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In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

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In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:22:53 +0200

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In response to:SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:31:03 +0200

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.

In response to:Memory, the Unconscious and the Big Three

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:22:49 +0100

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In response to:Memory, the Unconscious and the Big Three

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:52:13 +0100

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

In response to:ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:36:43 +0100

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.

In response to:ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:47:26 +0100

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 Leamington Peace Festival last year we had it on in the car. Our young bassist Stevie fell asleep and dreamt strange reveries - seemed like he was back in Ensenada Drive for a while ( real time, M6, Staffordshire).

We enjoy performing a version of Willy the Pimp from Zappa's Hot Rats, which Beefheart sang. Will we ever see the likes of them again?

Great history,analysis and choice, O Wizard of Os!

In response to:ALBUMS THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, CHANGED MUSIC, BLEW YOUR MIND, No. 2

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:52:19 +0100

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 Band and no footage,what there is consists of pre Zoot Rollo era playing on the beach at Cannes or that awful band doing Sugar Bowl on The Whistle Test and a few good promos.I've trawled the net and bought a few bootlegs with appalling sound and even they seem thin on the ground.So if any of you out there know of some primetime vintage Magic Band with pristine sound please get in touch.
In fact the first time I took out the love of my life was to a Beefheart concert(and you were there too Dave) so I certainly know how to show a girl a good time.You could say Big Eyed Beans From Venus is our tune and the current Magic Band were good enough to play it for us on their recent show in Manchester.
On a visit to America once we took some time to visit the place where I think Beefheart now lives (Trinidad,Northern California if anybody is interested)needless to say there was no sign of the great man as he now lives as a recluse. But the place was pretty spooky that day with fog rolling in off the Pacific and sounds of sealions honking(maybe that was the Captain).I did once bump into him around the back of the Free Trade Hall in Manchester after a show,I made some grovelling remark about how fantastic the show was (it wasn't)and I think he might just have nodded slightly.Incidentally The Free Trade Hall scene of the famous Judas concert by Dylan,the first Sex Pistols show in Manchester in the little hall and countless other classic gigs is now a "luxury"hotel,just what the world needs another of eh.
Looking forward to the next in the series already.

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:03:07 +0100

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 tosh this side of Emerson,Lake and Palmer,Dark Side of the Moon being a particular turkey.I liked plenty of albums from Elvis through to the Who(the My Generation album getting quite a thrashing)but mostly live shows and singles then sitting around in a flat a few joints into the evening I was holding forth on the merits of English bands as opposed to American when someone said "well fuckin' listen to this then" and slipped on........."Live Dead" The rest is history as they say, its got the lot,Dark Star the galaxy's best take you out there tune,the anthemic St.Stephen/Eleven and Lovelight to get your toes a-tapping.
From there it was tripping up to Stoke-on-Trent(the home of rock)to see their first landing on British soil and then on to Wembley,Bickershaw,Ally Pally and even San Francisco to see Garcia and his band.Sure they made some crap albums but they lost interest in recording after American Beauty and they got into some crap drugs but the show was always the thing and anyone was allowed to tape them.You would see the most amazing cross-section of humanity from the stonedest craziest freaks to old men in suits to young kids to the most beautiful women you would ever see twirling away.At times the music got a bit scary and took you to places you didn't want to go,sometimes they lost the plot and forgot what they were playing and sometimes you would just have this big grin on your face and you would look round and everyone else would have the same big grin.That was when you knew that whatever it was this was it and there was no place better to be ever.

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:53:07 +0100

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. Dick. I love Eliot but found him just too hard to write about. As for Hot Rats, what makes it a classic is Willie The Pimp, sung by the mighty Beefheart. Stay tuned as next article is about the very same man. Who is Little Bro Montgomery? but love the idea of the speed being wrong. The RAmones may be more accessible, it's not weirdness that counts but a sound you have never have heard before. Not necessarily life changing on a personal level, but an idea of something coming from nowhere, although I would agree with you on the Dylan. Love Dave, keep in touch, who knows where this could go if more people got invloved.

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:39:29 +0100

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 late string quartets - which I relied on later to cobble together a thesis on Eliots 'Four Quartets' and on and on. It's probably the first record that really counts and that would put me in touch - and even possibly contaminate me with the company of 'BobCats'. Damn! I wish he had retired after 67.

But still the sound and names of contenders fill my head. Anything by Zappa, but especially Hot Rats (lousy and fussy in remix) which was my introduction. THE big problem is that for the hardiest music lover music has been devalued by its ubiquity.

I will think. Maybe Little Brother Montgomery will win the day - first heard (accidentally) at 45rpm and still as breathtaking at the correct speed of 33rpm.

