music in the shed

rocketonarail said:

I thought , Hamish will like this ............. :) .................

.... too late lads .... the keyboard player is already married to the drummer .............
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the tenor saxes, "doubling" effect, as a guess of no particular worth, playing harmonies, can only just make out the hand and finger positioning for each sax player... proper sax player out there can correct my speculation, most welcome. Use a Boss VE-20 on my flute and saxes for "doubling" sounds amazing..exactly like this recording... reminds me of a certain man and band of the 70's "Glitter Band" 'mazing band. j.
 
iis_iis said:
Maybe some of these young ladies became wives of Laverda riders, then grannies.... grin. Nice moves. j

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I liked the music 😁 at that time and the girls looked good 😉 yes he’s a proper nonce you never hear his / glitter band stuff on the radio yet Michael Jackson who kidded the world for years is still played in every corner ?
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
I liked the music 😁 at that time and the girls looked good 😉 yes he’s a proper nonce you never hear his / glitter band stuff on the radio yet Michael Jackson who kidded the world for years is still played in every corner ?
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Top of the Nonce- Glitter, Whacko, Johnathon King, Alan Freeman, Ed Stewart & of course Jimmy Saville…all on a Thursday night!
 
Exmoor beast said:
Top of the Nonce- Glitter, Whacko, Johnathon King, Alan Freeman, Ed Stewart & of course Jimmy Saville…all on a Thursday night!
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Rogues gallery there ...... athough I`m not so sure about the inclusion of Stewart and Freeman .......... unless you know something that I don`t .... ! .......

Just out of interest I wikied Alan Freeman ......... apparently an Australian ( knew that ) who was bi sexual ( knew that ) , who , according to Monty Python`s Graham Chapman ... " liked motorcycles , leather , and men ...... " ........ ( didn`t know that , but each to his own , I suppose ... ) ..........


As for Ed Stewart ......... Nothing really .......... I do remember his radio show on a Sunday afternoon , when he read out a message from one of his listeners which was .... " Hi Ed , really enjoy listening to your show whilst in my shed working on my old Laverda ...... " ...........

Obviously not quite sure what a " Laverda " was ..... ( although Alan Freeman could have doubtless put him straight ...... :oops: ...... ) ...... , Ed replied with .... "Oh , well , I`m glad it`s an old one then ..... " ........... :unsure: ...............


Talking of the named and shamed ..... in this case Stuart Hall ......... does anyone still have a copy of "The Narrow Edge " ......... a VHS video tribute to Yamaha`s Jarno Saarinen , which Hall presented ?



Whilst we`re on the subject of Radio / TV presenters ........ I remember listening to Janice Long`s radio show back in the `eighties , where she had a guest group in the studio ........ can`t remember who .........

This group performed a version of Eddie Cochran`s " Something Else " ......... but they altered the second verse to something along the lines of ...

" There goes that bike again , I`d own a Laverda but it`s outa my class ....... They`re sure fine looking man , they`re something else .... " .....


Wondered if that recording ever still existed ( unlikely as it went out live ) , so not surprisingly , never found it .........
 
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Had an original of the Jarno VHS, loaned it out, never returned, unfortunate. Widow a lovely woman.

We had our despicable(s) out here in the past. Being a stage manger for big outdoor gigs in the late 70's, roadies were the source of many "realities" pertaining to high profile males, of no worth, predators. One is dead and not a moment too soon, me, i would have thrown the carcass into a pit and covered, coffin would have been a waste. Not a subject for this place of course, yet knowledge is power, being aware has much merit however. j
 
In no way am I defending any of the molesters, but they were different times.
I remember the great John Peel, back in the early '70s, saying "And for all my fellow fans of the English schoolgirl as a work of art. Damn fine 'Songs of Praise', last week."
Imagine the press reaction to a comment like that, today?j
 
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rocketonarail said:
Rogues gallery there ...... athough I`m not so sure about the inclusion of Stewart and Freeman .......... unless you know something that I don`t .... ! .......

Just out of interest I wikied Alan Freeman ......... apparently an Australian ( knew that ) who was bi sexual ( knew that ) , who , according to Monty Python`s Graham Chapman ... " liked motorcycles , leather , and men ...... " ........ ( didn`t know that , but each to his own , I suppose ... ) ..........


As for Ed Stewart ......... Nothing really .......... I do remember his radio show on a Sunday afternoon , when he read out a message from one of his listeners which was .... " Hi Ed , really enjoy listening to your show whilst in my shed working on my old Laverda ...... " ...........

