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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 13, 2011 7:17:43 GMT
I heard this on the radio the other day and just thought I'd share this with anyone else who remembers this band Oh memories, memories.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2011 10:08:23 GMT
ahh sweet memories indeed I think the Strawbs or some of them are still playingthe circuit?
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 13, 2011 12:44:41 GMT
ahh sweet memories indeed I think the Strawbs or some of them are still playingthe circuit? They certainly are and recently were gigging with Rick Wakeman again. Their website is at www.strawbsweb.co.ukOne of the truely original of UK bands and their connection with Fairport is that Sandy Denny was a member of the band for a short time and recorded an album with them called "All Our own Work". Rather fine and detailed discography of Sandy's recorded work at www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/sandy.denny/records/chronological.html The Strawbs are a great band and produced some excellent albums. Two of my favourites are "Strawbs" and "Grave New World" The first includes Dave Cousins' monumental epic "The Battle" which is a "must hear" for any aspiring song writers as it is a classic case of clever lyrics and an awe inspiring tune and arrangement. This is a version recorded for the BBC And "Benedictus" from the latter album
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2011 13:40:14 GMT
I thought that was Rick Wakeman in one of the pictures in the video. Didn't know he collaborated with them. I watched a bit of the Rob Brydon show and his guests were among others Ronnie Wood and Mick Hucknell who is now the vocalist with the Faces nuff said I liked the question put to Ronnie; "Your Ronnie Wood - you must know everyone! If I say a name to you will you tell us a bit about them " What a good idea for a programme with Anderson as the first guest starts at 11.30 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013dsdz/The_Rob_Brydon_Show_Series_2_Episode_4/
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2011 13:44:22 GMT
Lyrics ... aka 1973
Now I'm a union man Amazed at what I am I say what I think, that the company stinks Yes I'm a union man
When we meet in the local hall I'll be voting with them all With a hell of a shout, it's "Out brothers, out!" And the rise of the factory's fall
Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union You don't get me, I'm part of the union You don't get me, I'm part of the union Until the day I die Until the day I die
The union has made me wise To the lies of the company spies And I don't get fooled by the factory rules 'cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way If I strike for higher pay When I show my card to the Scotland Yard And this is what I say:
Before the union did appear My life was half as clear Now I've got the power to the working hour And every other day of the year
So though I'm a working man I can ruin the government's plan And though I'm not hard, the sight of my card Makes me some kind of superman
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 13, 2011 14:13:22 GMT
Up The Union. Everybody Out!!
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Post by tullist on Aug 13, 2011 18:27:21 GMT
Yes Lady P, they certainly were at my local alternate living room for the past 31 years, and much longer with family prior to that Fitzgeraldshttp://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/ within the past calendar year, maybe once prior too. I have scant knowledge of them other than knowing they are among many who are remembered more fondly than Jethro Tull by those in the no, and that Sandy had a brief fling with them, Rick Wakeman too, though the Wakeman aspect would hardly get me running for a front and center seat. Master of excess, guilty of crimes for which Tull stood accused. Might be goin to Fitz tonite if i can get a freebie, depends who's at the door, CJ Chenier, likely the hottest zydeco band in the world, they come to Europe at least once a year, and his Daddy Clifton invented the music, lucky enough to see him a few times before he passed 25 or so years ago.
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 13, 2011 18:46:26 GMT
Tries to like the Strawbs...had an album I kinda liked with some mice and a lightbulb...saw them live on an incredibly ill planned double bill with Wishbone Ash (zzzzzzzz)....lost interest...Got nothing at all out of Wishbone Ash beyond a distaste for those flying V guitars...
