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umlietung
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Many moons ago i had dreams of stardom as a drummer and played in a few local bands back in Scotland, but sadly it wasn't to be, i can knock out a few tunes on the guitar but it's purely for pleasure.
As for preferences, i have to say just about anything thats good in my opinion. Examples would range from Neil Young, Van Morrison,Pachelbel, The Swing Revival period in The 80's(Jump Blues) Led Zep,Clifford T Ward,Horslips,Jackson Browne, Blues,Al Stewart, Various Classical, Some Electronic, Some Scottish Folk Rock. Art Rock and much more.
I find todays music awful, clones, everyone wants to be Mariah Carey or Beyonce,Rap leaves me freezing cold,and girlie/boy pop dross makes me scream, except for Take That who i think were superb. I am not a fan of musicals(all that fake smiling and taking themselves so seriously!) And opera is not my thing at all.
Other than that i'm fairly easy to please.
Hope that gives an idea. Scott.
Yup, that gives a pretty good idea of your tastes. I can totally relate to your take on pop/most of the music one hears on the radio. It really makes me cringe. That's one of the main reasons I don't listen to radio anymore. Only to a selection of online radiostations devoted to music I actually like. There are some pop artists that I enjoy (mainly from the 80s nad 90s), but the two genres I like the most are classical and jazz. And those two are discussed here at MIMF the most.
umlietung
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Being that i'm not a jazz afficionado by anymeans and tend to go for more Spyro Gyra, Jan Akkermaan, and sort of Jazz/Rock Fusion, it wouldn't be very clever of me to take on those that know more about the jazz world. I really find i believe they call it modern jazz way above my head, it kind of makes me lose interest when i can't hear a true melody and to me in some cases even a tune, but there you go.
I do like the old classical masters but the same sort of thing applies when i hear more modern stuff that goes off on its own for a wander and kind of becomes something else.
I was in the USA a few years ago and took in an Al Di Meola show in Denver, that was superb and Spyro Gyra were playing at the same venue the next night but in a smaller more sedate part of the complex, and it was dollars well spent.
I think if i was to stick my neck out i would say that most probably my top jazz/fusion, artist/s would be Mahavishnu Orchestra or Fourplay or Colosseum or Stanley Clark or Di Meola or a dozen others.
I can be more specific on my all time favourite classical peice at the moment and that would be Salve Regina. And although it would not truly be considered classical as we know it, might i suggest Randy Newman's soundtrack to the film "Gettysburg", from start to finish it is completely in keeping with the various moods and scenes of the movie and for me i don't believe it could have been done any better.If you have never heard this i think you may be pleasantly surprised as i was, i expected something else, but got a massive bonus.
Can i just say that i mentioned when i signed up here first that i was on the trail of Robin Gibb's last work, which was the "Titanic Requiem" with his son, i caught a small part of the performance on the Sky Channel when it premiered in London, and since then have tried to locate it but it seems inordinately expensive and extremely hard to get. Wonder if anybody else has mentioned it or knows how to get a copy, just wondering, it sounds wonderful. There you go, i think that covers it for now. Scott.
John Watt
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umlietung! You're not gonna wish me a broad brick'd moon lick'd g'nicht,
when I say I'm Canadian but only of Scottish descent,
and never saw Neil Young, when he's the first musician you name.
I never bought "Needle and the Damage Done", being a serious musician myself.
You say " I can knock out a few tunes on guitar, purely for pleasure",
but something tells me you're prowling around while you're at it.
Not everyone has the wherewithall of Scottish people,
even The Average White Band, "Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream".
And admit it! Your name is Donald and you're tired of hearing
"Doonald where's your troosers".
when I say I'm Canadian but only of Scottish descent,
and never saw Neil Young, when he's the first musician you name.
I never bought "Needle and the Damage Done", being a serious musician myself.
You say " I can knock out a few tunes on guitar, purely for pleasure",
but something tells me you're prowling around while you're at it.
Not everyone has the wherewithall of Scottish people,
even The Average White Band, "Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream".
And admit it! Your name is Donald and you're tired of hearing
"Doonald where's your troosers".
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White Knight
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Hi, Umiletung and welcome to a wonderful forum. I noticed you mentioned Al DiMeola and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in your post. Two great choices indeed. Do you like DiMeola more when he was with Return To Forever or when he was solo? Do you like any classical music? If so, what composers and/or works?
