The poisonous Brother in Law

[The Dark Lord]

On 25/07/2017 at 9:18 PM, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:

 

Ah bliss! Two meters of choice before the eyes, beats a Go-Go bar hands down at our age! (I can never get that right: an a gogo?)

So you have some Persian cats to keep you company, well better than those bad tempered Siamese pussies. And no yapping little mutts either.

You have the environment to get your head straight and it sounds like you are starting to come to terms with what lies ahead.

Remember just one thing, when you make up your mind stick to the decision, as heart wrenching and difficult for all concerned it might be.

 

Ha ha! Bad Co. were awesome. Not only that song but several others that might have helped us get into all these problems: Here's one...

 

 

Wonderful stuff... Leeds Poly disco about winter1975 springs to mind for me!

 

I remain confidant Ody is fine, fear not. As you say he has the will of a rhinoceros on heat, but his health is not quite as robust.

We can only wait and see and wish him well.

G

 

 

Georgio old chum, '75 was my 15th year on the face of this planet but damn man was the music just super in those days. 

 

I joun you in the good wishes and positive thoughts for Ody. 

 

Off to the estate agents today. See the new one and sign up new contract and then to the other one ( current thieving barsteward) with my non toxic but legally adept BiL to light a fire under his posterior. 

 

Should have done that yesterday but as BiL number two turned up both BiLs and TDL felt it was an opportunity to go and test the selection down at the local . The consensus was that the T.E.A. from Hogsback brewery was the best on the menu though it took a significant amount of "sampling" to reach that conclusion. 

 

Not quite managed to find my game face for today...........

 

 

 

 

[owl sees all]

16 minutes ago, The Dark Lord said:

I think it fair to say that I am not alone in hoping that Ody is finding the peace that eluded him over there in LoS and that he is somehow regaining his health.

I'm with you on that DL; as, I reckon, are all the regulars on this topic.

 

Good to hear from you.

 

Just looking out the window at another downpour. This is the wettest year since I've been here and we are only 2 weeks into the official monsoon season.

 

How is the weather in your parts? Still in a mini heatwave?!

 

Take care out there.

Edited July 27, 2017 by owl sees all

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, The Dark Lord said:

Georgio old chum, '75 was my 15th year on the face of this planet but damn man was the music just super in those days. 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmmmm. As I get older, and the world moves in ( to me ) bad and incomprehensible directions, I find that I spend far too much of my time mourning the passing of the "good old days".

No doubt a young person would disagree, but IMO music was never better than in the 60s and 70s, life was far more exciting, and the future looked brighter than now.

Whatever anyone thinks, at least we didn't walk around with our faces stuck in a stupidphone, live our lives on facethingy, or expect other people to pay for our lifestyle.

 

PS, cars were waaaaaay better and I could fix them myself, unlike the masses of boring computer controlled clones that infest the roads now.

[sandrabbit]

On 2017-7-25 at 4:22 AM, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:

Indeed, he has some words of wisdom.

After 17 years, something I have never done, I am trying to understand the guilt you are feeling, it must be crushing.

You need to consider the quid pro quo of all those years.

Do you really owe her anything?

 

Anyway,

One of my all time favourite bands said it pretty well, though not entirely the same situation:

 

 

On the other subject, Ody maybe needs some "down time" from everything Thai.

In his own time I trust we will get the story.

 

Best wishes,

How's the beer?

G

 

 

One of my favourite classic rock bands and before that Free although my favourite classic rock album is the 1st Montrose album from 1973, not a bad track on it.

[sandrabbit]

 

The album is much better but has 3 or 4 guitar overdubs on.

 

 

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

5 hours ago, sandrabbit said:

 

The album is much better but has 3 or 4 guitar overdubs on.

 

 

Total agreement. Good post. I had forgotten Montrose, nice to know they are on the one of the few modern things I DO appreciate: YouTube.

So many great bands back then.

Maybe we should open a thread on 60-70s and a few early 80s bands.

I remember we used to have to listen to the Scorpions and the other Dirge-Rock all the time here in the 80s.

 

DL seems to be on the road back to living in sanity.

All we need now is a word from Ody to placate our anxiety.

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Dark Lord]

12 hours ago, owl sees all said:

I'm with you on that DL; as, I reckon, are all the regulars on this topic.

 

Good to hear from you.

 

Just looking out the window at another downpour. This is the wettest year since I've been here and we are only 2 weeks into the official monsoon season.

