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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 31, 2011 8:35:24 GMT
HAPPY HALLOWEEN & SUMMERS END i44.images obliterated by tinypic/mku800.jpg[/IMG] the scariest video I've ever seen try not to look at 1.46 mwahhahaha
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 5, 2011 11:41:36 GMT
Happy Safe Bonfire Nightto those of you who may be participating and to quote the Facebook page; The Last Person To Enter Parliament With Honest Intentions Was Guy Fawkes
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 12, 2011 10:50:39 GMT
"Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.
SOUND IT OUT is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England.
A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, SOUND IT OUT documents a place that is thriving against the odds. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop.
A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, obsession and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives."
" I like me Quo people say I'm mad but I don't drink I don't smoke I don't have a woman.." ;D ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 12, 2011 13:00:39 GMT
"Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.
SOUND IT OUT is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England.
A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, SOUND IT OUT documents a place that is thriving against the odds. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop.
A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, obsession and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives."" I like me Quo people say I'm mad but I don't drink I don't smoke I don't have a woman.." ;D ;D I used to go into Beanos in Croydon quite a lot and always saw the same folks looking for the elusive "gem" that David Lashmar and his staff might have overlooked. Never worked, they were too eagle eyed.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Nov 13, 2011 10:40:43 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 13, 2011 10:57:47 GMT
Here Duck what price was a phonographic cylinder when you were a lad? Like the Wales in brackets like we don't know or are you being fasetius ..faceti (funny)
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2011 18:05:28 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 16, 2011 20:48:08 GMT
Hear Hear!! "The former manager of the Tyneside rock group Lindisfarne is calling for a memorial to the lead singer Alan Hull in Newcastle.
Hull died on 17 November, 1995. He was only 50 but it was no rock-and-roll "crash and burn".
His former manager, Barry McKay, described him as down to earth, a defender of the "underprivileged, the misunderstood and the working class".
Mr McKay said: "He was a true son of Newcastle and he was proud of his city..."www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15740888Met him once at concert - top bloke - no airs or graces. A comment on youtube said that he signed their autograph with the words; "May your pockets ever jingle with the sound of Newcastle Brown Ale tops.."
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 26, 2011 10:20:26 GMT
From: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bryanburnett/2011/02/bryan_burnett_vs_billy_bragg.shtmlLast night's show was a reminder of how much music really means to people and how much the words of a song can affect someone's life. We heard some moving and touching tales throughout the show and we also had some moments that made me smile. Thanks to everyone who shared their stories last night. By way of a contrast tonight's show is just a bit of fun. It was suggested by Al Istener and I think it's perfect for a Friday night. All you have to do is think of two artists with the same initials and we'll pick which one to play. Andy Stewart or Alvin Stardust? Lena Zavaroni or Led Zep? The gamble is that you dont know which one we are going to go for. You might want Pink Floyd but end up with Peter Frampton! Worse still, it could be Jethro Tull or Justin Timberlake! Now there's a decision I'd like to make...
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 28, 2011 21:18:25 GMT
Look at how forty years has gone past....
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 21, 2011 19:22:45 GMT
Lest anyone think that I spend all my time listening to music or lazing about on my luxury yacht on the Mediterranean Sea, it has been known that I do work. Last night I spent a fair proportion of the shift working on one of the finest, in my humble opinion, products that I've ever been involved in - namely a Belgian chocolate melt in the middle sponge. I went up to "taste panel" (a collection of 4 or 5 staff members who gather to sample the products made during the course of the shift) and can confirm, due to the fact that I monopolised the said product, that it's wonderful. Btw, it says on the carton that it serves four - rubbish; I would bet many chocoholics could consume at lest half to two third of it in one sitting.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 21, 2011 19:30:44 GMT
and the least you could do is send us all a sample
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 21, 2011 20:20:09 GMT
Looks good...and don't think a sample would go unappreciated and unreciprocated....just name your favorite anti-psychotic medication and wait by your mailbox ( unlesss the voices tell you not to).
