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chopper 
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 Posted: May 01 2014 at 06:42 |
Sad news indeed.
Just posted my review of last night's Yes gig if anyone's interested. Any Shed dweller would have felt right at home. As the guy sitting next to me commented, a lot of 50 year old bladders in evidence, so people were going in and out all night.
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Posted: May 01 2014 at 08:34 |
Nice review Alan, and very detailed to boot - these days I can never remember set lists once the gig has finished let alone who did what and where and when (and howe). I saw my first pop group at the Cliffs back in 19 oh-blimey, Freddie and The Dreamers, I must have been five or six or so. [erm... give me a few hours and I may remember what I had for lunch today...]
I've too been to a few gigs in recent years where the audience resembled the slaphead contingent at a beer-belly convention. At the last Enid gig I attended at the Farnham Maltings only RJG was older than the audience, Dave Storey about the same age and the rest of the band considerably younger, and there too the queue for the Gents was indeed longer than that for the Ladies.
Edited by Dean - May 01 2014 at 08:43
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 01 2014 at 09:49 |
Reminds me of Hackett at the RAH last year - frantically waiting for the interval so I could offload the 2 beers I'd had beforehand... no interval! 
Luckily, he did a version of 'Ripples' just on acoustic, so I could bail out to the khasi (along with many others - a urinary stampede, if you will)
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chopper
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Posted: May 02 2014 at 06:31 |
 Dean wrote:
Nice review Alan, and very detailed to boot - these days I can never remember set lists once the gig has finished let alone who did what and where and when (and howe). I saw my first pop group at the Cliffs back in 19 oh-blimey, Freddie and The Dreamers, I must have been five or six or so. [erm... give me a few hours and I may remember what I had for lunch today...]
I've too been to a few gigs in recent years where the audience resembled the slaphead contingent at a beer-belly convention. At the last Enid gig I attended at the Farnham Maltings only RJG was older than the audience, Dave Storey about the same age and the rest of the band considerably younger, and there too the queue for the Gents was indeed longer than that for the Ladies. |
Thanks Dean, it's not hard to remember the set lists when they play 3 albums in order!
Definitely the longest queue for the gents I've seen at a gig, and we got to the bar just in time for the bell to go for the second half 
Still at least the atmosphere was friendly, unlike the Roger Waters Wall gig at Wembley where I felt like I wandered into the wrong end at a particularly unfriendly football match.
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Posted: May 07 2014 at 07:33 |
I'm not trivialising this awful act, but (call it the effect of age upon my ears) whenever Boko Haram is mentioned on the news, especially by local journalists, it always sounds to me as if a number of schoolgirls have been taken hostage by Procul Harum 
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Dean
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Posted: May 07 2014 at 09:59 |
.... ... I smiled, then thought I shouldn't.
Anyway. Did anyone catch the Afternoon Drama on Radio 4 yesterday "Frank Zappa and Me", a dramatisation of Pauine Butcher's memoir of a similar name about a prim English office temp who was hired to transcribe his lyrics ("Sorry... I only speak English") and then moved to California to be his secretary. Interesting from a Prog perspective but nothing special.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 07 2014 at 11:03 |
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chopper
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Posted: May 07 2014 at 11:06 |
Dean wrote:
Anyway. Did anyone catch the Afternoon Drama on Radio 4 yesterday "Frank Zappa and Me", a dramatisation of Pauine Butcher's memoir of a similar name about a prim English office temp who was hired to transcribe his lyrics ("Sorry... I only speak English") and then moved to California to be his secretary. Interesting from a Prog perspective but nothing special. |
No I missed that, Sounds like an interesting job, hope she wasn't too prudish.
"Mr Zappa, I can't quite make this one out, something about "ram it up your poop chute"?"
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 07 2014 at 11:29 |
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"...and this one - don't get no what on my sofa?"
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chopper
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Posted: May 08 2014 at 04:23 |
Jim Garten wrote:
"...and this one - don't get no what on my sofa?" |
I don't know that particular lyric but my mind is currently having fun running through the various things it could be.
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Posted: May 08 2014 at 06:04 |
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Listen to 'Cy-Borg' from Joes Garage V2 - nastyyyy
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Posted: May 08 2014 at 10:19 |
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Listen to 'Cy-Borg' from Joes Garage V2 - nastyyyy |
Much as I expected. This is why I don't play Zappa when there's other people in the house.
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Posted: May 09 2014 at 02:21 |
'Shut up & play yer guitar' and 'Guitar' are safe enough, but then you have to field the "what the  is this?" questions...
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Posted: May 09 2014 at 06:21 |
Jim Garten wrote:
'Shut up & play yer guitar' and 'Guitar' are safe enough, but then you have to field the "what the is this?" questions... |
I'm used to those kind of questions. I normally get them with -
- anything by VdGG
- The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
- The Bob Dylan Christmas Album
- in fact, most of my CD collection
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chopper
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Posted: May 09 2014 at 06:25 |
So now I know where the Shed headquarters should be located.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 09 2014 at 11:04 |
chopper wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
'Shut up & play yer guitar' and 'Guitar' are safe enough, but then you have to field the "what the is this?" questions... |
I'm used to those kind of questions. I normally get them with -
- anything by VdGG
- The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
- The Bob Dylan Christmas Album
- in fact, most of my CD collection
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Reminds me of a group of us listening quite happily to 'Mumps' by Hatfield & The North, all happily in a mild alcoholic haze & chilling nicely... enter my mate's wife:
"what's this s t??"
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Dean
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Posted: May 09 2014 at 12:15 |
chopper wrote:
So now I know where the Shed headquarters should be located.
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"The local free newspaper's sports page has energetic adverts for a stair lift, mobility scooters, a care home and an undertaker."
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 12 2014 at 02:27 |
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"there's a prominent hearing aid shop. It has a large, enticing poster for ear wax removal"
Splendid - Wahey!
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chopper
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Posted: May 12 2014 at 06:22 |
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Time to book up the Shed Annual Convention then. A weekend of prog, beer and ear-wax removal.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 12 2014 at 11:12 |
Unless we're listening to Krautrock, in which case I'll go for earwax installation 
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