Happy Jack Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 https://fb.watch/fFBWUMNgtM/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 "It's not obvious is it....?" Beautiful moment. I love everything about the late 70's, and Ian Dury is probably very close to the top of the list, the first time I realised what being 'a tight band' meant was watching The Blockheads, and there was probably not better frontman for that band that Dury, an oddly Shakespearian character who was in so many ways years ahead of his time. Now he really was a huge loss not just to music but to the wider arts and to society generally ❤️ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 Although by all accounts a thoroughly unpleasant person. 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Some accounts, and frankly therein lies the problem with being famous and dead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 3 hours ago, Happy Jack said: Although by all accounts a thoroughly unpleasant person. 🙄 Neither Will Birch's excellent biography nor the film pulled their punches, but neither portrayed him as such. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 4 hours ago, Happy Jack said: Although by all accounts a thoroughly unpleasant person. 🙄 Apparently when the filmmakers approached the family about the biopic his son (Baxter I presume) said ‘OK but you have got to show what a c*** he could be’ or similar. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 22 hours ago, Nail Soup said: Apparently when the filmmakers approached the family about the biopic his son (Baxter I presume) said ‘OK but you have got to show what a c*** he could be’ or similar. I suspect that in the final analysis our children are our harshest critics. It's easy to look at the way a person behaved at a point in time and think "I would never have done that". But of course, we were never that person in that situation, and none of us have the slightest idea what that felt like or more importantly, what the options might have been. Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes, and as is very clear from the film, his shoes were not easy to walk in, metaphorically or otherwise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 On 20/09/2022 at 16:47, Beedster said: the first time I realised what being 'a tight band' meant was watching The Blockheads, I had precisely the same experience 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asingardenof Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, stewblack said: I had precisely the same experience Watching Norman Watt Roy playing Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick was a bass awakening for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misdee Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) Wow, what a great film! I was a big Ian Dury fan at the time, and I'm an even bigger one now. I can still remember buying New Boots And Panties bringing it home and being thrilled by the swearing. Ian was such a complex but likeable character. In retrospect, Ian Dury and the Blockheads were, like XTC, The Police and The Jam in so much as at the time they rode on the coattails of the punk movement. Funny thing is, listening to those classic records Blockheads now, such is the musicianship that they are closer to Steely Dan than the Sex Pistols! Edited September 22, 2022 by Misdee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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