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umlietung
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If i might, it's "it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht", as i live just outside of inner London we get a few more bands still around from when music was music, and in June Ol' Neil Y is doing the O2 arena as part of his tour with Crazy Horse, so me and she grabbed a couple of breifs and are going along, i'm not sure he'll be back again at 66 but you never know.
I have tinkered around with a couple of local acts here in Surrey doing a bit of guitar filling and also drumming and have made a couple of recordings but we mainly did those for our own satisfaction cos we were never going to be anything that anyone outside our area heard of, and that experience was great and a good insight into what it was all about.
Generally i am to be found wi ma troosers on the correct way unless the occaison calls for the kilt but "not no more with these knees"
Old Andy Stewart eh, also worth a listen to by the late AS would be "The Muckin O Geordies Byre" or trans "The Cleansing Of George's Cowshed", or you could try "Campbelltown Loch".
I've been over to America on 3or 4 occaisions but never got to Canada "why have i always liked the name Medicine Hat for a place i wonder"
Anyway i'll check out just now and maybe look forward to some chat again, i'm the proud owner of 4,000 and counting discs of all styles and do generally have some music on around the house, yesterday was a day of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band(probably the best Scottish Band ever) Rondo Veneziano(chamber/modern classical) and a wee bit of Status Quo and the truly wonderful Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, just for a bit of swing revival.
So it's music in the snow here at the moment.
As they say in Glasgow, AW RA BEST. Scott.:crazy:
umlietung
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Hi there i think i ould have to say that i like solo Meola, the best, i've probably got something from every period of his work. When i say i like Mahavishnu, that's true but as i might have mentioned i sometimes get a bit bored with really long peices, and when i can't pick out phrasing and melodies and it all goes a bit obscure i switch off, so i tend to keep MH as my guilty pleasure for when i'm really in the mood.
Another i can listen to very easily is Jan Akkermaan, i find the Focus stuff rather dated to listen to now, but having a good selection of JA, there's always enough to bring back the memories.
I do like classical, but to be honest i really can't pick out a favourite, i did say that Pachelbel appeals(excuse the awful tenuous "bel and peals" connection, truly unintended, but there is so much i'm probably a classical cherry picker as and when the mood takes, at a push i'd say Mozart "rocks me", but then so does Benjamin Britten, Vivaldi etc, it's just too difficult.
As far as individual works i'd list "The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba","Nimrod" and the rest of the Enigma Variations.
If i sat back for an hour i could probably have a list of millions, but just put it down to say a wide selection.
Isn't it amazing the amount of classical work out there that you know but cannot name.
Did you ever catch anything back in the day of SKY, their updated take on the classics and rock fusion really was my thing and i got a hold of everything i could, i think i covered all the bases, their album Cadmium is extremely hard to get, indeed may well be unavailable along with "The Great Balloon Race", and a fantastic DVD to get a hold of if possible is their 80's live show from Westminster Abbey, they are long defunct but made some sweet music during their time so there's a tip you might try.
Got to shoot for now but hope to hear from you in the near future, and you can give me an idea what floats yer boat. Best Scott.
umlietung
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D'yknow i never was keen on the AWB, except but one or two bits and bobs. But let's go round again anyway. S.
John Watt
Member
Yeah, umlietung! Thanks for refreshing my sad, lowlandish brogue.
Al DiMeola was a big disappointment for me,
considering we took a big chance going over the border at Buffalo to see him,
when that city was burning and one third boarded up, with intimidating sidewalk traffic,
when he was first doing his solo thing after "Return to Forever".
He was too loud, just blasting out single note riffs, and far too perfectly.
His bassist was a Stanley Clarke clone, looking like him more than playing.
And being dressed in black pants, white shirt with a black vest,
made him look like the waiters for some of the restaurant gigs I had,
only he never moved, just another shoegazer.
You should be proud of the "Average White Band".
They sold huge over here during the disco era, a tough business for even
unaverage white bands to get on top of.
Overall, "Radar Love" got played more, everywhere.
You might go on about muckin'around the byre,
but I see a main theme of Scottish music is kissing your girlfriend in the dark,
only to find out it's her mother.
I'm not sure that's worth walking a thousand miles for.
I have inherited a Holy Bible, with a section for use in The Church of Scotland.
It has more lengthy chapters after Revelation,
and was used for the re-entry ceremony of the clan that betrayed Bonnie Prince Charlie.
