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Skid X

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Mention of Black Grape gets me all misty eyed. The bold Shaun is back at the end of the year doing Pills n ' Thrills down Vicar St.

A little Grape to lighten things up....any religious folks or Batman fans can leave now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHvcSjGpIuY

Yep, that Vicar Street gig should be class. Love a bit of the Mondays live.

Welsh Megaman

efb wrote: »

The first Album I bought was: Definitely Maybe

First album I bought was 'God Shuffled His Feet' by Crash Test Dummies! :O

Altogether now...mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm...

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

I have my tickets bought already

Not a joke.

:eek:

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

:eek:

The more you protest, the more of this gets posted

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

The more you protest, the more of this gets posted.

I must admit, the strings on 'Julia Says' are epic


*Coat Coat Coat*

Skid X

Hello! it's Lionel Richie the album buyers have been looking for.

Up a staggering 103 places to No.1 after his triumphant Glasto set last week. Normally old artists have to die to get that kind of sales boost.

The veteran crooner, who's been celebrating his album's success British-style with a cup of tea, said he was "overwhelmed" to have performed at Worthy Farm and thinks that's why he has soared into this week's top spot.

His album, The Definitive Collection By Lionel Richie & The Commodores, only reached number 10 when it was released back in 2003.

But this week it jumped up 103 places.

It's his first UK number one album since Back To Front 23 years ago.

http://news.sky.com/story/1513786/glastonbury-triumph-sends-richie-to-number-one




This is the last week ever where the Charts will be announced on a Sunday afternoon, the UK is moving to a Friday release date (like most of the World).

Go Harvey Go

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I'm sure I've said this before, but I never understood Tubular Bells. Just don't get it.

I guess that's the difference between me and Richard Branson

If you don't get Tubular Bells... then you certainly won't get Amarok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjGTxoXtSI

And the best bit?

..-./..-/-.-./-.-
---/..-./..-.
.-./-...

Welsh Megaman

Heads up...

The Albert Steptoe Ginger Baker documentary!

When the director of the film has his nose broken by his subject, you know you're in for some TV gold


Tuesday 7th. July - BBC One 10.35pm
Imagine...presents 'Beware Of Mr. Baker'

Imagine... presents Beware of Mr Baker. In this award-winning documentary, Cream drummer Ginger Baker reflects on his sixty-year career. It began in the jazz clubs of Soho and led to sellout stadium concerts, via the back streets of Lagos. The film's director Jay Bulger catches up with the irascible instrumentalist at his ranch in South Africa to talk drums, drugs and everything in-between. Has the young director bitten off more than he can chew?

FloatingVoter

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

. Has the young director bitten off more than he can chew?

..or put his nose where it don't belong ?

loyatemu

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Tuesday 7th. July - BBC One 10.35pm
Imagine...presents 'Beware Of Mr. Baker'

watched this last night - what a jerk!

Not knowing that much about drumming, is he actually as good as he thinks he is? For a rock drummer, he's clearly very good, but all he was interested in was the acknowledgment of his jazz heroes, and I wondered if they were just humouring him to some extent.

Funniest episode in it has to be GB going to Africa to jam with Fela Kuti and his revolutionary gang, and within a couple of years GB was playing polo with the ruling classes FK was trying to overthrow.

guile4582

loyatemu wrote: »

watched this last night - what a jerk!

Not knowing that much about drumming, is he actually as good as he thinks he is? For a rock drummer, he's clearly very good, but all he was interested in was the acknowledgment of his jazz heroes, and I wondered if they were just humouring him to some extent.

Funniest episode in it has to be GB going to Africa to jam with Fela Kuti and his revolutionary gang, and within a couple of years GB was playing polo with the ruling classes FK was trying to overthrow.

a tortured genius, his ability to kick two bass drums earned him particular note, just look at all the drummers since who reference Ginger as their role model. he is the father of heavy metal drumming

loyatemu

guile4582 wrote: »

a tortured genius, his ability to kick two bass drums earned him particular note, just look at all the drummers since who reference Ginger as their role model. he is the father of heavy metal drumming

he wasn't very complimentary about Heavy Metal in the documentary (not that he was complimentary about anything or anyone).

guile4582

he is a cantankerous old fart, but answering your original question "is he as good as he thinks he is"

the answer is yes.

with Blind Faith

Harry Palmr

Its on the obscure Film On channel (not sure which SKY number, Freesat 410) but they have YES - live at the Rainbow Theatre 1972. It was on last night, worth seeing even if you don't really like the band as they keep it very tight with everything turned up to 11.

