What vinyl are you listening to?

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Arthur Askey once jumped in front of me in at a taxi rank at Manchester's Piccadilly Hotel many years ago.

Beat that.

:O

Twice at a record company xmas party I was stood in the queue for the toilet cubicle behind Andy Bell of Erasure.

I win. :rofl:

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

him and Page are chums...

You mean Jimmy "the song stealing cabbage patch doll" Page?

Yup, that's the one. I guess you're no fan? A pity, because I think he lit up some of those songs. For me, a guitar hero...

He's a song stealer, a talented one, but still a thief of other people's music.

Just credit the original writers Jimmy, and I'll think about forgiving you.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

High quality name dropping is allowed.

Laughs! Thanks BBB.

So who else do you know Jim?

Cynthia and Julian Lennon. From when I was a kid. I put Julian to bed once! It's a long story. I'll type it when I've got more time. It was round at my grandma's house who lived next door to Cynthia's best friend who had recently moved down from Liverpool.

Impressive, but they're no Andy Bell from erasure are they? :rofl:

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Didn't he sing one track on Dark Side Of The Moon?

Yes. He also had a song dedicated to him, on Led Zep iii, him and Page are chums...

He didn't sing on 'Dark Side Of The Moon'; he sang on 'Wish You Were Here.' The song was 'Have A Cigar.'

Hi Jim,

That's a rather cool roll call of Britsh legends you're brushed shoulders with. Harper, Drake and Martyn. Wow. When I was in my early teens they were the soundtrack I absorbed as it wafted daily from my older brother's bedroom. I was too young to make any sense of it then, but it laid the foundations for later discovery. He was also an obsessive Neil Young and Graham Parker fan, but had no time for Bob. I digress. . .

I'm glad you were swayed by your first acquaintance with MMJ. They're a big-ish band but I don't see many mentions around these parts. Most of my friends have had a proselytising CD-R or vinyl and beer session thrown their way - some even succumbed. I've seen them countless times in the last decade and they never disappoint. One of those bands that truly deliver Iive and on disc. A dexterous juggernaut of sound, grandiose and graceful.

My current MMJ fixation - there have been many incarnations down the decade - is their multiple live releases via their site. Not quite Deadhead levels of show upon show detail and scrutiny but they're getting there. You know, the twenty to thirty minute versions of songs you know and love. The Pet Shop Boys, NY, George Micheal, Prince, Lionel Ritchie, Dylan, The Band cover versions. All present and correct.

I'll wax lyrical or otherwise about their studio output sooner or later. Apologies to the non-Jackets for this splurge.

Currently playing:

It Still Moves - MMJ

 

[DIB]

Arthur Askey once jumped in front of me in at a taxi rank at Manchester's Piccadilly Hotel many years ago.

Beat that.

:O

Twice at a record company xmas party I was stood in the queue for the toilet cubicle behind Andy Bell of Erasure.

I win. :rofl:

Fair do's. BTW it was probably better to be behind Andy Bell than the other way round.

.

 

[Freddy58]

Drake, Harper and Martyn. Kinda rolls off the tongue

 

[rjb70stoke]

Just got this today. A fantastic album anyway, but the vinyl sounds absolutely awesome (to me). Even with my modest system, its like having the band in the room. Way way better than the version on Spotify.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Arthur Askey once jumped in front of me in at a taxi rank at Manchester's Piccadilly Hotel many years ago.

Beat that.

:O

Twice at a record company xmas party I was stood in the queue for the toilet cubicle behind Andy Bell of Erasure.

I win. :rofl:

Fair do's. BTW it was probably better to be behind Andy Bell than the other way round.

:silenced:

It took a lot of living down to be honest. I just wanted a shy boy's pee, I have no idea what he wanted.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Drake, Harper and Martyn.

Quality solicitors.

 

[Freddy58]

him and Page are chums...

You mean Jimmy "the song stealing cabbage patch doll" Page?

