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John Watt

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Here in the overocean lowlands of the Niagara Peninsula,
I'm getting asked about haggis everywhere I go, and I've never been in the same room with one.
As far as I know, haggis needs to be buried for a couple of weeks, to let it rot,
and is consumed as a gastro-intestinitis aid, if you've been too late in the caves,
with too much dried salmon and too old berries and grains.
It was nice to get a Stuart "winter tartan" scarf, a nice addition with a new winter coat.
I've got a Stuart walking jacket I like to wear.

Your reply here has got me feeling reflective, trying to imagine the scenarios you describe.
And you don't have to replicate my previous answers, bandwidth a constant concern of mine.
Another Rick Wakeman reference does intrude on the meditative mood you engendered.
I had a girlfriend an inch taller than me, 6'1", who looked like Rick Wakeman with the same long hair.
She didn't have a keyboard influence on me, even if I saw parts of her as being as big as his thumbs.
I don't have my father's book of Robert Burns poetry, in English and Gaelic, so I'm not quoting,
as I wish I could.
My parents wouldn't let either grandparents or any aunts and uncles speak Gaelic in front of me,
so I don't even have an accent.
They wanted me to speak proper English, and that's working out very well.
It's also nice to pass as an Englishman or American, if I have too.
I hope the grey mistee surrounds thee.
 
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umlietung

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Here in the overocean lowlands of the Niagara Peninsula,
I'm getting asked about haggis everywhere I go, and I've never been in the same room with one.
As far as I know, haggis needs to be buried for a couple of weeks, to let it rot,
and is consumed as a gastro-intestinitis aid, if you've been too late in the caves,
with too much dried salmon and too old berries and grains.
It was nice to get a Stuart "winter tartan" scarf, a nice addition with a new winter coat.
I've got a Stuart walking jacket I like to wear.

Your reply here has got me feeling reflective, trying to imagine the scenarios you describe.
And you don't have to replicate my previous answers, bandwidth a constant concern of mine.
Another Rick Wakeman reference does intrude on the meditative mood you engendered.
I had a girlfriend an inch taller than me, 6'1", who looked like Rick Wakeman with the same long hair.
She didn't have a keyboard influence on me, even if I saw parts of her as being as big as his thumbs.
I don't have my father's book of Robert Burns poetry, in English and Gaelic, so I'm not quoting,
as I wish I could.
My parents wouldn't let either grandparents or any aunts and uncles speak Gaelic in front of me,
so I don't even have an accent.
They wanted me to speak proper English, and that's working out very well.
It's also nice to pass as an Englishman or American, if I have too.
I hope the grey mistee surrounds thee.
In what way do you suggest i am replicating your answers, i speak on my own and need no other words put in my mouth nor am i consciously aware of plagiarism.So your reference puzzles me as until recently we were not aware of each's existance.
My days wandering the globe with my guitar never actually happened and therefore if i have led you to believe otherwise i have indeed misled you, i may have graced the stage of many a local alehouse complete with stage(of sorts) in many parts of the UK, but as a drummer, my guitar days were short and in limited numbers.
I now rely on the skills and recordings of others to make the music, i only apply the ear.
Never have i known a wandering minstrel to lug around a 6-7 peice kit with assorted cymbal wear and added cowbell.
200 years of Pride and Predjudie by Austen today, yet another example of the over hyping of what they would have us consider "a classic", just because some people say it is, doesn't mean it is. Unreadable romantic drivel.
And on the Burns front
"Wee Sleekit cowerin timrous beastie, oh what a panic's in thy breastie"(Tae A Moose)of the rodent variety and "Some hae meat and canny eat and some that wad eat that waant it, but we hae meat and we can, eat sae let the lord be thankit'(The Selkirk Grace).
Of Robert Burns, i say unreadable and overindulgent twaddle, only equalled in unreadability by Shakespeare, i most sincerely apologise for not following the herd with the Shakespeare love affair.
It's somewhat the same when it comes to Elvis Presley, i was never a fan, i find the tediousness of anything Elvis beyond tedium, i find after all this time the Elvis impersonators, squeamishly sad and embarrassing, i am sure the angry mob are gathering as i type with pitchforks and firebrands, tar and feathers to march upon the castle and kill the evil king for diegning to mention anything other than undying love for all things Elvis. I don't "fear the reaper" The King of rock n roll is long dead, and long may it remain so.
Elvis rant complete.
Time marches on and so must i. No grey mist here although the red mist is never far. Scott.
 

umlietung

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Here in the overocean lowlands of the Niagara Peninsula,
I'm getting asked about haggis everywhere I go, and I've never been in the same room with one.
As far as I know, haggis needs to be buried for a couple of weeks, to let it rot,
and is consumed as a gastro-intestinitis aid, if you've been too late in the caves,
with too much dried salmon and too old berries and grains.
It was nice to get a Stuart "winter tartan" scarf, a nice addition with a new winter coat.
I've got a Stuart walking jacket I like to wear.

