Off Topic Conspiracy Thread

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OedipusTex said:
Speaking of conspiracies, there's a new one which has cropped up surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Yes, a new one from an event 54 years ago. Yesterday presented the US government with a deadline to release the secret files surrounding the subsequent investigations. The deadline was established by legislation 25 years ago. Most of the documentation is being held up by various government agencies, but what was released yesterday is getting scrutinized by every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a pet conspiracy theory. The new one comes from the revelation that a British journalist was tipped off by an anonymous phone call about half an hour before the assassination that something big was about to happen in the USA. Now some think English communists might have been behind it. Here we go again.
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Ye just across the river from Hull in Grimsby.
 
Barchullona said:
It is a misprint or a misunderstanding. It was a local band The Small Four. Don't believe everything,you read on the internet.

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Still good value at 62p.

I was talking to one of the Mandrakes at Scarborough Tech the day after. Hendrix autographed the Telecaster of one of the guitarists. Who later rubbed it off and then traded it in. He made an appeal to try and trace it when the old band members got together for a memorial concert in memory of Robert Palmer.
Hendrix was impressed with the Mandrakes, asking their lead guitarist if he fancied playing on his next album. At the time hecwas better than Mick Ronson, or more accurately, capable of playing a wider range. But within a year and a half of this concert he packed it all in. Someone I went to school with replaced him.
When my son decided he wanted to play a guitar in the mid 1990s I took him to buy one. Got chatting to the shop owner, who was from Scarborough, who was also a guitar teacher. Got chatting about guitarists and I mentioned I always rated Pete Liley of the Mandrakes. He said a couple of years earlier there had been a night in Scarborough featuring all the local young bands and the compere had recognised Pete Liley and asked him to do a number. He protested he hadn't played for years. The compere kept on so he asked a lad nextbto the shop owner if he could bortow his guitarand got up on a stage.
After a couple of numbers the young lad turned to themshopkeeper and said after hearing what he could get out of his guitar hecwas thinking of giving up.<laugh>
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I love to read stuff like this, Castro. What else you got? Keep it coming.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
They did according to the Jimi Hendrix OWS...

March 9, 1967 Live Performance The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform at the Skyline Ballroom in Hull, Yorkshire with support from Family, The Small Faces, The Strollers and The Mandrakes.
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Quick to jump in and try and make out someone was wrong. Not as quick to acknowledge they were right.
 
originallambrettaman said:
Only you could take a completely innocuous post about a gig as a personal attack. <doh>
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No, instead of accepting what someone said who knew people who actually played at the gig you went googling to try and prove them wrong.
Then posted an incorrect article. Then, when I showed what I said was correct you didn't acknowledge the fact. Par for the course with you.
 
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Barchullona said:
No, instead of accepting what someone said who knew people who actually played at the gig you went googling to try and prove them wrong.
Then posted an incorrect article. Then, when I showed what I said was correct you didn't acknowledge the fact. Par for the course with you.
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Would a full retraction printed in the London Gazette give you satisfaction?
 
Barchullona said:
No, instead of accepting what someone said who knew people who actually played at the gig you went googling to try and prove them wrong.
Then posted an incorrect article. Then, when I showed what I said was correct you didn't acknowledge the fact. Par for the course with you.
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Jesus ****ing wept.

I posted that I’d like to have been at a gig with Hendrix and the Small Faces, you said it didn’t happen and I posted where I’d got it from.

That was it, it was nothing. the Hendrix OWS was obviously wrong, I hope it’s made your weekend, you sad boring ****.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Jesus ****ing wept.

I posted that I’d like to have been at a gig with Hendrix and the Small Faces, you said it didn’t happen and I posted where I’d got it from.

That was it, it was nothing. the Hendrix OWS was obviously wrong, I hope it’s made your weekend, you sad boring ****.
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You posted that it wasn't what the Hendrix site said, as though to say that I was incorrect and didn't know what I was on about.
I posted the proper info for you. You could have just said cheers for the info, you sad, pathetic ****.
 
I have this recollection of seeing big bands playing Bev Road baths in the mid-late 60's. They'd put boards across the pool. Have I dreamt this or did it happen?
 
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