We all have gone awa.
Ever hear of "The Redmere Soloist", an amplifier custom made in Scotland, kinda?
That was my performance amp for over fifteen years. That red still stains over here.
May All Peace Be Upon You, and I hope you get Ernie Ball strings over there.
When I went dancing at the ball,
and it was slippery in the hall,
all the ladies had to call,
Donald where's your trousers".
That's always been a big part of my act, a uh, hard act to follow.
"Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?"
Al DiMeola was a big disappointment for me,
considering we took a big chance going over the border at Buffalo to see him,
when that city was burning and one third boarded up, with intimidating sidewalk traffic,
when he was first doing his solo thing after "Return to Forever".
He was too loud, just blasting out single note riffs, and far too perfectly.
His bassist was a Stanley Clarke clone, looking like him more than playing.
And being dressed in black pants, white shirt with a black vest,
made him look like the waiters for some of the restaurant gigs I had,
only he never moved, just another shoegazer.
You should be proud of the "Average White Band".
They sold huge over here during the disco era, a tough business for even
unaverage white bands to get on top of.
Overall, "Radar Love" got played more, everywhere.
You might go on about muckin'around the byre,
but I see a main theme of Scottish music is kissing your girlfriend in the dark,
only to find out it's her mother.
I'm not sure that's worth walking a thousand miles for.
I have inherited a Holy Bible, with a section for use in The Church of Scotland.
It has more lengthy chapters after Revelation,
and was used for the re-entry ceremony of the clan that betrayed Bonnie Prince Charlie.
We all have gone awa.
Ever hear of "The Redmere Soloist", an amplifier custom made in Scotland, kinda?
That was my performance amp for over fifteen years. That red still stains over here.
May All Peace Be Upon You, and I hope you get Ernie Ball strings over there.
When I went dancing at the ball,
and it was slippery in the hall,
all the ladies had to call,
Donald where's your trousers".
That's always been a big part of my act, a uh, hard act to follow.
"Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?"
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umlietung
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Is this some kind of test perhaps, not all of your reference immediately compute, maybe i'm just sluggishly coming up on the rails but are we referring "to the ball in the wee toon hall tonight, the one where i met bonnie wee Jeannie McCall, that fine wee lass"
I did consider a trip to Electric Ladyland but heard that someone "chopped it down with the edge of their hand"
No can't say i ever heard of "The Redmere Soloist" sounds like a male singer at an Aberdeen ceilidh.
And you're act being? You didn't say you performed.
Try these for size, this is parliamo Glasgow.
Noohoozfurra?
Seehowitzgaun
Wannaweehaufwirat?
Gonnynodaerat?
Shesnopittinupwiit.
One of my favourite numbers to play when i was messing around as a rockstar was a little thing called, "The Last Of The Teenage Idols" a kind of rock/doo wop/showstopper by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, a Glaswegian genius from the Gorbals, check out some SAHB.Alex died in 1982, sad sad day. Remember the Boston Tea Party, with redcoats in the village and fighting in the streets, A true Scottish music follower must have some SAHB in the collection.I am one such, everything that ever was.
Another suggestion is to locate some "Peatbog Faeries" from the Isle of Skye, some delicious electronic/jazz/celtic/fusion, don't think Runrig, think instrumental, pipes and whistles,bass and drums,guitar and fiddles and a whole lot of Highland fun and heedrumhodrum. Scott.
John Watt
Member
You're giving me the longing, and some immediate feedback.
I have to go soon, using a borrowed office computer.
The Scottish technicians who invented a new, noiseless electronic switch,
to demonstrate the effectiveness of it,
built a display for trade fairs, using a Fender Twin, Marshall 100 watt stack, and a Vox AC40,
with various effects and a choice of Fender Stratocaster or Les Paul for a guitar.
This display proved so popular they were encouraged to build a retail product.
I was fortunate, reading about it, because the North American distributor was almost local,
so I travelled for an hour to try it out, having a very good time, and ordered one.
It cost $1,700 for a down payment, over $2,200 total, before taxes, in 1977.
The Redmere name came from a bog that ran red with the blood of English highwaymen.
An incredible amplifier, your choice of specs for phasing, flanging, and other effects,
plus a three spring Hammond reverb, incredible.
I could kick the amp and get a deep sound of distant thunder,
even if I had to resolder the spring wire every six months or so.