Your reply here has got me feeling reflective, trying to imagine the scenarios you describe.
And you don't have to replicate my previous answers, bandwidth a constant concern of mine.
Another Rick Wakeman reference does intrude on the meditative mood you engendered.
I had a girlfriend an inch taller than me, 6'1", who looked like Rick Wakeman with the same long hair.
She didn't have a keyboard influence on me, even if I saw parts of her as being as big as his thumbs.
I don't have my father's book of Robert Burns poetry, in English and Gaelic, so I'm not quoting,
as I wish I could.
My parents wouldn't let either grandparents or any aunts and uncles speak Gaelic in front of me,
so I don't even have an accent.
They wanted me to speak proper English, and that's working out very well.
It's also nice to pass as an Englishman or American, if I have too.
I hope the grey mistee surrounds thee.
Concerning haggis, you'll never taste haggis if no-one catches one for you, i don't know of burying the thing but always be acutely aware of the haggis having two shorter legs on one side as they are designed so to corner the mountains at a greater speed than the persuer when being chased for the pot. T or F. Your Choice.
 

John Watt

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umlietung! I'm very, very sorry that you took me as accusing you of plagiarism.
Not so!
I was simply referring to your habit of repeating my previous message,
what looks like the font with a grey field around it.
That's excess bandwidth for me.
Where I push that here is when I'm at the top of the page,
and that's if I'm using a computer where I can listen,
I can have the video on and comment at the same time,
a rare treat in this computer age.

Speaking about percussion,
some native turtle drums make cats urinate and run out of the room.
You can guess the effect those Inuit drums made of whale scrotum have,
especially those three feet in diameter.
 

umlietung

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Have i got it right that not replying with quote was what you were referring to, i just assumed that that's what you do, but i stand corrected and i actually see where your coming from now.
An interesting factoid concerning turtle drums, and certainly one which i wouldn't imagine many jocks would have experienced, having seen this glorious event, would it be a heartwarming experience or otherwise, i'm sure the situation/subject doesn't arise often. Humbling thought tho, some might have made that conclusion to my vocal attempts at various Jackson Browne classics over the years.
Today during a break in the funereal organisations of my father in law, i had a search through the first 750 discs in an effort to try and bring some sense to the madness, and catalogue things.
Happened upon an old Colin Towns album "Full Circle" the soundtrack to the film of that name starring Mia Farrow from back in the day.
A hauntingly beautiful work in my opinion which means i must be right in my opinion, but not nescessarily in others, might i suggest you attempt to give this a try, i did meet Towns on a few occaisions and chewed the fat about this and that during his Gillan days, an interesting character from memory i've always liked what he did/ does, but that again was back then and i must try to locate more of his work from wherever i can.
Whale scrotum drums eh! The mind indeed boggles.
When the first whale scrotum drummer started out, how did he find that whale scroitum was an excellent product to use.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome to the stage John Henry Bonham and his whale scrotums.!!!!!!
Dobry wieczor, or indeed good evening to you in Polish.
 

John Watt

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If you can imagine a group of Inuit women sitting around, chewing on a whale scrotum to, uh, soften the tone,
you might have more appreciation. No doubt because it wasn't the best part to eat.
When you live where nothing grows, you are only eating predigested meats,
and when you do that you have to eat all the parts you are, if you want to grow and stay healthy.
When I was in a group of Inuit, over 250, none were over 5'6".
Even Rosemary's Baby grew up more than that.

Oddly enough, Ian Gillan visited Welland when a friend of his was playing here.
If I was in town I would have loved to visit, even just to shake his hand.
Deep Purple set a lot of rock templates with "Deep Purple In Rock",
and I've sung and played over ten of their tunes over the years".
"When you're drifting on an empty ocean,
with no wind to fill your sails,
the future's your horizon,
it's like searching for the Holy Grail"

"Hard hearted woman and a soft hearted man,
they've been making trouble since it all began,
smoke a little rice, eat a little beans,
we been tripping all the way to New Orleans,
I'm a speed king, that's what I'm doing,
I'm a spee eed kingggggggg, uh ha ha ha"

