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Why the Chris Evans picture?

I thought it was Richard Quest getting up tp no good.

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Bryan's attempt to walk on water is as successful as DC's...

Bettye LaVette!

She's one singer who is head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion. So many 'drop what you're doing and just listen tracks' like...

'Streets Of Philadelphia'

'Love Reign O'er Me' (live from the Kennedy Center Honors..breathtaking...just ask Pete Townsend!).

On which thread do we post themeless friday - this is Monday's?

MONDAY

'Angel from Montgomery' - Bonnie Raitt and/or John Prine


I was at GRCH when Bonnie performed this accompanied by our very own Phil Cunningham on accordion. A magical memory.

#7 Blast you SG!!! Just made me remember Ray Charles & Bonnie Raitt - 'Do I Ever Cross Your Mind'...still, just pipped by Bettye so I'll make that my Friday request (when I find somewhere to post it).

#6, #8

The most recent 'Next week's themes' thread is still valid.

That's where I'm goin'.......

Distracting Monday

The Peter Skellern song tonight deserves another airing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Had me well and truely distracted tonight. A man and a piano.

seeing as that's highly unlikely, will suggest something in a similar vein instead:
Billy Joel Always A Woman To Me
Elton John Harmony
Chas and Dave Ain't No Pleasing You

Leaving out Queen - Freddie will understand. He'll get his shout out another night.

#5 That suggestion will not be equalled. AND it has just been released on CD (a bonus track on her new album.

Her performance reduced Pete to tears:



I had never heard of this wonderful lady until julie from edinburgh suggested her on the blog.

#10 If a man and his piano is what floats your boat MD...



or maybe...



I prefer...



and...

#12 you missed Dickie Clayderman out of that selection Julie! ;o)
Enjoyed the Victor Borge - he brilliant (only clicked the other three for long enough to click right back out, sorry) Well, that's my wee secret out of the closet. Don't have any issues with female pianists but they don't move me in the same way. Especially Chas.

E for elliptical. Missed out too much for most of that to make any sense.
Distracted.

Dis yon photie remind ye o' a or a

>8-D

TUESDAY

EUREKA!

(Literally, I have found it!)

This is my first suggestion for just an amazing moment. Jackson Browne at GRCH played this wonderful song and the place was silent to the end until he finished and the whole hall stood on their feet to give a three or four minute ovation. Mid set, not an encore. This is the best clip I can get which would half do it justice:



Similarly for a couple of k d lang tracks. Hallelujah puts you on the ropes, The Valley is the knockout blow.



Just amazing.

As Iris De'Ments - No Time To Cry.

And in case you think Im going soft try and switch off the Clash half way through (White Man) in Hammersmith palais. No chance.

#16 is that your wallet or your car keys?

Mondays Demand
Frontline ~ Stevie Wonder deserves your total concentration.

#18

My 2.5 Diesel Chunter.

#20 how did you manage to misplace that?

We've not done Punchlines for a while!


You think I asked for a 12 inch pianist?

#21

I usually find it by accident. If I've been drinking it can take weeks!

#23 Punchlines.
"Winston, you're drunk!" "Madam, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober."

Okay, but don't push me past my mother's!

#16 Eureka indeed! I had a brainwave for E - then promptly forgot what it was till you reminded me!

I'm thinking I could compile a great list for Monday then go out from 6.10 till 8.00. Reason being it seems that everyone else's must-listens are my oh nos.

Absolutely have to stop what I'm doing and reach for the off button as soon as Freebird or Hallujah come on. Did the same tonight for the last track.

By the same token I'm also sure my Let's Get Rocked choice last week wasn't on Bryan's iPod!

Wouldn't it be interesting to run a theme where we each chose a despised track - which would surely be someone else's favourite. O for One Man's meat?

Don't eat my Easter egg! I'll be back in 3 days...

#25 Is Eddie Mair a better bet for this sort of banter? (Had to google it - wish I could have said I knew what you were talking about without that internet viagra boost)

"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."

#27 you're on a roll tonight. Egg and ham.
Boring myself already - niteall! Bath and bed.

#28

Eddie Mair is funny. Our humour is more Jeremy Clarkson, with a dollop of Wogan, a hint of Ken Bruce and a pinch of Barry Cryer.