Yup, that's the one. I guess you're no fan? A pity, because I think he lit up some of those songs. For me, a guitar hero...

He's a song stealer, a talented one, but still a thief of other people's music.

Just credit the original writers Jimmy, and I'll think about forgiving you.

I try not to get too wound up about those things. If the music is good, that's enough for me

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I try not to get too wound up about those things. If the music is good, that's enough for me

So you wouldn't be upset if someone broke into your house and stole everything you own?

The thefts were many, but none more worse than "Dazed And Confused" by Jake Holmes.

 

[Freddy58]

I try not to get too wound up about those things. If the music is good, that's enough for me

So you wouldn't be upset if someone broke into your house and stole everything you own?

The thefts were many, but none more worse than "Dazed And Confused" by Jake Holmes.

Of course, yes. But onlookers wouldn't be. Would you be that bothered if someone broke in to my home? Of course not...

 

[DIB]

As you can see tonight I grabbed a small selection of LPs at random from the "M" section..

Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream

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[Freddy58]

As you can see tonight I grabbed a small seection of LPs at random from the "M" section..

..

Ooh... love that Pretty sure I have that....somewhere

 

[DIB]

As you can see tonight I grabbed a small seection of LPs at random from the "M" section..

..

Ooh... love that Pretty sure I have that....somewhere

Indeed, so I've put this Moody's on..

.. a bit harder going this one. Not my favourite.

.

 

[Freddy58]

As you can see tonight I grabbed a small seection of LPs at random from the "M" section..

..

Ooh... love that Pretty sure I have that....somewhere

Indeed, so I've put this Moody's on..

.. a bit harder going this one. Not my favourite.

.

I'm not too keen either, but still some nice tunes. I suppose my favourite would be 'To Our Childrens Childrens Children' closely followed by 'Days Of Future Passed'.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Today I have listened to:

The Beatles - Abbey Road

David Bowie - Low

Jimmy Smith - Best Of

The Doors - Morrison Hotel

The Birthday Party - Hits

Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket

Is A Woman - Lambchop

Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal - My Morning Jacket

Jim, just read your Cynthia and Julian anecdote, you should write a book or a poem or a play. Maybe you already have!! Interpolated with your vinyl and drama journey it would be a winner.

 

[Jim-W]

Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket

Is A Woman - Lambchop

Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal - My Morning Jacket

Jim, just read your Cynthia and Julian anecdote, you should write a book or a poem or a play. Maybe you already have!! Interpolated with your vinyl and drama journey it would be a winner.

I laughed. It's not like I knew these people, Charlie! I just happened to be there when they were there! If you catch ma drift.

I'm loathe to admit it but I write all the time, poems mostly. My computer screen is awash with post-it notes.As I typed to a friend today, I want to be known as the John Clare of the internet age. John Clare is my hero by the way! He was bonkers of course. I've been to see his house!

My friend wrote a play about The Smiths some years back; I'm pretty sure it was on in Manchester and a few big cities. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

My daughter has just come home so I may not get any MMJ done tonight but I will do some more tomorrow.

 

[stevebrock]

As you can see tonight I grabbed a small selection of LPs at random from the "M" section..

Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream

.

Love this !

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket

Is A Woman - Lambchop

Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal - My Morning Jacket

Jim, just read your Cynthia and Julian anecdote, you should write a book or a poem or a play. Maybe you already have!! Interpolated with your vinyl and drama journey it would be a winner.

I laughed. It's not like I knew these people, Charlie! I just happened to be there when they were there! If you catch ma drift.

I'm loathe to admit it but I write all the time, poems mostly. My computer screen is awash with post-it notes.As I typed to a friend today, I want to be known as the John Clare of the internet age. John Clare is my hero by the way! He was bonkers of course. I've been to see his house!

My friend wrote a play about The Smiths some years back; I'm pretty sure it was on in Manchester and a few big cities. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

My daughter has just come home so I may not get any MMJ done tonight but I will do some more tomorrow.

