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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:14
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^well, there were only 275 at the Threshold gig last night...Ermm
 
...but I would venture to suggest (and I hope Dean will agree with me) that the overall quality of our attendees was probably higher...Approve
 
 
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there were a few highly dubious characters there from what I saw... Wink


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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:14
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

Had a drink at work last night and after went out with some friends.
 
How is everybody??
 
I am still listening Gentle Giant, Genesis, Jethro Tull and such....
 
 


Fine here (*) ! We're you at the Progwalhalla meeting last weekend? I'll be there again next time, had to skip this one.



(*) Except for the fact that I have to complete an arrangement of an Amy Winehouse track (Valerie) for our bandWink


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Points: 19766 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:18
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^well, there were only 275 at the Threshold gig last night...Ermm
 
...but I would venture to suggest (and I hope Dean will agree with me) that the overall quality of our attendees was probably higher...Approve
 
 
Wink
there were a few highly dubious characters there from what I saw... Wink


D'you have a mirror in your hand? Wink
 
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nice one, Angelo...Wink
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Points: 19766 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:20
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:


(*) Except for the fact that I have to complete an arrangement of an Amy Winehouse track (Valerie) for our bandWink
 
couldn't you complete an arrangement of Steve Winwood's 'Valerie' instead?..Big%20smile
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:25
And act as if I didn't notice the mistake? Good suggestion...
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Valerie was not originally by Amy Winehouse.  It was by The Zutons.
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

Had a drink at work last night and after went out with some friends.
 
How is everybody??
 
I am still listening Gentle Giant, Genesis, Jethro Tull and such....
 
 


Fine here (*) ! We're you at the Progwalhalla meeting last weekend? I'll be there again next time, had to skip this one.



(*) Except for the fact that I have to complete an arrangement of an Amy Winehouse track (Valerie) for our bandWink
 
It's by The Zutons - although Amy Winehouse did a pretty spiffing job of it. Underneath it all there's some real talent lurking in that one - unlike her sometime buddy Pete Doherty Dead.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Valerie was not originally by Amy Winehouse.  It was by The Zutons.
 
Arse!!! You beat me to it!
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:39
I figured it was the same track, although I only heard a couple of seconds of the original. Amy's version isn't that bad (and I like the way the bass carries the track), but I can't stand the rest of her stuff. 
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Ow, forgot to mention: we recorded our show yesterday with 4 cameras and made 24-track audio recordings. The DVD will be ready around the same time the new Rush DVD is released. Big%20smile
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2008 at 15:42
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Valerie was not originally by Amy Winehouse.  It was by The Zutons.
 
Arse!!! You beat me to it!


The Winehouse version was an arrangement by Mark Ronson though. Wink
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or the Monkees 'Valleri'  ..actually a great little Brit-type pop track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQg1EWBPyg
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

or the Monkees 'Valleri'  ..actually a great little Brit-type pop track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQg1EWBPyg


 
 
aaaah.. memories..Ermm...when being a Brit was coool...Cool
 
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2008 at 04:39
Originally posted by James James wrote:

The Winehouse version was an arrangement by Mark Ronson though. Wink


That doesn't mean the talent was never insider her. Oh, scratch that, this isn't the SR. Wink
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Points: 3659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2008 at 11:40
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Not much going on here, browsing the last two pages. That's good - I'll just put up my feet, have a drink and relax. I need that, after a gig for 800 people last night. Smile
 
^^well, there were only 275 at the Threshold gig last night...Ermm
 
...but I would venture to suggest (and I hope Dean will agree with me) that the overall quality of our attendees was probably higher...Approve
 
 
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No wonder they don't play the UK much. Was it a good show?
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The Buck stops....where?Confused
 
Thanks to a handful of greedy speculators now living it up in Monte Carlo, we again have to bail out (through taxation) another group of unwary savers and home owners who innocently put their eggs in the wrong basket - i have long been disapproving of smug property developers boasting how much they made on their latest deal, now they have run off with the gold ....
 
Though the Capitalist system is supposed to be the fairest, it does make one wonder how it can be vandalised like it has been, leaving us in the current mess it's in.
 
My Dad bought our house in 1950 for £2000, in those days a house was a home, not a means to get rich quick, now they've ruined it all, and young couples both working can't even afford a small  flat between them, even the group Saving Rural England are encouraging building in small villages to keep the cost down. Where will it end? We could end up in our small island  like Japan, with 100 year loans for overpriced cramped flats containing three generations of the same family. Ermm
 
...at least the Shed is paid for...isn't it? Wink
 
gripe over, back to work! Tongue
 
 


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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2008 at 03:47
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

Had a drink at work last night and after went out with some friends.
 

How is everybody??


Howdy Glassy! For one second there, I thought I was in a different forum...

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2008 at 03:51
Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

My Dad bought our house in 1950 for £2000, in those days a house was a home, not a means to get rich quick, now they've ruined it all, and young couples both working can't even afford a small  flat between them


Don't get me started on that... I'm 100% behind you on this gripe; it p+++es me off when people just see bricks & mortar as a way of climbing the ladder, as opposed to making said house a home

What these people are now finding out is at the top of the ladder is not some form of capitalist Utopia, just a huge debt they're now earning too little to maintain.

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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

The Buck stops....where?Confused
 
Thanks to a handful of greedy speculators now living it up in Monte Carlo, we again have to bail out (through taxation) another group of unwary savers and home owners who innocently put their eggs in the wrong basket - i have long been disapproving of smug property developers boasting how much they made on their latest deal, now they have run off with the gold ....
 
Though the Capitalist system is supposed to be the fairest, it does make one wonder how it can be vandalised like it has been, leaving us in the current mess it's in.
 
My Dad bought our house in 1950 for £2000, in those days a house was a home, not a means to get rich quick, now they've ruined it all, and young couples both working can't even afford a small  flat between them, even the group Saving Rural England are encouraging building in small villages to keep the cost down. Where will it end? We could end up in our small island  like Japan, with 100 year loans for overpriced cramped flats containing three generations of the same family. Ermm
 
...at least the Shed is paid for...isn't it? Wink
 
gripe over, back to work! Tongue
 
 
 
well worded and thought provoking post, Steve....Clap
 
there was a Channel 4 documentary on last week, showing different 'victims' of the credit crunch.  One comfortably off, middle-class woman had recently divorced, and had sunk her £1m savings into 7 buy to let luxury flats in Manchester, to fund her retirement and son's University fees.  She hadn't even visited them, and was persuaded to part with ther money by a portfolio wielding property agent, who organised for an over-priced household furnishings company to set them up for her...Confused
 
needless to say, she has been unable to find/keep tenants, and the properties are now worth about 2/3 of what she paid for them.  She is in the process of selling her £million home counties home to release the necessary capital, and frankly, I found it quite hard to sympathise with her plight....Ermm
 
I have in essence an over-simplified view of the whole situation: home ownership is a reasonable aspiration; second home ownership is theft...Stern%20Smile
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2008 at 07:46
I saw that programme, Jared & know exactly what you mean; although it's tragic in a way the position that woman finds herself in, she is reaping exactly what she sowed. If the property crash of 17 years ago taught us anything at all it is not to rely on a property portfolio to guarantee your income or financial stability - far from it in fact. She bought those flats less than 3 years ago - the market was already beginning to level off then & you only need to look at the last 30 years to see what happens to property prices when when they level off after a long period of rising.

If I feel sorry for anyone, it's her son - a few years ago, his university and indeed his whole future was secure & sunny; now, due to his mother's greed/ambition/naivete (call it what you will, the result's the same), he could be described as 'buggered' (or back in the real world, whichever you prefer)

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