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when is kick off?

just taken possession of the new Hidden Orchestra CD.

much anticipation..

Rolling Stones - Before They make Me Run (A Stones track but Keith on lead vocals)

Del Amitri - Ace of Spades (Ian Harvie on lead vocals)

clash - Ivan Meets GI Joe (Topper Headon)

Clash - guns of Brixton (Paul Simonon)

Bowie - Crystal Japan

Dennis wilson - River song

This is a great theme. Music with the talent removed.

MONDAY

"...battered by continual rejection but still too stupid to call it a day."


'Bourée' - Jethro Tull ~ (Instrumental)

Ian Anderson's interpretation of J.S. Bach.

If you don't believe me ask Stephen Duffy. He knows it's pure dead brilliant.

#5 You're funny, but even you must depress yourself sometimes with your own cynicism. That can't be healthy, however much you might believe what you are saying. And however dumb and deluded you seem to think anyone else who takes the GIO bait and runs with it might be. You really need to get out more and pick some chanterelles before the season passes you by completely.

Depeche Mode - 'One Caress' (Martin Gore)

#6#7

Back from ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO. The Nation Youth Choir of Scotland's performance of James MacMillan's Will Ye Loo Me? was beautiful. Listen here at 1:07:00. Little time for the man's pronouncements but he can write. And they can sing.

#70 from previous thread (just catching up)
Was it the local derby
AC Milanda v AC Alittlesilhouettoofaman

Quo, bye bye johnny, Alan Lancaster sings

Monday
I Can't Tell you Why / Eagles

Timothy B Schmidt on Vocals

Wonderful.

Girl you know it's true / Milli Vanilli

How many Beatles songs did Ringo sing?

Octopus's Garden
With a little Help from my Friends,
Yellow submarine.

Any others?

What Goes On

Act Naturally

Don't Pass Me By

#9

Is 1:07:00 correct?

Should have been here at 1:07:00.

Girl walks into a bar.

Possibly the biggest bar in Glasgow, according to Google Street maps.


Trying to appear nonchalant she scans the crowds looking for a group of people she has never seen before.


The faces merge into a panic-induced blur. She beats a retreat, heads for home.

Hey Maw, why you back so early?

Oh you know, forgot the ID.

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Girl walks into a bar...

OUCH!

It was an iron bar.

©Chic Murray

#19 Gaie, it's got the look of one of those "30 things to do before you're whatever age". My list so far:-

1. Empire State Building - Done
2. Niagara Falls - Done
3. Caribbean Beach, Barbados - Done
.etc
.etc
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30. Meet a bunch of total strangers for a drink - tonight

Paolo, good thinking...email sent

see y'all later...... hopefully...

Gaie, don't sweat it...

Why not all meet at the statue of Thomas Graham given your career & then as one all walk in as the GIO Chapter lol!

Have a great night!

#10

Aye. Hed them on toast.

#19
Dont worry Gaie. You`ll know.

You just will.

Especially the one with the sliced King Edward on their shoulder.

And Paul will spot the birds right away.

:)

#14

Goodnight - last track, White Album, which is lovely and I'd like to hear it on GIO, nice way to close the show.

However, I don't know that you can say Ringo singing was exceptional - he had at least one vocal on every album and one half of the chart topping Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine single.

Unlike Steely Dan whose song Dirty Work is one of my favourites and I think the only one not to be sung by Donald Fagan. I doubtless wrong about that and to keep the trivia going can anyone remember who did sing Dirty Work.. I don't think it was Walter.

I managed to sneak off while Senga was in the lavvy, what time this evening?

regardez youse


henri

#27 I wasn't planning on bringing the binoculars ;-)

#26 what career???!


Still it was a job and possibly one that looks better on the CV than hanging around Glasgow looking for strange men.

Where 'n' when 'n' stuff for tonight

#19

Don't worry, we're kidnapping Bryan, mummifying him and using his desiccated remains as a flag.