Rich Hall is funny.

Sarah Millican is funny.

Jeremy Hardy thinks he's funny.

Bill Bailey is funny.

Ditto Phil Jupitus.

Frankie Boyle has me reaching for the OFF button.

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#30 Bill Hicks

Wrong Crowd

Themeless: ~

THE POTHEAD PIXIES from FLYING TEAPOT (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1) by GONG

#55 on previous Blog thread Henri - I think the Tug of War lp is excellent and thats a great track. Alarmingly though, for you, Wanderlust was the name of a boat he hired in the Virgin Islands (I think) so could this be his Dignity track??!!

No Distraction

I Want You - Elvis Costello
Hurt - Johnny Cash

No Distraction

The Sound Of Music - The Bonzos - The first time I heard this I was having breakfast and invented Artex. One for all fans of the musical.

I see the government is consulting Facebook users for advice. This is surely grounds for asylum in any civilised country.

DO NOT ADJUST THE SET OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Themeless Friday


Bryan & Babs

Three suggestions for tonight:

After all the 'Awww's' and other 'coo -ing' over Peter Skellern's great 'You're A Lady' last night, maybe we could keep the brass band thingy going with with either

Martha My Dear - The Beatles

which keeps the henri hannah campaign for lesser known Beatles tracks alive or, as both myslef and Norrie agree,

Wanderlust - Paul McCartney

which is absolutely fab or if you're wanting to crank it up for the weekend let's have the dance remix of:

'Sunshine of Your Love' - Cream vs The Hoxtons

this is really, really good, No matter how much Bryan hates Cream, his body will be jivin round the studio and of course:

Pigs Will/Might Fly

well all previous attempts to get Dreazone played have failed so it's PWF now:

American Dread - Dreadzone

I feel certain the listening audience will enjoy this

This Distractions theme is quite tough.... but like Glen, 'The Sound of Music' came to mind.I always stand grinning and listening anytime it comes on. You can only grin along knowingly with Vivian. Expresses evrything you want to say about musicals.Hillarious.

regardez youse

henri

#38

Babs:- "Tea or coffee?"

Bryan:- "Coffee, please."

Babs:- "How do you like it?"

Bryan:- "With a wee biscuit. And without cream."

Babs:- "We don't have any cream. You'll need to take it without milk."

>8-D

The Box Tops - Soul Deep

Or Cry Like A Baby featuring the

Or not as you prefer.

I'm getting a bit tired of Burlesque. Have you no T Rex?

I will - Alison Krauss
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
A soft place to fall - Alison Moorer
On a bus to St Cloud- Trisha Yearwood
Shattered - Linda Ronstadt

Themes for E+ to follow


Joe
Linlithgow

Daddy has gone to heaven.

She is sleeping with her boss.

I'm away to make room for a cup of tea.


We use euphemisms so often in our everyday speech we don't even notice most of the time. There is plenty of material in popular music. Anyone who doubts this should search for the etymology of the expression Rock 'n' Roll



Theme suggestion for Tuesday

Songs that have Euphemisms in the title or lyrics. Or names of bands or singers.

#44

Momentarily,Senga,I thought you'd taken up poetry.

I was thinking, 'has daddy gone to heaven because she's sleeping with her boss? And are you making room for a cup of tea because you're otherwise filled with emotional turmoil?'

Anyway, I owe our Bryan a small apology for suggesting that he hates Cream, which he says he doesn't. I should have written 'even if bryan hates Cream'

Apologies, Bryan.

It was presumptious of me. I think the idea built up in my mind from the night last autumn when about 15 people requested 'White Room' but it didn't get played.

I did once partially succeed with my Jack Bruce campaign but only in getting the Ella Fitzgerald version of 'Sunshine Of Your Love' played.

I also remember 'Sunshine of your Love' by Cream did get played once but I think Vic or Graeme was standing in that night.

Requests for Cream are quite regular as are requests for Clapton's solo work and from myself for my hero, Jack Bruce, but I cannot recall any of them being played.

Oh well, I'll just have to persist.It had never occurred to me that requests that are consistently denied are not tantamount to a refusal.

From this it's possible to deduce that my pivotal misunderstanding is in imagining that that the show has some kind of democratic basis to it, hence my occasional disappointment.