I could put the AC40 pre-amp on full overdrive,
and load on the flanging and distortion with stereo panning,
and with the guitar volume on full, simply rubbing the strings with my finger near the bridge,
I could get the beginning of an incredible steam engine sound.
When I was a house band in Niagara Falls across from the train station,
I was warned by management that some people were spilling their drinks,
or standing up suddenly, thinking a train was coming through the building.
If you listen to "Let's Dance", by David Bowie, that big synth sounding arpeggio is a Redmere Soloist.
Only five were sent to North America, and I got to pick first.
I only used the supplied speakers for rehearsals, getting stronger ones for onstage.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was an important influence for many rock players,
just like Ian Drury was. I still love his bass player and watch those videos.
Just like Paul Young and Dino Paladino, I'm still "tearing your playhouse down".
My parents say I was born of untold generations, north of Hadrian's Wall.
I have to go soon, using a borrowed office computer.
The Scottish technicians who invented a new, noiseless electronic switch,
to demonstrate the effectiveness of it,
built a display for trade fairs, using a Fender Twin, Marshall 100 watt stack, and a Vox AC40,
with various effects and a choice of Fender Stratocaster or Les Paul for a guitar.
This display proved so popular they were encouraged to build a retail product.
I was fortunate, reading about it, because the North American distributor was almost local,
so I travelled for an hour to try it out, having a very good time, and ordered one.
It cost $1,700 for a down payment, over $2,200 total, before taxes, in 1977.
The Redmere name came from a bog that ran red with the blood of English highwaymen.
An incredible amplifier, your choice of specs for phasing, flanging, and other effects,
plus a three spring Hammond reverb, incredible.
I could kick the amp and get a deep sound of distant thunder,
even if I had to resolder the spring wire every six months or so.
I could put the AC40 pre-amp on full overdrive,
and load on the flanging and distortion with stereo panning,
and with the guitar volume on full, simply rubbing the strings with my finger near the bridge,
I could get the beginning of an incredible steam engine sound.
When I was a house band in Niagara Falls across from the train station,
I was warned by management that some people were spilling their drinks,
or standing up suddenly, thinking a train was coming through the building.
If you listen to "Let's Dance", by David Bowie, that big synth sounding arpeggio is a Redmere Soloist.
Only five were sent to North America, and I got to pick first.
I only used the supplied speakers for rehearsals, getting stronger ones for onstage.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was an important influence for many rock players,
just like Ian Drury was. I still love his bass player and watch those videos.
Just like Paul Young and Dino Paladino, I'm still "tearing your playhouse down".
My parents say I was born of untold generations, north of Hadrian's Wall.
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umlietung
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And i would say that i have been severley informed of the why's and wherefores of that Aberdonian ceilidh performer, indeed as i was first and formost a drummer, the technical blurb of the amp did in all fairness escape me although i did recognise the more basic simplifications of the amplifications there-in. Or Not. Drummers in my mind didn't really need technology, certainly not this one two lengths of turned wood, a phew spherical shaped, hollowed out wooden products, one or three circular crashoid, bashoid accoutrements and some rhythm and timing, and that saw me through when needed.Generally a carefully placed pint of the resident ale and i got there. As someone said, keep it simple stupid, and i say that too.
Ian Dury, indeed old Billericay Dickie, da Blockheads may have been the tightest outfit i ever did see on the odd occaision i strolled along the "Honeysuckle Highway" of my youth.Gone but not forgotten.
Do not let me delay you further, you might say, i owe i owe, its off to work i go.
And talking arpeggios, check out Mike Rutherfords arpeggios on the middle section of "In The Cage" on Genesis- Three Sides Live. !!!!!!!!!!!! Denotes speechless this end every time i here the damn thing.
Btw yer parents may have been correct, but then aren't we all of generations past. S.
John Watt
Member
umlietung! First, let me thank you for today, this rood awakening.
I hear what you're saying about drums, but, I am from the Niagara Peninsula,
and Neil Peart is the most famous drummer from here, someone I jammed with,
and saw very often, in the record store with his first wife, and playing with his cousin.
Neil is famous for having a half acre of percussion onstage,
and now he's turning on his pedestal to face the audience playing electronics.
Riff-rock at a highly developed phase, even bar bands around here have huge set-ups.
The two best bands I played in were "Drastic Measures", from Dominique.