(Note to moderators and anyone thinking that Paul Chambers sets a precedent - that was intended as a joke)

Best wishes for tonight, which I'm afraid I cannot make.

For Monday:
Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath
Set the fire to the third bar - Snow Patrol

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

Bryan / Babs
First rounds on you.



Stop moaning...



.... the first rounds always the cheapest!

Stuck at home on a saturday night!

OK maybe Ringo sang a lot, what about Madness? Chas Smash sang Michael Caine, his only lead vocal unless you count One Step Beyond.

Could be wrong, who sang Wings of a Dove?

Hello? Hello? Anyone there?

#12 - Great shout Paulo!!

Not wanting to copy my old mate Julie F.E but would love to hear Depeche Mode "Sometimes" with Martin Gore on lead vocal.

I am struggling with this theme...not quite the dramatic comeback to the blog that I promised...well never mind...I'm here now!

Great to see some old and new faces :-))

Mazzy*

p.s. For Louise & Imelda it's Eleonar Put Your Boots on by Franz Ferdinand!

The clouds have just lifted from across the moon as it shines down on Sugar Loaf Mountain.

Really great to see everyone last night. Hope we do it again soon.

Off to Millport now with Brad in the car. Scotch - that was the kindest thing. Thank you so much!

it's ann0ying trying t0 type with n0 0h 0n y0ur keyb0ard, students!
it's the m0rning after the night bef0re and the cl0uds have lifted fr0m behind the st en0ch's centre as the sun shines d0wn 0n st0ckwell street car park,great t0 meet the dedicated d0zen bl0ggers last night.
It was g00d t0 discuss the bl0g and 0f c0urse music but als0 a little bit ab0ut birds and sh0es, nice pair Imelda ;-)

As f0r stand in v0calists, there can't be many better than Stevie Nicks when she p0pped up 0n the 0ther white album instead 0f Christine McVie.
We have heard Rhiann0n bef0re, i'm pretty sure, but I think the versi0n 0f Landslide played 0n GI0 was by the Dixie chicks, s0 it w0uld be g00d t0 hear the Fleetw00d Mac 0ne.

Paul fr0m Ayr in Sunny Glasg0w

#39 ' hello darling, how's the weather?'

Monday...

JJ Burnel on Go Buddy Go

Bruce Foxton on News of the Week

Whoops.... Mock the World

Morning folks,

That was a very happy evening!

It was great to meet you all,I enjoyed myself and was chuffed to have the opportunity to prove I do exist.

Small world, Frank, nice to meet someone else with fond memories of St.Clair/MSR studios around King Street.I must track Allan down.

Paulo, Imelda says she needs more shoes,I think it was me that started that, apologies, Imelda!

#41 Steady, Paul - Norrie will give you into trouble for being smutty.

Scotch, thanks for getting me home. Next time I'll bring Smiffy, who spent the evening watching Madmen on DVD.

regardez youse


henri







regardez youse

henri

A real pleasure to meet you all last night. Great company.

Never again will we be able to have the I'm henrihannah no I'm henrihannah thread!

Hopefully the absent friends will make it next time.

Well done Scotch for correctly guessing who everyone was.
Still want to hear that captain story captain.

#38
maria, adam sent you a warning just after you'd gone.

#37
Is that two hellos!

Thoroughly enjoyed meeting old friends and new last night...and Henri does exist...yippee!

Sounds like some of us missed a great night out. Transportation and accommodation logistics weren't in my favour.

Am not very clued up about who sang what on which song - so resorting to asking for some Nine Inch Nails that doesn't feature Trent Reznor singing. Which means there's no need to worry about sweary lyrical content! And none of it is head-banging material. Doesn't mean anyone else will like it, but I do.

