From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V5 #146 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, May 11 2002 Volume 05 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Loud and Puking... ["ian.s. jackson" ] RE: [idealcopy] Re: how do you say... ["Andrew Lumbard" ] Re: [idealcopy] my first gig [CHRISWIRE@aol.com] Re: [idealcopy] A couple of quesions.... [CHRISWIRE@aol.com] [idealcopy] bass, how low can you go? [Miles Goosens ] [idealcopy] Colin's video [Mr Grumpy ] Re: [idealcopy] Lambchop/Eminem ["Keith Astbury" Subject: [idealcopy] Loud and Puking... Robert wrote : >The bass was not just loud and pounding, it was also very, very deep. It >was like being hit in the chest with a log and I could swear--I'd heard of >this could be done--my inner organs were vibrating, nausea ensued. this happened to me too... The Clash, On Parole Tour, Erics (and the bogs were the last place you'd wanna puke, unless you wanted that really 'empty' feeling...), Liverpool, '78. ian.s.j. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:52:05 +0100 From: "ian.s. jackson" Subject: [idealcopy] Lambchop/Eminem dan bailey : Re: [idealcopy] Lambchop >now find myself back in "unimpressed" mode. time will, i suppose, tell. Lambchop never did anything for me, always thought they were a bit fake. same with The Tindersticks... >the only new songs i've heard lately that have struck >me are (titles very approximate) moby's "we're all made of stars" (perhaps >it's time for me to finally take "play" out of its shrinkwrap) & -- ouch! >-- eminem's "without me." moby's i can take or leave...but despite the usual misgivings, i must admit to liking Shady's new one a great deal... ian.s.j. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:54:17 +0100 From: "Andrew Lumbard" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Re: how do you say... Nice one. For me it was Bruno Brookes introducing the KLF's 'What Time Is It, Love?' AndyL >> << mind you that's not the funniest top 40 moment. did anyone >> here ever hear that time when they played the uncensored version of that >> rage of the machine track that basically went 'f--- you' over >> and over - on >> national radio on a sunday teatime!!! i honestly thought it was >> my ears and >> they must have been singing something like 'f--- you', cos i couldn't >> believe it. >> >> >> For me the funniest moment was when Peter Powell was telling >> listeners about >> the 'Something Else' TV show that was being shown that evening, >> on which Joy >> Division's legendary Transmission/She's Lost Control performance was >> featured. The other band on the show was the Jam. >> >> Powell's intro went something like.... >> >> "Hey, don't miss tonight's grrreeat new TV show Something Else on BBC2!! >> Tonight's show features the Jam!!! And Joy Davidson!!!!" >> >> Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:07:06 +0100 From: "ian.s. jackson" Subject: [idealcopy] Peel/how do you say... ><< Actually, this reminded me of....Do you remember that peel always called >ELP 'emerson, lake and PARKER'? (legend has it that some disgruntled fan >wrote in with the usual 'stop playing all that rubbish, why don't you play >something decent like emerson lake & parker' and it stuck from then >onwards...<< >He always used to refer to daytime Radio1 jock Andy Peebles as "Andy >Pubes".... a most appropriate choice of name. i remember the infamous references to the Gang of Four's 'Solid Gold' as 'Solid Glod' after a mispelling or misread. this apparently pissed the band/management off so much that they blamed it for poor sales of the LP...well, it was hardly going to go platinum now, was it...? (must dig that one out...) ian.s.j. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:07:54 EDT From: CHRISWIRE@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: My First Gig That I paid for & went with a couple of mates. Judas Priest - The Wirrina Stadium Peterborough around 1975.They were on Gull Records & had just released The Ripper or something like that as a single. Belting Brummie voice & loud.Next gig was Camel at the same venue around the time of The Snow Goose.Shame about Pete Barden.RIP Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:08:57 +0100 From: "Bill Hick" Subject: [idealcopy] Ooze the Bastard? Giluz knew it was Wire >>>RnB sounds so much like Wire and not like any member's solo efforts - 1st Fast is the one that sounds like a very Colin thing to me. That one and Comet are more like '12 times You' stylistically than the rest of it - could they have