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:21:10 +0100

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", 'Are You Experienced?", the Ramones first album and Velvet Underground first album. Keep in touch. Cheers, Dave

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:32:24 +0100

. . . . .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 Granada Cinema Maidstone at the time Not Fade Away was hitting the charts? No. It wasn't a few decades back it was a different dimension.

Thanks for writing this.

In response to:Albums that came from nowhere, changed music, blew your mind

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:26:38 +0100

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 Floyd without Ummugumma, Animals, even The Dark Side of The Moon. Would that have been so bad? Could the best of 'Wish You Were Here' have been cut or even conceived without Syd's ghost? So what do we have? The monster that is Pink Floyd or the child that lived too briefly? But if Pink Floyd weren't a driving force in the explosion of electronica, from Underworld to The Orb - who was?

Thanks for this, maybe I'll even take this idea and play a bit with it myself Records that changed my view of the world. I'm almost itching.

In response to:The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:20:32 +0100

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 fuck is going off out there in Pakistan,can England expect anything but total humiliation when they pick Blunket for the side not only is he well past it agewise but has nobody realised he's bloody blind.I know the Newab of Pataudi played for India with only one eye but this bloke has none.Is it that he comes from Yorkshire like Vaughan(not strictly true writes A Pedant as Vaughan was born in Manchester)Maybe his guide dog could be the supersub.Still the Pakistani bowling must be very ordinary as he managed to top score in Englands last game.

In response to:The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:55:39 +0100

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 got to keep moving, hellhound on my trail...

In response to:The Pope's Christmas message to the deluded and insane

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:56:04 +0100

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 barren wasteland.
Anyway not to worry, it will soon be Christmas and what better time to further deplete the the worlds resources by buying 10 times as much stuff as you can eat,drink and fill your wheelybin with.
So folks just remember to check that shed for illegal Somalian refugees before you clean it out ready for the new gardening season.

In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:01:04 +0100

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In response to:SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:45:48 +0100

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
Please send messages of support to me here c/o
The slammer
Ho Chi Minh City

In response to:SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:43:36 +0100

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, one should have never read the papers its far to brain consuming....DD

In response to:SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:10:20 +0100

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 person into a state akin to a surrealistic nightmare.I myself am forever drawn to the fashion pages where I see jackets at £1500 that I wouldn't wear to chop logs in and endless articles by people who I've never heard of writing about themselves.
Maybe a switch from the quality compact to Hampshire Life might do the trick.

In response to:SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:28:56 +0100

As Bob might say:

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

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

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:02:50 +0200

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 through assiduous reading of a whole season's Rivets)and its almost blessed, chosen role in this foul world of ours, I am convinced that the wee creatures were in fact classic English fairies sent by the Faerie King (and no, I don't mean Elton John)to protect your endeavours. A significant sighting, I would say, and one which portends well for the Lord Toad's men - but be careful what you wish for!

In response to:Amateur cricket - proper cricket for proper people

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:41:58 +0200

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

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

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:01:21 +0200

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 garnish, I once met someone who had stood for Parliament as the candidate for the Party Against the Use of Parsley as an Inappropriate Garnish. He had also, he told me, stood as a Welsh Nationalist candidate in Coventry. I'm sure he would have dealt decisively with crap pub food in his first term of office.

In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:18:46 +0200

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 practise - on Monday?
Also my mate's (ex drummer Trev) band is playing at the Red Shoot on Sunday night...could get a babysitter...

Well done on the website by the way, and the adverts in the Rivet are also fucking superb; someone out there actually fucking creates those, and someone else fucking well signs them off! Cunts.

XX L

In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:13:34 +0200

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 at the golf club what do I find? Bloody debauched ravings about drugs,drink and what could possibly be popular music with cricket getting hardly a mention.
Please cancel my subsription to your filthy rag forthwith and I shall not be visiting your peurile blogar in the future.In fact if I knew where to find you I would be round pdq to administer a proper thrashing.

In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:05:21 +0200

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 you to contemplate the decisive ball in a calmer state of mind.While the Attics from Winterland 74 is indeed a fine rendition I would personally recomend going with the Dark Star from the Field Trip to Veneta,Oregon 8/27 72. Once listened to this will equip you to face literally anything as and here I quote "the immense and at times frightening series of jams like the progress of perceptions that advanced Tibetan Buddhist Lamas say one experiences at the moment of death" so get through that Davey boy and the small matter of dispatching a cricket ball to somewhere in Ringwood is but the dropping of ash on an extra large black t-shirt.

In response to:The vexed question of drugs in sport

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:10:44 +0200

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 increase my paranoia (and encourage me to let my freak flag fly) if I contemplated facing an aggressive pace attack in this condition.

Another superb vignette. Whither next?

In response to:Amateur cricket - proper cricket for proper people

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:03:45 +0200

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?