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Post by tullist on Aug 13, 2011 19:38:18 GMT
Wishbone Ash is another, while I do not openly dislike them, I recall Argus to be a passable record, they too were recently at Fitzgeralds, surprising in itself as most normally this place deals in American roots music. I do believe had Tull cashed it in back in 78 or so, they would be remembered a little more fondly, though with mention of the Passion Play and the codpiece not far behind. And blessings of an immeasurable order to those who grew up and braved conditions such as were in Prague. I know the most touching thing I have ever seen in any rock related movie, and I am only nearly certain it was from Paul in Red Square, was to see Russian scholars brought to tears in discussions of what the Beatles meant to them, something someone from the West could not possibly know. If I could recommend one book of the past year, and one which I do not doubt will be the most emotionally difficult read you have ever had, is one from the past year by a Yale History professor called Bloodlands, concerning the murder of 20 million innocents in the years 32 thru 45. We all know the numbers and the pictures, this guy actually becomes conversant in 10 different languages for his research, which gets beyond the numbers into the human elements, suffice it to say at a public table between deliveries I found myself openly weeping, and I don't cry that easy. With each page and nearly each sentence I so wanted to stop reading, but a truly profound document. The need to know that each and every one of those souls torment has been salved, that they are in eternal joy and love, comes screaming from those pages. Children going into those gas trucks, knowing what they were, asking only not to be beaten by the SS officers as they headed to their immediate demise, and believe me, it gets so much worse. Never doubt a Mothers profound love. And trust me, this is something that beats somewhere in the hearts of all men, I am pointing no fingers at Russia or Germany. But I do consider it an absolutely essential read. Genocide must always be stopped by the entire world with certain and brutal force , or we are complicit in the crime, as indeed we all were. Ask St Petersburg (Leningrad) who I know we left holding the bag, Stalin be damned, it was still common human beings living in that country, as anywhere. All those millions of innocent souls left to either freeze or starve to death.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2011 20:05:54 GMT
Tries to like the Strawbs...had an album I kinda liked with some mice and a lightbulb...saw them live on an incredibly ill planned double bill with Wishbone Ash (zzzzzzzz)....lost interest...Got nothing at all out of Wishbone Ash beyond a distaste for those flying V guitars... Oh you and I are going to fall out pre Cropredy 2012 I've just been watching yet another Harry Potter and you know the way they throw the spells at each other well here Dark Lord of the Bay - take this magic and this (my hair still reaches my shoulders and it's still swayin)
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 13, 2011 20:11:59 GMT
I'm gonna get that book, Ray...if you can tolerate more of the same, Martin Amis, he of the decreasingly palatable novels, wrote an amazing non-fiction book on the same topic called 'koba the dread'...Koba being stalin and Amis trying to be C. hitchens in denouncing his lefty past by doing due diligence research on real Russian history.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2011 20:36:53 GMT
Wishbone Ash is another, while I do not openly dislike them, I recall Argus to be a passable record, they too were recently at Fitzgeralds, surprising in itself as most normally this place deals in American roots music. I do believe had Tull cashed it in back in 78 or so, they would be remembered a little more fondly, though with mention of the Passion Play and the codpiece not far behind. And blessings of an immeasurable order to those who grew up and braved conditions such as were in Prague. I know the most touching thing I have ever seen in any rock related movie, and I am only nearly certain it was from Paul in Red Square, was to see Russian scholars brought to tears in discussions of what the Beatles meant to them, something someone from the West could not possibly know. If I could recommend one book of the past year, and one which I do not doubt will be the most emotionally difficult read you have ever had, is one from the past year by a Yale History professor called Bloodlands, concerning the murder of 20 million innocents in the years 32 thru 45. We all know the numbers and the pictures, this guy actually becomes conversant in 10 different languages for his research, which gets beyond the numbers into the human elements, suffice it to say at a public table between deliveries I found myself openly weeping, and I don't cry that easy. With each page and nearly each sentence I so wanted to stop reading, but a truly profound document. The need to know that each and every one of those souls torment has been salved, that they are in eternal joy and love, comes screaming from those pages. Children going into those gas trucks, knowing what they were, asking only not to be beaten by the SS officers as they headed to their immediate demise, and believe me, it gets so much worse. Never doubt a Mothers profound love. And trust me, this is something that beats somewhere in the hearts of all men, I am pointing no fingers at Russia or Germany. But I do consider it an absolutely essential read. Genocide must always be stopped by the entire world with certain and brutal force , or we are complicit in the crime, as indeed we all were. Ask St Petersburg (Leningrad) who I know we left holding the bag, Stalin be damned, it was still common human beings living in that country, as anywhere. All those millions of innocent souls left to either freeze or starve to death. Compulsive reading. We had a visit here recently from two survivors of the Holocaust one lady who was only three years old at the time and the other who was born on one of the trains going to Auschwitz. Her mother was a student from Prague who hid her pregnancy from the prison guards. They visited the schools in the area to tell the story. www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/holocaust_survivor_to_speak_in_province_1_1863279
