That's really good news. My brother's never going to be able to work again, or do lots of the things that he used to enjoy. he takes it in good part, but it's very sad. If the shows go ahead, I'll definitely go.
I had a Mk 1 Capri with an after market 8 track , I had 4 cartridges James Taylor mud slide slim , Rod Stewart every picture tells a story, Deep Purple in rock and Frank Sinatra's greatest hits , loved every mile I covered with that soundtrack then some bastard broke in and knicked it but left the Sinatra cart behind which shows some people have no taste
Back in the day (late '75 or early '76) when people still didn't throw stuff away, a mate of mine proudly showed me his new stereo - which until a few days previously, had been the 8 track in his family car, which had died. His stepdad had rigged up a transformer and was using the car speakers. Like you, there was a distinct lack of cartridges, but I remember one was Bryan Ferry's 'These Foolish Things'. Which was a favourite of his. The same mate, Luke (now sadly long deceased) and I made skate boards in '75 by sawing a roller skate in half and screwing it to a roughly shaped piece of wood. We thought that we were so cool and it was a year or two before we saw others riding their shop bought ones!
I had a Sanyo ( not Sony) cassette recorder with a plug in microphone and would record tracks from the TV and radio, John peels show and Roger Scott from when Capital was a decent station , with a lot of mucking about and many blown fuses I also managed to mate a pair of speakers out of an old Mk 2 jag my mates dad had in his yard and mounted them in a tea chest, what a bass that thing had , when you turned it up old tea leaves would fall out of it
My brothers and I used to record stuff off the radio like that. Back in the mid-60's, my mum used to record Batman off the tv on a reel to reel and play it back to us, to try and stop the mayhem. We loved it. It was the VCR of its day. About 15 years ago, me and Mrs B invested £300 in in-car video and 2 screens, so that we could keep our daughters entertained whilst we drove down through France to stay with a mate of mine. Once we'd set it up, we sat there dumbstruck..."TV...in the car....IN THE CAR...A ****ING TV!" We showed it to our eldest...and she couldn't have been less impressed. No wonders left to them...apart from the newest i-phone.
That reminds me of a neighbour who had a Triumph TR4 that had a record player in it , singles only flash sod really thought he was the dogs
Hare Georgeson is the only Beatle I have met , he brought the old manor house in Letchmore heath for the Hare Krishna's , we used to go there on weekend and bang a drum or tambourine and have a bit of a chant , he came there one day and we sat on the lawn drinking tea while he tried to convert us , 16 year olds into football, motorbikes music and the main reason to be there a couple of gorgeous girls He was the only Beatle I had time for at the time You can see what the place was like in the film School for scoundrels and the village in Children of the damned a film where all the children turn into Boris Johnson look a likes
RIP Meatloaf. My mother loved you...although I never worked out why. I never got Bat Out Of Hell when it came out. I thought it ridiculous...some years later I got the joke, (courtesy of my mother and Mrs B loving the bloody thing). I always liked 'Deadringer for Love'. I think that's a belting single...whether it was Cher, or the doo-wop bits in the chorus and this verse always made me laugh... But since I'm feeling kinda lonely, my defenses are low Why don't you give it a shot and get it ready to go I'm looking for anonymous and fleeting satisfaction And I want to tell my daddy I'll be missing in action ...until my daughters grew up.
A lot of kids my age only knew it for the fact it had been in the UK LP charts forever and a day, while probably never having heard more than at best the title track.
It was and is soooo American...at a time when British music was looking at British subject matter and real people's experiences. Bruce Springsteen was pretty much the same at that time...and the movie Grease was even worse. I was with The Clash and 'I'm so bored with the USA'. Growing up in London in the 70's, the joys of Coupe de Villes, college girls, drive-in movies and the like were lost on me, just as the songs of British life from Squeeze, Ian Dury, the Two Tone bands, The Adverts, The Clash, The Ruts etc. would have meant **** all, to all but very few Americans.
Springsteen? The Born in the USA era lyrics are all quite downbeat and down to earth. The single must be one of the most inappropriately used songs of all time. The original title was Vietnam Blues, which would never have been played at political rallies! Not really a fan of his, to be honest, but his message isn't the ultra-patriotic stuff that people think.
Born in the USA is from about '84or '85. Early Springsteen songs were pretty different from what he produced 10 years later. They were about 'Cars and Girls', as Prefab Sprout pointed out. He learned a lot from Strummer's writing and freely acknowledged the debt and friendship that existed between them... “Joe Strummer, my great, great departed friend and brother that I never had. You have been my inspiration for the past 40 years. Happy birthday brother,”
Nebraska and The River era of Springsteen then later his retrospective albums tunnel of love and The Rising, ghost of Tom Joad do it for me and as for Meat Loaf that is a big no from me
Meatloaf sold a lot of albums, but I'm not sure who bought them. Doesn't really seem to appeal to fans of any particular genre. Musicals, perhaps? Odd one.
The River is my favourite. Unlike many artists, Springsteen's earliest albums don't represent the best of his work. He definitely improved through those first 5 albums.
