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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: John Orchard on November 29, 2011, 05:51:47 pm
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Everytime I hear Kung fu fighting I remember fouling my B9EN plug at Cranbourne sand quarry's LOL
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Your so Vein, by Carly Simons Great Song, and Harper Valley PTA
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I feel a list a mile long coming from the big boy of love
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Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't go breakin' my heart Alan Lampkin
Manfred Manns Earth Band - Daveys on the road again - Dave Thorpe (the trials rider)
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Any AC/DC songs 8) to get you in the grove to try and go fast ;D or ABBA :P
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Billy thorpe, Most people i know
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Shit forgot the best ever dave dobbyn ( slice of heaven ) kiwi favorite 4 sure ;)
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"Sukiaki" Every time I hear that [not often these days] it reminds me of the thoughts in my head at that time about these new Japanese motorcycles that were in the bike shops called Honda and thinking wot next these Japs have even got a song on top of the hit parade! It must a modern invasion in the offing!
Cheers pancho.
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I Was Only Nineteen - Redgum
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"Sukiaki" Every time I hear that [not often these days] it reminds me of the thoughts in my head at that time about these new Japanese motorcycles that were in the bike shops called Honda and thinking wot next these Japs have even got a song on top of the hit parade!
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Do you remember the cheezy posters that advertised those rice burners? Kimono gowned girl draped enticingly over a Honda C90 with a blossoming cherry tree in front of Mt Fuji in the background! No wonder we didn't take them seriously.
Ah yes memories of Bernards Motorcycles:
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/TooFastTim/misc_zam_pics.jpg)
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KC and the Sunshine bands "Thats the way I like it" uh hah, uh hah.....first job after leaving school in 1975 working at Whites Yamaha in Cuba St, piss up in the workshop Friday night with a very young Randy Mamola there for the Malboro Road Race Series....first time I got pissed....thanks to the 2nd year apprentice.....heaved my guts up on the train on the way home.....farrrk....36 years ago..... ;D
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Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits.... money for nothing.
Fleetwood Mac -Lindsey Buckingham - Stevie Nicks ......Gypsy - Go your own way . To mention a few
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Spasticus Autisticus, Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
Lillee's pounding down like a machine, WSC.
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Iron Man , Black Sabbath ;D
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Bohemian Rhapsody, cruisin' down highway heading for newcastle motordrome (jerilderie) -75' :D not to mention "the newcastle song" - What Are YA ! :D
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Mike52 a man of great taste . highway star ,deep purple . black knight , space trucking , ...... I wish I still had hair to swing . Iron butterfly . uriah heap .the who . f....k I must be getting old .
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Detroit rock city and Jody MXA had his helmet painted as Gene's Makeup 8).
Rock on Nob
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Mike52 a man of great taste . highway star ,deep purple . black knight , space trucking , ...... I wish I still had hair to swing . Iron butterfly . uriah heap .the who . f....k I must be getting old .
Iain you left out Jethro Tull , Led Zepp . ;D
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let me see the play list on my PC right now.. ah yes.
Zoot, Skyhooks, Yardbirds, Troggs, Small Faces, Masters Apprentices, Kinks, Hollies, Easybeats, JOK, The Dingoes, T-Rex, Steve Miller Band, Slade, Wilson Pickett, Procol Harum, Peter Frampton, Mungo Jerry, Manfred Man, Lynard Skynard, Led Zep, Joan Jett, JJ Cale, Janis Joplin, Five Man Electric Band, David Essex, Dave & Ansil Collins, David Bowie, Canned Heat, Billie Thorpe, Ashton Gardner & Dyke, Alice Cooper, America, AC/DC...
a few there that may ring a bell.
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Always loved Slade. 8)
But for sheer fun memories, it's gotta be Sex by Berlin............. don't ask............... ::)
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bay city rollers, ::),only kidding,Masters Apprentices 'Toast to Panama Red' album way cool, :P
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But for sheer fun memories, it's gotta be Sex by Berlin............. don't ask............... ::)
didn't the video clip involve mannequins?
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I bet you got Woody for Woody Mick.