No singing at all:
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I - 32
(As a birthday present to myself 2 years ago, I bought the limited edition signed deluxe box set of this very experimental creation. Vinyl and BluRay playable media. I have neither a turntable nor a BluRay player, I just wanted it!! so... maybe my sons will be fighting over this one day..... )

or, if that's just too hard to find, there's always
Nine Inch Nails La Mer

A bit of plinky-plonky piano, orchestral overlays and with some Creole lyrics over the top.

Worth a try! ;o)

#45 ....of shoes Henri, what did you think I meant !!

From previous thread:

75. At 5:24pm on 23 Sep 2010, you wrote:

'Wino Junko' is one of two tracks to appear on Paul McCartney & Wings albums which were not written by McCartney, but by his Glasweigan guitarist and uniquely, performed by the guistaist, not Macca.

A rare accolade -understandably, for Macca to stand aside suggests these tracks are rather special -the other track is an absolute stoater, can you please identify it and play it?

Answer: Medicine Jar - Jimmy MacCullough

As the question suggests, this is really worth a spin.One of Scotland's top musicians at the top of his game

regardez vous

Bob

#50
No i didn't. it was you.

wisnae me

To reiterate what has been said... a great night out...

Could have been very awkward but everyone seemed to relax quickly and we all got on extremely well.

Yes Henri really does exist!! and a lovely fellow to boot.

So thank you to everyone for making me feel welcome as I'm not a very social person, and not great at that sort of thing (my wife still can't believe i went out to a pub)


For Monday...

Buzzcocks --- Harmony in my Head (Steve Diggle on vocals)

Does Your Mother Know - Abba ~ The one where the boys get to sing.


If you can call that singing!

;o)

#45 - GET BACK HERE YOU COWARD!!!

Don't suppose anyone else here likes Tears for Fears.
Or, if they do, can decide who the lead singer was.
This is one where Roland (the burlier one) took the lead:
Shout
and another where (the prettier one) did:
Mad World

'39 / Queen (Brian May on Vocals)
I'm in love with my car /Queen (Roger Taylor on vocals)

still prefer #12 though!


#55 is that you out the lavvy at last!

#57 - Paolo - I knew that döner was a mistake. Alcohol is a curse.

;o)

#53, aye, but did you tell her about going on to the nightclub after? :0)


MONDAY

Partytime in Heaven - the Silencers,
Aura O'Neill on vocals rather than either JJ Gilmour or her daddy

An Sabhal Aig Neill - Runrig,
Rory MacDonald as Bruce cannae sing in the Gaelic (Bruce is in every other way an absolutely brilliant front man - if you haven't heard Runrig since Donnie, then you're missing out!)


Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
instrumental

Justified and Ancient - the KLF with Tammy Wynette

not sure if this qualifies and I don't suppose the instrumental versions on B-sides do? eg

Autumnsong - The Manic Street Preachers

Re: Shoes

The winner of the most attractive footwear is































Frank!


































Thae bowling shoes are very fetching...


































>8-D

#59

Sshhhhhhh

#60/61 kicking myself for missing this. When's the next proposed meet up? Assuming I haven't offended all of the blog by then?

#60

Hmmn yes ... i was wondering when you would bring that story up up!!


>8-D

Gotta be 'Empty Room' from Arcade Fire, with wife Regine Chassagne taking over lead from huuby Win Butler ... to great avail ...

I think Golden Lights by The Smiths might qualify featuring the fantastic Kirsty Maccoll...if Norrie insists on suggesting Bowie every week then I'm flying the Mozz flag with BB ;-)

Great suggestions by madmacfraeclydebank reminded me of

The Who - Heaven and Hell (Entwistle on lead vocals)

and as alternative to News of The World (which is a top suggestion) the origional b side recording of

The Jam - Smither-Jones would be great as well.

#65 I can't come up with a Bowie suggestion for Monday though.............

How about David Bowie with Marc Bolan singing The Prettiest Star?

Or was it the other way round?

Bolan was on lead guitar but only on the early 1970 single version, not on the Alladin Sane version....good track though.