been the first 2 written? (And Colin's ripping off Bruce on the FuckOff DrillVersion) Graham rips off Colin on Agfers. Now we've got Robert impersonating Bruce for FuckOff's Drill. I'd put money on the line 'It's a heaven sent extinction' being Bruce's. >>>of course Colin is quite significant, but he was like that throughout most of Wire's albums - No this is all wrong. I was at the RFH and they showed a video of Wire doing Drill on US TV. Bruce told the daffy presenter that he'd only met Colin in the street that day, as I recall, although I could be wrong here, I had been emptying the distillery. So since the other three members had known each other a long time it means Colin only joined late on (about 87?) and they were all lying to Kevin as they'd never lie to US TV! If they did that they might be suspected of terrorism and have their visas evoked. Now it can be revealed: The vocals on the 70s albums are by Eric Clapton (before he joined Jam tribute Secret Affair), Siouxsie Sioux (minus wig), Sparks, Robert Smith (with extra wig), Paul Weller, Black Frank Black and the Banana Splits. Mostly its the Banana Splits of course, but can you work out who sang what? *Ba Ba Ba Bang! Uriah Heep did the guitars but Gilbert was rumoured to overdub most of it while they were off playing biker festivals. Later middle aged men would get confused with another Gilbert who had nothing to do with it. And always remember: Eels Sang Lino! >>>that doesn't make it his thing. Of course you could hear some progression towards it on his latest pre-Wire tracks - that still doesn't mean its a Colin album doing Wire. Could there ever be a Wire album doing Colin though? Judging by Graham Lewis' Agfers chorus Colin impressions are the order of the Kodack. >>>Most of the tracks on the whole RnB project was edited by Colin & Bruce working together. Can you just imagine Bruce leaning over Colin's shoulder asking for more distortion? >>>Colin did the mixes, though. These are all vicious rumours to besmirch the good name of Wire! Colin had nothing to do with it! Clapton wrote the songs and Talk Talk recorded them. Can't you tell? >>>Speaking of which, I would really like to hear what people here think about the sound of RnB01, which is certainly one of its strengths. They should try recording without sound as an experiment, as its something not many bands have tried yet and the results are certainly more varied than the consumer-crap charts. John Cage is all the rage! I guess MZUI is as close as (2 of) Wire have got to that. If only they'd asked Gilbert O'Sullivan along to sit soundlessly by the piano it would've been more in keeping with the gist. No wonder no one's reviewed it for Wireviews yet! >>>Tim already commented about the snare sound. I personally think the guitars sound is just unbelievable. Their guitars sound good live and through such tiny little amps, you should've seen the size of Cheap Trick's Marshall stacks! >>>It's very hard to mix something which has so much (angry) guitars on it and still be able to have the drums quite prominent and not somewhere in the back of your headphones. The guitars are angry because Bruce often can't afford to feed them (this is what the song 'Feed Me' is about). By keeping their guitars underfed, Wire keep them mean and nasty and ready to bite chunks out of the legs of unsuspecting indie rockers! It sounds powerful, Clapton was on good cokes that day, it rocks and rolls a bit. Really the guitars are very trebly and vicious and actually seem to be utilising the phenomenon of digital recording 'eating' the sound to get more cutting high end (as opposed to Steve Albini's guitar sound which seems to lose its high end detail during CD masterings). The guitars need to 'eat' the sound because Colin and Bruce spent all the guitar feed money on booze and cigs and sci-fi novels. The drums sound so powerful in relation because they live on a farm and are consequently well fed. *Snares Ate Parsnips! Its all so digital a vinyl version would be a bit pointless, even if ol' J Peel is asking for one. >>>I do think, though, that Graham's bass had to pay the price. Germ ship has one of the most powerful bass lines of any Wire song. The drinks are on Graham's bass! Germ Ship Managed by Paul Fine Grown Potatoes Where's that lost chord? >>>What do other people think That's the million dollar question! Do they even think at all? Wonder what's on TV tonight? What's that Squeeze pianist up to these days? >>>how would you compare it to other contemporary guitar-dense rock bands sound, like