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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410861418' post='2553892'] As for Stonehenge, I have immensely fond memories of family summer holidays in the 60s, leaving London at the crack of dawn for the drive down to the West Country and stopping off at Stonehenge for a breakfast and rest break. In those days there was nothing there except the stones and breakfast was foil-wrapped sandwiches and coffee from a flask that mum had made before we left, which we would eat while sitting on the unfenced stones before running around and climbing all over them after our early morning refuelling. Happy days, but now no longer possible in the wake of queuing, fences, admission fees, visitor centres and cappucino's from gurgly machines [/quote] [quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1410865813' post='2553972'] Oh man, you did that too? It was great, wasn't it? It was the early 70s for me, but the M4 was just a building site and the 'henge was still as open as you remember it. The journey took forever but it felt like more of an adventure because of it. Going to Dawlish felt like travelling halfway round the world. I know it's a crappy hackneyed old saying, but those really were the days.[i] *massive wistful sigh*[/i] [/quote] [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410868954' post='2554027'] yeah, late60s/early 70s for me, and you're right about it seeming like a major expedition. My dad would be fiddling around with the car for the whole week before to make sure it was up to the long arduous trek (Ford Anglia - the ones with those funny angled back windows). I vaguely remember joining the M4 in Chiswick but am pretty sure we usually took the A303 for most of the journey - depends on where we were headed that year I guess. I don't recall ever getting as far as Cornwall, it was usually somewhere in Devon or Somerset - and yes, we did Dawlish one year. [/quote] Me too - mid to late sixties - getting up in the dark, leaving from Essex just as it was getting light, driving through the City in the pale dawn en route for Cornwall or Devon in the back of a two-tone blue Wolseley 15/60 very much like the one in the pic attached. In those pre-satnav days my parents sent off to the AA for a detailed set of route instructions which came in the post and were then fixed to a piece of hardboard with a large bulldog clip. I would be dozing in the back to the sound of my Mum reading out "after a third of a mile bear left and follow signs to Basingstoke", or somesuch. Always stopped at Stonehenge. Also the site of my first acid trip when I returned to attend the free festival in 1977, but that's another story......

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410857489' post='2553824'] Seems that YOU are the one with a problem with it, so why not just stay in bed until someone offers you some money to get up? [/quote] Zing!

Just don't ship it with Parcel Force - it'll probably arrive in perfect condition.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1410271061' post='2547681'] I was guessing Finnish. [/quote] [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1410291202' post='2547949'] Not a chance! [/quote] Should that be "not an Eth-ing chance"? (oh come on, everybody loves an Icelandic alphabet-related pun, don't they???? No? OK, - Dad, hold the door, I'm right behind you)

Is it Icelandic? EDIT: D'oh! Roland Rock beat me to it with a more specific guess

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410257137' post='2547498'] Did Slade make any jazz albums? [/quote] Noddy Holder's notebooks, recently acquired for the nation by the National Music Archive, reveal an early draft of the lyrics of one of their hits: [i]Are you blowin' out some bebop in 9/4? Are your flat five substitutions sounding raw? Does your tenor player tell you that Coltrane was the best, And that without his hat and shades he feels undressed? So here it is, Jazzy Christmas everybody's feeling cool, Learn to read music now, or you will feel a fool.[/i]

Mari Boine: Eallin. I love the way the 4/4 pattern sits on top of the 5/4 percussion loop, and the bassline, though simple, is just perfect. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkdFRqwoTd4[/media]

I'm very grateful that we had a piano at home when I was a kid. Dad taught me a few boogie-woogie basslines and swing band tunes, and then I started proper lessons at 6 years old. Although I don't play a lot of piano any more it's still in a way the basis of everything I do. If I need to learn a tricky new tune off a CD or something I will still work it out on the keyboard first (particularly useful for working out harmonies and chord structures), then transfer to whichever instrument I actually want to play it on. If I'm starting to record a new track, I will usually rough-out the parts using a keyboard and MIDI first, which lets me play around with structure / tempo / key etc before recording any real instruments.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1409728397' post='2542589'] I can't see the need for CDs / DVDs in this day and age... They just take up space on a shelf. With spotify etc you have instant access to pretty much anything ever released. CDs are an obsolete format, things have moved on and I think its for the better... I never had any interest in album artwork / lyrics or any of that prephiery stuff, it's always been about the sound of the music for me. [/quote] That's ok if you don't mind listening to data-compressed versions of music. For a lot of music, and for casual listening, the difference is negligible, but for serious "darkened-room and headphones" type listening to serious music I wouldn't want to be restricted to mp3s.

