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Post by Equus on Feb 2, 2014 18:36:24 GMT
The idea to this Thread is to post something about where you are from, or live... Post music from your country, or whatever you like... but something related to the place that you are from... that could be Brazil, Japan, Italy or North Carolina... I live on the island called Fyn... This is an older map of Denmark, but they drank a lot of beer in those days... This is a song by, probably the best Danish rock band ever... with the oh so Danish name: Gasolin! ... On A Summer Day...
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Post by Equus on Feb 2, 2014 18:56:53 GMT
If you should decide to visit Denmark... be warned...! You may have to overcome inexplicable obstacles...
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Post by tullist on Feb 3, 2014 1:48:18 GMT
If you should decide to visit Denmark... be warned...! You may have to overcome inexplicable obstacles... Nice! Thanks Equus. Loved her attempt at enunciating the milk title. quality.
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 6:54:05 GMT
If you should decide to visit Denmark... be warned...! You may have to overcome inexplicable obstacles... Nice! Thanks Equus. Loved her attempt at enunciating the milk title. quality. And she's absolutely cute... and funny! The foreigners dilemma...! What the f... is this?? Minimælk...? It reminds me of my trip to America... In other words it reminds me, of me... I hope nobody thinks that I am laughing at her... I am more like laughing at the shared experience of being a little lost in a foreign country...
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 3, 2014 9:22:41 GMT
Love it "Why is everything in Danish?" On a serious note - I love all things Scandinavian, the UK is having a love fest at the moment what with moody Scandinavian crime drama, foodie programmes and our insane jealously that the Scandinavian countries keep popping up at the top of the list of best places to live in the world! Oh and without getting too political, a certain political party in my home country (see below) likes to think that if it went independent it would sit alongside said countries and be as successful as they are.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 3, 2014 9:48:54 GMT
Home City The beautiful,ballsy city of Glasgow with it's grand architecture and it's mad inhabitants (of which I'm not one ...at the mo) photographs by Jason Hawke stock.jasonhawkes.com/Glasgow at Night i61.images obliterated by tinypic/2qd26xe.jpg[/IMG] Riverside Museum with Glenlee Tallship
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 3, 2014 11:05:39 GMT
Launceston, Cornwall (aka in the Celtic "Kernow") Johnny Coppin - Innocent's Song Uploaded on 1 Dec 2011 by ga55fish A poem by Charles Causley, who was from Launceston, Cornwall, set to music by Johnny Coppin. Innocents Song Who’s that knocking on the window, Who’s that standing at the door, What are all those presents Laying on the kitchen floor? Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in? Why has he rubies on his fingers, A cold, cold crown on his head, Why, when he caws his carol, Does the salty snow run red? Why does he ferry my fireside As a spider on a thread, His fingers made of fuses And his tongue of gingerbread? Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns, Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns? Watch where he comes walking Out of the Christmas flame, Dancing, double-talking: Herod is his name. Charles Causley (1917-2003) A Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer whose work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore. Following his father’s death Causley had to leave school at 15 to earn money, working as an office boy during his early years. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War as a coder, an experience he later wrote about in a book of short stories, Hands to Dance and Skylark. His first collection of poems, Farewell, Aggie Weston appeared in1951. He worked as a teacher at a school in Launceston, leaving the town seldom, twice spending time in Perth as a visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia and also working at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada retiring in 1976. Causley was much in demand at United Kingdom poetry readings and also made many broadcasts. The Charles Causley Trust secured the poet’s house in Launceston for the nation in 2006, working towards opening the house to the public and providing a programme of heritage activities to promote Causley’s life and work. hopeeternal.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/innocents-song-charles-causley/
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 17:15:06 GMT
Love it "Why is everything in Danish?" On a serious note - I love all things Scandinavian, the UK is having a love fest at the moment what with moody Scandinavian crime drama, foodie programmes and our insane jealously that the Scandinavian countries keep popping up at the top of the list of best places to live in the world! Oh and without getting too political, a certain political party in my home country (see below) likes to think that if it went independent it would sit alongside said countries and be as successful as they are. ... I don't know about this happy thing... maybe Danes just have a tendency to lie...? lol... Personally, I would never lie, I'm tall, dark, and handsome... lol... and yes... Danish television is having a lot of success with these television series. Abroad, and in Denmark. This is an example of one of them... The Killing, or in Danish, Forbrydelsen, and forbrydelsen really means, The Crime... The quality of this version is not the best, but it will have to do, and serve as an example... (... I just love dots... don't ask me why... lol...)
