music in the shed

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.... meanwhile ELP get their tour dates mixed up ........ " It`s tomorrow lads " ............

...... Bristol Rovers FC play this over their PA just before the teams come out ........ The ground is just across the road from my garage .........

..... Home games are a pain in the ass , all the roads packed with traffic ........ poor misguided sods .............


... This goes on a bit ( nearly 9 minutes ) , but never mind ........
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This is legend stuff!! Thank you!! ELP!!!
 

.......... one minute of Van Vliet singing , eight minutes of Zappa playing .............. That`s another one that adds up to nine minutes .....

..... Nine bloody minutes ... I must be getting old ........

..... However , Uncle Frank`s inventiveness ....... ( possibly only matched by Jimi Hendrix .... and both fans of the wah wah pedal , so it appears ) ....... makes it seem a lot shorter ... ( maybe just six minutes .... ) .......
 
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....This one`s a lot shorter , thank Christ ........ I read somewhere that this was used in an Eurostar TV advert ....... If that`s the case , then Mark Perry must have made a lot more money recently , than he did in the days when he was selling albums .......


I sold all my vinyl stuff about six or seven years ago ........ all to the same shop ..... ( Plastic Wax , by the Arches , in Bristol ) ....... I took them in , about a dozen at a time , over a period of about 3 years ......... got just under £1900 for them all in total ........

Amongst the biggest payers were Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsies album ( puppet cover ) at £50 ; Jethro Tull Stand Up album ( pop up sleeve ) at £50 ; Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick album ( newspaper cover ) at £40 ; Scritti Politti Skank Bloc Bologna EP ( fold out sleeve ) at £30 ; Thomas Leer Private Plane single ( original St Pancras label and sleeve ) £30 ; Stiff Little Fingers Suspect Device single ( Rigid Digits label , plus original sleeve printed and put together in a Belfast living room ) at £30 ....... and quite a few others at £20-30 each ........

... Good money because he was obviously counting at passing on the above , and others like them , at a profit ...... whereas albums by Clock DVA , or Throbbing Gristle , which he still took and paid for , are likely to be dead weight , as far as he`s concerned ... ( although you never know ...... ) ......

In fact , any early punk or reggae ( albums or singles ) made good money ...... and anything Pink Island Label , or obscure Jamacian reggae labels such as Cash And Carry Records ....... all stuff like that ..........

As I mentioned earlier , shop owner Dave Kellard would indulge me a little , because he was keen on reggae and punk ........ more obscure early 80`s electronic stuff which he reckoned not to be in vogue at that time , for example , or more popular pop / punk stuff ( Blondie , Ramones etc ) , he would take off my hands , in order to acquire the things he was willing to pay good money for ....

.... ( Although the first Blondie album on Private Stock label did well , and The Ramones Leave home album , with Carbona Not Glue track included , before it was deleted from the album .... that did well too ... ) ......


Watch / listen to it all on YouTube now ..... makes life a lot easier ; can`t take it with you ; etc etc ........ Can`t remember what happened to the money ...... probably spent on E5 / E10 ; Mr Kippling ; Fowlers spare parts ; and reducing my Barclaycard balance .... probably ..........
 
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................. and one more from Deptford Fun City ...........

Mark tells all those boring old gits self-indulging in ten minutes of fretboard wankery to either shit or get off the pot ............. Life`s too short as it is ....... ......... ( Frank Zappa excluded , obvious;ly ... ) .......


........... Heard ATV were playing Netham playing fields in Bristol ( June 1979) , touring with Here And Now ( Electric gypsies / travelers / hippies ) , in an old green painted school bus ......

Mate and myself jumped on my CB125J , arrived at Netham about 7pm ..... completely deserted ....... spotted a piece of paper stuck to a lamp post which read " Go to Victoria Park , Bedminster " ...

Arrived at Victoria park ........ Here And Now were performing , so we went into a nearby pub for a quick pint , and came out when we heard ATV starting to play ......

....... Audience was about a dozen kids , and about five or six curious local residents ........ plus us as well , of course .........
 
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My singing Drummer Gal, for this song, Jane played guitar/vocals, me on 6 string electric bass, we did as a duo, Dawn Penn "No No No" homage to Tony re Reggae a post back. Have to say we did it great, extra low notes on the bass low B, for the brass solo we scatted that with nananana et al... punter loved it, so did us two. Sometime a male drummer would join in.... here is the enigmatic Dawn Penn.... ( maybe posted prior...forgive me ) j

 
RIP David Sanborn: he said that since there was no lead guitar in this song, he tried to fill that role with his saxophone. Due a severe case of childhood polio his left arm was much shorter and weaker than his right.


For Americans of a certain age his distinctive playing was the sound of the times from his many appearances with the Saturday Night Live band and with Paul Schaeffer’s house band on Late Night with David Letterman.