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Tusk, Another brick in the wall, Bad to the bone, Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, a bit of Cold Chisel Forever now and Khe sanh, some Creedence Midnight special all played at full throttle, toss in a couple of mates and a slab of beer and ya have the makings of a good night in the workshop talking bikes and reminiscing.
Zane
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Mike52 this will piss you off big time . I went to the last Led Zeplin concert at Kooyong in vic there never will be a band to beat them
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Hmmm for me back in the 70's it was The Sweet....action,fox on the run,ballroom blitz etc...and any acdc,led zep,status quo,pink floyd...where does it stop?
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Mike52 this will piss you off big time . I went to the last Led Zeplin concert at Kooyong in vic there never will be a band to beat them
Now we're talking concerts.
I went to an early Led Zep in Briz , 3 Jethro Tulls [ good ], 2 George Thorogoods [ very good ], 1 Black Sabbath , 1 early Canned Heat [good ], 3 Deep Purple [ good ], 1 Steppenwolf [ good ], Railroad Gin , Carol LLoyd Band.
The David Jones canteen in Fortitude Valley used to let up and coming bands muck around on Saturday mornings , saw a bunch of Auzzie bands there.
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Dont forget. Spectrum/Indelable murtceps.Or frank zappa and the mothers of invention.p
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How about a bit of class: Morning from the Peer Gynt suite and Canon in D by Pachelbel.
K
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Canon in D by Pachelbel.
Can't argue with that. I imagine you played that at your wedding, K?
Good memories indeed. 8)
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How about a bit of class: Morning from the Peer Gynt suite and Canon in D by Pachelbel.
K
When racing enduros I used to hum Beethovens 9th to myself.
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How about a bit of class: Morning from the Peer Gynt suite and Canon in D by Pachelbel.
K
When racing enduros I used to hum Beethovens 9th to myself.
Your confession exposes you Tim :P
Religious vomit, Dog Bite, California Uberalles, Hyperactive Child by Dead kennedys' :o Glossop to Sheffield in 14 minutes over the Snake pass in my Relault 5GT Turbo 8)
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As a closet culture vulture? ::)
When I was a kid we lived on a largish plot and my dad (mx and trials rider) used to play Beethoven and the Beatles VERY LOUD on a sunday morning if he wasn't riding. The love for classical has never left me.
I'm as happy listening to red hot chilli peppers as I am Brahms but, please, please, please, no opera.
p.s. I recently discovered a guy called David Axelrod (Firko probably knows of him). Give him a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2OkMHvPXko (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2OkMHvPXko)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvvICZcCes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvvICZcCes)
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Spasticus Autisticus, Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
Lillee's pounding down like a machine, WSC.
Ian Drury and the Blockheads, brilliant. Saw them live they carried him on stage was amazing. At the end of the show they jammed , Hit me with your rythm stick with Hunters and Collectors
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Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits.... money for nothing.
Fleetwood Mac -Lindsey Buckingham - Stevie Nicks ......Gypsy - Go your own way . To mention a few
same same...in the Green Room (surfing) smokin pot and then Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls lead me to motorsickles 8)
cheers A
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I could fill a whole thread with music that 'touched ' me but while doing some yard work this morning the memory of us travelling to some dirt track (probably Woodstock) back in the early seventies with 'Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes' Gonzo Double Live album pumping at full crank in the Transit all the way to Cowra. 'Great White Buffalo' and their definitive version of 'Baby Please Don't Go' (later ripped off lick for lick by AC/DC) brought back a great, forgotten memory ;D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuRkFemRVc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuRkFemRVc&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRBa3DuEXw&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRBa3DuEXw&feature=related)
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'Baby Please Don't Go' (later ripped off lick for lick by AC/DC) brought back a great, forgotten memory ;D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuRkFemRVc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuRkFemRVc&feature=related)
My first " Baby please don't go " was by Big Billy Broonzy [1950's] and a fine job of it he did too. :)
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My first " Baby please don't go " was by Big Billy Broonzy [1950's] and a fine job of it he did to
Are you sure you're not thinking of Big Joe Williams who wrote it Mike? Baby Please Don't Go is one of my favourite blues/ rock songs of all time. No matter who did it or how it was treated, the song nearly always is the star instead of the artist. I particularly like Bob Dylan's version but it was Them's (Van Morrison) 1964 hit version that I blame for introducing me to the blues. Another favourite version is 'Willy and the Poor Boys' 1984 minor hit. The band was a sort of supergroup put together by Bill Wyman starring his mates Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood (Stones) Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page (Yardbirds/Led Zep), Paul Rogers (Free/Bad Company)and Andy Fairweather-Lowe (Amen Corner) to play the pubs for tips. A blues "Travelling Wilburys" of sorts.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3qvyENHsn8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3qvyENHsn8)
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Mongoloid by DEVO
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
One chromosome too many.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see.
