Thanks, aber. Furry Lewis is new to me. Just listened to a few tracks on youtube....very distinctive style. Like the sound of Mississippi Fred MacDowell too...very cool.
Agree, aber. Music only works if there's skill and heart in the playing. Too many synthesisers, beat boxes, machines etc in modern stuff and as for rap...don't get me started. Can't beat the old 'uns.
Another TC: My wife made me go up into the attic to sort it out. Dirty, miserable and dustyââ¬Â¦ but sheââ¬â¢s good to the kids.
A sporting TC: Went to the doctor...I said, 'Doctor I swallowed a cricket ball' He said, 'How's that?' I said, 'Don't you start...'
Im an old (young) punk- the clash ramones etc then bad religion who lay the froundwork for rancid, offspring and greenday, basicaly non mainstream stuff apart from ocasional years- a bit like watford!
Aah - punk! Didn't Clint Eastwood invent that in the 70's in his Dirty Harry series? Or was it The Pogues? Can't remember. "Nurse, fetch me my fish oil!"
The clash London calling found a vinyl double album at a noggy version of a car boot ,10 kroner later it was mine!!! only prob is I dont have a record player anymore
When I was growing up, my parents had "Capital Gold" as the radio station of choice but we did listen to the top 40 on Radio 1 on a Sunday evening, so my tastes are generally anything from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The more modern stuff I have in my collection are artists like Katie Melua, The Corrs, Norah Jones and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. When I was at Uni, I saw Dire Straits live on a hot summer day at the old National Stadium in Cardiff (the Cardiff Arms Park was actually the smaller stadium attached where the Cardiff rugby club (now Cardiff Blues) played their home games) on their last tour in the UK - to see 'Knopf' play the guitar live is something special. I've seen Katherine Jenkins live over here, very down-to-earth, how many classical stars would admit that their stage clothes almost didn't arrive (they were on a separate flight) and if they hadn't, would have had to do the concert in t-shirt and jeans? Also seen Jools Holland and his R & B orchestra, that man has so much energy. His special guest was Marc Almond of Soft Cell who was a big disappointment. As for tv, Cheers, Red Dwarf and Torchwood.
Dire Straits - now you're talking! I saw them live on a probably even hotter day in Queensland - funnily enough in the local rugby ground too. The ground is set in a natural amphitheatre & around 30,000 turned up to watch - about half the population. The other half watched and listened from the houses ringing the top of the surrounding hills. Magic evening!
If you like guitars, this is a truly amazing version of Classical Gas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-3_D26mUg&NR=1
Ha course we can punk lives on and if your excluding everyone who wasnt around when the clash/sex pistols/ramones started out you need to reveal your age and say undr FIFTY leo!(under thirty would be born in 1981 and i was born 82)