Boredoms, for example. I'd definitely need to get the ruler out on that one! There's a similar cut-up approach to recording on some Boredoms records, the first track on Super AE and Super Roots 6 and the remixes on Super Roots 7 & 8. Both bands have motorik momentum and achieve lift off in live settings and recordings. Wire are more concise. Boredoms are a book in themselves when they are themselves (sometimes they are Hanatarash, OOIOO or Rovo, etc). You think Wire completists have a hard time? Pity the poor idiot who must hear every last fart Yamatsuka Eye ever commited to lathe cuts! >>>How would you compare it to other Wire albums, 70's & 80's? Well I wouldn't do a 'Craig' and say it makes them sound like an amateur high school band! Craig's school days must've been a hoot! I think I've done enough comparing - definitely synchronous Snakes Drill Pink Flag 2 Beginnings into a Third to follow the Third Day? An Impressive (Re) Beginning? Was it Beginning To And Back? After many days Reading and Burning I'm inclined to opine that its all just a Hawkwind rip-off! The Ninth Lynn Robert Lynn asked >>>Have any Ideal Copyists heard the new Phillip Jeck cd "Stoke"? Live recordings, shorter & more minimal pieces than his recent Intermedium 'Vinyl Coda I-IV' discs. In order for Ideal Copy to flower and grow fruit, you must all put stickers on your Talk Talk records and play them through delay pedals. Or just buy Philip Jeck's CD because he probably does that sort of thing more skillfully. It is spooky and nicer on the nice-o-meter than 'The Rapture' (which only had two tracks that are more than mere fluff compared to earlier Banshees). Biosphere's Debussy loops might just throw the nice-o-meter off the gauge! Get them both from www.touch.demon.co.uk Jan asked >>>I am curious if someone knows if there is a Wire -track on one of the ATP-promo ceedees. Especially the one called Shellac curated All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 That compilation is mostly already available tracks (from Shellac, the Fall, Mission of Burma, Do Make Say Think, etc) with a new song from Rachel's which makes it far less interesting than the Sonic Youth curated one which had excellent unreleased tracks from SY, Bardo Pond, Boredoms, Dead C, Unwound, Kevin Drumm, Merzbow + Haswell, Papa M. Plus tedious skippers from Stereolab, S Malkmus (worst song he's ever done), Catpower, Cannibal Ox. No Wire track on ATP 2.0, but all who went to the event were given a triple CD with one track by nearly every band playing. The Wire track is 'In the Art of Stopping' same as the EP (well not quite, its not as well mastered and a bit tinnier so of course you'll all be kicking yourselves for missing out on an inadvertant remix which only infinitescimal ears can detect!) ReBurning the order for order: Fast Germ In the Ship of Arting I Don't Agferstan The Understanding of Kodack 1st Comet Stop Lyrics? Agfers & Germ Ship... Can anyone else hazard a guess for Germ Ship lyrics? I Don't Understand the Agfers of Kodack! btw Mclusky Too Pure single is OK for under a quid, but nothing special. Would've been better sans vox but it has just about enough energy. NP Matmos remixing Rachels - Full On Night Cracked Machine Highly Irregular Cyberzine http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine HR Giger: "This cute baby is a total miss. No one could believe that he could devour a rat!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:23:13 EDT From: CHRISWIRE@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] my first gig In a message dated 09/05/2002 16:36:53 GMT Daylight Time, PaulRabjohn@aol.com writes: > well mine was the clash/aswad/members london rainbow about may 79. RAR > thing. after that was siouxsie/cure (see i was a fan once....) and then > buzzcocks/joy division. > Hey Paul I was at that Gig.Great day out.Quite warm day if I remember.First time I'd seen a Reggae Band. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:26:40 EDT From: CHRISWIRE@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] A couple of quesions.... In a message dated 09/05/2002 18:32:25 GMT Daylight Time, r_j_h@yahoo.com writes: > Also, I noticed David Syvian is doing a short US tour. > Most of his solo stuff is too drowsy for me, but > perhaps live he would be more interesting. > > THX > > > > ===== > Rick Hindman, 3R Productions > Well worth seeing Rick.Listen up on some of his stuff first if you've become a bit detached from his solo work as I would imagine it's a best of show.His 20 year spread compilation has most of the show on & is a good buy. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:39:59 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: [idealcopy] bass, how low can you go? Graeme said: > > >>>I do think, though, that Graham's bass had to pay the price. > >Germ ship has one of the most powerful bass lines of any Wire song. The drinks >are on Graham's bass! Damn straight, Graeme! Actually, when I read the original comment about Graham's bass being edged out of the mix, I had to wonder if they were listening to a different edition of READ AND BURN 01 than mine! Graham's bass is all over the place, very prominent and obvious to even non-muso-type me! When I was wondering why someone might hear it, I came up with (1) Graham plays in the midrange quite frequently, where the bass is competing with both guitars and the drums for territory, (2) because of that logjam in the middle, he might playing it on a system not quite good enough to make the differentiations between instruments clear, and/or (3) just not playing R&B loud enough! what?, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:43:04 +0100 From: "ian.s. jackson" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Ooze the Bastard? one of Wild Bill's many one-liners... >After many days Reading and Burning I'm inclined to opine that its all just >a Hawkwind rip-off! hhhmmmmmm....the 'Masters Of The Universe' remix did cross my mind a few times whilst 'R&B' was playing... ;) ian.s.j. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:32:56 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: [idealcopy] be not My last post omitted the words "be" and "not" at crucial junctures. Your challenge is to put the words where they least make sense and/or most resemble a Mark E. Smith lyric. that what is not, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr Grumpy Subject: [idealcopy] Colin's video I was just on the Beggars Banquet site and I found this http://www.beggars.com/mp3/video/collinnewman_b.mov It's really tiny, but kinda fun. Billy ===== /\/\/\ { . . } /\ -- -bollocks! (R)GWS Ltdhttp://www.fortunecity.com/uproar/mental/111/ LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 00:51:03 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Lambchop/Eminem > Lambchop never did anything for me, always thought they were a bit fake. > same with The Tindersticks... ok sometimes stuart staples vocs are just that little too intense and cracked, BUT i think they've made some GREAT records. been a bit of a fan since their 2nd album (entitled 'tindersticks' like their first - a la peter gabriel), and loved their last album - a couple of tracks in particular, the long drawn-out 'sweet release' and the closing track 'chi-lite time' (great title) are gorgeous. i like shady's new one too - esp. the line about elvis... keith > > >the only new songs i've heard lately that have struck > >me are (titles very approximate) moby's "we're all made of stars" (perhaps > >it's time for me to finally take "play" out of its shrinkwrap) & -- ouch! > >-- eminem's "without me." > > moby's i can take or leave...but despite the usual misgivings, i must admit > to liking Shady's new one a great deal... > > ian.s.j. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 00:59:01 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Colin's video that's great! > I was just on the Beggars Banquet site and I found > this > http://www.beggars.com/mp3/video/collinnewman_b.mov > > It's really tiny, but kinda fun. > > Billy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 01:00:31 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Re: how do you say... well he was a bit of an old woman ; ) > Nice one. For me it was Bruno Brookes introducing the KLF's 'What Time Is > It, Love?' > > AndyL > > >> << mind you that's not the funniest top 40 moment. did anyone > >> here ever hear that time when they played the uncensored version of that > >> rage of the machine track that basically went 'f--- you' over > >> and over - on > >> national radio on a sunday teatime!!! i honestly thought it was > >> my ears and > >> they must have been singing something like 'f--- you', cos i couldn't > >> believe it. >> > >> > >> For me the funniest moment was when Peter Powell was telling > >> listeners about > >> the 'Something Else' TV show that was being shown that evening, > >> on which Joy > >> Division's legendary Transmission/She's Lost Control performance was > >> featured. The other band on the show was the Jam. > >> > >> Powell's intro went something