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In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 518 days old
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In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1161 days old
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In response to: "SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES" 1179 days old
by charmagick [Visitor]

Pull yourselves together!
It's not the chickens or anyone else. Pandemics just come. It's history. And you have time to prepare and there's lots you can do. You don't need a 'flu bunker' or anything extreme. Water, food, cash, etc., there's good lists online, american red cross is one place. Preparedness is power. more…

In response to: "Memory, the Unconscious and the Big Three" 1377 days old
by The Llandderfel Loafer [Visitor]

Fucking 2 days spent composing masterpiece vanished into the ether due to bleeding authorisation code cockups more…

In response to: "Memory, the Unconscious and the Big Three" 1381 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

Was the other song on the EP Reeling and Rocking by Chuck Berry?

Another fine piece, Wizard.

I will respond more fully to the spendidly wide-ranging points you make when Father Time takes a cigarette and puts it in my mouth.

Jimmy B more…

In response to: "ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2" 1396 days old
by Richard [Visitor]

How could we have guessed that after Pink Floyd would come Captain Beefheart? Musical snobbery has such a predictable path. I'm sure these albums hold lovely memories but, let's be honest, they're a bit shit aren't they? Great writing as ever. more…

In response to: "ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2" 1403 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

Ah yes indeed.

Trout Mask replica was the closest to the edge our music got -if it had broken through to the other side we might now be hearing the music Jimi Hendrix said he could hear in his head, the music he wanted to make with Miles Davis.

It's still a great listen - on the way back from our performance at the Leaming more…

In response to: "ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2" 1404 days old
by The Llandderfel Loafer [Visitor]

Yes indeed music to tilt the world and I remember that love of the wierd that the As Safe As Milk album appealed to,and then getting Trout and not knowing wether to laugh,cover your ears or just try to dance to those freaky rhythms.
One of life's dissapointments is that there does not seem to be hardly any live stuff from that vintage Magic B more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1413 days old
by The Llandderfel Loafer [Visitor]

well our Dave, caught up with this one a little late but it could run and run as they say.Floyd's Piper is indeed a little beauty and early Floyd gigs a little different from Juke Box Jury but a couple of caveats here.When did you ever see anybody smile or dance at a Floyd show and they did go on to produce some of the most boring pretentious old t more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1423 days old
by daveos [Member]

Hi KIM, yeah, am afraid I have always found it impossible to like jazz. It's like olives, they are so cool and I would love to like them but however hard I try I just can't. As for Beethoven, for me classical music begins with Robert Johnson, through to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Perhaps you could exchange your thesis on Eliot for mine on Philip K more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1424 days old
by Kim [Visitor]

Trout Mask Replica would certainly be challenging, The Ramones much more accessible and The Thought of The Velvet Underground irristable. But there have been so many 'Life changing experiences from The Freewheelin' Bon Dylan (I was 13 and it was played furing a RI Lesson and nobody 'got' it.) Through Coltrane and Miles Davis and Beethoven's more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1424 days old
by daveos [Member]

You know, I think I saw the Stones/Ike & Tina Turner package tour, in Wigan,but memory is a strange beast and funnily enough perhaps the worst thing it can do is actually remember things. Anyway thanks for your reply. As part of the series on albums that came from nowhere, seemed to have no musical antecedents - how about 'Trout Mask Replica", more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1425 days old
by  [Visitor]

. . . . .and damn I remember package tours. But can I get anyone under my age to belive that I saw The Rolling Stones play as headliners of a package including Ike & Tina Turner, half a dozen merseysiders - names long forgotten but not lacking in a touch of the surreal (maybe one was Gerry And The Pacemakers) all taking 10 or 15 minutes in The more…

In response to: "Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind " 1425 days old
by  [Visitor]

THIS was a trip down the memory motorway, and a fitting tribute to Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett. Looking through my Pink Floyd LPs a couple of weeks ago it was the early stuff that made it as far as the turntable. After those I went for The Wall, but the DVD , a very different animal to the album.

Pink Floyd without Syd...or...Pink Flo more…

In response to: "The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane" 1428 days old
by The Llandderfel Loafer [Visitor]

Whilst we're on the global warming/destruction of the planet theme was anybody remotely surprised to find out that the good citizens of Hemel Hempsteads reaction to a blazing oil inferno on their doorstep was to rush out and queue up to buy more fucking petrol,you really couldn't make it up could you.
Anyway back to the cricket and what the f more…

In response to: "The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane" 1430 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

As fine a Christmas message as I've read. Additional twigs to the tree are increased debt, burglaries, domestic violence and suicide at this time of peace on earth and goodwill to all.

The echoes of Vonnegut and the bombing of Dresden (so it goes) are nicely placed (cover drives, I feel).

Dave Os for Pope!

