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BLA 5 just touched down here. Looking forward to some of the tracks that haven't appeared so far on the series (unless my memory is fading, wouldn't be surprised): eg Always Crashing, and one for the young folk, early single Can't Help Thinking About Me from 1966.

I fully endorse this, it's an awesome album. btw look at little Stevie Wilson there. Wonder if he'll amount to anything one day?

50/50 with Phil Collins, but yep good job all around, it's a brilliant album. And So To F has two basses on it as well - not sure if it's Percy and John, or one of them twice.

He did indeed, and it was one of the best gigs I've seen. I saw the show, dug the basses, ended up buying one of them.

Adrian Davison used to advertise in the back pages of the popular music mags where he promoted himself as "the worlds fastest bass player .... often exceeds 32 notes per second". He then went on to achieve global fame and fortune, but probably not as a bass player

Vinyl only so far. I was going to get Vinyl + CD this time so I could eBay the CD to cover the costs of getting Vol 3 from the USA after slighty late arrival at the pre-order party (ie UK sold out, USA not yet), but that's not entirely in the spirit of things. Didn't know that Vol 6 was going to be another from 1999 - the Vienna show from Oct 17 would be nice as it's the only live performance of If I'm Dreaming My Life. Having said that, any Hours show is going to overlap massively with Vol 5.

Got mine ordered, which makes me 5/5 so far. Tell you what, if you're missing out on the stress that accompanies tickets going on sale for your favourite band (for example), thne awaiting the email announcement for the next Bowie BLA installment is pretty close.

I was interviewed live on BBC News 24 while in the queue to pick up tickets for Led Zeppelin at the O2. I corrected the BBC reporter live on air, which I'm sure is a treasonable offence

I can be seen on the Whirld Tour video of Transatlantic at the Shepherds Bush Empire while Mike Portnoy does his stage dive. Funny because this was the gig where I fell asleep standing up (qv) I can be heard on a bootleg of a Peter Gabriel gig from 2003. He's introducing a song saying something like "some folk say you are what what you eat". "EAT WELL" I generously offer, referencing a well-known 1973 Genesis lyric. I'm sure he was overjoyed. He got his own back a few years later, I am in this video clearly embarassed by all that's going on around me

No surprises that this lot are French. The repertoire also includes 21st Century Schizoid Man, Peaches En Regalia, Tubular Bells, Atom Heart Mother

Had to consult my last.fm stats for this, top three are 801 Live, Simple Minds 5x5 and Camel A Live Record. But that's just totting up number of tracks listened to. I suspect we can add Genesis Seconds Out/Live/Three Sides Live, Rush Exit Stage Left, assorted Magma (probably Theusz Hamthaak trilogy), Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve, Yesshows, Bowie Stage, Peter Gabriel Secret World Live. and the first record I ever bought, Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

MOTORHEAD AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON, JUNE 2005

Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_music "Danger music is an experimental form of avant-garde 20th and 21st century music and performance art. It is based on the concept that some pieces of music can or will harm either the listener or the performer"

Psychedelic Furs Grimes Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes

Buckwheat Zydeco

Art of Noise

World Party

Indie-go Girls

Blues Traveler

The Jam

Yeah I draw the line at terrible pub grub as well

I fell asleep standing up twice during a gig if that counts: Quireboys (Southampton university 1989 ish) and Transatlantic (Shepherds Bush Empire 2010).

Vulfpeck at Brixton Academy. It was awesome of course but mid-set I sensed a commotion to my right as the dead sea parted and someone came bundling out of the crowd, desperate to be elsewhere, didn't make it and puked up on me. Despite valiant attempts to de-sick myself in the gents at the front of the downstairs standing area (not the most pleasant of places at the best of times), pep talks from the other occupiers of the gents at the time (one guy said "just get out there and enjoy it, what else can go wrong"), purchasing a hugely expensive Vulf t-shirt to change into - apologies to all who saw me topless in the gents by the bar) - it still turned out that I could smell someone else's sick on me so I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and got on the next bus home. No idea who the puker was. You can't dust for vomit, remember

Agreed on all of the above! I saw Umphreys McGee there three times (a different set on three consecutive nights) and Phil Lesh, I'm not a Dead fan and probably would have that early too had I not been there with a friend who was a massive Deadhead. Also, lovely beer.