…you see a plant named Hairy Spinifex and your immediate thought is: TMFTL
How about you?
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You Know You’ve Been On The Afterword Too Long When…
Rolling Stones In The Park – 47 Years On
July 5, 1969. On this day 47 years ago the Stones played their landmark free concert in Hyde Park. Here is a review I wrote a couple of years ago for the 45th anniversary.
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The Beatles Did It First
Just to cheer up my good friend @h-p-saucecraft, here’s a thread dedicated to the countless things the Beatles did before anyone else in the pop world.
Here’s just a few to kick things off:
First song with a FADE-IN – Eight Days A Week First use of feedback – I Feel Fine First LP without the band name on the cover – Rubber Soul
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Ready, Steady, Go – Rave Mad Mod Ball 1964
This picture was taken in April 1964 during rehearsals for the Ready, Steady, Go Mad Mod Ball at the Empire Pool Wembley (later the Wembley Arena, now the SSE Wembley Arena).
Apart from the Beatles, who that week held the top five records in the US, just about everyone of note from the Merseybeat boom is here.
Of the 40 faces here how many can you identify? Some are obvious but others are perhaps not so easy.
I’ll post a key diagram and a list of names shortly.
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A New Sleeve For Band On The Run?
With the news that Sir Clement Freud has been exposed as a paedophile, can we now expect him to be airbrushed out of popular history, as happened with Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile?
So, will Macca change the cover of Band On The Run (Freud is pictured above Linda) and if so who should replace him?
Perhaps some of our more Photoshop literate members can have a go at this?
http://i.imgur.com/fgAxfWn.jpg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/
Joe Bonamassa Shows How To Play Like Clapton, Beck and Page
Following his “Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks” event and the “Three Kings Tour” where he covered Albert, Freddie and BB, Joe Bonamassa has announced plans for a British Blues Boom special this year.
He talks about it in depth here and also demonstrates how to play like Eric, Jeff and Jimmy, plus there’s a little Paul Kossoff and Peter Green in there too.
Those of a nervous disposition may like to skip the first eight mins which is all amp talk. After that it’s guitar heaven all the way.
Another Great Beatle Loss – George Martin dead at 90
The so-called fifth Beatle has died according to a Twitter message by Ringo.
If true, it’s the sad loss of a great, great man.
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Ask A Siri Question …
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“What are you doing tonight?”
Elicits a variety of responses, my favourite being something like “gazing out of the window and composing haikus”.
“Are you naked?’
gets “and here I thought you loved me for my mind.”
I have better conversations with Siri than I’ve had with a few people I could mention (mostly Brand Managers)
But my absolute best is:
*LAUGHS*
gets “LOL” (L-O-L)
(Seriousry though but – does “Siri” come from “ask a silly question” in a Chinee accent?)
Matmos – Ultimate Care II
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This is (it says here) the new album from “renowned conceptual electronics duo” Matmos; Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt.
Renowned they may be, conceptual they certainly are. This is a continuous, thirty-eight minute collage of sampled sounds from the washing machine in their basement. Reading the text, then, you might be put off, thinking it to be nothing but art-wank of little or no musical consequence. I was prepared to give it a good kicking. But I’m absolutely hooked by it. This is art-wank of surprising musical consequence. Some of it sounds almost old-school analogue synth, some of it has cavernous and pummeling beats. Some of it sounds like Jetsons soundtracks. A lot of it is pretty damn funny, like Goon Show effects. I think you’d be giggling like a fool listening to it on medically-prescribed rhythm cigarettes. Or better, acid. How I wish I had some more of that. Actually, a lot of this is like the brain music you hear/see on acid. But don’t let that put you off, either, because what this is, right, what this is, against all the odds, right, is fantastically entertaining. It’s very composed, too, this is isn’t random art-wank, it’s thematic art-wank, » Continue Reading.