Many years ago I worked for a T.I.E company in Northampton and we visited John Clare's house and several places associated with him in the surrounding area. The plan was the Borough Council were going to fund us to come up with something to raise awareness about mental health issues. Our proposal was turned down but we were commissioned to write something agit-prop and angry (if that's not a tautology) about Northern Ireland. This was 1987, after all. I wrote it (terrible, terrible schematic stuff) but it toured around the schools and youth centres of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire for a month or two.

Keep the writing going!!! It's all we have, isn't it? With the music, the people and the rest.

I seem to recall The Smiths play but never got to see it. I've toyed with the idea too but nothing has come of it. I'm currently writing a "musical piece"with a friend which dwells on the Miners' Strike (I teach in Castleford, West Yorkshire) but we're hoping to avoid any unintentional resemblance to the hilarious Peter Richardson/Comic Strip's Strike!!! TV film, circa early 90s. We'll see how (un)successful we are.

Last tune of the night:

Wonderful (The Way I Feel) - MMJ (off the Circuital LP).

 

[stevebrock]

I know its Duran Duran but.........

Playing Rio for the first time through my new amp........

Save a Prayer - WTF sounds amazing, the imaging, space aroud the instruments is phenomanal

I know its a naff 80s album - but I grew up on this stuff and its timeless and takes me back 30 years like most of my vinyl

 

[stevebrock]

War of the Worlds now ! Richard Burton is in my lounge from the dead I swear

 

[Jim-W]

Very interesting, Charlie. I'm glad you know of John Clare; I guess I was thinking, 'Don't type that:nobody will know who you're on about.' His nature poetry is just beautiful and naturally expressive. I saw his notebooks and manuscripts which have absolutely no punctuation whatsoever. Unrequited love and the Enclosure Acts did for him but the poetry from his stay at the mental hospital in Northampton is strikingly beautiful. 'I Am' is probably the most famous example.

A play about the miner's strike would be interesting. The school I worked at and that I've gone back to is in a pit village, Gedlng in Nottinghamshire. It used to be known as the pit school. The slag heap, now a wooded area and conservation park, well that's the plan, dominates the horizon. Poetic, I guess. I think many of the old mining families have moved away from the area now as, of course, the pit closed when Thatcher decided that she'd had enough crap from the lower orders. Children used to tell me about the divisions within families; I've heard these stories loads of times, especially the ones that end with, '...and they still don't speak to each other today.' Nottinghamshire gave birth to the UDM in 1984, as you know, so it became an area in which the rift between strikers and strike-breakers was intensified. The strike as a microcosm of class struggle is replete with possibilities for powerful drama along with the tragic human cost. I think it's a great idea. Keep at it, Charlie!

 

[stevebrock]

Very interesting, Charlie. I'm glad you know of John Clare; I guess I was thinking, 'Don't type that:nobody will know who you're on about.' His nature poetry is just beautiful and naturally expressive. I saw his notebooks and manuscripts which have absolutely no punctuation whatsoever. Unrequited love and the Enclosure Acts did for him but the poetry from his stay at the mental hospital in Northampton is strikingly beautiful. 'I Am' is probably the most famous example.

A play about the miner's strike would be interesting. The school I worked at and that I've gone back to is in a pit village, Gedlng in Nottinghamshire. It used to be known as the pit school. The slag heap, now a wooded area and conservation park, well that's the plan, dominates the horizon. Poetic, I guess. I think many of the old mining families have moved away from the area now as, of course, the pit closed when Thatcher decided that she'd had enough crap from the lower orders. Children used to tell me about the divisions within families; I've heard these stories loads of times, especially the ones that end with, '...and they still don't speak to each other today.' Nottinghamshire gave birth to the UDM in 1984, as you know, so it became an area in which the rift between strikers and strike-breakers was intensified. The strike as a microcosm of class struggle is replete with possibilities for powerful drama along with the tragic human cost. I think it's a great idea. Keep at it, Charlie!

sweet holy jesus - am I on the wrong thread