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
Reminds me of some forum members. ;D ;D ;D
Love and Kisses Hugo
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(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/devo.jpg)
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Reminds me of some forum members.
Yeah it must be hilarious to the forum member with the Downs Syndrome daughter. ;)
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The first blues I ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvoGmGijU ;D ;D ;D
Searching around youtube and found this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOwNItKOyo&feature=related
Wondering just how far back this song goes.
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Saw these guys too.
At the University of QLD in Briz in about 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIiIQ4uNs3o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro63WkTz2Gk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-AHCVr8cI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-KCzJ2ZTro
and at Briz city hall about late 75
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPrDrDndh4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0XvUTHYdNA
saw Matt Taylor at the full moon festival at Mullimbimby 1974.
Smokin. ;D
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Good thread boy's
Baker street (Gerry Rafferty)and any track off Meatloaf's Bat out of hell album.
Late 70's (1977) just started racing as a junior in ACU in Queensland, great times!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7uAimpx3k&feature=player_detailpage
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Shit we're old.
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Shit we're old.
Yeah but still younger than Firko!
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Them's fightin words, don't pick on our August mate. ;)
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don't pick on our August mate. ;)
;D
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The first blues I ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvoGmGijU ;D ;D ;D
Searching around youtube and found this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOwNItKOyo&feature=related
Wondering just how far back this song goes.
Sonny boy Williamson (pre Muddy) Didn't Robert Johnson sing those lyrics (late 1920's)?
Love blues myself :)
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Shit-a-brick!!! I like just about all of the music already mentioned. But wait ,.. there's more.The ones that remind me of when it all started, tear- arsing around the paddock circa 1969/70 on my Yammie 90 (what a great bike) are Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, Hot August Night by Neil Diamond (the album) , Simon and Garfunkles greatest hits. Also The Bee Gees greatest hits vol 1. Yeah Slides we are gettin' old but who gives a shit? I just go onto You Tube, drink beer and have blast from the past.
When i started racing my Dad was the driver and he chose the music.(cassettes) Del Shannon, Marty Robbins, Carly simon and lots more. All great.
cheers you blokes, i,m goin' on the tube ;D Mark
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Didn't Robert Johnson sing those lyrics (late 1920's)?
Dunno. Wasn't around at the time ::)
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you have the music in you ;D :P
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This thread is fun and strikes another chord for nostalgia. I move that Saturday nights at race meetings become 'VMX Disco nights' with one of us playing a compilation of 70s & Early 80s hits out of the back of our trailer, I'll even bring the mirror ball!! Woops, did I just admit I have a mirror ball?
I can just here the budding 50yr+ DJ now, KC and the Sunshine Band fading in with "That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it" "Back to back, stack to stack, we spin the hits as they fall, for all you Pre 75 maniacs out there this ones from the year 1975, you can hum this to yourself tomorrow as you blast that berm on your way to a win.....uh huh uh huh I like it, when you take me by the hand, tell me I'm your lovin man.........
I think I'm onto something here!!
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I think I'm onto something here!!
And I think you've lost something. Misplaced your marbles perhaps :P ;D
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went and seen the moody blues last week,sounded fantastic still.the drummer just turned 70
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went and seen the moody blues last week,sounded fantastic still.the drummer just turned 70
Graeme Edge is 70! :o
I must have nodded off for a decade or so...........