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 17:38:36 GMT
Home Country cue glossy, tourist video with the voice of Neil Oliver - all hair and rolling "rrrr's" Home City The beautiful,ballsy city of Glasgow with it's grand architecture and it's mad inhabitants (of which I'm not one ...at the mo) photographs by Jason Hawke stock.jasonhawkes.com/Glasgow at Night Riverside Museum with Glenlee Tallship ... Wow! Lovely wonderful Scotland!
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 18:42:02 GMT
Launceston, Cornwall (aka in the Celtic "Kernow") Johnny Coppin - Innocent's Song Uploaded on 1 Dec 2011 by ga55fish A poem by Charles Causley, who was from Launceston, Cornwall, set to music by Johnny Coppin. Innocents Song Who’s that knocking on the window, Who’s that standing at the door, What are all those presents Laying on the kitchen floor? Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in? Why has he rubies on his fingers, A cold, cold crown on his head, Why, when he caws his carol, Does the salty snow run red? Why does he ferry my fireside As a spider on a thread, His fingers made of fuses And his tongue of gingerbread? Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns, Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns? Watch where he comes walking Out of the Christmas flame, Dancing, double-talking: Herod is his name. Charles Causley (1917-2003) A Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer whose work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore. Following his father’s death Causley had to leave school at 15 to earn money, working as an office boy during his early years. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War as a coder, an experience he later wrote about in a book of short stories, Hands to Dance and Skylark. His first collection of poems, Farewell, Aggie Weston appeared in1951. He worked as a teacher at a school in Launceston, leaving the town seldom, twice spending time in Perth as a visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia and also working at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada retiring in 1976. Causley was much in demand at United Kingdom poetry readings and also made many broadcasts. The Charles Causley Trust secured the poet’s house in Launceston for the nation in 2006, working towards opening the house to the public and providing a programme of heritage activities to promote Causley’s life and work. hopeeternal.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/innocents-song-charles-causley/Great song! Great poetry by Charles Causley! And a nice town, Greham! Superb performance by Johnny Coppin!
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 19:24:49 GMT
Okay... ready for a trip through Denmark in a train?? You know...We just love to spend our lives on trains! (...I recommend that you play two videos at the same time... not the two music videos though... ) ... or this one...
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Post by tullist on Feb 3, 2014 23:49:48 GMT
So Chicago. At the risk of arrogance, do I really have to post it on a map? Pretty sure everyone has at least a general idea. More or less center north USA, up there by one of those great lakes, in our case, Michigan. Technically from a suburb just west River Forest, known for its fine architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright homes, and the existance of world known Mafia figures, who's living in those environs kept local crime to zero. I could give you the sordid details on what happened to 4 local home robbers who happened into the house of Big Tuna, aka Tony Accardo, the head of Chicago's "outfit" for nearly sixty years after graduating from being the main security, "Joey Batters", for Al Capone. Arguably the most powerful man on the planet in his time, the President of the United States included. To me a nice old man who used to come watch our little league games, with him walking stick with a tuna head carved in the top. In 1969 he told me, "I like watching you pitch son." Definitely a well heeled community, though my folks were distinctly middle class, in that area by the skin of our teeth. I am guessing Chicago is well enough known that I won't be giving any history lessons. I do find it likely that it is the city on this planet most founded in sin basically, going all the way back, basically til white people arrived here, and literally mob run and operated until about 1980, literally owned city hall and the cops, not that I would ever be stupid enough to sound the death knell for the mob, but very signifigant hits have been taken. But it is a compelling history and usually a massively interesting place to read about. 2 relating tales of Chicago of your I would recommend are the Everleigh Club, (likely the most elaborate bordello in the history of the planet) and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the tale, a fiction, but barely, of some eastern European guy who comes here near the turn of the past century, re 19th to try and build a life for himself as so many thousands did in Chicago's Stock Yards. A very well told nightmare it is. Also the Devil in the White City, more for the tale of Daniel Burnham, (in my mind, likely Chicagoan 1, who did so much for how beautiful this city looks)and his other famed compatriots putting together the 1893 expo, while some lunatic murderer was happening out on the south side, near where this fair was held. And the Capone biography titled Capone, as well as one on Tony Accardo just called Accardo, and written by the FBI guy charged with tailing him, (itself a story of a man clearly born with no nervous system)are essential reads to get at the essence of this incredible place. But music is what I do and I find it unlikely there is any city on the planet that has more historical disparate musical strengths than Chicago. Of course people think firstly of the blues. Here's 3 of our saints. Muddy, Buddy