music in the shed


As mentioned , DJ Tony Blackburn labelled this version of " I`d rather go blind " as sick ........ Which is kind of strange , as TB was a bit of a closet soul and old style R & B fan , so you would have thought he would have been familiar with the original ......
 
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rocketonarail said:

........ The Saints ..... so here he is performing with Australia`s finest ........ ( Sadly he passed away last May ) ..........
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Top rate pick Tony, saw the Saints live at Paddington ( Australian version ) Town Hall in the day, also Radio Birdman, footage on yt of this famous gig in Sydney. Not a bad effort from you given half a world away, doffs me Arai...

Now a special couple whom have a band, Hi Jivers, Austen John on guitar and Dawna his partner vocals, we did a lot of their stuff, given our drummer gal was singing.... this song is extra good, hope it has merit for others. j.

 
May have posted before, Rhythm Shakers, Marlen Perez has to be the wildest front woman of this era, what a gal! In this clip appears the bass player has busted his E string ( about 170 mil ) and keeps playing, transposing, must have pulled the rest of the strings into well out of tune..playing by ear a trait on upright bass... he did well.

We did their version of Slim Harpo "Shake your hips" as finale song at our gigs, jungle vib going on, next thing a fight breaks out on the dance floor... hey we have arrived, even in 2019... like the old days... long ago. Many great live songs from Rhythm Shakers on yt....j Oh this song is "Homewrecker" btw.

 
iis_iis said:
Top rate pick Tony, saw the Saints live at Paddington ( Australian version ) Town Hall in the day, also Radio Birdman, footage on yt of this famous gig in Sydney. Not a bad effort from you given half a world away, doffs me Arai...

Now a special couple whom have a band, Hi Jivers, Austen John on guitar and Dawna his partner vocals, we did a lot of their stuff, given our drummer gal was singing.... this song is extra good, hope it has merit for others. j.

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Glad you liked it Jon ........... Never saw The Saints , sad to say ............. Chris Bailey played a pub in Bristol a few years back , never saw that either ... ! ........... He passed away fairly recently too ......... Nice to see you have the good taste to go with Arai ...... something else we have in common ........ Currently running a Nakano Replica RX-7V ......
 
Like all things old, including me, Arai RX-7RR3 and Spidi Kevlar gloves, the lid was $1K in 2000 ditto the gloves $400 in 2000, one of the few times in my life i did not care at all about the cost, the pleasure and feel of those gloves was amazing, ditto the lid, on the way home i thought the visor had blown off... it was that clear and comfortable... aspects i was not used to with basic riding gear of the 70's... j.
 
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Miming away to " This Perfect Day" on TOTP .......
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Tandem song for Know your product, its a fine ear you have there my good fellow....and more besides.

Though have to say my eye was always on Ed as guitar and song writer, more so post Saints.... "if i had a ticket "Way i made you feel "Sleepy Head... and more...j
 
iis_iis said:
Like all things old, including me, Arai RX-7RR3 and Spidi Kevlar gloves, the lid was $1K in 2000 ditto the gloves $400 in 2000, one of the few times in my life i did not care at all about the cost, the pleasure and feel of those gloves was amazing, ditto the lid, on the way home i thought the visor had blown off... it was that clear and comfortable... aspects i was not used to with basic riding gear of the 70's... j.
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The RX-7V cost me £600 3 years ago ..... bargain ! ...... RRP was £780 .........

First full face helmet I bought was an Owens Masterguard Dome ( really ) , back in 1972 ..... It fitted so badly it gave me a headache after about 20 minutes , but it was good for freaking out little old ladies sat in the passenger seats of cars at the filling station pumps ...... they`d never seen anything like it before .....

Bell Helmets were my favourites when they were still being made in Los Angeles ........ They conformed to the Snell Foundation Standard in the USA , much higher than the British Standard at the time .... Pete Snell was an American racing driver back in the `fifties who died in a racing accident through head injuries , so the Snell Foundation was set up in his memory to provide a safety standard for crash helmets ......

One thing I always found reassuring about Snell , was that instead of using plastic dummies , or mannequins for testing , they used cadavers ........o_O
 
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I inherited a Bell way back in '72 as well. Very small viewing apreture and a non-swivelling visor - somewhat claustrophobic until you got used to it. Never ridden without a full face since. I'm currently riding with a Kubota I bought from Smarty's Ricondi website for an absolute bargain price as a superseded model - seems to me a finely made helmet.
 

Hard working Steven Morris on drums ........ Saw Joy Division live Oct 1979 in Bristol ... Seven months later in May 1980 was on my way back from the BMF Rally at Peterborough on the Mirage , and stopped to shelter in some field entrance for a while as it was pissing down with rain ......... Later that same evening Joy Division singer Ian Curtis hung himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield .......

When I saw them , kids at the front of the stage were shouting out " Go on , do your butterfly dance ! " ........ Bass player Peter Hook once said that during early rehearsals Curtis had behaved quite normally , but the first time they performed in front of an audience , he suddenly launched into these gymnastics , taking everyone by surprise .........
 
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Own composition this time , not a cover ...... Maybe if Terry Melcher had agreed to that recording contract that Manson was pinning his hopes on , then things could have turned out differently ........ Before changing his mind regarding the record contract , Terry Melcher had left recording equipment with Manson so he could put down tracks as and when he felt like it , and this is one of them ......
 
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