Me too! Brilliant album and also one of my earliest serious purchases. I have to admit that Neil Diamond featured in those early LP's.... Other than that, these purchases certainly influenced my future musical direction: There goes rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon Ennismore - Colin Blunstone 461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton Inner visions - Stevie Wonder Close to the Edge - Yes Selling England By the Pound - Genesis Bad Company - Bad Company Never turn your back on a friend - Budgie Blue - Joni Mitchell Abraxas - Santana
I had lots of singles, there was one shop in Canterbury that used to sell off singles that had dropped out of the top 75 for 25p each once I realised that they did this on a Wednesday morning I was often in there on Wed after school and frequently bought 3 or 4. I remember clearly buying Offshore Banking Business by The Members from 'The Bargain Box' and women behind the counter laughed at me asking why anyone would buy that rubbish. I was a fairly quiet boy of 14 at the time (early 79), and was just pleased to have bagged a bargain, so I said nothing and just walked away. It annoyed me but didn't put me off going back for more cheap singles. I ended up with over 1000 singles at my collections peak, i have about 300 left now, I sold 500 in 1 go when my first child was due and I needed the space! I think I got about £70.00 for them but looking back it was a bad move, but equally there were a lot of very average singles amongst them.
Tbh Toiler On The Sea is still in my top 5 Stranglers songs 46 years later! That bass sound and Dave's keyboards on the intro.
For anyone with an 02 account and an interest in seeing Frank Carter & Sex Pistols @ the Town & Country Club on 26th September, priority tickets are on sale now until Friday. See you there.
They're on top form right now. I spoke to Monty's Mrs @ Aylesbury last Thursday. Apparently, Rat is now a total perfectionist and has the other 4 hard at it, even Dave is having to attend rehearsals. It's working, though... You get a pretty good look at Mrs B's and my back in the first and the head, bobbing up and down in the second, belongs to my beloved. Great night. Some shots from our vantage point: please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Off to Belfast on Saturday...really early for the SLF/Damned/Skids gig. It'll even be dry...according to the eather forecast....Huzzah!!
Never, never NEVER trust a weather forecast!!! It's Ireland....of course it's ****ing wet. Oh well.....
Some footage from Saturday's fun in Belfast... For once, I'm the second tallest person in shot. That Sasquatch bloke on the left was ****ing huge...I mean HUGE....really ****ing HUGE.
When I go to the Cinema you can place money on him sitting in front of me despite the place being empty
Unless I'm on the barrier (a rare event) I try to stand behind someone slightly shorter than me, so I'm restricting others' sight lines as little as possible...after having stood (briefly) directly in front of the shortest person I can find...just for a laugh. This has to be tempered with standing in line with Paul Gray for The Damned, JJ for The Stranglers, etc. My spot is...well, my spot. I think that I've earned it...and well, I'm going to stand there. These days, centre stage is too rowdy for my knees to take for any length of time. On Saturday night, there was a bloke, on the edge of the pit, who kept falling back into Mrs B during SLF. She's a lot tougher than she looks and she was straight arming him back into the pit, until he decided to turn round, grab her by both arms and try and drag her in with him. she tried to diffuse the situation but the bloke wasn't going to see sense. So, very nicely, I put one hand on his chest and shook my head...at which point he went for me, trying to push and pull me off my feet. Having received training on The Shelf, at over 2,000 gigs, stood on innumerable tubes and buses, played rugby to a decent standard, been an ok skateboarder, etc., one thing I can do extremely proficiently, is stay upright when others can't. I let the bloke try his best and when he'd done trying and got nowhere, just laughed at him as he slunk off. He was getting on for my age, the stupid ****.