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I must have nodded off for a decade or so...........
A week or two ago I was watching some Swiss rock show on the Studio Channel which featured Robert Plant looking bloody awful...a wrinkled old man with a long blond perm, skin tight leather pants and a wholle bunch of circa 1970 costume baubles and bangles. It was a real eye opener to how much time has passed since the music died..........Old Planty can still belt out a tune though. He recently did a duet album with Alison Krause that's up there with the best stuff he has done since Led Zep folded.
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I read (recently?) that Plant and Page remain great friends and both share a passion for the history of blues. The roots of blues has long been a source of mystery to academia and, apparently, Plant and Page beat all the academics and musicoligists and finally established, beyond any doubt, where the chords, melodies etc that make up blues originated. The answer was Muslim Africa. From there those rythms etc made it across the Atlantic with the slaves and the rest is, as they say, history.
P.S. Ole Jimmy might become Sir James. But what about Mayall and Clapton whose influence on music has been equally profound?
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P.S. Ole Jimmy might become Sir James. But what about Mayall and Clapton whose influence on music has been equally profound?
Eric Clapton deserves a gong as does the great John Mayall but Mayalls problem would be his not being a household name 'pop' star like Clapton, Page, Plant et al. At risk of mentioning the excellent Studio channel again, for the last couple of weeks they've been showing Martin Scorsese's brilliant doco series...'The Blues'. In episode 2 a young contemporary blues guitarist (Corey Harris) travels to West Africa in search of the original source of the blues. He had some interesting jams with a traditional performer from Mali that clearly show a connection where they both play some simple Robert Johnson riffs and seamlessly blend into the local rythhms and cord progressions. Great stuff.
http://www.scorsesefilms.com/blues.htm (http://www.scorsesefilms.com/blues.htm)
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John mayall the man who gave so many budding and singers a blues start, so many great guitarists got their Start with the blues breakers. moody blues, For my childrens, childrens, childrens what an amazing album. 'With the power of 10,000 butterfly sneezes" what a brilliant line or was it what i was smoking!!lol
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Saw Steve Winwood here in Auckland a few weeks ago. Unbelievably talented.
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In episode 2 a young contemporary blues guitarist (Corey Harris) travels to West Africa in search of the original source of the blues. He had some interesting jams with a traditional performer from Mali that clearly show a connection where they both play some simple Robert Johnson riffs and seamlessly blend into the local rythhms and cord progressions.
Yeah, the connection runs deep. Very deep. I recently discovered a group called Afro Celt Sound System:
"The inspiration behind the project dates back to 1991, when Simon Emmerson, a Grammy Award-nominated British producer who would become the group's guitarist, collaborated with Afro-pop star Baaba Maal. While making an album with Maal in Senegal, Emmerson was struck by the similarity between one African melody and a traditional Irish air. Back in London, Irish musician Davy Spillane told Emmerson about a belief that nomadic Celts lived in Africa or India before they migrated to Western Europe. Whether or not the theory was true, Emmerson was intrigued by the two countries' musical affinities."
From Wki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Celt_Sound_System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Celt_Sound_System))
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Irish music has long been called 'white mans blues' not so much for the rythmic similarity but for the passion and subject matter. The poor Irish were treated like black American slaves and in both situations the music became the 'cure' to their shitty lives.
Van Morrison once affectionately called the potato famine era Irish 'White Niggers'. :o
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What was that line in "The commitments"?
"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud."