and Wolf. And there was this sweet man, one of many in the folk realm, Steve Goodman. Though better known for his "City of New Orleans" and a handful of other tunes, this is one that has been known to be one that occasionally makes me cry, as it concerns something I so deeply respect, love thru years and hardship basically Jazz music. Don't get me started. Too late. The ancestral seat. So many have come from here it is hard to know where to start. Maybe with this music teacher, Captain Walter Dyett, over at Du Sable High School. (Du Sable was a black French Canadien who was the actual founder of Chicago as we know it today, a fur trapper and first settler after the people who had been here 10000 years or more)So many great players came from this guy's baton, and he was a difficult man who took no $h1t at all. The most famous names to come out of there were Nat King Cole,Bo Diddley, Dinah Washington and Redd Foxx, the comedian. But the list of jazz tenor saxes that came out of there is staggering, though most would be just that, names, to most people. Anyway, off the top of my head, Gene Ammons, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams(piano)Johnny Griffin, Von Freeman, his son Chico Freeman,John Gilmore, (the tenor sax in Sun Ra's Arkestra for years), Pat Patrick, (another long time Sun Ra operative)the great singer/crooner Johnny Hartman, its just a nuts list, I will stop there. I will slip in some "Gentle Jug", aka as neighborhood bad ass Gene Ammons, curiously a master of the ballad form. The existance, on the south side, of the pre eminent improvisational and cutting edge, "ancient to the future" musical organization I am aware of on the planet, the AACM, since 1965, aka the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicianship. Its most known practitioners have included the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, but, in total, a staggering list of talent. Here, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, A symphony Orchestra that takes a back seat to none on the planet...http://youtu.be/1-p58OSYhG0 there was this guy, Curtis Mayfield youtu.be/Z9nwcpGZE6A Gil Scott Heron
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 4, 2014 7:12:29 GMT
Compulsive reading and listening Ray !!
Beautiful Laaawson Graham - manys the patty was devoured on route through there.
So this summer,when I don a long black trench coat and wander erratically around the globe, I will use the Tullfan Location Itinery as my map and stopping off points - leaving the blackened pitchfork behind of course, can you imaging airport security with that thing?
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 4, 2014 10:38:44 GMT
Glasgow at Night It's amazing how The Clyde and The Tyne landscapes are so similar. Here's Newcastle at night
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 4, 2014 17:43:13 GMT
Throw in Saul Bellow and Nelson Algren, Ray, two guys who knew their way around Chicago and wrote about it vividly and beautifully.....Bellow,single handedly outweighed all the blowhards in the NYC/Boston area who may have been considered his peers ( Roth, Updike, Mailer, etc etc)
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Post by tullist on Feb 4, 2014 18:02:55 GMT
Throw in Saul Bellow and Nelson Algren, Ray, two guys who knew their way around Chicago and wrote about it vividly and beautifully.....Bellow,single handedly outweighed all the blowhards in the NYC/Boston area who may have been considered his peers ( Roth, Updike, Mailer, etc etc) excellent suggestion Bernie. Next guy up though would be the person I mark as sort of the unofficial historian of Chicago, Studs Terkel. Nice and informed man.
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Post by Equus on Feb 4, 2014 21:42:56 GMT
And now for something completely different... or (indifferent... depending on your point of view...) Danish reggae music... Gnags!
The full moon is shining...
The pedestrian...
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 4, 2014 22:27:40 GMT
And now for something completely different... or (indifferent... depending on your point of view...) Danish reggae music... Gnags! The pedestrian... I don't know the words but it has a cool sound. "The Pedestrian" sounds great.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 5, 2014 9:54:49 GMT
It's amazing how The Clyde and The Tyne landscapes are so similar. [/quote] I know I often thought that. I think the bridges were designed by the same person. There is a shared history what with ship building, poverty etc. My grandmother was born in Middlesbrough as her father was "touring" round the country looking for work. She told me that her brothers were constantly fighting with the local boys - Jocks v Geordies. I was watching that Sting concert at Xmas - I didn't realise he was born in a humble two up two down house in Gateshead - always imagined a more middle class upbringing. His street was shadowed by the huge ship (biggest in Britain) being constructed and he said that he would be wakened by the siren going off and hundreds of men walking down his street to the shipyards. That's the same as I remember in Scotstoun, Glasgow although I don't think any of the streets had this view of a ship being built. i61.images obliterated by tinypic/2a0gnk4.jpg[/IMG] Billy Connolly told the best jokes about the shipyards an the men walking to work.
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Post by Equus on Feb 5, 2014 17:23:22 GMT
And now for something completely different... or (indifferent... depending on your point of view...) Danish reggae music... Gnags! The pedestrian... I don't know the words but it has a cool sound. "The Pedestrian" sounds great. Great Jim! Of course, what the f... are they singing about...? lol... but sometimes the rhythm and the tune is enough... Glad you liked it!
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 5, 2014 17:41:16 GMT
Great Danes ?