Sorry! That just came out!
In my early teens I saw a movie, "The Longships", with Richard Widmark as a Viking. I know, I know.
They found the golden bell, and I always loved the music, playing on my harmonica and singing back then.
Last weekend at a friend's house, watching "Antenna TV", I saw the last half again and understood why I liked the music.
It's something you can blend with John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and Jimi's "Third Stone from the Sun",
especially when the Viking boat makes it through the fog and tumultuous waves to the shore.
I never heard of Colin Towns. I call the Niagara Peninsula "Northern New York",
and catch more American content than I want.
And that's from someone who sees L.A. and Las Vegas as the new Sodom and Gomorrah.
By the way, remember the Vegas slogan "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"?
That's not it now.
What happens in Vegas gets dug up, D.N.A. investigated, and documented on T.V.
Just so you know.
I heard the roles for the prequel of your next honeymoon are being fought over.
 

umlietung

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You have me at a disadvantage, to what does the last sentence of your post refer, i am confused. Scott.
 

John Watt

Member
Maybe not having you at a disadvantage, just willing to blather on.
"The Younger Years of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid",
was the first "prequel" for American TV,
years after the Hollywood movie came out without a sequel.

Imagining a prequel for your honeymoon denotes production interest based on previous honeymoon experience,
and allows just imagination to create any plot or actor embodiment.
Sorry to say, no major stars were fighting over access to character development,
and some say that's because portraying you and your wife would be too, uh, demanding.

My life is an open script, even if some chapters have been stolen.
 

umlietung

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Out of commission for next 3 days due to circs beyond one's control, notwithstanding, interesting factoid, i have just recently located my old Georgia Satellites, so it's been a bit of a GS time around here today, crank it up to 14 i say,let the neighbours worry about it, and just let it rock.GS, they were a squad that knew what It was all about.
Gotta go, more in due course. S.
 

John Watt

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Yeah, I'm not residential online myself, so I'm off until Monday,
unless there's nothing to do around a free, public computer.
I'll also not be accenting the Highlander so much, putting out as much as I dare dign,
and that's not digning on you as in royalty, just a common root of the word dignified.

The Georgia Satellites travelled up and down the east coast for a long time,
concerts and six-nighters in bars, more a live act than pop stars.
George Thorogood is next, for most, and The Black Crowes are still out there.

Even though I bought Jimi's three albums on C.D.'s, the only 60's to now music I did that for,
and listen to him on headphones, laying in bed at night, not even every month,
the one cassette, and it's my third, that I still listen to is Sade, almost every day.
She is such a smooth operator, and soulfull dancer,
she and her band give it to you every way possible and take you in each and every way.

Off and awa, wandering around the surface of this whirled.
 

umlietung

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Returned from whatever nether regions i've been trawling, same s--t differant day, found a superb guilty pleasure over the course of the time elapsed in the past couple of days, a superb 1976 Edinburgh Festival Show by Elton J, one man and his piano, i had been checking out some old stuff from back in the day on what was Radio Clyde based in Glasgow, along by the river there, and hoping to come up with any shows i might have attended then that were recorded for broadcast live.Up popped this belter and i remember it was my first EJ show, i remember being dissapointed before that it wasn't the EJ Band, but the show turned out such a success that all my fears were forgotten. Marvellous night,
I'm not a great fan of acoustic only shows which is a bit tricky nowadays when so many of my likes do this, i've avoided Al Stewart, Jackson Browne, Van M and the Strawbs because of this, i like the full works and can take the acoustic in small bursts during a performance, but s'pose the customer don't matter so much if the performer is suiting themselves.
I must say that i couldn't care less that Reg Presley has died, sorry but it is what it is, though the beeb here in the UK have been attempting to big it up here, slow news day,"it's filler time"
Heading south for some notoriously hard to find peace of mind today, just me and the dawg on the beach
Been giving some Matt Bianco and Basia a bit of attention, which brings me by tenuous link to Spyro Gyra.
All aboard for a Morning Dance, room for more on top.
Jings, Crivven, help ma boab!!!.
What do you know of Oor Wullie(Wikipedia job this one.)
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights !!!!!!!.....etc.
Somebody blonde once said "Dreamin is Free" Outta here! S.
 

John Watt

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A sax playing friend of mine with his lead singer girlfriend and their band were signed in Buffalo,
by the same company at the same party with Spyro Gyra, both very jazzy.
Two weeks later my friend developed Bell's Palsy and half his face went limp,
ending his career for a long time.
They were getting a bigger push because of the female singer.

My dreams don't lie to me, and I had a beauty last night.
I'm all right.
 
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