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Van Morrison I believe while still with Them did a briliant version of baby Please Don't Go
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Van Morrison I believe while still with Them did a briliant version of baby Please Don't Go
Can't say I've heard it ::)
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Van Morrison and ThemThe band Them, fronted by Van Morrison, released "Baby, Please Don't Go" as the A side of a single in late 1964. Boosted by the B side, a ditty entitled "Gloria", the single became their first hit, reaching No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart
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On rythm guitar a bloke by the name of jimmy Page
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thin lizzy:bad reputation johnny the fox,rose tattoo bad boy for love,the butcher and fast eddy;rush tom sawyer;steve miller band jet airliner ,fly like an eagle;boston more than a feeling;early rolling stones,anything by the jam,the cure,siouxsie and the banshees,the clash,cream,hendrix led zep esp battle of evermore.acdc midnight oil inxs all.Heart...ah those Wilson sisters magic man,blondie rapture,queen remember that filmclip with all the naked girls riding around the velodrome(could you do that today?),santana oyo como va!clapton and marley I shot the sherriff,beatles did they ever do a bad song?....etc
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Phil Lynnot and the brilliant blues of gary moore
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Phil Lynnot and the brilliant blues of gary moore
Two great Irish rockers both played in Thin Lizzie...both unfortunately dead. Another great Irish guitarist was the late, great Rory Gallagher, I saw him at a gig at Paddington Town Hall supported by a Welsh band called Man. Rory played the Taffies off the stage. A few years later I saw him play the famous old Golden Bear in Huntington Beach California and once again he blew the house down. His Bullfrog Blues is a blues rock classichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY)
Pound for pound Ireland has produced more good rock bands than nearly any other country. Another couple of my favourites were Hothouse Flowers and the Waterboys and who could forget those wild and wacky Pogues?
However, for pure traditional musicianship it's hard to go past the legendary Chieftans who've been together for over 40 years. They don't have a lead singer but have reached such a status that people trip over themselves to do a gig with them. Here's Van Morrison playing with them on the traditional standard 'Star of County Down'.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GbdB7PlGtc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GbdB7PlGtc)
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Ah the mighty pouges,played on Firkos stereo coming home from C/D, from that great green emarald isle (did they not just play rugby againt australia recently)
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The Pogues " Dirty Old Town " love it
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I was looking through some old music sites and thought I might check up on an old band I used to like.
Jethro Tull
Lead singer and founding member Ian Anderson is an interesting fellow has never had a drivers licence but does own a few off road race bikes.
Likes to go for a blast around his farm in country England.
Doesn't say if vintage or modern.
Wonder if he would be interested in going to a CD?
DOK
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Lead singer and founding member Ian Anderson is an interesting fellow has never had a drivers licence but does own a few off road race bikes.
Likes to go for a blast around his farm in country England.
Anderson is a trials nutter. Not a competitor but he is, apparently, very knowledgable about the sport. I did a bit of research into this a while ago and it is true.
http://www.trialscentral.com/forums/topic/32865-ian-anderson/ (http://www.trialscentral.com/forums/topic/32865-ian-anderson/)
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Shit we're old.
REALLy Slides???
I'm thinkin' Hank Williams, Perry Como Hoagy Carmichael, Teresa Brewer, etc. from the days of real solo singers, real songs, and commonly both in the one performance.
Shit some of us are old!!!
cheers, pancho!
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Okay, shit you're old Wally.
Nah, it's a state of mind, some mornings I feel 100.
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Balwyn calling always reminds me of the smell of belray(f*&^ing awfull) with super in my RM's go figure.And David Bowies Sorrow of a girl from Mooroolbark i must have something wrong with my head.....LOL
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What about the Stranglers? Cant go past most of the mighty Pink Floyd's music. I have to mention Aussie Crawl...I won $500 last friday on tripple m, answering a trivia question. Now I can get that new helmet... ;D
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Hey hey where the Monkeys..we each like to monkey around.....Davy Jones RIP
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Davey jones was an actor not a singer,monkeys made for TV-an intersesting documentry.
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Davey jones was an actor not a singer,monkeys made for TV-an intersesting documentry.
INCORRECT. He was a very good actor, true. He also DID sing. Daydream Believer was him singing.
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Yes they were made for TV but he did definitely sing.
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Old bikes are like a drug ~You start to dabble in the beginning,then you can't live without them and then your selling them to support your habit....
no truer words were ever spoken.p
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Has anyone noticed that in the promotion photos and the cd cover for Red Dog the negetive has been devolped back the front. The bike is back the front with the side stand and the clutch on the right and front brake on the left.....
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and also the chain, but the honda badge on the tank is the right way
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The other night I was awoken by the ghost of Gloria Gaynor!
First I was afraid,
Then I was petrified.