As the old joke goes, if only Mama Cass had given Karen Carpenter that sandwich we’d still have two great singers.

As Sgt Wilson used to say about ARP Hodges:
“Have you seen his fingernails? They’re filthy'”

As with most things Irish, things are never as simple as they seem.
There are two completely separate manufacturers of Tayto, one in the North, one in the Republic. Colin H could write a book about it.
An […]

For some reason, for as long as I can remember, I have found myself unencumbered with the burden of patriotism, so it’s neither here nor there to me whether our national teams do well. In fact, when the likes of […]

Damn those German hippie rich kids and their bad acid.

What a great moment. Lovely instrument. Congratulations on not being a guitar buying sheep like the rest of us.
On the subject of Gibson quality, a friend of my son’s makes high-end guitars and basses. He says […]

Sad news, but the company would appear to have been appallingly managed.
I have an SG and my son has a Les Paul, so we’re all right, thanks
It’d be hilarious if Fender took them over.

It certainly wouldn’t be Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies

You can all consider yourselves outwimped. Sickbags at the ready, please.

Lifted from a bass message board; When Leo Fender designed his first electric bass he put a chrome cover over the pickup and the bridge for multiple reasons.

A. He thought the cover over the PUP would provide […]

Wasn’t it also among the first to do the ‘hand held’ camera thing which many found a little disconcerting? The more elderly amongst us will remember that Z Cars, in the early sixties, portrayed policemen as being […]

I saw the headline and thought they were taking a year off.

Kershaw was moaning on Facebook about not being invited for the evening. I cant think why he wasn’t….

Chris Eubank. One of the finest boxers this country has ever produced. Then he blows his fortune by not paying his taxes and squandering his money on monocles, preposterous clothes and articulated lorries. And he […]

Paul Simon made the following announcement today;

A message from Paul – February 5, 2018

I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a n […]

He was once frightfully rude to me.
I don’t give a monkey’s.
When all’s said and done, you are all nothing but words on a screen.

How about “Festival”?
Highlights of the Newport Folk Festival in the mid sixties. Including That Performance by Bob Dylan.

I’m surprised no-one has mentioned “Oil City Confidential”

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