 

How is the weather in your parts? Still in a mini heatwave?!

 

Take care out there.

The weather has now twice forced me out of the beer garden and into the pub. Now that must be appalling at the very least.......

 

seriously though it has alternated between summer summer showers and beautiful blue sky and sunshine. Oh and hangovers...

 

the road to a full recovery has has been put on hold for the time being as my uncle passed away after a good innings of 90. 

 

Have been re learning how morally corrupt most vendors seem to be (£90 per hour to attend me looking into my personal effects in storage, min charge two hours) I wouldn't mind if it was fort fuckingknox but it is a shabby collection of disused council garages facing a double yellow line road ( appearances old chap) at £400 per month. A tenant who believes that just because he has ignored virtually every clause in his AST it gives him the right to live rent free in my house. An estate agent who has been colluding with the tenant and whom has a serious and undeclared conflict of interest who seems to think that gives him the right to draw up scurrilous bills for work not done and threaten to sue me for non payment. 

 

Time to to wake up BiL ( the lawyer one) and boy has that been amusing.

 

so even here in Gods own country where the sun always shines and farts do not smell, there are some drawbacks. 

 

Stay at safe old friend(s) I may yet come and pay a visit ( like the creepy uncle at Christmas) 

 

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

11 hours ago, The Dark Lord said:

Georgio old chum, '75 was my 15th year on the face of this planet but damn man was the music just super in those days. 

 

I joun you in the good wishes and positive thoughts for Ody. 

 

Off to the estate agents today. See the new one and sign up new contract and then to the other one ( current thieving barsteward) with my non toxic but legally adept BiL to light a fire under his posterior. 

 

Should have done that yesterday but as BiL number two turned up both BiLs and TDL felt it was an opportunity to go and test the selection down at the local . The consensus was that the T.E.A. from Hogsback brewery was the best on the menu though it took a significant amount of "sampling" to reach that conclusion. 

 

Not quite managed to find my game face for today...........

 

 

 

 

Ha ha! I bet you enjoyed that!  A day off will do no harm, some R&R is on the menu. I could just neck a good ale right now!

I am pleased to hear you are also getting to grips with UK problems, not just which beer to drink, the nitty-gritty of letting agents etc.

 

I have a sad tale on that subject myself and lost a 2 bed garden flat in Highgate due to  incompetance, negligence and fraudulance of tenants,  lawyers and agents. It was compounded by the '92 housing crash unfortunatly or else I would be far better off than I am, although I stll have a seaside 4 bed house in the UK.

 

Oh! the music WAS good back then. Thank Buddha for YouTube.

 

I have to say it sounds good so far.

Let us hope things are working out as well for Ody.

G

 

 

 

 

[The Dark Lord]

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hmmmm. As I get older, and the world moves in ( to me ) bad and incomprehensible directions, I find that I spend far too much of my time mourning the passing of the "good old days".

No doubt a young person would disagree, but IMO music was never better than in the 60s and 70s, life was far more exciting, and the future looked brighter than now.

Whatever anyone thinks, at least we didn't walk around with our faces stuck in a stupidphone, live our lives on facethingy, or expect other people to pay for our lifestyle.

 

PS, cars were waaaaaay better and I could fix them myself, unlike the masses of boring computer controlled clones that infest the roads now.

Hi beachy old chum, 

 

you mean the 7J119m block off of a 1600 escort mk2 sport rebored to 1710 with gas flowed heads high pressure oil pump and high lift cams? 

 

'Scuse me I need a bathroom break.........

 

back again, and the ea that bought us the album that changed the world off music and which stayed in the charts for some unbelievable length of time (DSOTM by Pink Floyd) , Deep Purple, Roy wood and Wizzard ( where did that come from) Jeff Wayne's war of the world, Yessongs, Free, Status Quo, Genesis ( with Peter Gabriel)  and many many more?

 

yup you are spot on old chum. 

 

No dissent here. 

[The Dark Lord]

6 hours ago, sandrabbit said:

 

The album is much better but has 3 or 4 guitar overdubs on.

 

 

Christ I had never heard of them but I will make damned sure I will address that right now. Thanks!

[The Dark Lord]

One of the down sides of being here is the draconian speeding laws. My sister has an Audi R8 which is the MoFo of sexual arousement especially with the roof off. Still working on getting a solo spot in the drivers seat 

 

will post the pics later ( of the motor not my reaction) 

 

i almost forgot, Whispering Bob Harris from OGWT. And John Peel from Radio 1. 