like.... > >> > >> "Hey, don't miss tonight's grrreeat new TV show Something Else on BBC2!! > >> Tonight's show features the Jam!!! And Joy Davidson!!!!" > >> > >> Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:07:47 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] Re: THE DEADLY DORIS David, << mark your last mail really got me thinking back to gigs and living in London a trying to track down illusive albums..... i spent ages trying to find recordings by " die todliche doris" rough trade had some.. but not all .. even wrote tothe band in berlin. do you have any of their stuff.... do you recall their 8 mini disc release with an action man mini disc player.. to play them on.. i'm still looking for odd n ends of theirs!!!!<< Y'know of all the German bands of the early 80s The Doris is the one I've got nothing by. I was heavily into German music about that time (I speak-a da lingo, and spent Summer 83 in Frankfurt) and have loads of stuff by fantastic bands like Palais Schaumburg, Der Plan, Die Fehlfarben etc. But never TDD. I read something about them in the Wire mag a while back - one of the main people is dead, unfortunately, but the surviving members seemed proud of the band. Very extreme conceptual stuff from what I remember.... >> saw birthday party at ACTION SPACE. gallery in covent gdn in 1981 was it... before that area became "cappacino bar'd" that was anther confrontation evening....going to gigs was eventful to say the least!<< Saw the BP many times in London - the Venue in Victoria (twice - once with the Cocteau Twins), also Hammersmith Palais, the Lyceum and Central London Poly - most of these were 82-83. Saw them in 81 on tour at Nottingham Rock City supporting Bauhaus and the "lounge" Subway Sect... great gigs all of those....aah, nostalgia ;-) >> TALKING OF ALL THINGS GEN. P.ORRIDGE have you witnessed his latest guise..with it's..slightly drag queen asexual vibe about it. sometimes i think he's a total fraud and others you sort of thankful he's there to stir things up a bit.... anyway be good to hear from you >> There was always an element of high camp about that whole PTV/Current 93/Nurse with wound/Death in June/Coil/Whitehouse set. That whole nazi/serial killer/religious cult tip lends itself to high campery. Wore very thin after a while... I went to all four nights of the Final Academy at Brixton Ritzy (late 83) with Burroughs, Gysin etc reading, plus live performances of a high standard from Cabs, 23 Skidoo and Last Few Days (now there's a lost band....) On the last night GPO "launched" Psychic TV with quasi-religious pomp, messages from Thee temple and "holophonic" sound (ie stereo!) Also issued instructions on how to perform Thee Sigil Of Thee Three Liquids. Best I don't explain that one ;-) Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:11:55 EDT From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] It's Curtains for you Rocky!!! In a message dated 5/10/02 6:24:36 AM, keith.astbury10@virgin.net writes: >you were at this gig? i can still remember reading of this at time. paul, >i >am SERIOUSLY impressed... > >keith > >> but the most memorable has to be pil, at the ritz in everything i've heard and read about it, the one important part (as an audience member) that i don't recall ever being reported was about the pouring rain. we were absolutely drenched by the time the lovely folks at the ritz allowed us to enter. then the place was packed with so many people (as it usually was) that it got all hot and steamy inside. also, in those days the ny clubs made you wait hours before the bands would get on stage. it's no wonder a large portion of the crowd got as pissed off as they did. as for me and my friend, we were just thrilled by the whole spectacle. - -another the paul ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 01:10:07 EDT From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] albini on our topic, circa 1985 found some old zines in a box in the basement. while skimming through a musty copy of forced exposure from the summer of 1985, i came across a big black article entitled "amen a pen a canal - enema". written by albini himself, the article is preceded by an editor's note "lest this swell article seem a rank batch o' self-aggrandizement on the part of a thin white dick, allow us to say right here that we s'licited it." the following is the part i thought would be of most interest here: "i want to push myself, the music, the audience and everything involved as close to the precipice as possible. although i'm kinda worried about what