Great Lost Tracks - An Everyday Series

Bow down lowly mortals!!

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TheWeekThatKeepsOnGivin CSC

This is the cats whiskers, Ginger Baker's the fuckin man!



Had to drive nearly 300 round trip to pick up my car the other day and started off with the Cream of Clapton

I always count this track among my earliest musical memories (along with Pictures of Matchstick Men and Penny Lane)



Then you read an article like this...

http://pubphilosopher.blogs.com/pub_philosopher/2008/10/pub-juke-box---elizabethan-reggae.html

And suddenly all those self-deprecatory 'Raised by Rediffusion' cracks don't seem quite so 'ironic'.

That Boris song was on a sampler I bought, Reggae Chartbusters: this was on it too.



Skinheads originally were a non violent reaction to the hippie movement, but quite soon the loonies saw some profit in the look. Symarip as a name was a sort of backward 'Pyramids': the folk in the video are not the band.

I love that original Skinhead look.

Sta-prest, Ben Sherman, Docs, the long cardy... superb!

The way I heard it, it was a split in the Mod movement. Most went the way of the Small Faces. Dropped a few tabs, saw a glittering world of possibilty contained within their own navel-fluff and started poncing about in frilly shirts and velvet loons.

The pill-popping/Blue-beat-lovin element of the audience went for a kinda uber-working-class thing and the Skins/Suedes were born!(*)

I dunno why but I always associate that early-70s stuff with goin to the Falkirk Baths on a Saturday morning with the aged P.





(*)(Other hastily cobbled-together hagiographies of Pop history are available. Please check local suppliers. )

JimmyMcGrory wrote:This is the cats whiskers, Ginger Baker's the fuckin man!



Had to drive nearly 300 round trip to pick up my car the other day and started off with the Cream of Clapton

I like EC James- but he needs a good band I reckon.

This is a wee stormer - comes out of the 'guitar duel' at the end like an express train.

(Or Hooperman scootin past Cap'n Werthers if you prefer )

Very nice Immo, can't beat a bit of R&B

Cheers James

Not music...

Pretty fuckin funny tho I reckon.



"Lerdle-lerdle-lerdle-ler-dehlerr situation"

This howevvaaaah....

....is purely music.

In a shopping arcade.

That Dub FX guy's a talent for now: here's one from over 40 years ago, great singer (look up 'Friends')....this is a fine song:



That avatar is shit, immo.

Here's 'Friends'. There are youtube vids with Terry playing live, but the quality isn't great. He's a forgotten talent.

Gladstone wrote:That avatar is shit, immo.

How so Gee?

Is it bad form to avatar-ise an SPL manager who...

has been given 24hr security and advised to go out as little as possible for the next few weeks?
has received death threats from a terrorist organisation?
has been beaten unconscious in the street once already?
was forced to give up his international career for his safety?
has been sent bullets in the post?
was the target of a letter bomb as recently as... ooh let's see ... the last time we beat the Huns?

Still.. I expect the sense of 'fair-play' which is endemic to the Scottish 'character' will kick in and there will be a wholesale condemnation of this outrage in the national media.

Sorry... what's that you're sayin?...BBC Reporting Scotland din't consider that a (fake) nail-bomb sent to an SPL manager was a story news-worthy enough for tonight's bulletin?

Ah well.

Mibbes it's just his 'aggressive' style of management.

I'm proud to have him as my avatar anyhow.

I'm definitely takin a trumpet with me tomorrow.

Immo wrote:

I'm proud to have him as my avatar anyhow.

You wouldn't have him on your pub quiz team though

He is very strong on British flora and fauna and European capitals... but you're right.

Oddly... but engagingly... groovy.

Did someone here post this already?

It's fuckin rockin whatever

This one's for you Crownybhoy cos I know you like em and you're prolly still lookin in.

Incidentally...

wont say it cos he fancies you.

Snake and Glad are too busy fighting some mad (and hugely engaging) geographic war on the outer fringes of this beautiful home for the disenfranchised, estranged and downright 'odd' that you built here. <nonironicsmiley>

James is probably working/pished on vino tinto and Sev is probably too busy tearing various troglodytes a new one on SF mad.

So it's down to me (the most awkwardly monosyllabic of all this happy band ) to say it...

GET YER ARSE BACK ON HERE YA MAD, GLOOMY WEE FUCKER!!

We miss you.





PS

Mita still hates your guts.

And another thing... how comes my pm of 20th Feb is still languishing in the outbox instead of 'sent items'?

Oh yeah... and one last thing....

One (other) last thing...

The king of the afternoon...

Jimmy Witherspoon!!

http://open.spotify.com/track/78sGbG5cLYKHjldOE4DpVI

Weren't too shabby in the evening neither.

(And that's a quadruple (prolly) negative with added litotes (prolly) and poor grammar (def) )

Where's the old gang...

I miss Aslan.

I built this board y'know.



(Other brazenly obvious attempts to lure certain posters onto the thread may be available - check local supplier for details)

I sat beside these at a bar in Heathrow airport one time.

I was going to Jersey to blag a room and attempt to impersonate a KP/commis-chef for the summer.

They were en route to Newcastle for a gig that night.

They looked fuckin superb.

Sound alright too.

Still not mastered the art but I would like to share this great live performance.If you can spare about 9 mins . Check out the violinist from about 4 mins in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1dswpoAac0

One for my old man who passed away recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8&feature=related