They won the Toronto Caribana Parade First Prize for Bands, their first year here.
When they settled in St. Catharines, with a big migrant worker population in the peninsula,
they asked me to join, never less than eight onstage.
Henwood, the drummer, 6'4", big muscles, would ruffle my pantlegs with his bass tom,
and it took me two weeks to make eye contact with him. I played for two seasons.
Playing with Ben Hewitt, "Smoky", got me into his Mohawk crowd, the most important gig I ever had.
It was a rainy day in Nipigon, and the tuck shop girl was very pretty and friendly,
and she got me into a beading loom, and that ended up becoming a suede and beaded vest.
Having Mohawks come on to me about it, and getting a gig, changed my life and mind.
If I talk any more about that, a year and a half, it would only sound like bragging.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not working, using a borrowed office computer.
This government organization supports me as a protest mayoral candidate in my home town,
and were just closing down upstairs. Now I'm downstairs, available to eight.
Noohoozfurra?
Seehowitzgaun
Wannaweehaufwirat?
Gonnynodaerat?
Shesnopittinupwiit.
You could do me a kind favour and explain what these mean, and no doubt entertain everyone else here.
I always thought Peter Gabriel was dubbing in his own background vocals, never seeing the band,
and when Phil Collins stepped out to sing after he left I was very surprised.
Phil surprised me again when he got into r'n'b, getting into him even more.
I still throw in "Something in the Air Tonight", a nice blend with the Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger".
Did you know Phil is touring the States, having one of the best American Civil War collections?
After all the progressive rock, Yes's "Gates of Delirium" is something I still listen to,
because I can't find another copy of "In the court of the Crimson King".
Jimi Hendrix said King Crimson was his favorite English band.
Have you ever touched Hadrian's Wall?
Over here, almost everyone can visualize The Great Wall of China,
but most have never heard of Hadrian's Wall.
I hope the intensities of my memories about the sound of that Redmere,
didn't make me seem as severely informing as you said.
Overall, I should have kept my original Marshall 50 watt head with the single 8x10 inch speaker cabinet,
but I could never find another, and I like to be stereo, or at least on both sides.
Can you tell it's been a lonely existence here, as an electric guitarist?
However, half the charm is hearing and reading pipe organs and classical musicians.
"Wherever ye may be, let the wind blow free".
I hear what you're saying about drums, but, I am from the Niagara Peninsula,
and Neil Peart is the most famous drummer from here, someone I jammed with,
and saw very often, in the record store with his first wife, and playing with his cousin.
Neil is famous for having a half acre of percussion onstage,
and now he's turning on his pedestal to face the audience playing electronics.
Riff-rock at a highly developed phase, even bar bands around here have huge set-ups.
The two best bands I played in were "Drastic Measures", from Dominique.
They won the Toronto Caribana Parade First Prize for Bands, their first year here.
When they settled in St. Catharines, with a big migrant worker population in the peninsula,
they asked me to join, never less than eight onstage.
Henwood, the drummer, 6'4", big muscles, would ruffle my pantlegs with his bass tom,
and it took me two weeks to make eye contact with him. I played for two seasons.
Playing with Ben Hewitt, "Smoky", got me into his Mohawk crowd, the most important gig I ever had.
It was a rainy day in Nipigon, and the tuck shop girl was very pretty and friendly,
and she got me into a beading loom, and that ended up becoming a suede and beaded vest.
Having Mohawks come on to me about it, and getting a gig, changed my life and mind.
If I talk any more about that, a year and a half, it would only sound like bragging.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not working, using a borrowed office computer.
This government organization supports me as a protest mayoral candidate in my home town,
and were just closing down upstairs. Now I'm downstairs, available to eight.
Noohoozfurra?
Seehowitzgaun
Wannaweehaufwirat?
Gonnynodaerat?
Shesnopittinupwiit.
You could do me a kind favour and explain what these mean, and no doubt entertain everyone else here.
I always thought Peter Gabriel was dubbing in his own background vocals, never seeing the band,
and when Phil Collins stepped out to sing after he left I was very surprised.
Phil surprised me again when he got into r'n'b, getting into him even more.
I still throw in "Something in the Air Tonight", a nice blend with the Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger".
Did you know Phil is touring the States, having one of the best American Civil War collections?
After all the progressive rock, Yes's "Gates of Delirium" is something I still listen to,
because I can't find another copy of "In the court of the Crimson King".
