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  1. Just got in from seeing the Tull...great gig. For years I've avoided seeing my various favourite bands touring now as ancient baldies....but, tonight I made an exception...and they were wonderful!

    Second set was Thick as a Brick, Aqualung and encore with Locomotive Breath....bloody marvellous.

    :D:D

  2. Just saw the last night of his UK tour...absolutely %$£"^ing awesome! Great band, great songs, great show...great fun. I've never seen a performer enjoy himself so much and an audience respond so well. Best gig I've been to in years...and I've been to a lot!

    :D:D:D:D:D

  3. Just buy the lot. He only did three albums. Bryter Later, Five Leaves Left and Pink Moon. They are all brilliant. None of the compilations or out-takes albums add anything of any value.

    All three albums are quite different...and quite gorgeous in their own ways. I couldn't pick a 'best' one.

    IMHO

    (speaking as someone who will be having Nick Drake played at his funeral...Hazey Jane, now that you ask...although it could have been Pink Moon...or Northern Sky...or 'One of these Things First' or 'River Man...or...or...any of them really)

    :D

  4. I was in the supermarket today and...over the system came 'Take another little piece of my heart...' :):D

    Well, apart from making me think about SJ...It confirmed my opinion...great lyric....not a poem.

    :D

    Been listening to Al Green all day...great lyrics....not poems.

    :D :cool:

  5. Lyrics are Poetry

    so good lyrics are good poetry

    Couldn't disagree more. Some lyrics are quite 'poetic' sometimes, and, very rarely, some lyrics verge on poetry, in my opinion (but some serious literary heavyweights argue that lyrics are never and can never be poetry).

    The greatest lyrics are usually make pretty crap poems, and, like I say, probably are not poems at all. If there are any you think are great poems then stick 'em up here and let's discuss.

    :D

  6. Me too. It's one thing having a three...or is it four? octave voice...maybe even five...I dunno, but don't demonstrate it every time...less is definitely more sometimes and more is always less when it comes to vocal pyrotechnics. Whitney does it too....

    Just sing the sodding song, why don't they?

    :D

  7. If you promised me a mention I'd suggest 'Harden My Heart' by Quarteflash. Classic 80's hit, and all the better for the stonking saxaphone being played by a woman...cool guitar solo too, but it's mostly the sax for me.

    :D

    Ouch! One of my faves....must have been the state of my heart at the time :blush: Still a great guitar solo though, way ahead of its time in terms of composition as a top 100 hit.

    Has anyone suggested 'Will You' by Hazel Oconnor. Massive 20 week top 2o hit in the UK...no ideas what it did in the states...superb Sax solo is most of the song.

    I'll take my Quarteflash album and leave, quietly... ;)

    (PS Still think you are wrong. Women play great sax and Harden My Heart, great tune...try it again! :cool: )

  8. Woodchopper's Ball is, indeed, a rather cool instrumental. It's an old Be Bop tune, I think, and TYA do a ripping version.

    Leo Lyons (TYA Bassist) was the producer of one of my favourite albums (and bands) ever...'Phenomenon' by UFO.

    :D

    (just a bit of trivia there for you folks).

  9. Mickey Said:Iran and Iraq have always been trouble makers of the middle east in my lifetime. The US needs a weapons/military test area, anyone have any BETTER suggestions? My point exactly.

    I would look a bit closer to home if I were you. Unfortunately, and I say this with no pride whatsoever, the UK and the US have been the biggest stirrers in the Middle East for nearly a century now and for all of my lifetime.

    I don't know what history books you read (if any) but British imperialism and US greed and manipulation have been at the bottom of all of the conflicts in the middle east.

    And it's not racist to point that out!

    :P

  10. Steering Wheel

    An angry pirate walks into a pub with a steering wheel attached to his crotch.

    The bartender looks at him and says, "hey buddy, do you know that you have a steering wheel attached to your crotch?"

    The pirate looks at him with a mean grin and says" Arrrrrgh!!!...I know and it's driving me nuts!"

    It might just be the way I tell 'em...but my kids thought that was the funniest joke I'd told them in years....thanks!

    :D

  11. Is it just me, or is this topic woven with subliminal, or, even worse, overt racism. I got banned for several weeks for using the mildest epithet whilst rebuking, privately, a mod for deleting a vague photo I had posted of half a beautiful nipple...and you lot can go round making the most outrageous generalisations about entire ethnic groups without a murmur.

    :(

    No doubt we should ban breast feeding whilst agreeing to the death penalty. I, for one, can't figure.

    :o

    :blush:

    :(

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