Yes, I meant to post this last week. Tom Waits’ pal, and immortalised in song by Waits’ girlfriend at the time.

Bobby McGregor (Falkirk) got a silver for swimming!

It says on my box of (tesco) eggs – keep refrigerated for freshness.

I once thought that Rolph(Ralph?)The Dog, was a rip off of Tom Waits. It probably was the other way round.

I have a Creative Soundblaster 2 and a Creative Soundblaster Pro. I think one is just a newer version of the other. Superb!

Don’t know about lamb or beef, but years ago, the Australian government used to subsidise their wine in order to sell it in UK. As little as 10 years ago I spotted a bottle of standard Jacob’s Creek in a shop in […]

I live in Scotland’s central belt, so it’s just over an hour away. Traffic was great too!

Motel on the A84 (Mhor 84) for the weekend. Lovely to eat in a restaurant and drink Guinness inside! There’s a cycle path alongside the road that goes from Killin to Callander. We didn’t have bikes with us but […]

Apologies Paul. I misunderstood your sentence.

Weegees, or weegies are from Glasgow, Paul.
Glaswegians. Glas-weegee-ians.

Haha!

I was misinformed.

Here’s one of these things I have stuck in my head……..did I read it in a Chuck Berry biography?

Joe went looking for Chuck’s house to get his autograph. When he got there, Chuck was cutting the […]

If I remember correctly, David Hepworth did a podcast with Don Felder. Interesting and entertaining too. I think I remember Felder saying something along the lines of ‘when there’s hundreds of millions of dollars […]

You have to remember that Tom was just trying to be clever/funny in the knowledge that he was becoming very rich from the royalties.

He wasn’t getting rich.

A few years later, Springsteen covered ‘Jersey […]

I feel like I’ve been here forever. At least 15 years then, maybe more. I certainly didn’t buy issue 1 of the magazine, but Tom Morton on BBC Radio Scotland told me about it early on. It certainly was one of the […]

Our charity shops in Scotland are now open again. Just for this thread, I nipped in to one(Strathcarron Hospice) when I was in town earlier. Disappointed to find only a single row of cds, maybe 50 or so. There […]

Try John Prine. Lake Marie.

It’s not a ‘lost’ art to me..It’s a ‘never been able to’ art to me. 2 songs in my little repertoire require whistling – “It’s Saturday Night” by The Proclaimers and “Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard” by Paul […]

I agree! It’s Ragged Glory live, plus all the big electric favourites.

It’s funny how as time goes by my tastes have changed. I always loved the acoustic stuff…that part hasn’t changed, but I loved the […]

I don’t think “hands in boxing gloves guitar style” is a compliment. Neil is a fantastic guitarist. Just because everyone can play his songs doesn’t mean that they’re easy. Neil never copied anyone. His style is […]