Non-attendees invited to put names to faces...

#60 re re-shoes, footwear from the night out available to view on FB, oh and some of the people as well!

#62 MD the next one can't come quickly enough, the night went in fast & I didn't get speaking to half the folk there! or did I?

More for Monday:

Holy man - Deep Purple (with Glenn Hughes on lead vocal instead of David Coverdale)
9 Crimes - Damien Rice (first voice we hear is Lisa Hannigan)

Apologies, that's all. I found this quite a tough theme!

Joe
Linlithgow

#72 me too Joe, just gonnae repeat my previous post:-

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks replaces Christine McVie

Paul from Ayr

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You Got the Silver - Rolling Stones

Keith Richard sings lead on the original album, Let it Bleed

#72 Silent Night / Damien Rice
has Lisa Hanigan doing the whole vocal.

That's if we're allowing lead singers in solo acts having the night off as well :-)

Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were the members of The Monkees who sang lead vocals only occasionally.

Mike sang lead on 'What Am I Doing Hangin' Round?'

#70

Did you like my new glasses?

#78
Is that you with the green top on

Instrumentals...
Hip Hug Her ~ Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Lesson One ~ Russ Conway
Liquidator ~ Harry J Allstars
Oscillate Wildly ~ T. Smiths
Yellowcake UF6 ~ T. Stranglers
Holiday Fortnight ~ T. Specials

Gimme the mic so I can take it away..
Fast Eddie Clarke on Beer Drinkers an' Hell Raisers
Duff McKagan on New Rose

#75

Big 2nd for this.

Superb choice, Gaie - let's start a campaign for lesser played Stomes tracks - staring with all the little played classics on Sticky Fingers and Exile On main Street.

regardez vous

henri

#79

I can't remember.

Who is Scotch phoning?

I think he must be phoning me wondering why I refused to turn up.

Mind you looking at that lot....is it any wonder?

#82

He's trying to take a photie of Julie and Maria but they won't sit still!

Naughty quines!!!

>8-D

#83
We didn't need you. Fred the Fish came in your place.


We managed to get out before his waters broke :-)

Fins can only get better...

He must have drank a lot

Despite never having had a request played, or even acknowledged, he's hooked.

He said the night went swimmingly

He's in the right plaice second from the left

Better there than on the net.

Big second for Paul Carrack singing Tempted - I first heard it when PC was supporting Roger Waters on the Radio KAOS tour & took me a long (decade+) time to realise the Squeeze connection.

Anyone else seen the (if you will) Rockumentary Still Crazy? In that, Bill Nighy is the lead singer of Strange Fruit, brought in over the head of Jimmy Nail's bass player when the original lead went a bit... odd (echoes of Syd Barrett entirely intentional). But Jimmy gets a couple of great vocals on the OST: What Might Have Been and The Flame Still Burns.

Who would you class as the normal lead singer of Fairport? Or Pink Floyd? I'm struggling with both (although Interstellar Overdrive would count).

There's also
* Special AKA - Free Nelson Mandela
with a vocal from guest vocalist Stan Campbell (brought in as a non-band member by Jerry Dammers after Terry Hall & Co left to form Fun Boy 3)

* U2 - Van Diemen's Land
With an Edge vocal

* I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
with what I believe is a Cait O'Riordan vocal.

Are we having a few instrumentals? Cos there's
* Madness - Return of the Los Palmas 7
which has the total lyric of "Waiter" spoken by dunno who

* Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

Why is everyone suggesting instrumentals?

Anyway, I forgot -

Pressed Rat & Warthog - Cream

rare vocal performance from Ginger Baker

regardez youse

henri

#81, thanks, Henri - I'm a big fan of the Stomes myself and in fact was at the jukebox putting a couple of tracks on when the group photie was took. So the person that looks a bit like my older more serious sister is definitely not me, but salmon else, probably Fred.

The reference to the Stomes is making me flounder. Is it red herring?

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