The Ice cream van has just jingled down my road - first time in about ten years. I was about to rush out and order a 99 when I realised I have type 2 diabetes. Poor old Crow, aged 59 and 11 twelfths.
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ramblesid
offlineMemberBad luck with the type 2 diabetes Crow. I'm a grade 2 listed building. The paperwork involved when I had my tonsils out you wouldn't believe.
I thought you were about the same age as me but you'll be pleased to hear that you're a year plus quite a lot older.Posted 4 years ago # -
ramblesid
offlineMemberNot bad music Plucky, though it reminded me of what I always imagined James Last would have sounded like had I ever played one of his many albums.
I think the name of the acid was California Sunshine Crow, but considering you age you've done very well to get it half right.Posted 4 years ago # -
ramblesid
offlineMemberHave a listen and a watch of this you two old-timers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QIFyBAtpGE&feature=channel I think the band is ok and quite like the song but this performance I find quite extraordinary. The power of the guitar!
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Crow
offlineMemberThanks Ramble, astonishing endurance by young Angus and he's still going. My attention was first drawn to them in a Melody Maker or NME splash in the very early Seventies with the headline 'Punk Rock!' which was of course long before Sex Pistols etc.
Here's one for you...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTQUtx818w
And Plucky, I'm looking forward to the ice cream soup. As long as I keep taking the Metformin.
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ramblesid
offlineMemberLike that one Crow. It's a regular on Planet Rock. Do you listen to that at all? One of their jingles is "We used to scare your parents, now we scare your kids" I find the trouble with a lot of these U.S. bands, The Dead did this as well, they played some really good music then descended into that country and western total bollocks. I'd rather listen to a finger nail scraped down a blackboard.
Talking of MM and NME, I wish I still had those Oz mags I bought then. I had the schoolkidz edition, I bet it'd be worth at least a fiver now.
Plucky: James Last was a cool dude, with his cavalry twill slacks and polo neck shirts and I'm sure he was at least as musically accomplished as Max Bygraves.Posted 4 years ago # -
PluckyMunky
offlineMemberyes, that track was pleasant, although they don't sound very happy. perhaps they have piles or something. i have a hat that is very siliar to the lead singer's.
Ram, James Last was the king of the beige look, as i remember. he took leisure wear to new and dizzy heights.
how about a bit of bottleneck:
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ramblesid
offlineMemberThe sort of music which had a big influence on all the best bands of the 60s Plucky. I can quite happily listen to it every now and again but I much prefer the finished article rather than know how they got to make it. There's shallow for you.
It's quite nice of them to set aside this little room for us oldies to have a chat isn't it? Mr Sensisble hasn't got much to say-very sensible.Posted 4 years ago # -
Crow
offlineMemberLoved Elmore, thanks Plucky. First time I saw slide guitar live was at the Red Lion in Hatfield, Herts in about 1967 where a band called Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac were playing. I arrived as a mod in my parker and Lambretta 150. I was completely blown away by a bunch of the loudest and most aggressive 'hippies' I had ever seen. Jeremy Spencer on slide, and swearing which was quite unusual in those days. I sold my scooter and grew my hair after that. The Red Lion, incidentally, was the pub where Keith Moon accidentally ran over and killed his driver after fleeing from a bunch of skinheads.
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PluckyMunky
offlineMemberElmore was the best, mr crow. you and i have a similar history. i was a mod, in brighton and heard the mayor read the riot act during the dust up. i think it was the last time the riot act was read, before the act was repealed. then i became a hippy and lived in brighton and then notting hill. both were great places to be a hippy (although, in hindsight, i think the whole movement was a bit naive - fun at the time, tho.)
mr sensible has gone very quiet, ram. i do worry about him. i think it is true that you can be too sensible, perhaps. perhaps he has become frivolous.
scroaty, you are a spring chicken.
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ramblesid
offlineMemberWelcome Mr Gor. As you've taken one of the comfy chairs we'll assume you have the age requirement for our select little band. If I'm not mistaken you live in a Scarborough street which has an odd little hotel at its end which I took my family to, one bank holiday weekend, when the kids were little. I can't remember much about about it apart from it having an indoor swimming pool, possibly a snooker table and being in an odd sort of street to have a hotel in.
Plucky- I lived in Notting Hill in the early 70s too, just off Portobello Rd. I also lived in Earls Court, Crouch End,Highgate, Kilburn, Swiss Cottage, Cricklewood and a strange area where Royal Oak was the nearest tube. Perhaps we met all those years ago.Posted 4 years ago # -
What, what, what...? Who, where, when, how...? Ah, there you are, Mr Sid. Sorry, I must’ve dozed off. It was that long walk from the main entrance that did me in. I had to tell that young doorman ‘Look, George VI was still on the throne when I was your age, sonny, so don’t come all heavy-handed with me.’ He gave me the wink and said ‘it’s called Oldbiscuit, gramps, down there, on the left.’
Now then, Green Gables, you say? For that’s what the rather incongruous hotel is called a few yards up the road from me and which does indeed have a dining room full of water. It has a sign, carved in stonework on an external wall I can see from my back garden, declaring ‘Hydropathic Hotel’. Not the sort of terminology they’d use today.
Been on a blustery Sunday ramble on Flamborough Head today. That blew a few cobwebs away. Nearly blew me away with them. It’s true what Picasso said, ‘the older you get, the stronger the wind gets.’
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PluckyMunky
offlineMemberwelcome, mr gor!
Ram, i lived in notting hill in 1967-8, so a bit earlier. my room, which was more like a cupboard was in elgin crescent, also off portobello road. by 1969 i had settled into the mental hospital and started my training as a psychiatric nurse. i suppose i had found 'home' at last.
that mr sensible never came back. he can have a slice of battenberg if he does and some of mr crow's sugar-free ice cream.
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Crow
offlineMemberScarborough: Stayed there with the late Mrs Crow some time ago...at the hotel and indeed the very same room which a year later plunged down the cliff.
Nursing homes: Visited mother-in-law (dementia) on Sunday and couldn't work out the number release code for the front door lock as I was departing. A lovely and no doubt underpaid nurse came to my rescue. Just glad she didn't say: 'Now come along Mr Crow, back to you comfy chair in front of the televison.'
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Good afternoon, gentlemen. Put kettle on, I've brought some home-made butterfly cakes, help yourselves. Mr Munky, I'll gladly swap for a slice of your Batternberg. Nurse says I really shouldn't spend so much time whisking buttercream by hand at my age. Ee, we 'ad a laff.
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PluckyMunky
offlineMembermr gor, your cakes look just the job. we could sit round in our armchairs, with mr crow and ram and swap stories about the first world war. i will slice up the battenberg.
i am the only one who hasn't been to scarborough. i went to the sultan of brunei's birthday party, twice, though. there was an awful lot of waiting around, doing nothing. i think that 'keeping people waiting' = 'power'. what fun!
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