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Started by The Brain, March 10, 2009, 12:32:23 PM

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Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

PDH

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Killing Jar
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

mongers

#8988
Quote from: PDH on January 07, 2023, 11:28:26 PMSiouxsie and the Banshees - The Killing Jar

I wonder if that's pre-Thatcher?

edit:
I got that wrong, thought it was late 70s for some reason.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

Watched a documentary about Roxy Music, I hadn't realised how influencial they were, it had the likes of Siouxsie Banshee, Bono and the Duran Duran bloke saying they were the bees-knees at the time.

Fun videos too, but man did Bryan Ferry in later years over-do the American crooner with perfect teeth look.

Also brought back found memories of spending a chill evening/night in a club with Phil Manzanera (Roxy's guitarist) , Andy Mackay(Roxy's sax/oboeist) and their band.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Admiral Yi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR8guQ8RYqw

I've got two buddies who know everything possible about the Beatles but neither has ever mentioned this little nugget.  Ringo was laid up with tonsilitis and for a Dutch TV appearance they replaced him with Jimmie Nichol, "the Beatle who disappeared."

Josephus

Quote from: mongers on January 28, 2023, 11:17:53 AMWatched a documentary about Roxy Music, I hadn't realised how influencial they were, it had the likes of Siouxsie Banshee, Bono and the Duran Duran bloke saying they were the bees-knees at the time.

Fun videos too, but man did Bryan Ferry in later years over-do the American crooner with perfect teeth look.

Also brought back found memories of spending a chill evening/night in a club with Phil Manzanera (Roxy's guitarist) , Andy Mackay(Roxy's sax/oboeist) and their band.

I liked a lot of their stuff, but not so much Bryan Ferry's solo material
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

Quote from: Josephus on January 29, 2023, 03:46:31 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 28, 2023, 11:17:53 AMWatched a documentary about Roxy Music, I hadn't realised how influencial they were, it had the likes of Siouxsie Banshee, Bono and the Duran Duran bloke saying they were the bees-knees at the time.

Fun videos too, but man did Bryan Ferry in later years over-do the American crooner with perfect teeth look.

Also brought back found memories of spending a chill evening/night in a club with Phil Manzanera (Roxy's guitarist) , Andy Mackay(Roxy's sax/oboeist) and their band.

I liked a lot of their stuff, but not so much Bryan Ferry's solo material

Yeah, I think in later years he was in danger of disappearing up his own ....  :D

I really liked the Eno-Manzanera projects like 801, how could they only do just three gigs before coming up with a superb live album.

And 'Diamond Head' was pretty good also.



"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Tamas


mongers

Happened to watch an old TOTP from February 1980, amongst the various pop acts, was an AC/DC performance; a bid odd and it seemed to be their original singer; turns out it was Bon Scott and arguably this was his last performance* as he drunk himself to death with a week whilst staying in London.

* this last gig with AC/DC was at the old Southampton Gaumont on the 27th January.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josephus

To be fair to Bon Scott, TOTP would drive anyone to drink.
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

Quote from: Josephus on February 04, 2023, 12:15:23 PMTo be fair to Bon Scott, TOTP would drive anyone to drink.

:D

Turns out they weren't even in the TOTP studio, it was filmed at Elstree film studios the day before, hence the spectalarly uninterested 'audience'* in the foreground.


* presumably office staff, secretaries and anyone else they could rope in.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Savonarola

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus (1971)

I'm clearly missing something here; is there an ELP fan here who could explain why this is considered a classic? 

The cover art:



did remind me of the Spinal Tap quote as to why their audience is predominately young boys and not many females:

Nigel Tufnel: We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Josquius

Quote from: mongers on January 28, 2023, 11:17:53 AMWatched a documentary about Roxy Music, I hadn't realised how influencial they were, it had the likes of Siouxsie Banshee, Bono and the Duran Duran bloke saying they were the bees-knees at the time.

Fun videos too, but man did Bryan Ferry in later years over-do the American crooner with perfect teeth look.

Also brought back found memories of spending a chill evening/night in a club with Phil Manzanera (Roxy's guitarist) , Andy Mackay(Roxy's sax/oboeist) and their band.

They have to rank up there as one of the bands with the biggest gap between how popular they were in their time vs how forgotten they are in later days.

Honestly it wasn't until the mighty boosh referenced them I even learned they were a thing.

Their early stuff is rather good.
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Admiral Yi

My nominee for unfairly neglected great old band is The Clash.