Edited July 27, 2017 by The Dark Lord

[owl sees all]

Some great music being posted here.

 

Remember 'Desert Island Disks'? "What 10 pieces of music would you have in Thailand to help you chill, and cope with the madness of Thailand?" Might make a good post.

 

One that would be in for me is 'get it right next time'. The words ring so many bells here.

 

Enjoy guys.

 

 

[sandrabbit]

Just an update on my aches & pains, seems I have dengue fever but without the fever ........

 

It feels likes it's broken this morning but before that I could hardly walk, bend over and every movement was agony from joints especially my hip & back. I was wondering whether I needed a hip replacement operation. The only other symptoms I had was occasional headaches (but thought that was because of not sleeping properly) and sometimes feeling slightly nauseous. Just took 1 tylenol in the morning & 1 before bed plus some liquid anesthetic in the afternoon. We have solar heated water so it was a joy to stand under a steaming hot shower a few times a day. 2 years ago our tambon had the highest incidence of dengue in Rayong and they were coming round spraying & smoking the vegetation but haven't seen them do it once this year. I read somewhere recently that aedes mosquitos don't travel more than 200m from where they hatch out but we have a lot of standing water nearby due to the recent rains. 

 

Anyway I've got another tune to brighten your day from one of my favourite bands Tower of Power who I saw in the Fillmore West, San Fransisco in the 90's supported by The Average White Band. I discovered these the same time as Montrose as Warner Bros released a compilation album with them on it, see below had forgotten how much good music was on it. Same as Montrose I've done a live version & the album version from Back to Oakland, enjoy.

 

 https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Warner-Bros-Music-Show/release/1667388 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2017 by sandrabbit

[The Dark Lord]

2 hours ago, sandrabbit said:

Just an update on my aches & pains, seems I have dengue fever but without the fever ........

 

It feels likes it's broken this morning but before that I could hardly walk, bend over and every movement was agony from joints especially my hip & back. I was wondering whether I needed a hip replacement operation. The only other symptoms I had was occasional headaches (but thought that was because of not sleeping properly) and sometimes feeling slightly nauseous. Just took 1 tylenol in the morning & 1 before bed plus some liquid anesthetic in the afternoon. We have solar heated water so it was a joy to stand under a steaming hot shower a few times a day. 2 years ago our tambon had the highest incidence of dengue in Rayong and they were coming round spraying & smoking the vegetation but haven't seen them do it once this year. I read somewhere recently that aedes mosquitos don't travel more than 200m from where they hatch out but we have a lot of standing water nearby due to the recent rains. 

 

Anyway I've got another tune to brighten your day from one of my favourite bands Tower of Power who I saw in the Fillmore West, San Fransisco in the 90's supported by The Average White Band. I discovered these the same time as Montrose as Warner Bros released a compilation album with them on it, see below had forgotten how much good music was on it. Same as Montrose I've done a live version & the album version from Back to Oakland, enjoy.

 

 https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Warner-Bros-Music-Show/release/1667388 

 

 

 

 

You went to Fillmore west, back in the day? Then you deffo saw Peter Frampton there ( tell me you did even if it is a lie)  with perhaps the most appropriate song title for us band of brothers;

 

Do you feel like I do.......   though AWB's pick up the pieces is appropriate as well. 

 

I have bits of that concert on video, he was an absolute crowd pleaser and as one Youtube poster sagely commented there were quite a few ladies and one or two men in the crowd who would have given anything to sleep with frampton then. 

 

You may may have concluded by my previous postings that I am trying to access some of my stuff in storage ( steinburger headless 5 string bass, 12/6 string double neck, Yamaha six string acoustic, and a few others from my fender collection)  and watching the guys in Montrose perform on OGWT above I remembered my tight bellbottomed high waisted purple jeans and skin tight t shirt and stacked shoes ( though I am 6ft +) but with my follicule challenged Barnet and slightly extended waistline and butt size, it might be both challenging to don them on again as well as opening myself to a level of ridicule that hitherto has not been seen. 

 

Might give them a swerve...........

 

Although it is a tad overcast and nippy this morning I woke up more chipper than I have been FO r quite some time. Not sure my two BiL's are delighted at my oozing enthusiasm for the day but right now I resemble tigger from Winnie the Pooh; I'm bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy full of fun, the wonderful thing about dark lords, is I'm the only one. 