But in reality, this is good news:requests at margin are still requests. A benign dictatorship is just as likely to pick a single request for Cream, whilst ignoring 15 requests to play The Proclaimers.

So, I'll be optomistic, but not put the champagne on ice:-)

regardez youse

henri

#45

E is for Excess e.g.

Hotter Than Hell - Kiss
40000 Headmen - Traffic
Endless Sleep - Jody Reynolds
Too Much - Elvis
Forever - Beach Boys

tuEsday thEmE:

Earth, Wind and Fire

Last Night on Earth - Green Day
Tiger Feet - Mud

Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan
The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix

Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Fire and Rain - James Taylor

and seconds for Boulder to Birmingham on Monday

For Monday - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

He thought I had become a poet

Because I chose to euphemize.

I'll speedily respond before

He goest forth and multiplies.

;o)

#48

There's time to have your tea during the piano intro.

Theme ideas (E-G)

Easy songs to sing along with
Eccentricity
Ethics - songs about moral dilemmas

First names
Flashforward - nominate two songs from different eras with the same theme eg (In sleep by Lissie; All I have to do is dream by the Everly Brothers)
Fitness - songs about excercise

Greatest singer ever - nominate one singer and one song
Gory details - songs about bloodshed
Grace and favour - songs about living the good life

Joe
Linlithgow

I truly hope Bryan keeps his wee jotter of themes somewhere safe and uses it over the next year - there's been loads of good suggestions so far, and at this rate there should be enough to keep us going without repeats for at least a year.

No repeats!!! What on earth are you thinking of Gaie with such a notion!!

Wonder if le monte carlo casino has been cleaned out by Paolo yet! Must be holiday season all round quite a few regulars noticeable by their absence I think....

#4 I resemble that remark

BRING ME THE HALF SUBMERGED HEAD OF ALFREDO BURNETT

DC

#53 ever the optimist, me.


All watching T in the Park and reminiscing about Woodstock?

Woodstock? I'm too young....

#55

You mean T in the Swamp. A friend has texted from Balado to say she expects to return to Glasgow with trench foot.

When you text someone to say Happy Birthday you can do without moans and groans in reply.











grumpy old git

There was mud at Woodstock but the music was better and it cost much less.

Procol Harum were supposed to play but they had to return to the UK because Robin Trower's fatherhood was imminent. The course of history might have been changed. Look at the difference it made to the Incredible String Band.

I was there with Norrie's father.

#58 how much did the mud cost at T in the Puddle?

#58, #59

We must remember that Woodstock 1969 occurred prior to one of the greatest confidence tricks in modern history, i.e. decimalisation.

In 1969 the exchange rate was roughly £1 - $2.4

In 2010 the exchange rate is roughly £1 - $1.5

In 1969 the going rate for mud in New York State was $0.32 per gallon.

In 2010 the going rate for mud in Perth & Kinross is £5.16 per gallon.

The situation is further complicated by a U.S. gallon being not quite as ample as an Imperial gallon, and also Her Majesty's Government's attempts to convince us that gallons no longer exist. (see decimalisation con, above).

Add to this the fact that in New York in 1969 the price represented a 97.4% profit margin, and in Scotland in 2010 97.4% tax. This should be enough to convince us to pack our bags and go live in the U.S.A., where the music is better and the mud is cheaper.

Y'all know it makes sense. Yup!

Also you could eat the mud then with no ill effect. Now you cannot do this and it has to be taken away to specially licensed tips by men in white suits.

#61

As can be evidenced on The Muppet Show with their excellent rendition of 'Mississippi Mud', but I can't find it on You Tube.

#45

'enri, good point!

Howza 'bout Bryan demonstrating his Mash-up skills with White Room.... ie Creamed Spud mix it'd be the only way I'd maybe get Hugh Cornwell / Robert Williams played.

Efharisto

Mud Glorious Mud

A cost $8 (£3.32) a day (or $7 including The Incredible String Band). This is about £46 compared with T In The Park's £65-75.

I see JfE has joined

Thats odd. How can he be 3 members of the same band?

"And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died."

Toyah at the Apollo was only £2.50

Didn't she want to be free?



It's a mystery.......

