Mickeyboro

Very nice. The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz has very much this feel.

We're trying to do our trip on £150 a day plus air fares. A business class round the world ticket is about £7500.

Having spent the last ten months travelling the world on a 'geriatric gap year', I am planning a road trip to the above destinations in August as the unashamedly music-centred finale. As BC members betwen them have done everything already (!), I would love to hear any hints and tips you've gathered from previous trips. Apart from the fact it's gonna be flipping hot... Thanks all!

A lot to answer for? Those trackie bottoms, for a start!

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1463441474' post='3051437'] I got smashed in whitstable with the bass bloke from caravan,although i wasnt aware who he was. [/quote] Was he?

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1462460632' post='3043212'] The first time I met Jenny Haan (Babe Ruth band & early 70s pin-up) she was standing in my kitchen and I had no idea who she was. To be fair, Sounds used photos that concentrated on her legs and not her face! After a good 10 ten minutes of to-ing and fro-ing, he said 'do you know who I am?' and then told me...David Frost. [/quote] Didn't 'Hello good evening and welcome' give it away Dave? 😈

My sister was keen on his brother, David... 😆

Paul McCartney - in Portland, second gig of the world tour. Did I ever tell you I saw the Beatles? Attending the Cream reunion 11 years ago, I was assaulted by a bunch of people taking 'my' picture on smartphones. I turned round to see, in a box behind me, fellow audience members Macca, Heather Mills, Ringo, Barbara Bach and Tom Hanks. By the encore they'd long since disappeared into the night...but I saw the Beatles, all right?! 😆

Nice post! Out in SF at the moment, wish we had coincided...

Assuming we ain't seen it all before

It is indeed a cracker! Have you heard the live version that started out as a single B-side but has turned up on some comps? Same song but twice as fast...

The TV clips I've seen show a rock band, albeit one that thought 'outside the box'. I credit jazz for that! Seeing the 'making of Aja' DVD, with all that constant re-recording, made me think they had OCD problems. (As once did I.) Those first two albums - when they were a band, not a duo - are still among my all time Top 20... So guess we agree to disagree!

There's a clip of my last band on YouTube where, when I'm introduced, I respond with some unlikely, super-fast and totally random run that sounds like Stanley Clarke on speed. The singer, rightly gobsmacked, says 'where the hell did that come from?' And continues by getting the keyboardist's name utterly wrong...

I had a ticket for their 1974 tour of the UK they abandoned partway thru. I then thought them the most inventive rock band I had heard. Finally saw them in 2000 and they had disappeared up their own fundament! What went wrong?

People who pay for a name act will put up with a lot more. If you don't want to lose a pub audience, make an effort to make 'em yours! On a different note... Saw Rod Stewart in Vegas Wednesday - his banter and crowd control exceeds his singing but he gets away with it on charisma alone.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1458842496' post='3011515'] Technically, when that was recorded they were called "The Jacksons". Not sure what the reason for the name change was. [/quote] Motown copyrighted the name. Jermaine married Berry Gordys daughter and stayed; the others quit.

Mine came with that mod done and I have never had any problems.

Is OMG a permitted response?

Every track I know on here I adore! Except Brilliant Mind by Furniture - my first band shared a bill with them once at the Moonlight Club and ended up with the ****ty end of the stick. Actually, the song's not half bad. But I still hate 'em after 36 years. What a sad b@stard I am!

Good grief! A Brickenbacker...

I think the album could have been Warner Brothers Music Show which had Doobies, ToP, little Feat and other acts on a Euro package tour. Funnily, heard a female-fronted Aussie band, the Stratospherics, cover that track live last year, first time I thought of it for ages. Ace song...

Probably an obvious comment, but for best results you need flats on it...

Yes, I have a 69 slot head EB-3L. Only gigged it once, at a blues gig through an Ampeg stack, but sound was enormous. Can see myself keeping mine into old age as it is so light - nothing to the body weight-wise, the bucker does all the work. Nice score!

[quote name='EmmettC' timestamp='1456955648' post='2994088'] It's all worth it to get to play the solo of You Can Call Me Al a few times a week. [/quote] Lord, I used to DREAD that moment! The wedding-band frightener is the first dance. We learned Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, but after trying it out had to transpose for a male vocal. No sooner did we arrive than we were told the chief bridesmaid wanted to sing it ... In the original key. Talk about walking on eggshells!!