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 1, 2012 9:52:41 GMT
Eden Project to hold first World Pasty Championships1 January 2012 Cooks from around the world will head to Cornwall in March for the first World Pasty Championships. The event will be held at the Eden Project, St Austell, to celebrate the popular local delicacy, which was given protected status under EU law earlier in 2011. The Cornish Pasty Association, which is backing the event, hopes people locally and across the world will take part. It will be held on 3 March, the Saturday before St Piran's Day. The Cornish pasty has been associated with tin miners in the county, and was a part of many people's diets during the 18th Century. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the pasty was first identified around 1300. 'Original fast food' Families in Cornwall have passed down the recipe for a Cornish pasty through the generations. Phil Ugalde of the Cornish Pasty Association said: "If you know anything about Cornwall, you know that pasty-making is a very emotive subject. "People feel very proud of it - this was the original fast food." Gaynor Coley, managing director of the Eden Project, said: "The pasty is one of the great icons of Cornwall and also one of its best exports, carried in the hands of all those hardy mining families who left this coast and who took their skills - and their favourite food - across the world." Judges will be looking for the best Cornish pasty made to the traditional recipe. The Cornish Pasty Association, which had to come up with the "genuine" Cornish pasty recipe as part of its successful Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) application, said an authentic pasty should have a distinctive 'D' shape and be crimped on one side, never on top. It said the filling should be "chunky, made up of uncooked mince or chunks of beef with swede, potato and onion and a light seasoning" before being slow-baked. Variations on the pasty taken around the world by expatriates can be found from Australia to California and Mexico. Separate competitions in the pasty championships will be held for alternative recipes hailing from different parts of the world. www.bbc.co.uk
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 9, 2012 9:02:29 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 9, 2012 23:35:48 GMT
PIL (generic) was not quite prog but a lot closer to 'Cream' than punk...in fact, jack bruce was either on that very album or on a concurrent 'Golden Palominos' record that also featured Rotten Johnny. I think a cut or two on PIL was the Golden Palominos lineup with people like Steven Vai and Anton Fier involved.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 22, 2012 11:29:55 GMT
President Newt referring to the name and not the politics opens up a whole world of appropriate names Prime Minister Slime Y. Mold Torkin Bollicks MP for St Cleve and Linwell
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 22, 2012 22:03:59 GMT
Yet another anniversary! 25 years since Paul Simons Graceland was released remember buying it when it first came out blahdeblah
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 23, 2012 9:07:08 GMT
Yet another anniversary! 25 years since Paul Simons Graceland was released remember buying it when it first came out blahdeblah A great album imo. In around 1965, I used to frequent a coffee bar in Croydon called "The Olive Tree" on the Brighton Road, which also doubled up as a folk club and a place to go to to wind up your patents as it was regarded as a den of iniquity by the previous generation. It was on two floors and in the lower floor they had a juke box which contained the "in" music of the day - none of your pop or crap music of the day. One of the records was "I Am A Rock" by an unknown musician called Paul Simon and after trawling the record shops in town I managed to pick up a copy which I still have today. I have some great, and a few not so great, memories of "The Olive Tree" mainly because there weren't many other places like it in suburban Croydon at that time. Croydon was, and maybe still is as I haven't been back there for quite some time, a place that would give sh1t holes a bad name but at least "The Olive Tree" was a place to go to meet others with a like minded love of good music but in its later years it came to a rather tame place when fashions changed. It closed down many years ago but is fondly remembered by those who went there in its heyday - in fact those artists who mention it in their web sites include Wizz Jones, Ralph McTell, Jacqui McShee and Peter Sarstedt. It's a shame that no "blue plaques" exist to show where it was and to my knowledge no photographs exist of the place.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 24, 2012 9:43:13 GMT
Great to see this. An old friend Len Dee, who now lives in Austria, playing guitar and singing as a guest with a band called Four Of A Kind.
He used to be the drummer in a band we got together called "The Daughters Of Rev. Narn" (don't ask)
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Post by futureshock on Feb 5, 2012 21:38:20 GMT
Potassium soup. That's what I want to order. You don't sell it? Well you can just suffer, then, can't you! I offer you fair trade and you can't hold up your part of the deal. I don't like your little corporate restaurant and I'm NOT COMING BACK, I'M A DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER!
