music in the shed

Quirk with females, a perspective from the punter and performer guise available to myself, the gals all quiet on the home front as it were, give them a microphone or stage you have a completely different personality, singing and dancing alike. Can be somewhat startling as you try to maintain your place on the stage, needing to find over and above to equal the female storm alongside. Two in one's a phrase invoked. j
 

If you polish your bike more than you ride it , it`s a show pony ......... however the Stone Poneys were a vehicle which provided LR`s first big hit .........

Mike Nesmith`s composition wasn`t deemed Monkees suitable , so ..............

Lurch from The Addams Family on keyboards .........
 
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Sophie and hubby ( on bass ) do a version of New Orders " True Faith " ......

One of their favourite songs about the journey from childhood to drug dependency .......


....... " the morning sun is the drug that brings me near to the childhood I lost replaced by fear ..... " .............. the morning sun being just another name for the daily fix ..........
 
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When I was at college during the late `sixties / early `seventies there were two distinct groups of " students " ............

There were the mods / skinheads who were into ska and reggae .......... and the squatters ( the skins description ) who were into King Crimson , Tull , Wishbone Ash and Barclay James Harvest etc ...........

The mods / skins would arrive on Vespas and Lambrettas .... ( and some on the bus obviously ) ............. whilst us squatters would turn up on Tiger Cubs . a Velo combo ( yes really ) , and a 650 Triumph kitted out with John Tickle clip-ons and rearsets ..........


No such youth cults nowadays .......... Today the boring little bastards seem to be nothing more than clones of their even more boring parents ...............
 
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Reggae of choice here, and performed with female singer ( my drummer, though on guitar, me on 6 string fretless bass, love my low B ) Dawn Penn No No NO (means NO, wince ). At times, Rocksteady the odd time SKA even. Do like UB40 mirror in the bathroom, Save it for later and various live iterations. Tenor sax when i do, get a chance. j

Presented this prior, i know i know i know.....
 
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An eclectic couple of hours in the workshop, with a SKA collection album, and The Who.


And John Entwistle is wearing his skeleton jump suit, which David 'bones' Aldana also sported racing in the USA in the 1970s.
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Many a a trip in the car with my Best of Ska CD blaring - my kids grew up knowing all the quirky 60s ska stuff. We loved the wildly out of tune horns and TV show-inspired themes Toots and the Maytals has to be our fave - in tune too!
 
iis_iis said:
Reggae of choice here, and performed with female singer ( my drummer, though on guitar, me on 6 string fretless bass, love my low B ) Dawn Penn No No NO (means NO, wince ). At times, Rocksteady the odd time SKA even. Do like UB40 mirror in the bathroom, Save it for later and various live iterations. Tenor sax when i do, get a chance. j

Presented this prior, i know i know i know.....
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A great tune!
 
rocketonarail said:
When I was at college during the late `sixties / early `seventies there were two distinct groups of " students " ............

There were the mods / skinheads who were into ska and reggae .......... and the squatters ( the skins description ) who were into King Crimson , Tull , Wishbone Ash and Barclay James Harvest etc ...........

The mods / skins would arrive on Vespas and Lambrettas .... ( and some on the bus obviously ) ............. whilst us squatters would turn up on Tiger Cubs . a Velo combo ( yes really ) , and a 650 Triumph kitted out with John Tickle clip-ons and rearsets ..........


No such youth cults nowadays .......... Today the boring little bastards seem to be nothing more than clones of their even more boring parents ...............
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I was eighteen and decided to go to the Nags Head High Wycombe rock club, jeans , tee shirt , leather jacket , KL250 and meet rock chicks!
Got there and no one saw me arrive on the bike, no big entrance, never mind.. spent most of the night shouting at a girl next to an amplifier and not really understanding anything she said. End of the night I set off home and the lens from my goggles jumped out leaving me squinting in the rain all the way home- it was also bloody cold as I only had a tee shirt on. Got home, freezing cold, soaking wet bloodshot eyes and feeling shit. Sat in front of a gas fire for an hour till I could feel my legs. Not how I imagined the evening panning out..
I knew some mods who went to Great Yarmouth and slept on the beach in Parkas- an equally shit idea as it turned out!
 
Vote also for Marlian music, Ali Farka Toure' Kar Kar another, very different playing to my decades of listening.

Kora instrument, another soundscape of the never heard prior, Miriam Liberman a notable out here.

Jumping musical fences, in the mind, Ellen McIlwaine on 12 string guitar, saw her live when Margret Roadknight brought Ellen out, thought she was the better of Leo Kottke, not that he was worse, rather Ellen had the complete groove, and singing same time. Love 12 string, still have my 1974/5 Ovation 1115 slot head, played regularly. ( playing with fonts, apologies ) J.
 
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