Obviously not quite sure what a " Laverda " was ..... ( although Alan Freeman could have doubtless put him straight ...... :oops: ...... ) ...... , Ed replied with .... "Oh , well , I`m glad it`s an old one then ..... " ........... :unsure: ...............


Talking of the named and shamed ..... in this case Stuart Hall ......... does anyone still have a copy of "The Narrow Edge " ......... a VHS video tribute to Yamaha`s Jarno Saarinen , which Hall presented ?



Whilst we`re on the subject of Radio / TV presenters ........ I remember listening to Janice Long`s radio show back in the `eighties , where she had a guest group in the studio ........ can`t remember who .........

This group performed a version of Eddie Cochran`s " Something Else " ......... but they altered the second verse to something along the lines of ...

" There goes that bike again , I`d own a Laverda but it`s outa my class ....... They`re sure fine looking man , they`re something else .... " .....


Wondered if that recording ever still existed ( unlikely as it went out live ) , so not surprisingly , never found it .........
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Ed Stewart met his future wife Chiara, Henney's daughter, who was then aged 13. The couple married four years later, in London, on 2 July 1974, but separated in November 2003 and divorced in 2005. - He hosted Junior Choice , How apt!
Fluff Freeman had parties ….Tony Blackburn was warned not to go any, nuff said!
 

Despite the lyrics mentioning Maxwell Edison , I reckon the main inspiration for this simply involved Paul McCartney substituting Maxwell for Halliwell .........

A couple of the Beatles attended Joe Ortons funeral .......... McCartney was almost certainly one of them .........

When news of Ortons murder came out , pubs and clubs around Soho started serving a cocktail called " Halliwell`s Hammer " .........

The idea being ..... If you drank too many , you`d wake up the following morning with a splitting headache ........

Anvil noises c/o Beatles road manager Mal Evans ..........


In the film " Prick Up Your Ears " , someone says to Haliwell .... " You`ll have a lot of wonderful memories , Kenneth ... " .......

The thing was , Halliwell wanted to be part of the fame and attention Orton was receiving ......... not someone who was going to be left behind and forgotten , with just some " wonderful memories " to look back on ...........
 
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....... as well as playing the hammer and anvil , Mal Evans also worked as producer on this , for Beatles collaborators Badfinger ........

Guitarist Joey Molland passed away a couple of days ago .

The story of Badfinger is well known , the blame being directed at their fraudulent American manager Stan Polley ........ vocalist and main songwriter Peter Ham committed suicide in 1975 due to their financial problems ........... Bass player Tommy Evans did the same eight years later , apparently following an argument with Molland over royalties from Harry Nielson`s version of " Without You " ..........

Polley also managed Lou Christie , and Al Kooper , and both experienced money problems ......... but it seems Badfinger came off worse , as they generated the most money for him to filter off ......

When the group signed a $ 3 million deal with Warner Bros , Polley would later refuse to communicate with WB regarding accounts , or the whereabouts of an advance amount that had been received by him on behalf of the group .

When the deal with WB came through , Polley apparently told them ... " You` re all millionaires ... ! ... " ....... , but they never saw a penny .

Hams suicide was a result of panic following the expensive purchase of a house , a wife and child to support , and then finding he had no money due to Polleys syphoning off the groups earnings ...... plus the disappearance of the WB advance ...... and the legal mire involving WB that the group was now embroiled in ............. all as a result of Polleys actions ...........

In his suicide note , Ham said ...... " Stan Polley is a souless bastard , I will take him with me ... " .........

That was in April 1975 ........ Stan Polley eventually passed away in July 2009 .......... one more thing that did`nt go to plan .........
 
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The Sock said:
This is being used as backing on a current advertisement for an airline.
It was hooky back in '72 and it still is.

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During the 80's seconded to help out my partners mothers business, one was an all italian VHS imported movies, shop near Sydney. No sub titles. Adriano Celentano one such star, Tutti e' Scuola a movie, ToTo for the grandfolk, Marcello Mastroianni very popular.... watch them or listen from the repair bench ( solo repaired up to 14 VHS machines a day ). Edwige Fenech Sugar, Honey and Pepper (Zucchero, miele e peperoncino) had me not repairing my usual number of VHS repairs.... very funny movie in the day.... Did a year of Italian ( touristi ) at college.... get myself a room with bathroom and some food, the rest of my Italian will be as i present, Stranieri.... rightly so. Tah for the memory ping Sock...j
 
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