In a private email, Beany expresses his chagrin at mis-identifying the character on the Stackridge album cover as “a man” (in spite of all the evidence to the contrary), claiming the “hat fooled him” (forgetting that the hat in the picture is no more a bowler than the wearer is a man), and asks if I’d kindly curate a thread on his behalf to make the whole issue of “men” and “bowler hats” clear to him. Pleased to oblige, Beansie!
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/CbIdce2WEAAi8HL_zpsbc79vcui.jpg
Here’s a photographic plate that artfully combines our disparate themes into one coherent image:
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/bowler_hat_zpskxbht5mt.jpg
That Zappa photo was taken in London 1968 . Frank was trying to blend in with the locals, because everyone wears a bowler in London.
Let’s try that again, just for the Beanster
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/Sunburst369/767837_zpse2l9wx8w.png
Nice one, Jemes! We may have some birdsplaining to do for th’ Beanster, though …
At least I wasn’t obvious in my choice. Bert.
Charming!
Here’s a poser!
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/1.1258570792.lady-in-traditional-bowler-hat_zpsfiqqwzg6.jpg
I once ran a positive and uplifting thread about “Bell end also-ran pop stars” and incredibly the bloke in bowler hat from The Blow Monkeys did not make the cut. Instead I focussed on the bass player from New Musik. Let’s put that straight now :
Sorry if he’s a much-respected bassoonist or something.
How do like my umbrellas, fellas?
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o615/JohnDetail/image_zpssx6qz2bx.jpeg
Who said the bowler hat couldn’t be sexy?
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/hat_zpsovap0yiy.jpg
Almost certainly in Beany’s collection
As if.
To muddy the waters further, the artificial insemination man who visited farms to impregnate the cows was known as ‘the bull in the bowler hat’.
As I can’t post pictures from my tablet, could someone kindly post a picture of Martin Jacques from the Tiger Lillies please.
Shirley, the bowler hat craze started with that great comedy duo Beany and Hardy?
https://flic.kr/p/F3p996
Nice Cop & Psycho, Shirley ?
The hat is very Beany. The shirt print isn’t bad. But the “fly” front, non-matching pocket and just plain wrong collar, coupled with a too-tight fit – and are those – *ulp* – cuffs on the sleeves? – oh dear.
I’m not a pedantic fellow but Stan and Ollie wore Derby hats – although they are exactly the same as Bowler hats. Stateside folks call them “durrbies”.
“Doibies” in Yonkers.
You’ve godda noive!
Why, for two cents I’d …
I this a bowler?
decent tune.
If we comparing that millinerial monstrosity with the undisputedly genuine article, as famously sported by Messrs. Freddie “Parrot Face” Davies, John Steed, Oddjob and the common or garden Orangeman, I think you’ll find that what we’re dealing with here is a mere “faux-ler” hat, i.e. a trilby or homburg that’s had its dimples punched out from the inside. The genuine bowler or derby has a stiffer brim with a curled-back edge that would appear to be absent from this tatty titfer.
A timely reminder of the great Freddie “Parrot Face” Davies. Here’s his website (@beany):
http://www.freddiedavies.com/
– from which we learn “Freddie was evacuated during the war”, which accounts for a lot.
And look! Here’s his Spotlight page!
http://www.spotlight.com/7114-6723-2285
– marvel at the Many Moods Of Parrot Face! He has a driving licence, too.
I see he has a CD with a song on it called “Labrador Language”. I bet that’s good.
Here come old flattop, he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball, he one holy bowler
http://i.imgur.com/lg8GRek.jpg
Threadkiller ⬆
Those f*ckin Beatles – they get in everywhere:
(The Unbearable Lightness Of Being trailer)
That ain’t a farkin’ trailer. This is a farkin’ trailer:
(The Monitors)
Plenty of sexual ambiguity in Cabaret but I think it is clear Sally is a girl despite the hat.
Mein Herr
Hats can be Mystical Headneys or Psychic Mind Dungeons. Your choice.
Just to add to the confusion the LP was called Pinafore Days when released in the USA.
That’s because she’s wearing a pinafore on the cover, Beany. Not a bowler hat.
Or possibly because of this song on the LP.
Hmm … perhaps the two are connected? Is the album any good, Beany? Would it serve as entry point into the Stackridge Experience?
Dip yer toe in. You know you want to experience the “West Country Beatles”. My money is on the previous LP Friendliness. If it is any help James Warren is a big fan of the Beach Boys.
Okeydokey. Off to see if they have Friendliness at the eel market.