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Post by tullist on Aug 14, 2011 2:40:23 GMT
I am sure that woman is aware of this, and at risk of seeming cold, she is so very lucky to be alive. As many of us know the Nazi's and their associates totally jacked up the killing machines at Auchwitz (for all its unspeakable legend it is the place of demise of "only" 1/6 of the Jewish souls brought to their hideous death by Hitler and the SS)in the last months of the war, knowing it to be lost, they were damn sure going to make sure to address the Jewish situation. And never spare Stalin who murdered an equal amount of Jewish, albeit for entirely different reasons. I forget the precise verbage in that book that the SS would bring to refer to the Jewish people, but it was something along the lines of useless calorie consumers. And some tiny sliver of those incarcerated for labor purposes prior to their execution were kept alive only because of Hitlers astounding arrogance, doubtless brought on by his several early successes and blitzkriegs, in thinking they could bulldoze with the Wehrmacht into Russia and bring it to its knees within 3 weeks. After nearing Moscow in an extraordinary display of murder, rape of the most diabolical variety, such as before a family prior to them all being executed, and pillage they met what they were not counting on, absolute resistance and no winter coats! A Russian winter? O man, you would have to be there, even a coat is not going to help you much, that stuff in Dr Zhivago is no exageration. Anyway that small portion of those who had been ticketed for immediate demise were kept alive to make coats but immediately murdered thereafter. Admittedly the Russians did the precise same thing as the tide turned and they headed for Berlin, absolutely unspeakable atrocities in transit, something I would like to think the Allies would not have done in the same situation, but...I doubt it. And so many of those folks on those trains to various killing stations never even made it, being put on exposed train cars through the dead of winter, sometimes with the doors opened to reveal nothing but frozen corpses in the far overpacked cars, filled to double capacity, the least of the indignities being left to deficate where you stood pinned sternum to spine. And i tell you all in great foreboding that there is a very great evil gaining traction in the USA under the highly deceiving banner of getting back to traditional values in the form of this Governor from Texas, Rick Perry, who is now a Presidential candidate. Google what you can stand to read about him, and respond not with anger but focused rage. Or vote for him if you wish, its good for me to know who my enemies are, as that is what it has now come to by my estimation, not mere opponents but actual enemies. And never doubt America, which watches professional wrestling in prime time on Saturday, and has an appetite for lowest common denominator entertainment such as never before, is more than stupid enough to elect him. And my final point, which likely I should keep to myself but I never do, is my need to be Ahmidinijad's guide, and I hope I mispelled his cursed name, on a personal tour and history lesson of all these locales, before personally putting a bullet in his brain. Of course this has not to do with the people of Iran, who I love as I would any other human of good will, but I want that f**ks head. May God forgive, by whatever name you know him or her, but I cannot forgive his pronouncements concerning the Holocaust.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 14, 2011 9:59:48 GMT
scary scary stuff
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Post by oksauce on Aug 14, 2011 10:56:42 GMT
Grave New World is my favourite Strawbs album, the title track from Hero and Heroine is incredible too
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 8, 2016 9:18:38 GMT
musicnewshq.com/Hero And Heroine, review by BrufordFreak progarchives.com - 02/02/2016 BrufordFreak One of the most acclaimed Strawbs albums, Hero and Heroine has never been able to keep me engaged the way that some of the band's other albums do. It is a good album but without the highs and consistency of Ghosts or even Grave New World. Founder and heart and soul of the band, singer-songwriter Dave COUSINS, sounds to my ears like Ian Anderson doing Peter Gabriel while the music the band created in this period sounds like the prog folk music that JETHRO TULL never made but everyone wishes (or thinks) that they did. Cousin's similarity to the voice qualities of an Anderson-Gabriel melange are so remarkable that I hear it in virtually every song the band does. It's not a bad thing, it's just an eerie, noticeable thing. The album opens with 2:15 of some of the proggiest stuff the band ever did in the form of the KING...
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