we'll find there. all the coolest pioneers of this noise spirit seem to have made the trip to the extreme, been unable, or unwilling, to push on, and tossed in the towel. spk and pil on elektra records, for christ's sweet little boy buttfuck murder's sakes. alan vega making a disco 12" with ministry backing him up. the stranglers using string sections. colin newman putting a kibosh on a wire reunion because his fucking guru told him to leave music forever. husker du sounding like buffalo springfield, baad company, king crimson, and husker du, all on the same record. is there something out there that signals "hey, that's enough. you've pushed the boundaries far enough. time to go home and suck for a while." i want to find out." interesting that the article (although it may have been written long before the publishing date) came out only months before snakedrill. i wonder what albini's take on 80's wire is. was it "going home and sucking" or "making a trip to the extreme"? a bit of both perhaps? even though i already owned chairs missing, it wasn't until snakedrill that i truly sunk myself into wire (past and present). i think i started listening to 154 and ideal copy at about the same time. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:07:10 +0100 From: "Paul Anderson" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] first ever gig I've not posted here before but this thread brought back some great memories. First ever gig was The Rezillos supported by The Skids in 1978 in Grangemouth (Scotland) Town hall. Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) was from Grangemouth and his brother did a great job bring bands there in the late '70s. Others included The Members, UK Subs and John Foxx era Ultravox (supported by the unknown Simple Minds) Cheers Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Speight" To: Sent: 07 May 2002 09:32 Subject: RE: [idealcopy] first ever gig > Hammersmith Odean (77 I think ?) > > The Jam, The New Hearts, The Jolt (The Modern World tour) > > (followed by the Buzzcocks and Penetration at Bracknell Sports Centre) > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org]On > Behalf Of Keith Astbury > Sent: 07 May 2002 07:26 > To: idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: [idealcopy] first ever gig > > > Here's one for you y'all. > > WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST EVER GIG? > > And honest answers please, not the hip Pistols at the 100 Club reply (unless > of course, you really were that fortunate!) > > Anyway, here's mine. > > Although I'd seen a number of M.O.R. pop acts as a child due to my mum and > dad loving 'a good show' (the Seekers and the Bachelors in the 60's, Roger > Whittaker and New World in the early 70's!!!), the first PROPER gig I went > to > was Uriah Heep at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on their 1974 'Wonderworld' > tour. > > I wasn't a Uriah Heep fan at all - in fact I don't think I'd actually ever > heard them - but there was a school trip to see them (we were extremely > fortunate that our R.E. teacher Mr Owen - I'll mention his name cos he > deserves it - organised a number of trips to pop concerts). To be honest, > I'd > wanted to go and see Roxy Music, but that trip was cancelled due to a lack > of > interest. (I still can't believe that). As I was just desperate to go to a > gig > - any gig - and couldn't wait until the Sparks trip a few weeks later on > bonfire night (which would have been an altogether hipper first gig don't > you > think???), I went to see five long haired heavy rock merchants play lots of > dead long songs (with titles like 'Gypsy' and 'July Morning'!) that I'd > never > heard before, supported by a pre-'Comes Alive' Peter Frampton. Now I'd like > to > say that I thought they were both shit, but I can't. I loved everything > about > it - the atmosphere, the volume, Uriah Heep's rock'n'roll medley and, for > god's sake, Frampton's cover of 'Jumpin Jack Flash'. I even loved the crowds > mindless 'Uriah Uriah Uriah' chant, which even then struck me > as.well.mindless! > > As for the Sparks gig a few weeks later - well what do you think? Russell > Mael > pirouetting across the stage with a sparkler in his hand. 'This Town Ain't > Big > Enough for the Both of Us'. Brother Ron's moustache and fixed stare. 'Never > Turn Your Back on Mother Earth'. A drummer with the rather splendid name > 'Dinky Diamond'. They were great. > > Over to you??? > > Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V5 #146 *******************************