Well done to Lionel Richie,he was great at Glasto!

Skid X

Hello, it's a mix of the old and the new this weekend as Rock n Roll America and other old stuff on BBC4 battles T in The Park on BBC3. Bits and bobs elsewhere. Everything from Chuck Berry to The Prodigy and more ...


Thursday

1.15am Top of The Pops 1980
Steve Wright presents an edition originally broadcast on August 21, 1980. Featuring the Nick Straker Band, ELO, Sheena Easton, Hazel O'Connor, the Piranhas, Kelly Marie, Cliff Richard, the Jam, Shakin' Stevens and Billy Joel, plus David Bowie with the week's number one, Ashes to Ashes.



Friday

9pm & Midnight - Rock N Roll America (Part 2)
Whole Lotta Shakin' The mid-1950s saw Elvis Presley made his TV debut with Heartbreak Hotel, following it with a gyrating version of Hound Dog that outraged the conservative media. A `cleaned-up' artist was required, and Christian family man Pat Boone sated that need. Whle Jerry Lee Lewis caused upset with Whole Lotta Shakin and the Everlys shocked with Wake Up Little Susie, bespectacled geek Buddy Holly calmed things down with his school friends the Crickets. Contributors include Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Everly and Tom Jones

10pm & 2am Chuck Berry in Concert
The legendary rock 'n' roll singer performs at the BBC Television Theatre in 1972, featuring hits Johnny B Goode, Nadine and Roll Over Beethoven, as well as an innuendo-laden rendition of My Ding-a-Ling

11pm & 3am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 50 years on
Actor and musician Sam Palladio hosts a musical tribute to Elvis Presley, 60 years after the artist recorded his first single That's All Right at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The presenter traces Elvis's story from a childhood spent in poverty to the moment he entered a recording booth to perform the track that would act as a springboard to his success. Featuring performances of a selection of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's finest songs from artists including Candi Staton, the Pierces and Laura Bell Bundy

1am Sounds of The Sixies
1968-69 - The Swinging Sixties Music from the flower power era, featuring bands including Herman's Hermits, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Alan Price Set, Manfred Mann and the Rolling Stones

1.30 am Sounds of The Sixties
The Folk Revival Folk performances by artists including Pete Seeger, Tim Buckley, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen


T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Sam Smith, Rudimental
9pm - Kasabian



Saturday

10.45pm - Big Hits: TOTP 1964 to 1975
A selection of performances from the first years of Top of the Pops, featuring the Rolling Stones, Peter Sarstedt, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Julie Driscoll, Queen, the Kinks, Procol Harum, Stealers Wheel, the Seekers and Status Quo

12.15am - Top of The Pops 1980
As above

T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Jessie J, George Ezra
9pm - The Vaccines, The Script
10pm - The Libertines, Avicii



Sunday

11pm Kings of 70s Romance
Lesley Joseph narrates a documentary celebrating unlikely sex symbols from the world of pop in the 1970s, when the songs of Gilbert O'Sullivan, Barry White, Leo Sayer, David Soul and Demis Roussos conjured up images of candle-lit dinners, red roses and cosy nights in. Featuring contributions by Gloria Hunniford and Martha Kearney

Midnight - Elvis That's Alright Mama 50 years on
As above

T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Paloma Faith, James Bay
9pm - Clean Bandit, Jamie T
10pm - Noel Gallagher, The Prodigy



Elsewhere, In His Life: The John Lennon Story is on True Entertainment on Monday at 10am. Sure it might be worth taping, Beatles films are usually a bit of fun. Sky Arts has lots of Queen over the weekend and a few other bits and bobs.

The Spy Who Loved Me is on RTE2 on Sunday at 6.15. The Best Bond Intro and the Best Bond theme, in my opinion. Alan will explain better than I could

Welsh Megaman

T In The Park needs more Lemmy

Welsh Megaman

What's up, daddios?

Welsh Megaman

Dig those gyrating hips!

