human life is there!
R rate for North East and Yorkshire still highest in the country.
I know our friend Stagger is looking forward to his holiday in Turkey but I cannot, for the life of me, understand why anyone would want to go anywhere near an airport, never mind get on an aeroplane, in the current climate.
Having said that, I hope you enjoy your holiday Stagger and return safe and sound and nicely refreshed.
Thanks for your concern.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
I've always been a bit of a gambler.
Oh
And crackers ;)
Great story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
But simple physics - curved space-time? Far from simple. Took Einstein to work it out ....
Indeed, quite a voice. I can't listen to 'Let It Go' without singing along with gusto (but zero ability) and even screeching along to the music. A good one for in the car. And I can listen to her singing White Rabbit for hours on end.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattPo
(I seem to have some trouble remaining logged-in for more than two minutes at a time.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I think claiming it's 'the same album' is pushing it a bit! And I'm not sure I'd agree with 'steadily' declining after Astral Weeks. Veedon Fleece is up there with Astral, in my opinion, and perhaps even higher. And Tupelo Honey wasn't too shoddy. I'd say there have been periods of rapid decline, but also some reasonably stable periods. So rather than 'steadily declining' I think I'd go with something like 'fluctuating but with a definite downward trend'. (Not quite so pithy, admittedly.) However, from the heights of Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece, there was only one way he could go. And as for his character, he's hardly unique in being a musician deficient in decency, is he? Mr 'Grumpy Boots' Zimmerman comes to mind since you mentioned him, and Nina Simone could hold a tune and give a tinkle on the old joanna with some aplomb but I wouldn't have liked to have been in her entourage. (Actually, that last bit's not true; I would have been over the moon, although probably not for very long.) Not that that's an excuse, but I think you can separate the music from the person, and it does perhaps make those who aren't so deficient a bit special. I don't think anyone ever accused John Prine, for example, of lacking in decency, did they? (See what I did there? Dragged this sub-thread back on topic.)
And, yes, great reminiscence, by the way.
Methinks graham is talking to himself.
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I think you will find that Newtonian physics gives an adequate approximation to the trajectory of a dropped guitar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
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Originally Posted by gej
Your mention of guitars reminds me:
I saw The Who when they first played at Leeds University Union (the over-rated “Live At Leeds“ was recorded on a later occasion) and was standing directly in front of Townsend as he dutifully smashed his guitar at the climax of the show - acts performed on a very low platform then. As the group retired to the luxurious "green room" that students naturally provided and before I had time to consider stealing his battered Rickenbacker (?) his roady/guitar tech. instantly whisked the pieces away to glue the neck back on for the next show – so all just showbiz eh Pete, nothing to do with teenage angst?
The guitar smashing act had reached the attention of the illustrious Italian film director, Michelangelo Antonioni, and when he came to England to film his, rather marvellous, Blow-Up, (after considering the Velvet Underground and Tomorrow) he decided he wanted The Who to perform this stunt in his movie, but they couldn’t/ wouldn’t, so the Yardbirds got the gig after Antonioni saw their live act. The Yardbirds never smashed up their guitars but it was three days pay so hey! The clip is on YouTube in an Elstree studio recreation of the Ricky-Tick club, allegedly off Oxford Street (although the actual club was in Windsor - but that's the movies for you), so you can see Jimmy Page perform and then watch Jeff Beck smash up a cheap prop breakaway semi-acoustic guitar (Beck usually played a Stratocaster) – everyone is miming of course.
Although the Yardbirds story always makes great play of the group also having had Eric Clapton as lead guitar (whom I saw them with a couple of times, and then with the superior Jeff Beck) there was very little overlap between the three guitarists (this wasn’t the somnambulant Eagles) and the track in the film called Stroll On is one of only two songs which Page and Beck recorded together. Stroll On is a blatant rip-off of Tiny Bradshaw's The Train Kept A-Rollin’ for which copyright use for the flm could not be obtained; so Keith Relf just made up some new words** to the same tune and it was recorded (with Page and Beck) on 3/5th October 1966 in Chelsea, ie immediately before filming between 12-14th October 1966. All five members are given a composer credit (even Jim McCarty, the drummer). The Yardbirds knew the tune to The Train Kept A-Rollin' because they had recorded it (in Memphis with Sam Phillips and New York with Roy Halee) in September 1965 with Beck so one can compare and contrast the differences on a Yardbirds box set CD - before concluding that Stroll On with Page is better.
In the film after the theatricals David Hemmings grabs the broken guitar neck and flees the club and then throws it down onto the "Oxford Street" pavement.
I think I might have kept Townsend's bits a little bit longer.:)
** musical theft is a fascinating subject and the best discussion, in a rock context, is Clinton Heylin's It's One For The Money.
For Derby Tup!
Apparently they used Newtonian equations to get to the moon and back - but relativity is required for GPS, and to explain the motion of Mercury.Quote:
Originally Posted by gej
i am told that Leisure Facilities (i.e gyms) are currently scheduled to be able to re-open 4th July.
and when in two weeks time if cases are zippo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
It's still ticking along just above zero here in Ea
East Lancs. Blackburns R was probably up to 1.5 today as we had 3, the highest for a week or two I think. Mind you the rest of the East Lancs towns were 0 or 1.
Well, what ever our government had been advised to carry out isn't particular clever as we are now second on the death list behind the USA.
Strange we want to quarantine our own people coming back from abroad.
If I were a foreign country personally all UK citizens would be banned.