Faustus: Og's Eye Man [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OohfrcapBeQ[/media]

Bit off-topic, but the pic reminds me of a favourite entry in a New Statesman weekend competition. The theme was something like "Historical one-liners". The entry was: "Salome dear, not in the fridge"

[quote name='RedSlap' timestamp='1405988374' post='2507342'] about ten minuets of pure humour [/quote] Ten minuets of pure humour is roughly equivalent to three quadrilles of total hilarity on the International Comedic Dance Scale (ICDS).

You see Fly, the thing about this band is that they are so far beyond ultra they've become totally post-transactional. And I'm not talking your typical "offset gumball" type operation - this is the real thing; anti-operative, quadrilateral and peaking beyond the purple zone. Not that you'd get that, with your over-twinkied maze-centred polytribalism. Ha! You'd never even get close. Leave this one to the real uncles, the ones who can walk upright through a candy storm and still shoot the big fish. You know it makes sense. (some of us saved up all our meds for a week, then took them all at once.)

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2iq4IIZdWU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2iq4IIZdWU[/url]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1b27494nx4&list=PLt8BPUgwrWW5lrfBNk-jwqZxngKkQ-Ce9

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1404577897' post='2493896'] ... but he does it in such a good way, that it sounds really good... [/quote] So let me see if I've grasped this....what you're saying is that to sound "really good", you have to play "in a good way" (or "well" as we say in English). Wow, man, that is deep.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1404732729' post='2495108'] the perception of Motown was that it was rather formulaic and trite throwaway pop music. That view was quite wrong, of course, as we all now realize, [/quote] In your opinion - still formulaic and trite throwaway pop music as far as I'm concerned - and that goes for ABBA too.

Martha and the Muffins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPDp8VTkBk

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1403173051' post='2480416'] I guess the lesson is to do the thing properly, to begin and end things musically, to record real instruments when you can (not programme naff VSTs) and FINISH THE DAMN JOB!! [/quote] I would draw a different lesson, which is that recordings are made to perform a variety of functions, and that what is perfectly ok for one purpose may be inadequate for another. If it's just to demo a new tune to your bandmates then it makes sense to use virtual instruments and not worry too much about tidy beginnings and endings and the rest. If it's for a client, then what matters is to take the pragmatic view of whether it does the job they want it to do, not whether it's a musical creation you are going to feel entirely happy with and proud of. If it's for your forthcoming solo album, then by all means lavish endless time and care on it. Not every recording has to be a fully finished work of art. From your post it seems that your frustration with your recordings arises because you wanted to use them for a different purpose from the one for which you originally made them.

...Upon a cross of MDF And they’d use No Need For Nails" (Upon Westminster Bridge -Half Man Half Biscuit) "I assume you understand that we have options on your time, And will ditch you in the harbour if we must...."

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1390301147' post='2343662'] [font=Arial, Verdana][size=2][color=#000000]And the other side of the story that says there is NO risk of closure and the residents (some of them been there for a decade) merely want the volume turned down to its previous levels...[/color][/size][/font] [color=#000000][font=Arial, Verdana][size=2][url="http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/Night-And-Day-The-Other-Side"]http://www.mancheste...-The-Other-Side[/url][/size][/font][/color] [/quote] Thanks for posting. I rather suspected all was not as had been presented. My sympathies are with the residents.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1389649729' post='2336643'] There's some logic there but in music terms I still prefer the '70s to the '80s and the '60s. I think I'd rank the '70s and '90s about equal. [/quote] I'd have to go for a "split" decade - 1965 -1975. If I had to narrow it to 5 years, I'd go for 1968-1973. For me the early sixties are mostly dull "pop" groups in matching suits, and punk nullified the late 70's as far as I'm concerned. The good bit started when the drugs and long hair took hold, and ended when the talentless shouty oiks took over. Your mileage may, of course, vary.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1389565494' post='2335666'] Things could be so much nicer for so many billions on the planet today, but the 'few' won't relinquish, so it will just remain a dream. It explains, partially at least, my healthy dose of cynicism, though. Never mind... [/quote] You [b]are[/b] one of the few. Relinquish away.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1389374465' post='2333581'] I'd have less of a problem with this if I could understand what reasoning allows one person's hour's work (ie: part of their life, gone...) to be 'worth' more than another's. [/quote] The "reasoning" is done by the consumer of the product of the person's work - how much is it worth to them? Some people will produce nothing worthwhile with their hour's work, while others will produce something a lot of people want. In general, one isn't paid for one's time but for what that time produces.