 

Have a cracking day chums, I think I will. 

 

 

[The Dark Lord]

5 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Some great music being posted here.

 

Remember 'Desert Island Disks'? "What 10 pieces of music would you have in Thailand to help you chill, and cope with the madness of Thailand?" Might make a good post.

 

One that would be in for me is 'get it right next time'. The words ring so many bells here.

 

Enjoy guys.

 

 

Hi Wise one, 

 

loved the post, I had a few tune ideas pop into my head this morning which I put in my response to the sand dude above.  We have that gift of being able to laugh at ourselves no matter how black the horizon appears. That, in itself has given me the emotional boost I needed and has set me firmly on the road to recovery. 

 

Enough of me though, it seems our sandy bro is in need of some physical therapy ( a sort of engine overhaul for the bod)  and far be it for me to offer unsolicited advice but Sand dude old friend, don't play with your health please. Out in the hot places where all sorts of creeping, slithering, crawling, jumping and flying beasts who have evolved over billions of years with the sole purpose of buggering up our peaceful and stress free existences abound, you cannot be too careful. Best get yourself checked out at a reputable sawbones then pop off for a gentle recovering  chilled chap as the sun kisses the sea. 

 

 

Chin up chaps, 

 

from the absent and sorely missed Dark Lord. 

 

[The Dark Lord]

5 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Some great music being posted here.

 

Remember 'Desert Island Disks'? "What 10 pieces of music would you have in Thailand to help you chill, and cope with the madness of Thailand?" Might make a good post.

 

One that would be in for me is 'get it right next time'. The words ring so many bells here.

 

Enjoy guys.

 

 

Don't you think Gerry Rafferty and his bro the bassist (?) look like Dave Lee Travis?

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, The Dark Lord said:

One of the down sides of being here is the draconian speeding laws. My sister has an Audi R8 which is the MoFo of sexual arousement especially with the roof off. Still working on getting a solo spot in the drivers seat 

 

will post the pics later ( of the motor not my reaction) 

 

i almost forgot, Whispering Bob Harris from OGWT. And John Peel from Radio 1. 

Back in the over regulated semi dictatorship from which I recently escaped, the traffic terrorists have destroyed any enjoyment to be had in driving, as one has to constantly check that one is not going an iota over the limit, and if one does, one lives in terror of receiving a ticket generated by a speed camera.

Have been meaning to say that IMO Wish You Were Here  is the most fantastic record ever made, beating out even DSOTM. I just about wore out the vinyl record listening to the A side.

Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits etc etc make modern favs sound like bad pub music.

Just to mention the OP, does anyone not have a bad relative they'd rather never see again in their lives?

[The Dark Lord]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Back in the over regulated semi dictatorship from which I recently escaped, the traffic terrorists have destroyed any enjoyment to be had in driving, as one has to constantly check that one is not going an iota over the limit, and if one does, one lives in terror of receiving a ticket generated by a speed camera.

Have been meaning to say that IMO Wish You Were Here  is the most fantastic record ever made, beating out even DSOTM. I just about wore out the vinyl record listening to the A side.

Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits etc etc make modern favs sound like bad pub music.

Just to mention the OP, does anyone not have a bad relative they'd rather never see again in their lives?

Hi  old beachy dude,

 

have to agree in your taste of music, but I would go for Animals as their best creation but no issues as long as you are a floydian!

 

relative you would rather not have? No, I don't but many of my relatives do oddly enough................

 

just cannot work that one out 

[sandrabbit]

6 hours ago, The Dark Lord said:

You went to Fillmore west, back in the day? Then you deffo saw Peter Frampton there ( tell me you did even if it is a lie)  with perhaps the most appropriate song title for us band of brothers;

Lol you stupid **** I was 20 yrs later but wish I had been nearly 30 yrs earlier in the Filmore East for The Allman Brothers live recording and for your information I ******* hated Frampton comes alive. My favourite live album is UFO Strangers in the Night and please don't anyone quote Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous as it was re-recorded in the studio as all of them were out of it and even their producer Tony Visconti slags it off although Brian Robertson in his hard man way denies his parts were overdubbed. 

