Island Life: Bye, bye, you peculiar guy.
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My Jethro Tull moment...well, hours: hitched a lift from Wellington to Auckland, August, 1982. Got a lift at Paramata from a Jethro Tull fan who was driving to Pukekohe - 20kms from the folks' farm. The perfect long distance lift.
He played Jethro Tull tapes the whole way. Nine hours. No other artist soiled his tape machine. Until then, I'd had no strong feelings about them one way or t'other. By the end...blood pressure going like locomotive breath.
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blood pressure going like locomotive breath.
You just reminded me it's the only song I can play on a guitar. Or could, more likely, I'd have to try.
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This conversation has helped me calibrate the average age of PASers... 'cept ScottY, I know he's too young for all this but he'd 'fessed to that.
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Going, Going, Gong! and other Frippery...
Sheesh, ya step out for a few minutes star gazing...I guess I'm just becoming a...
(that's a mere taste...)
This is the real thing...
a delicacy in some circles - and let's not forget Hawkwind and Deep Fix and yes I'll own up to having owned Holy Magick by Graham Bond (NO not the Australian one! - but the one who should've stayed out of Tube stations at midnight...) with songs (or possibly invocations!) in yer actual Atlantean !!
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A-Lister Crawley
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I have only one thing to say on this subject. The Grateful Dead.
First album I bought was Anthem of the sun, I didn't have to buy another album ''til AoxomoxoA and that's how it went for years. If it weren't Grateful Dead, it weren't music. An' that's a fact.
I know exactly where I was when I heard Gerry Garcia was dead, Te Kuiti, who'd a thunk it?. -
Warning, may cause inner hippy to emerge.
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Before there were black holes there was Dark Star,
Best viewed on Russes meds or a mild herbal remedy. -
I supposed you guesed, I never really got the Jackson five and the copyright fest that followed. The Dead were, in my opinion, before their time. They would have embraced the interwebs as a way of getting their music to their fans, they actively emcoraged pirating of their music and toured as a family and shared their stuff. God bless 'em.
And one more before I retire for the night. -
Oh, ok, seeing as you'll begged me so much.
One from the Playboy sessions -
I blame 'A Quick One, While He's Away': the proto- Tommy.
Yeahh...maybe. The live version on 'Kids are Alright' from 'The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus' though is awesome. According to legend, its the reason the Stones didn't release the Circus for years: they thought the Who had blown them off the stage.
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I don't know, Rob, that's still a lot of whimsy to take on board first thing in the morning. A chocolate fish to Danielle if she can watch the whole thing through.
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This conversation has helped me calibrate the average age of PASers... 'cept ScottY, I know he's too young for all this but he'd 'fessed to that.
Maybe too young but never too foolish.
Young and foolish
Why is it wrong to be
Young and foolish
We haven't long to be
Soon enough the carefree days
The sunlit days go by
Soon enough the bluebird has to flyWe were foolish
One day we fell in love
Now we wonder
What were we dreamin' of
Smiling in the sunlight
Laughing in the rain
I wish that we were young and foolish againSmiling in the sunlight
Laughing in the rain
I wish that we were young and foolish again -
Great. Now we're all singing to each other again.
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Come on Rich, lose that grumpy frown.
Gray skies are gonna clear up,
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up,
Put on a happy face.
Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy,
It's not your style;
You'll look so good that you'll be glad
Ya' decide to smile!Ok, promise I'll stop now.
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Well, I would, but....
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and greyTrudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon - come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come! -
For utter miserableness Morrisey is unrivalled.
Thanks for bringing us all down, dude.
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You see, you guys in the 70s had prog. Us children of the 90s had ambient - it's like prog, but with less lyrics, and more drum machines. Hands up anyone who owns the Orb's first two albums, or any of the longer works by the Future Sound of London? I still put ISDN on late at night to encourage people to leave parties.
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Eh, when did The Who and Grateful Dead become prog rock?
In The Who's case it became overblown rock and Jerry Garcia was a country music lover.And no one's mentioned all those prog jazz records who kicked the whole thing off, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Spyra Gyra, Pat Metheny.(I could go on) that on a good turntable( Rega Planar, Linn Sondek, Pink Triangle) were transcendent when high.
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This conversation has helped me calibrate the average age of PASers
Heh, I actually postdate Close To The Edge by 10 years. For me and a friend of mine, listening to his Dad's Yes and Pink Floyd records was our own little rebellion against the vapidity of Hansen, Spice Girls etc... of course we were too young to notice the vapidity of Tales from Topographic Oceans or Atom Heart Mother.
OTOH, it was Yes that (indirectly) started my appreciation for newer rock - the first time I heard of Radiohead was when the review of OK Computer in the Listener compared Thom Yorke's voice (favourably) with Jon Anderson's.
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I can own up to having a fondness for Jethro Tull, though I can't say I've heard all their albums and played them to death or anything.
They seem to me to be the ideal sound for movie soundtracks, I'm not sure why. I like the way the flute fits in.
I've never seen them live, but watching the one that Danielle posted above, that would annoy the hell out of me. "Pee already, dammit!"
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Hands up anyone who owns the Orb's first two albums,
We got Orblivion but it is t'other halfs.
For utter miserableness Morrisey is unrivalled.
Thanks for bringing us all down, dude.
How 'bout Babybird for great cheerful lyrics?
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I still put ISDN on late at night to encourage people to leave parties
Would've thought 'Dead Cities' would have been more effective.
I'll see your 'Orb', and raise you a 'Banco de Gaia', for your 'prog rock of the '90's' argument.
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I don't know, Rob, that's still a lot of whimsy to take on board first thing in the morning. A chocolate fish to Danielle if she can watch the whole thing through.
Do I earn the chocolate fish for actually owning the Rock n Roll Circus DVD?
The first three (and last two) minutes are totally rad. As soon as Ivor the Engine Driver turns up there is a definite Attack of the Whimsies. Still, no one could accuse Keith Moon of being concerned with technique over general badassery, which I think is a prog failing. (See: Rush.)
For utter miserableness Morrisey is unrivalled.
Morrissey is quite often hilarious, though. For every miserable lyric there's a funny one.
Admission: I recently discovered the Dead's American Beauty and think it's great.
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Mind you, I thought Easy Rider was a great and a well acted movie then as well....
And as for the most underated song ever, 'Since I've been loving you' Led Zep from Zep III
Me too. Steppenwolf and Byrds albums followed - still rather like "the Weight" - and all that hit the road philosophy. There was a film of "Siddartha" back then, from the Hermann Hesse classic - reading Hesse was pretty hip.
Love that Led Zep song too.
Context is everything - NZ was unbelievably dull, rugby ruled, men wore walk shorts, socks and sandals - there was a huge compensating energy for change that I've never seen since.
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My bad, Danielle. Here, have a box!
Of course, if Keith Moon had been a bit less keen on general badassery, he might still be with us.
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