:o) The sage has spoken again!

Woodstock was free, man

#66

Godshill????

For Monday..

Ray Charles -- I Love You So Much It Hurts

Fleetwood Mac -- Need Your Love So Bad

Yup, the tools go down when these crackers come on...

It was Crosby Stills and Nash's first outing and everybody knows there's no such thing as a free launch.

#67

Was that to get out?

No that was £3.50 and you had to promise to attend a Sammy Hagar gig.

First time i saw The Jam at the Apollo the ticket cost £1.70... i still have the poster... ehhh somewhere

It cost £2.40 to see AC/DC at Edinburgh Odeon in 1978...how much nowadays?

Not sure about AC but I'll appear at the Odeon for the price of a pint

Ian Dury and The Blockheads 1979...best £3 I ever spent!

#78 :0)

#79

For £1.50 you could have seen Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Larry Wallis and Wreckless Eric. My wife fell asleep during the encore "Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll".

#81 Shame on her.

#77 £65 last time - not including incidentals (I think that is hoe MP's describe such things)

#83. Too much without Bon!

#83

I was at that gig, though, unimaginably, in corporate hospitality.

It just seemed like one enormous noise to me as though there was a correlation in which cranking up the volume would somehow compensate for age.

There's also something disconcerting about a man of that age dressing up as an 8 year old.

It was an experience rather than an enjoyment.

MONDAY

No distractions please:

Norrie, I'll second Sky Blue and Black since it seems to be the people's favourite, but my own JB would be

Late for the Sky -Jackson Browne;

also

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan;

The Best of Everything - Tom Petty &TH

but the one that really makes the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end:

Thairis Air A Ghleann (Beyond the Valley) - Runrig - stunning

and I'd down tools and have a dance to
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

oh and seconds for Fleetwood Mac #72

#81

I've still got my Live Stiffs Live LP so Mrs Miller needn't ever miss the grand finale again... Keep it vinyl & @ only £2.99 in '78 a bargain!

Keep an eye out for the MfP release if unable to find a Stiff copy!

I've got it too. Unfortunately I haven't been able to wake her since.

I don't remember seeing Dave Edmunds but it's a long time ago.

Monday

Feels Like Home - Linda Ronstadt (lyrics by Randy Newman)
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley/John Cale versions
Candy - Paolo Nutini
Love is the Drug - Roxy Music

For Tuesday
Europe - songs by our European neighbours

E...Exaggeration...e.g. 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'...well I think Everest may pose you a problem Diana, especially in that frock!

#91 #46

E is for Emulation

Ain't That Just Like Me - The Hollies

Monday Distractions

I don't know where to start..

There is a beautiful jazzy ballad called, 'Distractions' by Paul Mccartney on the 'Flowers In the Dirt' album which might be good for opening or closing the show.

Another McCartney song that stops me in my tracks is 'Somedays' from Flaming Pie.

Others which have the same effect are:

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - the Beatles
but only the acoustic version from the Love album

Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
but only the 12" from Memorabilia


Two Grey Rooms Joni Mitchell

This Womans Work - Kate Bush

I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren

Helpless K D Lang was on last weeek, so doubtless disqualified.

You're Not The Only One - Love & Money

My First Night Alone Without You - Bonnie Raitt
Too Long At The Fair - Bonnie Raitt

Walk Tall - Dreazone

Walking In The Wind - Traffic

Tickets To Waterfalls - Jack Bruce

and if you're minded towards a burst of classical ...

Benedictus - Karl Jenkins

Barber - String Quartet in B Minor Op11 Adagio Choral version of much loved Adagio for Strings - quite magnificent

regardez youse

henri

E = Entertainment (singing dancing cinema theatre telly etc.,

#93

Oh ..almost forgot

The Road of Love - Clarence Carter Epic

Light My Fire - Clarence Carter

The Rhythm of the Blues - Mary-Chapin Carpenter

regardrez youse

henri

Songs that its (sic) impossible to do anything else while they are playing!

YONI POEM from 2032 by GONG

E is for ELECTRIC

# 92. Oops!

# 94. 'Come Dancing' - The Kinks.

#96

E is for English as he is spoke.

Just think - spelling night layter in the month!

G - songs that dont have good grammar in their title