davetscfc
Steaming Bovril
......and it's Salisbury City......
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Post by davetscfc on Aug 11, 2006 19:03:31 GMT
I understand the word "twee." I'm fine with that bit. It's all the other words I'm struggling with.... I've not reached the chapter on twee indie pop in your musical education yet.
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Post by ojiveojive on Aug 11, 2006 20:48:06 GMT
J Esaj PRA, I guess if you were my age you'd be a Grateful Dead fan - every show bootlegged for over thirty years, indeed the band encouraged it and even supplied feeds to tapers from the sound desk - much prefer the live stuff to the records. I also have Little Feat bootlegs (Electrif Lycanthrope, On the Other Foot and their 1st ever European show at Manchester Free Trade Hall*, 1975 I think, of which I own the master cassette), Cramps (Live in Auckland bootleg) and Sex Pistols in Burton on Trent circa 1975 bootleg, indeed I own the master cassette of that, too.
If you really want to hear some bass that gives you the same symptoms as being repeatedly kicked in the balls check out Seastones by Ned Lagin (with Phil Lesh) circa 1975 originally released on the GD's Round Records label, re-released on cd by Rykodisc in 1991.
Good luck, I hope you get to Amsterdam in time, enjoy.
* The opening acts were Montrose (shite), Tower of Power (brilliant) and The Doobie Brothers (alright if you like soft crap, which I don't!)
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Post by malxscfc on Aug 11, 2006 21:02:19 GMT
Hmmm. Music became incomprehensible for me when Scott Joplin began writing Rags.....
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Aug 11, 2006 22:17:45 GMT
Good luck, I hope you get to Amsterdam in time, enjoy. I think my luck ended when I started planning the Legoland to Harwich leg of the trip. Maybe 10 years ago I'd have just done it, but I can't face the idea of a 6am start, an 8+ hour journey, drinking and then a gig until midnight. I'd be dead on my feet and still have two days to survive! I'm well irritated - I've got all the "should have done" things running in my head... Right, I'm off to get some incredibly unhealthy fast food, a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and 10 hours sleep. I'll start planning again tomorrow, to see if I can do the Sunday show in Zoetermeer and if it's not possible I'll see about Dresden.
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Post by coops on Aug 11, 2006 23:05:49 GMT
and if it's not possible I'll see about Dresden. Just plan for Dresden, what a great place!
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Post by medibot on Aug 12, 2006 0:56:59 GMT
I'll start planning again tomorrow, to see if I can do the Sunday show in Zoetermeer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoetermeerSounds like the dutch MK, you'll feel at home
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Aug 12, 2006 16:13:00 GMT
Oi, stop trying to piss me off, boy! Can't get there anyway. Just can't trust the UK rail system to do its job. and if it's not possible I'll see about Dresden. Just plan for Dresden, what a great place! Oops - my mistake. It's Dortmund, not Dresden. Right country, right first letter - what more do you want late at night? ;D Dortmund is currently possible, if unattractive. I've been looking at the Swiss option in Winterthur, a town just north of Zurich. Fly in and out of different airports and take a scenic rail trip. It'd be stupidly expensive, but a pretty cool trip. I don't expect I'll be allowed time off in the middle of next week though. All this indecision. Tut. I'd have to disagree when Coops says KX are "metal / prog rock" - Thought you might! Ok yooooth, I'll agree - here's some prog metal. I love the stop-start ending and the three-part vocals on the chorus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrOtSzqehs
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