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  1. Does it to me every time. As does 'Martha' by Tom Waits
  2. Really enjoyed the film; great sound, even though I saw it in a small cinema. DG is just one of the great guitarists and I would've loved to have been at the show live. Thought 'Gig in the sky' was slightly spoiled by the screaming vocal, but what a buzz from 'One of these days' .... superb stuff
  3. Oi not so much of the old..... January 1965 WBA v Liverpool 3rd round FA cup. My uncle was a massive Baggies fan and had taken his 9 year old nephew to see his team, hoping I'd be inspired. I was; by the magnificent men in red. Ron Yeats was imperious (albeit he gave away a strange penalty, picking up the ball in the penalty area after hearing a whistle, which came from the crowd. Justice done when they missed the penalty). Sir Roger and the Saint scored and we went on to win the Cup.
  4. ​What Faustus said. ​I also saw Leonard twice. First as a spotty 15 year old at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 and second at the NEC on his last tour here in 2013. The 2013 gig was one of the best I've ever been to and I've seen a few greats in my 61 years. I'm the most confirmed atheist there is, but there was a spirit and feeling at the concert that I've rarely felt. A truly great poet and song writer. As the man said: "Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window in the Tower of Song." It really is ‘Closing Time.’ RIP
  5. Yes, such a great voice; he should've been so much bigger. The River and 'Superlungs' albums often get an airing in our house and bring back great memories of my student days. Went to see Mr Reid in a pub near Dartmouth about ten years ago and wished I hadn't - he was pretty shit, although it could've been an off night. He's touring the UK at this very moment......
  6. Better ask 'Shakey' Neil Young - aren't they stepping out together now?
  7. First - Led Zeppelin (supported by The Liverpool Scene & Blodwyn Pig) at The Pop Proms, Royal Albert Hall 1969 Last - Leonard Cohen at the LG Arena, Birmingham in September. Yes, that makes me nearly a hundred years old.............
  8. Actual health and safety labels put on items - on a box of fireworks…….do not put lighted fireworks in your mouth on the top rung of an aluminium ladder …….STOP!! This is the last rung….. on a double mattress……do not attempt to swallow
  9. Dances with Wolves - is one of my all time favourites - great cinematography and The Last of the Mohicans is worth another look - if that counts as a western
  10. Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse Welcome to the Canteen - Traffic Only in it for the money - Frank Zappa & The Mothers also rans - Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Live at Leeds - The Who Abbey Road La Peste - Alabama 3 Apple Venus Pt1 - XTC
  11. Pet Sematary is the one that leaves the longest impression - I think because it's based on something we've all done - buried a pet in the garden. I also enjoyed 'Thinner' and 'It' - you never look at a clown in quite the same way after reading It..... Strange how the films never come anywhere close to the quality of the books, perhaps apart from the Shining - mostly down to Jack.
  12. "Have you seen the film Message To Love about the 1970 IOW festival? Wish I'd been there." No, Gus, I haven't seen the film right through. Is it worth it? (I think I might try and track it down if it is.) I do recall though some of the slightly unnerving antics of the people who were trying to break the perimeter fences down. I seem to recall they were described at the time as the White Panthers..... I was just a sperm who loved music so tried not to pay too much attention to the aggro. To see that sort of lineup on my first trip to a festival was something I'll never forget. The weather was even very kind, just blue skies.....
  13. Some great music on here and I listen to the Blues quite a bit; love the old greats, especially Son House and Leadbelly, but also some of the newer stuff......like Watermelon Slim & The Workers, Derek Trucks Band, Walter Trout Band, Buddy Whittington (played with John Mayall until recently), Eli 'Paperboy' Reed, The Insomniacs.
  14. Erm.....Isle of Wight 1970. Yes, I'm ancient; I was only 15. Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Taste, Free, Family, Ten Years After, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, Jethro Tull, ELP, The Groundhogs.......now them were the days
  15. I'm a Humanist (most of the time these days I write and conduct non-religious ceremonies - mainly funerals) so I don't believe in any life after death. I do believe in the wonder of this life and the incredible story of science and evolution that led to animals and humans and I like Philip Pulman's words : "Even if death means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing; we'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves, we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze, we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon, out there in the physical world which is our true home and always was." Aaaaah........ "Death hides no secret; it opens no door; it is the end of a person. What survives is what he or she has given to other people - what stays in their memory" - Norbert Elias
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