Jimi Hendrix said King Crimson was his favorite English band.
Have you ever touched Hadrian's Wall?
Over here, almost everyone can visualize The Great Wall of China,
but most have never heard of Hadrian's Wall.
I hope the intensities of my memories about the sound of that Redmere,
didn't make me seem as severely informing as you said.
Overall, I should have kept my original Marshall 50 watt head with the single 8x10 inch speaker cabinet,
but I could never find another, and I like to be stereo, or at least on both sides.
Can you tell it's been a lonely existence here, as an electric guitarist?
However, half the charm is hearing and reading pipe organs and classical musicians.
"Wherever ye may be, let the wind blow free".
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umlietung
New member
I will enlighten you indeed
Noohoozfurra- "Now who is for a..." (as in drink).
Seehowitzgaun-"See how it's going"
Wannaweehaufwirat-"Do you want a small whisky(half gill) with that"
Gonnynodaerat- "Are you going to not do that"
Shesnopittinupwiit-" She's not putting up with it"
And there we must leave Parliamo Glasgow to it's own
If i might, how does one read a pipe organ?, excuse the inexcusable but that particular avenue of pleasure seems closed to me
Let me assure you that being from the South West Of Scotland, i am aware of just how free the wind can blow, which is generally why Donald always had a spare pair of troosers.
When it comes to organs etc i cannot see beyond a certain Rick Wakeman, and i only briefly mention him as i had a wee listen again today of the "Cirque Surreal" album, it may just be possible that among the inordinate amount of sheer bloody marvellousness having flown from those cultured tips, the deliciously upbeat and unfeasibly happy "The Jig" last cut on the peice, needs highlighting.
By chance you may not be acquainted with this little beauty, might i suggest you do.
Closing lyric for this post might well be on this occaision "And the thing i hate oh lord, is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nations fate. So let's skip the news boy, i'll make some tea", the Arabs and the Jews boy, too much for me".
Just thought i'd mention it, cos you never know when you might see "Blood On The Rooftops", quite possibly Genesis at the zenith of their songwriting powers, in my humble.
S.
umlietung
New member
PS i have indeed touched Hadrian's Wall in part, along the Northumbrian part, can't say that i got much from it.
I seem to have various versions of the "Court Of The Crimson King", one of my favourite covers is the live version by Asia.
I'll join you in lonliness on this occaison in the Lonlieness of The Long Distance Drummer" .
John Watt
Member
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner",
a movie on TV that had a strange fascination for me.
Thanks for reminding me, something when I was about ten.
I saw Rick Wakemen when he joined Yes after "Relayer", in the Buffalo arena.
Still like Relayer with Patrick Moraz better. "Gates of Delirium" still worth listening to.
I've accessed online at the downtown library as I'm walking by, three minutes left.
Just enough to say thanks for the Glascow slang. I'll be using some soon.
I think of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", a cut that still gets played around here.
I've just come down from the Isle of Skye.... I wish!
a movie on TV that had a strange fascination for me.
Thanks for reminding me, something when I was about ten.
I saw Rick Wakemen when he joined Yes after "Relayer", in the Buffalo arena.
Still like Relayer with Patrick Moraz better. "Gates of Delirium" still worth listening to.
I've accessed online at the downtown library as I'm walking by, three minutes left.
Just enough to say thanks for the Glascow slang. I'll be using some soon.
I think of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", a cut that still gets played around here.
I've just come down from the Isle of Skye.... I wish!
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umlietung
New member
Today is a day for reflection here in the Burns household, my partner, well she has decided that it's a good day to spend money on unnescessary nescessities in her opinion, on reflection i feel this is not her best idea, to conquer this i have planned to spend the morning on an organised walk around the gardens and environs of Hampton Court Palace, reflecting in the footsteps of old 'enery the eigth! oi am.The Chapel Royal is a beautiful reflective spot for a half hour of reflection and peace.
The scene of many an enjoyable evening in the company of the aforementioned Rick Wakeman and his once annual concerts there-in upon the entrance grounds.
A small but pleasing way to clear the mind on a rather pleasing day in SW London.Leaving the afternoon hours to reflect on whichever and whatever.
Then it's all over and the "Song Remains The Same" as things return to normal noise and congestion and hustle and chaos.
"Reflections Of My Life" by the Marmalade indeed.
Scot's Wha Hey! S.