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 15, 2012 20:00:05 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 16, 2012 8:53:06 GMT
Well it was bound to happen after Limewire, the Pirate Bay and Megaupload got shut down. It'll be interesting to see if it's driven underground as people try and find a way around it.
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Post by tullist on Feb 16, 2012 17:29:28 GMT
From such information as I have on this issue, I would have to mark this as a very good development. Still has not been explained to me how those sites were anything less than outright robbery, something I would not say of the legal torrent sites.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 17, 2012 22:08:25 GMT
An American "archaeoacoustics" researcher has come up with the theory that the design of Stonehenge was influenced by sound; www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17073206"He has been able to show how two flutes played in a field can produce an auditory illusion that mimics in space the position of the henge's pillars...." "He told the BBC: "My theory is that the ancient Britons, when they were hearing two pipers in a field, were experiencing sound wave interference patterns, where in certain locations as you walked around the pair of pipers, you would hear loud or quiet zones. "If you could look at it from an overhead view, it would look like the spokes of a wheel. And, as you walk around the circle, every time you come to one of these sound-wave cancellation points, it feels like there is this massive invisible object in front of you. "Put all this 'vision in your mind' together and it forms a Stonehenge-like structure." Ok Ian your not that far away - go prove the theory
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Post by futureshock on Feb 24, 2012 21:17:26 GMT
"Civilization One" by Christopher Knight, indicates that in the days of creating these massive structures like Newgrange, Stonehenge, etc, there was simultaneously the discovery of the new sciences of astronomy, measurement of the Earth, seasons, precise new measurement of distance, time, mass, volume, etc, with accuracy almost matching current day. Then it got lost for over 1000's of years, although it got adopted in the Mediterranean cultures with slightly different methodology, but generally the same goals and results.
You Brits should be proud, and out there on the plains watching your pendulums and Venus and the solstices and getting ready to plant or harvest or trade or celebrate another season of vitality.
It's amazing, actually, the rapid development of those sciences, well before the age of stupidity and religion and war. How sad that so much of it got lost in the Dark Ages of empires, religious stupidity, wars, etc, when it was all so practical in the first place.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 24, 2012 22:33:45 GMT
"Civilization One" by Christopher Knight, indicates that in the days of creating these massive structures like Newgrange, Stonehenge, etc, there was simultaneously the discovery of the new sciences of astronomy, measurement of the Earth, seasons, precise new measurement of distance, time, mass, volume, etc, with accuracy almost matching current day. Then it got lost for over 1000's of years, although it got adopted in the Mediterranean cultures with slightly different methodology, but generally the same goals and results. You Brits should be proud, and out there on the plains watching your pendulums and Venus and the solstices and getting ready to plant or harvest or trade or celebrate another season of vitality. It's amazing, actually, the rapid development of those sciences, well before the age of stupidity and religion and war. How sad that so much of it got lost in the Dark Ages of empires, religious stupidity, wars, etc, when it was all so practical in the first place. Well put Futureshock and looking at it that way I agree. I'm more likely to believe the power of the universe and the earth over the power of man.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 25, 2012 9:40:11 GMT
"Civilization One" by Christopher Knight, indicates that in the days of creating these massive structures like Newgrange, Stonehenge, etc, there was simultaneously the discovery of the new sciences of astronomy, measurement of the Earth, seasons, precise new measurement of distance, time, mass, volume, etc, with accuracy almost matching current day. Then it got lost for over 1000's of years, although it got adopted in the Mediterranean cultures with slightly different methodology, but generally the same goals and results. You Brits should be proud, and out there on the plains watching your pendulums and Venus and the solstices and getting ready to plant or harvest or trade or celebrate another season of vitality. It's amazing, actually, the rapid development of those sciences, well before the age of stupidity and religion and war. How sad that so much of it got lost in the Dark Ages of empires, religious stupidity, wars, etc, when it was all so practical in the first place. Right well that's another book to put on the list to read. Thanks futureshock for the recommendation.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 25, 2012 17:18:06 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 25, 2012 18:20:01 GMT
Pack warm clothes and a flak jacket. When they go bad, they go really bad.
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