’tis a perfect English Summer’s day....

BaldJean wrote: fandango wrote: as opposed to a good Welsh summer, which is the stuff of mythology... in fact Rick Wakeman ought to make an album entitled.. 'The Legend of the Welsh Sun God'.  What do you think? Does "Welsh summer" have any likeness to "Welsh rabbit"?

 Very Good BaldJean... but no, Welsh Rabbit is what Snow Dog does on this site... his fingers have verbal diarrhoea..

BTW, I noticed that you were playing footsie a while ago.. are you still doing so, and can I join in?

Hot English (not Welsh..) afternoon... just chillin, having a Bud, listening to ELP... groooooovy..

goose wrote: fandango wrote: Snow Dog wrote: I used to work in a  Lab... Yes, except in your case, 'Lab' is short for Labrador.. Does anyone else need a failed joke counter?

No, but Tony R and I could do with a 'Joke at Snow Dog's expense' counter... which will need to run into at least 6 digits!

Blacksword wrote: I want the mother of all storms to clear the air for a few days. I need to get some sleep!! I cant in this heat. My flat was like a sauna last night!

C'mon, be brave, sure it's not that bad!! Now you know how we feel down here from the middle of june to the end of august...

May I suggest a fan?

nacho wrote: Blacksword wrote: I want the mother of all storms to clear the air for a few days. I need to get some sleep!! I cant in this heat. My flat was like a sauna last night! C'mon, be brave, sure it's not that bad!! Now you know how we feel down here from the middle of june to the end of august... May I suggest a fan?

We aint used to it nacho. Besides, us Brits like to moan

I do have a fan, but it's as much use as a hair dryer or a fan heater in terms of cooling things down; just blows hot air around.

Sean Trane wrote: Well ya poor sods,  I have been on holidays since June 11th , and except for the that Saturday , it has been perfrecy weather in Holland, France , Belgium, Germany (went to a superb festival on the heights of the Rhine river some 40 Kms of Koblenz). Feel sorry for you stuck at work! I just popped in today but will start again on Monday! Tomorrow night , Both Univers Zero and Present are playing and they have arranged to play at different hours so mwe could se both!   In the mean time , just to get you absolutely jealous , check out the line-up of that festival. www.daysofloveandpeace.de

...if only I had Knew this earlier...Strange coincidence , the last time I was on the Lorelei Venue there should have been a Jefferson Starship concert but then...

Starship : 17.06.1978 Lorelei Germany

In 1978 I was listening mainly to Westcoast and lucky me a reformed Starship was going to do a tour of the european summer festivals. So with a friend we went to see them at the 'Lorelei', a nice venue in Germany o the banks of the river Rhine. It is a beautiful place, but unfortunately when we arrived it started to rain.
there were about 10.000, and quiet a big partof american soldiers.  The theatre itself is made of stone rows and quiet steep and fortunately there was not too much mud.
The concert statred around 4 O clock in the afternoon and th first group was Brand X (without PC) I quiet liked them, but they didn't get more than a lukewarm applause. We got some more beers and came back for Leo Kottke. I loved then and I still love a lot the 12 string guitar playing of LK.
Still the major part of the audience didn't seemed to appreciate so much Kottke's 12 string guitar work.
Now , good news it was not raining anymore but only drizzeling. The next act should have been the Atlanta Rhythm Section, but they didn't show up.So everybody was waiting for the headliners : the mythical 'Srarship' with Grace Slick, Marty Balin & Paul Kantner.It was about 19:00 and the stage was ready when the manager entered the stage and announced : "Unfortunately, Grace Slick is ill and the band can't play today". (Afterwords I learned that the other members epecially Sears, Chaquito and Freiberg wanted to play without GS, but Paul Kantner refused to play without Grace )
Now, most of the audience members were quiet pissed, so it took some time until everybody understood : "The concert is over, have another beer , go home and do whatever you like, cheers!"
As I said the theatre was quiet steep and suddenly there was a rain of beercans and bottles on the stage.This was the good old time when you could bring nearly everything to a venue (from a pocketknife to a bazooka plus assorted drugs)
 The poor roadies had just tried to get away the soundboard when one of them was touched in the face by a beerbottle. When the 'berbottle rain' stopped  suddenly there were lots of 'highly motivated' audience members climbing  on stage, demounting everything which was demountable, putting it on a pile and suddenly the stage was burning.Some guys pushed the concert piano over the edge of the stage, awfull noise.
Enter the police and the firemen : in the meantime a new arsenal of beer bottles and cans was prepared and the police and firemen retreated( why risk our lives for some kids who just want to have some fun.In the meantime night had fallen and the whole athmosphere was that of an apocalyptic campfire.We  went of to sleep in the woods.The  next morning before hitching back we returned to the venue, and I felt quiet sad that everything had ended up this way.

I would never have believed that they would have come back again there.