FloatingVoter

I was raised in church

I went to bible college


.....and none of it took.

Welsh Megaman

Fats Domino is still alive! :eek: :eek:

87 years young

FloatingVoter

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Fats Domino is still alive! :eek: :eek:

87 years young

...and despite his best efforts, Jerry Lee remains around. Accidentally fill a coke bottle with petrol and torch the place because Chuck Berry wins the toss. As you do.

Harry Palmr

As much as I enjoy the music and talking heads I love looking at the old value gear and tape machines!

Lisha

Just having a very pleasant hour watching kasabian in bbc3's coverage of t in the park. Very enjoyable:)

human 19

Lisha wrote: »

Just having a very pleasant hour watching kasabian in bbc3's coverage of t in the park. Very enjoyable:)

me too.

Lemmy Scott

kasabian are like eating a breakfast roll you look forward to it then after starting it goes downhill

Welsh Megaman

Not enough early performances from TOTP

Who was the presenter anyway?




Oh.

Skid X

Dave Clark!

Decent enough band, but that Doc turned me right off them.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Dave Clark!

Decent enough band, but that Doc turned me right off them.

But...but...they were just as culturally relevant as the Beatles and the Stones!



















:pac:

Welsh Megaman

I prefer Paul Shane's version of this song

cml387

I got the impression that the Supremes were a trio for a period much longer than implied in that clip ( as opposed to Diana Ross and the....) but you can evidently see who the leader was even then.

Skid X

Bab-eh Bab-eh

cml387

Wasn't Cher just gorgeous, and Sonny looks like Baldrick.

Welsh Megaman

Step Out tonight :pac:

Skid X

I saw little Stevie in concert once.

He did a great set, proper legend.

My favourite part was when he messed up the start of a song and had to begin again. He said "Oh, sorry about that, I wasn't looking at the keyboard" :pac:

He has probably used that line hundreds of times, but I enjoyed it.

Welsh Megaman

The Foundations lead singer's voice is a bit 'shaky'.

Shaky.




Suit yourselves.

cml387

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The Foundations lead singer's voice is a bit 'shaky'.

Shaky.




Suit yourselves.

Shaky.Finished shaky as well.

Meanwhile lets see what one of the stars of Pirates Of the Caribbean was up to in his young years

Welsh Megaman

The Quo's own 'Listen To The Flower People'

cml387

Interesting that Tom couldn't believe that Delilah was a serious song.

It was many,many years after I first heard The Green Green Grass Of Home that I realised it was about the last hours of a man on death row.

Welsh Megaman

Love that song :O

Skid X

I love that Maggie May performance with a tipsy John Peel miming the Mandolin while Rod and the Faces have a kickabout

cml387

Significantly, the director chose not to focus too closely on John Peel's mandolin "solo" in Maggie May.

Welsh Megaman

Mick Ronson - guitar legend.

Welsh Megaman

The Three Degrees...by Royal approval

Welsh Megaman

Anybody watching Noel Gallagher on BBC Three?

Never noticed before how the verse of 'Fade Away' is very similar to Wham's 'Freedom'

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Anybody watching Noel Gallagher on BBC Three?

Never noticed before how the verse of 'Fade Away' is very similar to Wham's 'Freedom'

Ah sure, Noel has never been shy about sampling great musical works

http://www.feelnumb.com/2009/12/16/oasis-shes-electric-lyric-taken-from-the-childrens-show-you-and-me/

“You And Me” was a BBC television program for pre-school children broadcast in the 1970s to 1990s. It was the British version of “Sesame Street” and consisted of various segments intended to educate and entertain young children and included elements for early literacy and numeracy. Click below to listen to the theme song Noel Gallagher stole the lyrics from…

I remember Frank Skinner pointing this out to Noel on his talk show, and Noel didn't deny it!

Some nice Oasis songs in his set tonight.

Welsh Megaman

Meh...the choir doesn't do anything for me.

Welsh Megaman

That guy on the front row literally in tears

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Meh...the choir doesn't do anything for me.

Yeah, they are a bit annoying. Don't see the point.

Although it did remind me to watch that Netflix documentary on Backing Singers.

Love Don't Look Back in Anger ... never gets old.

Welsh Megaman

The Prodigy on a Sunday night

*glowsticks*