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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Bygone brands 7 hours, 50 minutes ago
Sven Hassel and Erik von Daniken.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Bygone brands 12 hours, 55 minutes ago
Was it ‘Peardrax’? Made by Whiteways, who were based in Devon, with several plants and orchards near Exeter. They also made ‘Cydrax’. The firm is long gone, but you can still buy Whiteways drinks in the West […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Donovan and the history of his guitars – Mojo at his trainspotting best 17 hours, 40 minutes ago
Yes, I couldn’t remember his name. I think he played with Kate Bush, too.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Donovan and the history of his guitars – Mojo at his trainspotting best 1 day, 7 hours ago
There’s a Steve Hackett concert on YouTube at a Swiss jazz festival, and about a minute into one track the bass player loses one string and carries on. I remember Go West appearing on The Tube back in the 80s f […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Donovan and the history of his guitars – Mojo at his trainspotting best 1 day, 15 hours ago
The correct number of guitars (for a guitarist) can be expressed by the formula n + 1 = m, where n = the number of guitars already owned and m the sum of the new collection of guitars.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Steve Hackett – Under a Mediterranean Sky 3 days, 8 hours ago
‘Tough on Panpipes, tough on the causes of Panpipes’.
Ditto ‘crusty jugglers’. . .
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Steve Hackett – Under a Mediterranean Sky 3 days, 17 hours ago
Lawnmowers and Slippermen would be an excellent name for a Hackett-era Genesis tribute band.
A great summary of Steve’s career, with which I have only one teeny objection; that of being a ‘noodler’. He can do […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Prequels, sequels and reboots: from Higher Fidelity to Prim Suspect 5 days, 12 hours ago
D’you know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of Shelley. Or Budgie.
Beiderbecke Connection appeared on tv in 1992, not 85. If only Edith Fnuction didn’t go after fifteen minutes.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, How squeaky the human race is even as it’s told what is required of it. It panics like the irrational race that it is. First it denies and then greedily it consumes without consequence of its own. 6 days, 4 hours ago
The Go On Show as it was once announced. Gooks, yes, not goons.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, How squeaky the human race is even as it’s told what is required of it. It panics like the irrational race that it is. First it denies and then greedily it consumes without consequence of its own. 6 days, 5 hours ago
Goons was a perjorative for the Viet Cong, wasn’t it? Would fit the themes in the song, but I’ve just got this vague memory of Gabriel saying he used the c-word for its shock value, but substituting goons for the […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, How squeaky the human race is even as it’s told what is required of it. It panics like the irrational race that it is. First it denies and then greedily it consumes without consequence of its own. 6 days, 6 hours ago
I thought the original album version was c**ns. I’d interpreted the song as commenting on colonial attitudes.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Prequels, sequels and reboots: from Higher Fidelity to Prim Suspect 6 days, 18 hours ago
Alan Plater wrote three novels which coincide with the three parts of the ‘Beiderbecke Trilogy’ of tv series. I suspect that he wrote the novels and the screenplays at the same time.
The Beiderbecke Affair – […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Prequels, sequels and reboots: from Higher Fidelity to Prim Suspect 1 week ago
Holt is a prolific author, writing under that name as well as pseudonyms. He’s not quite as waspish as Benson, but the novels are not pastiches.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Prequels, sequels and reboots: from Higher Fidelity to Prim Suspect 1 week ago
E.F Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels set mainly (but not entirely) in a lightly fictionalised version of the town of Rye ended when he did, but the author Tom Holt wrote two further novels featuring the […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Attempted coup 1 week, 1 day ago
‘The Bundestag on triangle’.
*ting*
‘Thanks, Angela’.
*barp-barp-barp- barp- barp*. . .
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Prequels, sequels and reboots: from Higher Fidelity to Prim Suspect 1 week, 1 day ago
Weren’t there two Afterwords that appeared after The Word blog finally closed?
I seem to remember someone was very quick off the mark and set a blog up, which featured a green colour scheme? That then got […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Favourite remixes 1 week, 1 day ago
If I pay attention to Anderson’s lyrics – and assume I much very are they – it sounds like Yoda has had a major input. I can ignore them in Summer’s version, and just accept the bliss and the emotion.
I was […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Favourite remixes 1 week, 1 day ago
I absolutely adore her version of it, but whichever version, the words really are sense-free random noise. I appreciate this is true of many songs!
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, ATM – advice to the massive , how to fix the microwave you were going to throw out. 1 week, 2 days ago
Surprised CORSAIR TINNED CHICKEN has yet to appear in these Free School Meals boxes yet.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Great interview with Fripp, from 1979. 1 week, 2 days ago
I think Fripp released some of Bennett’s talks on record; they met not long before Bennett died. Bits of one of the talks can be heard on Fripp’s ‘The League Of Gentlemen’.
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