Something I didn’t know was that he was also a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band having grown up in Chicago, playing on four albums from 1967 to 1971 and appearing with them at Woodstock.

He got his professional start at the age of 14 playing in clubs with blues men Albert King and Little Milton. I first heard his alto voice when I bought his debut solo LP Taking Off in 1975 which he recorded with the Brecker Brothers.
 
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Alzero said:
For Americans of a certain age his distinctive playing was the sound of the times from his many appearances with the Saturday Night Live band and with Paul Schaeffer’s house band on Late Night with David Letterman.
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I believe Letterman`s Paul Schaeffer wrote the music , or lyrics ( or both ) for The Weather Girls hit " It`s Raining Men " .......
 

....... After guesting on Frank Zappa`s " Willie The Pimp " , Capt Beefheart gets a whole song to himself .......


..... Trials star Mick Andrews had a story about Beefheart .......

Andrews was originally signed to Spanish factory Ossa , but when the Japanese started to become interested in trials , and started signing up the major stars , he signed to Yamaha ( for the best deal of any of them , so they reckoned ) .......

Andrews and his wife were in Germany , but had to get back to Yamahas European HQ in Amsterdam , so Yamaha booked them both a seat on a small executive style 10 -15 seat private jet ......
When they boarded the plane , they found their fellow passengers were Beefheart , and five or six of his people ...

Andrews wife asked the hostess for a drink , based on a Mexican Brandy , or something , which the hostess wasn`t sure how to prepare , so Andrews wife showed her how .......
The upshot was that everyone on the plane , including Beefheart , his crew , and the pilot and co-pilot , ended up sampling this drink , so when they came in to land at Amsterdam , everyone on the plane , whilst not exactly drunk , were in fairly good spirits ......

As soon as the plane landed ( safely ) , instead of exiting through the normal door , the pilot activated the emergency shute at the back of the plane , and everyone , including Beefheart , ended up sliding down the shute onto the tarmac , like kids on a slide at a playground .......

Captain Beefheart always had a reputation of being a bit of an argumentative , miserable old sod , but once he had a couple of Mexican Brandys inside him , he was up for anything , so it seems ........
 
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.......... another Mick Andrews story involves his friendship with actor Oliver Reed , who he met at a hotel bar in South Africa .......... ( Andrews representing Yamaha , Oliver Reed being Oliver Reed .... ie , getting pissed ... ) ......

They became drinking buddies , and Andrews once told of an instance , when the two of them were stood at the bar , and Ollie suddenly tried to head-butt Mick ......

Andrews said there was no problem , they always got on fine .... but once Ollie had a few inside him , that was just one of the things that might happen ........

... So in the spirit of Music in the Shed , here`s Oliver Reed being Musical in the TV Studio ......

 
rocketonarail said:
.......... another Mick Andrews story involves his friendship with actor Oliver Reed , who he met at a hotel bar in South Africa .......... ( Andrews representing Yamaha , Oliver Reed being Oliver Reed .... ie , getting pissed ... ) ......

They became drinking buddies , and Andrews once told of an instance , when the two of them were stood at the bar , and Ollie suddenly tried to head-butt Mick ......

Andrews said there was no problem , they always got on fine .... but once Ollie had a few inside him , that was just one of the things that might happen ........

... So in the spirit of Music in the Shed , here`s Oliver Reed being Musical in the TV Studio ......

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Bear in mind Ollie was shortlisted to be Bond before George Lazenby..imagine him on 17 Vodka Martinis scrapping with Oddjob then trying to shag Diana Rigg, bloody marvellous!😂
 
Another notable of the "bottle based" idiocy, Keith Moon. As i learned to play bass, The Who songs, the odd exposure, found Keiths' drumming while entertaining, was anything but rhythmic in precision. That job was down to the master in the day, John Entwistle. Magic bus live ( in skeleton suit ) is bass of a new era, bass with attack, fantastic, Cocaine changed bass playing no question in my beliefs, only redeeming feature if it has one or any. Hardly play pick on bass, for attack it is hard to beat, save for a longer right hand third ring finger long finger nail used as pick simulator. Useless information is in ample supply here, j.
 

...... Cedric and Roy step it along the seashore , hoping to make them fishers of men ..... all that Bible stuff ........ But wha ........ All they`re interested in is the best collie weed in town ........ Bloody typical ........
 

.... not that nice Mr Poitier obviously ........... The film script was written by William Rose , and here we have Michael Rose on lead vocals ..... ( no relation ...... ) ...... Original line up with Rose , Puma Jones , and Duckie Simpson ...... plus Sly and Robbie on drums and bass .......
 
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Nice Rhythm section, Grace Jones made use of them the odd time, Pull up to the Bumper et al... know there was a clip of S and D for Jools a little later, this will do, Grace owned and showed what it means to be on stage. ( have little ) doubt this is not S and D all the same.j

 
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