I more…

In response to: "The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane" 1430 days old
by Alan Titchmarsh [Visitor]

Is this shed you're on about the one wot won the Turner prize, or am I missing the point somewhat here? I feel that you are failing to appreciate the wonders and benefits the global economy brings to the meek and poor of the world and any way should they not just be satisfied to inherit the earth or whats left of it after we've all reduced it to a more…

In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1430 days old
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In response to: "SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES" 1443 days old
by Gary Glitter [Visitor]

I'm not so sure that having it off with chickens is that risky.Look whats happened to me and they haven't even heard my records yet
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In response to: "SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES" 1448 days old
by SensualReading [Member]

I believe its far safer to stick to the sage and onion for the chicken...are you sure 750,000 deaths is enough space? Mind you with the shortage of flu jabs this year - the Government forgot to order sufficient amounts(it wont work for the avian flu) there might be a few more deaths to add to that - ah... plenty of room.

And really, on more…

In response to: "SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES" 1449 days old
by Quentin Chickgroper [Visitor]

Hey lets look on the bright side,750,000 deaths from bird flu,more room for the rest of us.Anyway the burning question the media don't seem to want to answer is "can you get bird flu from having sex with chickens?"
Its a well known fact that the reading of the sunday papers can result in acute depression and plunge the average intelligent per more…

In response to: "SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES" 1451 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

As Bob might say:

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.


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In response to: "Another riveting article from back issues of Ringwood's premier cricketing/lifestyle publication, featuring drugs, rock n roll, space aliens and a bit of cricket" 1491 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

You know, I wonder about these little spacemen in their little silver spaceships. Far be it from me to try to dampen down your wonderful imagination, Oh Wizard of Os, but I think you may on this occasion be mistaken in thinking that these were diminutive stellar travellers. No, given my developing understanding of the Lord Toad's Eleven (gained more…

In response to: "Amateur cricket - proper cricket for proper people" 1505 days old
by Phil [Visitor]

Eric Idle is a shoe-in as Michael Vaughan, with Ian Brown cameoing (is that a word?) as Gary Pratt. I see a partnership of Jon Bon Jovi and the bloke from A Flock of Seagulls as McGrath and Lee with Bob, the psycho from Twin Peaks as Gillespie. KP would be portrayed by Eddie 'Ten Pole' Tudor and Ashley Giles by Charles Hawtrey more…

In response to: "Another trawl through the back pages of The Daily Rivet, the lifestyle magazine of the Lord Toad's X1, amateur cricketers extraordinaire" 1507 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

I detect the same thread of psychedelic paranoia (the Fear and Loathing ambience) in this fine narrative as in the previous one. We must rise up and defeat the symbolic Coronation chicken baguette, and though our clothes may indeed be soiled with mayonnaise and garnish we will be victorious and our people will be free.

Speaking of g more…

In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1509 days old
by Rat Scabies [Visitor]

Hi Dave

Love the latest Rivet, fucking hilarious the drugs and sex articles, I had Kenco coming out of my nostrils.

I have Eleanor all week and weekend, bless her, but available on Monday or Tuesday for band practise. You around for an arguement with Colin, set up your drums, then pack them away again, sorry I mean practis more…

In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1509 days old
by Sir Arthur Streeb-Gibbering [Visitor]

Sir,
I happened across your bloggermejig thingie attracted by the promise of something devoted to amateur cricket and humour.Expecting some proper info on leading amateur clubs such as I-Zingari and the Old Muleshaggers and hoping for a few quips about fuzzie-wuzzies and Pakistani umpires that I could share with the chaps in the watering hole more…

In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1517 days old
by Jerry Garcia [Visitor]

Well from up here dave it seems as though a couple of elementary mistakes were made in your preparation for your game of "cricket".As an acknowledged expert in the field of drug taking I would largely go along with your pre-match chemical intake but I do feel that a little of the brown Persian would just have taken the edge off things and allowed y more…

In response to: "The vexed question of drugs in sport" 1518 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

Excellent: 'Fear and Loathing in the New Forest' or perhaps a reverie in the tradition of Coleridge or De Quincey. Chemically speaking, I think I can spot the tipping point: Milk of Magnesia reacts almost volcanically with Andrews Liver Salts, to the extent that even the most hardened narcotic warrior is rendered helpless. It would certainly in more…

In response to: "Amateur cricket - proper cricket for proper people" 1524 days old
by Jimmy Baudelaire [Visitor]

Personally I would love to see Shane Warne played by the actor Timothy Spall in the feature film of this year's Ashes as directed by Mike Leigh. He would provide a fine dramatic foil to the Reid brothers' portrayal of Flintoff and Hoggard. But who would Bobby Gillespie play? And who would be cast as the laconic and inscrutable Michael Vaughan more…