 

A very close second is Free Alive Vol1 (they never made a vol2) and just youtube Free at the Isle of Wight festival, absolutely awesome but I was only 9 at the time although I did see ACDC on their first tour of the UK in 1975 when I was 14 in Swansea and they were ******* brilliant and the stickers and badges I had from the Lock up your Daughters summer tour would be worth money now. About 60 people in Swansea Brangwyn Hall, it was their 3rd album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and I never saw them again with Bon Scott.

 

And to freak you guys out I saw Tangerine Dream in Cardiff Capitol in 1974, the Stratosfear tour - I wish I could put these memories to video files. I was a dj in a HM nightclub and watched the likes of Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Girlschool and a few others before they were big and a special mention for ex Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell, what a gent. 

[sandrabbit]

3 hours ago, The Dark Lord said:

have to agree in your taste of music, but I would go for Animals as their best creation but no issues as long as you are a floydian!

Totally agree and Dave Gilmour's 1st solo album from this time is his best and you can obviously hear the similarities to Animals. I've got goosebumps just thinking about the harmonised guitar solo from Dogs.

 

 

3:42 if you just want to jump to the 1st time

Edited July 28, 2017 by sandrabbit

[Andrew Dwyer]

Lol you stupid **** I was 20 yrs later but wish I had been nearly 30 yrs earlier in the Filmore East for The Allman Brothers live recording and for your information I ******* hated Frampton comes alive. My favourite live album is UFO Strangers in the Night and please don't anyone quote Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous as it was re-recorded in the studio as all of them were out of it and even their producer Tony Visconti slags it off although Brian Robertson in his hard man way denies his parts were overdubbed. 
 
A very close second is Free Alive Vol1 (they never made a vol2) and just youtube Free at the Isle of Wight festival, absolutely awesome but I was only 9 at the time although I did see ACDC on their first tour of the UK in 1975 when I was 14 in Swansea and they were ******* brilliant and the stickers and badges I had from the Lock up your Daughters summer tour would be worth money now. About 60 people in Swansea Brangwyn Hall, it was their 3rd album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and I never saw them again with Bon Scott.
 
And to freak you guys out I saw Tangerine Dream in Cardiff Capitol in 1974, the Stratosfear tour - I wish I could put these memories to video files. I was a dj in a HM nightclub and watched the likes of Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Girlschool and a few others before they were big and a special mention for ex Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell, what a gent. 

Free Alive !, got to agree with you there , great album.
While we're on the subject, The Who - Live at Leeds and Deep Purple - Made in Japan take some beating IMO.
Saw Deep Purple at St George's Hall Bradford back in the day ,73 or 74 , I was 12 or 13, got to thank my older brother for that !!

Can't beat a bit of healthy reminiscing !!
The 70's for me, from age 9 to 18 , best years of our lives [emoji4]

[sandrabbit]

7 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Free Alive !, got to agree with you there , great album.
While we're on the subject, The Who - Live at Leeds and Deep Purple - Made in Japan take some beating IMO.
Saw Deep Purple at St George's Hall Bradford back in the day ,73 or 74 , I was 12 or 13, got to thank my older brother for that !!

Can't beat a bit of healthy reminiscing !!
The 70's for me, from age 9 to 18 , best years of our lives

I have to agree with you about the 70's but a lot of people missed the connection between punk & rock. Iron Maiden were called heavy metal punks when they started and I went loads of punk concerts with hair down to my arse and loads of punks came to metal concerts, history makes it look like we were opposites and we weren't, I was fed up of the nonsense from yes as well and a few other bands.

Edited July 28, 2017 by sandrabbit

[sanemax]

6 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

I have to agree with you about the 70's but a lot of people missed the connection between punk & rock. Iron Maiden were called heavy metal punks when they started and I went loads of punk concerts with hair down to my arse and loads of punks came to metal concerts, history makes it look like we were opposites and we weren't, I was fed up of the nonsense from yes as well and a few other bands.

Not sure which Country you are from, but in the UK, Iron Maiden were Heavy Metal and they were not punk at all

   As punk became heavier in the early 80s with bands like Discharge, playing music similar to HM. some bands , like Motorhead did have cross appeal to both HM lers and punks

    But Iron Maiden firmly stayed in the HM category 

May have been different in the USA though

 

 

[The Dark Lord]

46 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

Lol you stupid **** I was 20 yrs later but wish I had been nearly 30 yrs earlier in the Filmore East for The Allman Brothers live recording and for your information I ******* hated Frampton comes alive. My favourite live album is UFO Strangers in the Night and please don't anyone quote Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous as it was re-recorded in the studio as all of them were out of it and even their producer Tony Visconti slags it off although Brian Robertson in his hard man way denies his parts were overdubbed. 

