you are right, mr hack. we are well overdue a new look tissue. i am going to morrison's later and can't wait to see them.
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ramblesid
offlineMemberGreat news about the loons Eddy. Hope they'll make them in purple velvet. Don't forget that the trouser bottoms should match the waist size. How about those boots with a zip up the side but now coming with an attached piece of string which you could fasten to your belt, thereby stopping you from putting your back out every time you bent down for the zip.
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PluckyMunky
offlineMemberFor a while, a couple of years ago, Next did make loon pants and they were called 'lounge wear'. they were made of fine cord and were a bit like a divided skirt. unfortunately, Next stopped making them and mine went through at the knees. it was a sad day when they wore out, i can tell you. fully elasticated waist, too.
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theumpire
offlineMemberRemember Donovan - enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCCjv2OiTxE
& try not to sing along too loud, Monsieur Hack is trying to sleep.
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PluckyMunky
offlineMemberI used to like donovan, back in the day but I find him a bit soppy now. I heard him being interviewed not so long ago and it was awful to think about what tripe we talked about in the 60s/70s.
Please note the postmodern phrase, ' back in the day' in that paragraph. Impressive or what?
Ram? Mr Hack? Where are you when I need you?
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ramblesid
offlineMemberI remember tripping out to Mellow Yellow, back in the day, Each note lasted about half an hour. I used to quite like Donovan and then he started to go on about how the music revolution of the 60s wouldn't have happened without him. It proved to me that those that said he was the poor man's Dylan might have a point. I always thought that Dylan should have kept his mouth shut, mind you, proved recently by his last How to Murder a Christmas Carol Album.
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edward hack
offlineMemberCan we have a headcount to see who the musicians are making that racket down in the basement
Plucky on piano, Scroat on guitar, Malgor on guitar (?), Crow on guitar (?) Quaz plays something & writes, umpire on vocals...I seem to remember virtuallywill played drums or bass (?)
Anybody else make up the band?
Ram, Jeni, Sauce?Posted 3 years ago # -
ramblesid
offlineMemberHey Eddy, I really can play the piano, admittedly badly, but I know how to read the notes and even know what words like allegro mean. Not like these guitar players who've learned a couple of cords so they think they're the next Bert Weedon.
BTB I got the joke about the loon pants project having legs eventually,I was lucky enough to miss it the first time round.Posted 3 years ago # -
PluckyMunky
offlineMemberPhew! You are still both there. I was laying down a few twelve bar blues.
In reality, I haven't had a piano for 25 years. But I can still pick it up if called to (which I never am [see gracie fields: 'I took me harp to a party, but nobody asked me to play']).
I didn't get into Morrison's, Mr Hack, so I didn't see the new tissues. Ram, you have put some great points to Rikkor but I suspect that we (across the pond) will never really understand each other.
Mr Hack, could we have a choir? Mary, Jeni, Sauce and Stunts, with the 'boys'?
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Crow
offlineMemberRight, Edward, after Adolph Hitler on vibes...here's Crow on guitar. You're all gonna hate this one but it's blast from Crow's past. Still got it on 45rpm. And it is: Small Faces' What You Gonna Do About it. Strap that guitar on, make sure sure you're the only person in the room and give it some DD/AA/CC/GG
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PluckyMunky
offlineMemberCords are also things that pull curtains in posh houses, too, Mr Gor. My Next lounge wear trousers were made of fine cord but it didn't wear well.
Also, it should be noted that cord is also a type of material. I had a pink Levi's cord jeans jacket in the 60's.
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theumpire
offlineMemberIf we're having Adolf Hitler on vibes, how about some of these in the band . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c
And my singing voice has been likened to Twiggy's chest.
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edward hack
offlineMemberCords - loon pants - crushed velvet
Small Faces - 'Grow Your Own' - what a scorcher
So we have the makings of a SERIOUS band then.
The Newsbeats
Make the Roly-Polys look wooden.
Could Mr.Malgor compose an NB theme tune....you know, something dynamic, vibrant and 'happening' that plays/greets you when you first log inPosted 3 years ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI used to play the flute boys, which would fit in with the more folk rock vibe.
I can sing a bit, I used to do all the fiddly twiddly descant soprano bits in the school choir, and have been on "Songs of Praise" as a result, but thanks to my filthy habits, I'm more bluesy now. So best to just stick me on backing vocals.Posted 3 years ago # -
Quaz
offlineMemberWhat's that, eh? Yes I play guitar and used to mug a bit of keyboards in my old band "Latex Fetish and the High Pressure Nozzels". We were once told that we "sounded quite good from outside" by a bloke at the bar who then had a heart attack and was taken off in an ambulance. Since then I've been making an arse of myself with the guitar at parties, pubs, beaches, Fiji, canal boats, and on one memorable occasion, accidently in a marquee at Cambridge folk festival.
Speaking of which, does anyone else listening to "The now show" find that they die a little inside when they hear the words "Mitch Benn"? He just seems to love banging out '80s rock parodies a bit too much, whereas someone like Tom Lehrer had a wonderful wearysome way of parodying his chosen genre.
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Scroat
offlineMemberMoving hastily on...
Have you notice how music can just transport you back somewhere? When I hear this I'm back in the Rising Sun in Reading, a trainee reporter in a cheap three piece suit with a load of attitude. I'm smoking a roll up and drinking bottled Guinness with Peter Please, Paul Fox, Andrew Drummond and Brian Dennis (later editor of the Isle of Wight County Press).
And on the juke box is:
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