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Post by Equus on Feb 6, 2014 6:31:18 GMT
This band is also a Danish band, but they sing in a English... The Savage Rose... Long time ago... 1972.. Fabulous music...! This album is called: The triumph of the death... I love this album, but I'm not so keen on most of their music... ... and from the album Wild Child...
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 8, 2014 17:00:02 GMT
It's a small world after all... Tryon, North Carolina First in Tull After being born in Atlanta, Georgia I have spent the rest of my life in the beautiful state Of North Carolina. Home of beautiful mountains, a vast piedmont, and the awesome coastline. For those who doubt such a place exists, I can only say it is not near Denmark. Although recently I did share a map of Denmark with a very nice fellow from Fyn, He seems to have a wonderful sense of humor and does not worry about being accused of being me.
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Post by Equus on Feb 8, 2014 17:06:44 GMT
It's a small world after all... Tryon, North Carolina First in Tull After being born in Atlanta, Georgia I have spent the rest of my life in the beautiful state Of North Carolina. Home of beautiful mountains, a vast piedmont, and the awesome coastline. For those who doubt such a place exists, I can only say it is not near Denmark. It looks great Jim!
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Post by tullist on Feb 8, 2014 17:16:27 GMT
It's a small world after all... Tryon, North Carolina First in Tull After being born in Atlanta, Georgia I have spent the rest of my life in the beautiful state Of North Carolina. Home of beautiful mountains, a vast piedmont, and the awesome coastline. For those who doubt such a place exists, I can only say it is not near Denmark. Although recently I did share a map of Denmark with a very nice fellow from Fyn, He seems to have a wonderful sense of humor and does not worry about being accused of being me. Not only do I not doubt it exists, I know it well. beautiful indeed. nice folks. until you look at their voting record and help toward those in need. beyond appaling. both carolina's need the bright light of truth shined on them on a regular basis. they are indeed getting away with it. for now.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 8, 2014 17:54:38 GMT
Somewhere in this video, you may see me rocking my ass off with these guys!Along with 200,000 + who decided to enjoy an outdoor concert with Ozark Mountain Daredevils... Grinderswitch... PFM... Foghat...The Marshall Tucker Band...Black Oak Arkansas... Emerson, Lake, and Palmer... And finally the Allman Brothers.This was our Woodstock on August 10. 1974 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_JamIt was the largest crowd I've ever seen a concert with and the memories were good.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 8, 2014 20:36:27 GMT
Det var så det... Jeg elsker det her sted... Det varer ikke længe, så udkommer Ian Andersons CD Homo Erraticus... Det kan vi jo så gå rundt og glæde os til! Super godt!! Længe leve Jethro Tull! Venlig hilsen Michael From Google Translator... That was it ... I love this place ... It is not long, so published Ian Anderson's CD Homo erraticus ... It can we then walk around and look forward to! Super good! Long live Jethro Tull!
Sincerely, Michael I may need a dictionary too if I ever visit there. I like good beer and cheese as well. Thanks again for joining Michael. You have lots to offer and have an open mind.
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Post by Equus on Feb 8, 2014 20:52:36 GMT
...I really didn't think that it was that easy to translate Danish... ROFL... There must be a computer involved... lol
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 8, 2014 22:10:45 GMT
Go JIM DANDY GO....
Spent a great night in a Danish hippie farmhouse in about 1981...I was hitchinking from Copenhagen to the place to catch the ferry to hamburg and ended up spending the nite with nice people who gave me a ride...that night, the idiot movie 'Saturday Night Fever' was on TV and I had to explain what was realistic and what was Hollywood bool$h1t...a fun night...but i still hate John Travolta.
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Post by Equus on Feb 9, 2014 8:21:03 GMT
Go JIM DANDY GO.... Spent a great night in a Danish hippie farmhouse in about 1981...I was hitchinking from Copenhagen to the place to catch the ferry to hamburg and ended up spending the nite with nice people who gave me a ride...that night, the idiot movie 'Saturday Night Fever' was on TV and I had to explain what was realistic and what was Hollywood bool$h1t...a fun night...but i still hate John Travolta. I'm glad you had a good trip to Denmark! Sorry to hear that John Travolta had to be there... lol... He was very hard to escape, especially in the 80's... In 1981 Travolta was the hottest stuff to many Danes. The Hippies I knew, wasn't keen about him too... I remember that they were teaching Disco Dance all over the place. I had just discovered Jethro Tull the year before, so I was emerged in Tull... I didn't really understand this Travolta thing... but I must admit that I am tempted to post a video of John Travolta, but that could be seen as an act of cruelty, since you so clearly stated that you hate him... lol
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