Love that album!!

[the.fee.fairy]

1. Him - Razorblade Romance
2. 3 Daft Monkeys- Gibbon it Live and Dreckly
3. Kilnaboy - Defy the Stars
4. Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (at the moment...number 5 changes regularly...).

[Graye]

Oh yes, Manu Chao! Love them! And then that reminded me about David Hevia (anyone who hasn't listened to him - give him a try, he's great)... Perhaps we should have said 10...

[SarahJane]

I just cant pick one! For that matter I cant pick just 5!!

How about making up a compilation album of favourite tracks? I might be able to do that. (As long as its a double album!)

[Big Al]

I just cant pick one! For that matter I cant pick just 5!!

How about making up a compilation album of favourite tracks? I might be able to do that. (As long as its a double album!)

I used to be in a tape circle ( the name says how long ago it was) and we used to send out a compilation tape of 2 tracks from the same album and artist once every 2 months. There were 10 of us in the circle so over the two months you could have access to a possible 90 new artists and over a year it was 560+ new artists. We had a website where we could upload comments on what we thought of the tapes and the aim was to get people to buy new artist material and mainly from indipendent record shops...... now you know why I have over 1200 albums, 14000+ tracks ... and I'm skint,lol. Having said that I was pigeon holed into hard rock like AC/DC, deep purple, gillan, saxon etc now it's everything. It also helped with the christmas list because I could never buy all I heard and so i'd have a "want list" and this was duely given over to the wife on the first of November in order to get them in time for christmas.

I miss that set up a great deal....

Obviously this being a public board one cannot sugest the same could happen now but on cd...... but people know how to use PM don't they?

[not so] Big Al

[Big Al]

The Penthouse Tapes ; Alex Harvey. If anyone could destroy a song, then here's your man!

Err sorry but the only man who can REALLY knack up a song is Neil Young....

[Rod in Japan]

reminded me about David Hevia (anyone who hasn't listened to him - give him a try, he's great)

When I fired up my music suction pump, it couldn't even find a drop of David Hevia to suck up.

When I yelled "Clear the decks and run up Foul Nick, we're going to board David Hevia!" a voice came down from the crow's nest, "Did you spell that correctly, Cap'n?"

[Graye]

Sorry, must be cracking up - I've got two people jumbled together. David Hevia is an actor. The one I meant was in fact Jose Angel Hevia, although his CDs are just under the name HEVIA.

[StripyPixieSocks]

1. Him - Razorblade Romance
2. 3 Daft Monkeys- Gibbon it Live and Dreckly
3. Kilnaboy - Defy the Stars
4. Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (at the moment...number 5 changes regularly...).

I love HIM although for the life of me I can't remember which album I have now

... and Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction... one of my all time faves too

[oldfella]

Back in the 50s and 60s before the days of pop, boy bands, girl band, groups, and a juke box was was BIG BOX with a big metal disc in the middle playing the smash hit of the time Begin the Beguine, I think it sold about 5000 wax records at the time, my mate Slim Traynor who who now lives down the road from me, worked as a gardener for the Manchester corporation had to go the one of the US air base's to work and heard for the first time an American country singer, a guy called Ray Price. He got interested in the music but it was not available in the UK as it was not known in Europe at the time except in the US military camps, so he bought a reel to reel tape recorder and late at night listened and recorded the American Forces Network radio. He then with two mates and a singer started doing gigs for a pint or two in the local pubs around Manchester.
After a few months he was playing every night in pubs, clubs, and the local US bases around the area. By this time more groups had formed playing the music of the greats from the likes of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Web Pierce,to name just a few.

Many of the great hits in England of the 60s and 70s have their roots in country music so in a small way Slim Traynor and his band earns a thank you from country music lovers in the Uk.
By the way Slim still plays Guitar, and Mandolin, at a few gigs every year after all he is only 82 yrs young.
Excuse the chuntering on, but I thought maybe some of you may looking for something to read to pass the time, and as at the moment, well for the past few weeks, Slim and I have been cleaning LPs and 33s and transferring them to CDs and as we have over 400 records between us we have problem of selecting one LP, 33, or for that matter CD.

At the moment we are listening too The New Bush from a Aussi named Lee Kernaghan so if you want hear our Favorite of the moment listen to them on youtube by typing in his name and the name of the album we hope you enjoy it.

[Big Al]

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At the moment we are listening too The New Bush from a Aussi named Lee Kernaghan so if you want hear our Favorite of the moment listen to them on youtube by typing in his name and the name of the album we hope you enjoy it.

I like the spirit of the bush... i feel a spend coming on.... If you like that old fella then have a listen to slaid cleaves. Just listening to copperhead road and again if you like this one try Steve Earle...... sounds very much like Lee Kernaghan's version....

It's nice to see and read the stories behind the artists. I followed a guy called Rod Picott all over the country and did 17 gigs in 18 days from scotland to brighton and all points in between. I did it with a bike, a train, a sleeping bag and a bivvy but it was worth it. When Rod was a struggling artist he was working the building sites as a plasterer and
Like slaid cleaves when he was struggling he was often known to go down to the farm forextra money. The farm he went to didn't grow crops but did phar...acutical testing. You knew how dangerous the drugs were the further down the corridor you went and the higher the price on the doors.... only in America..

[Rod in Japan]

Thanks Graye. That's some psychedelic bagpipe (if that's what it is), especially with those odd Eastern tones thrown in! Great stuff.

[the.fee.fairy]

1. Him - Razorblade Romance
2. 3 Daft Monkeys- Gibbon it Live and Dreckly
3. Kilnaboy - Defy the Stars
4. Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (at the moment...number 5 changes regularly...).

I love HIM although for the life of me I can't remember which album I have now

... and Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction... one of my all time faves too

Probably Razorblade Romance...the pink one with Wicked Game on track 6...

[pumpy]

....pink. That reminds me of a great track called, My Pink-half of the Drain-pipe, from an L.P., entitled; "The Gorilla in Grandmas Greenhouse, by the great Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

[mrsflibble]

meatloaf bat out of hell
kd lang invincible summer
dixie chicks wide open spaces
nanci griffith from a distance
lordi arocalypse


i foudn it incredibly hard to deide; especially as i listen more to my own mp3 or minidisk compilations. and also, it was a toss up between cradle of filth or lordi. lordi won for their eurovisioneyness.

[jim]

Dear Pumpy,
Sorry to be pedantic, but wasn't it "The Doughnut in Grannys' Greenhouse"? I thought Gorilla was another album. Did that one have "The Intro and the Outro" introducing the band with more and more surreal members? ..... "And on triangle, the London Symphony Orchestra!" seems to have stuck in my memory,

Love and Peace
Jim