 

A very close second is Free Alive Vol1 (they never made a vol2) and just youtube Free at the Isle of Wight festival, absolutely awesome but I was only 9 at the time although I did see ACDC on their first tour of the UK in 1975 when I was 14 in Swansea and they were ******* brilliant and the stickers and badges I had from the Lock up your Daughters summer tour would be worth money now. About 60 people in Swansea Brangwyn Hall, it was their 3rd album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and I never saw them again with Bon Scott.

 

And to freak you guys out I saw Tangerine Dream in Cardiff Capitol in 1974, the Stratosfear tour - I wish I could put these memories to video files. I was a dj in a HM nightclub and watched the likes of Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Girlschool and a few others before they were big and a special mention for ex Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell, what a gent. 

My humblest and deepest apologies oh great sand dude, Andy d and I loved the Allman Bros, Doobies too. Free was awesome,  as was the original AcDc. Tangerine dream had their own place and style and were (are still) also true musicians. 

 

Disagree though on the Peter Frampton, , again it was a niche music genre that to me epitomised what I always imagined California to be like, living in cold wet England as I did then. 

 

It was ok to dream back then was it not?

 

[sandrabbit]

6 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Not sure which Country you are from, but in the UK, Iron Maiden were Heavy Metal and they were not punk at all

   As punk became heavier in the early 80s with bands like Discharge, playing music similar to HM. some bands , like Motorhead did have cross appeal to both HM lers and punks

    But Iron Maiden firmly stayed in the HM category 

May have been different in the USA though

 

 

I'm from S Wales, please tell me your age. I never said they were punk I said they were called heavy metal punks because the first iteration of the band was playing fast aggressive short songs. When I first saw them as a dj in a rock nightclub I understood this but they were in a crossover period and the singer Paul Dianno left soon after. The quote actually comes from Melody Maker not from me but if you had read the previous posts it would have been easy to figure out which country I came from.

[oldhippy]

I stopped listening to the radio in 1978.

 

From Merseybeat to psychedelic, hard rock, punk and new wave, music was my life...

Walking in the world's mountains with my tent and the bare essentials, such as a cassette player, and kilos of cassettes and batteries. Food? Too heavy to carry.

Pre 1978 music still is the number one in my life, and I have added classical and 30s.

 

Everything that happened later, I label as Cabaret. That includes the newer Deep Purple or ACDC, and especially that senile Ozzy from the BBC soap. Frightening how a rocker that I saw in 1970 could fall so low.

 

Now listening to Animals.

Amazing what people like us  do to forget / cope with the nonsense of the world in general, and Thailand in particular.

 

I think I will have a papaya for breakfast, from our garden though.

Next a banana milk shake, banana from euh yes the same garden, and milk from a cow that will remind me of Atom Heart Mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sandrabbit]

 

3 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

and especially that senile Ozzy from the BBC soap. Frightening how a rocker that I saw in 1970 could fall so low.

 

The best guitarist I ever saw live, Randy Rhoads and 3 times playing for Ozzy and for me way better than any of the music he did with Black Sabbath.

 

But Hippy you never commented on my location, you don't like Hawkwind?

[sandrabbit]

 

[oldhippy]

3 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

 

555 - Hawkwind sounded familiar but I had to youtube them.... and then I got your notification.

Yes good music, but maybe I was travelling (cassette player, no radio) when they peaked?

I will listen to them plenty more.

From your area?

 

 

[sanemax]

8 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

I'm from S Wales, please tell me your age. I never said they were punk I said they were called heavy metal punks because the first iteration of the band was playing fast aggressive short songs. When I first saw them as a dj in a rock nightclub I understood this but they were in a crossover period and the singer Paul Dianno left soon after. The quote actually comes from Melody Maker not from me but if you had read the previous posts it would have been easy to figure out which country I came from.

Although when IM were playing  fast aggressive short songs, (in the late 70"s ?) 

Punk at the time was quite melodic

It was only in the early 80's that some punk bands went hardcore, thrash music

I was at school on London at the time and there was a clear distinction between punks and heavy metalers (and Mod, new Romantics etc)

    The Jam were punk/Mod . 

Motorhead were Metal/punkish

Iron Maiden stayed in the HM camp, with no cross over