I had indeed And there's me always saying to the kids 'why don't you just bloody look it up, you live on the Internet, use it!!!!'

On which note, I think I'll hit the pillow. Hadn't planned to stay up in the first place as it's Farmer's Market day tomorrow. And just to round of the coinkydinkys for the day - I'm off there to buy the usual plethora of lovely mushrooms (it should be puffball time) and .... a leg of goat!!!!

Niiiight!

have a lovely weekend DD

George Takei just posted this photo .....

LMAO - I hate the smell of Patchoil - like damp compost. I smelled it on someone last Sunday - so maybe a come back is on he cards.

[quote=DavetheSensible;69407167]We used to hang around on the local station on Sundays and wave at the passengers
Anyone remember red and black striped bootlaces?

Yes I used to buy them 4 for a penny from my local sweet shop - they were made of liquorice.


" Quote - I split the seams of a pair of jeans once, then punched in eyelets and threaded loads of the bootlaces through to hold them together and let the laces drop as a fringe, then took the white crossthreads out of the bottom 4" of the jeans to make a fringe like Zulu leg adornments :eek"

Altogether now - They seek him here. They seek him there....

As for your other sartorial statement; silver boots and red cape I am not sure of the time line. Was this a Prog Rock/Rick Wakeman influence?

I am not sure if Glam rock preceded or followed the point when Prog rock started to disappear up its own arse.

I should say I am very partial to a bit of Floyd myself. DSOTM is one of my all time favourite albums but the genre did get a bit navel gazy.
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[quote=An Thropologist;69408120]LMAO - I hate the smell of Patchoil - like damp compost. I smelled it on someone last Sunday - so maybe a come back is on he cards.


On this thread that could be interpreted as Keith Floyd!

Dark SIde of the Macaroon....

With tracks including:

On the Bun

Thyme

The Great Pig in the Sky

Honey

Us and Tham

Any Colour You Lychee

Bran Damage.

I guess that programme must have been repeated for some years, 'cos I'm certainly too young for when it was first on!


A fashion design student girlfriend and illegal substances influence would be closer to the mark
Never really got on with Mr Wakeman's densely meaningless noodlings really. Glam was kind of towards the middle and end of most of the worst excesses of prog - I guess you could (very) roughly say 1969-75 for prog and 72-4 for Glam. So Genesis were prior to and contemporary with it, as were Wakeman, Gentle Giant and all the other keyboard heavy riff-laden endless guitar solos and nonsense pseudo-mystical and literate lyricalism bands. I suppose Yes were a bit late to the field really, though they more than made up for it with their multi-album sets of drivel

Not sure I'd class the Floyd's stuff as prog, TBH (though I guess I'm probably on my own there). More guilt by association - they always did interesting other stuff and stuck out from the crowd. The 'More' and 'Zabriskie Point' soundtracks both show country, blues and soulful funky lines they were working on at the same time as their lengthier excursions like their mainstream albums like 'Atom Heart Mother' etc, and even that isn't proggy really.

As for DSOTM - after all this time it's still an enormous pleasure to listen to, and I still find stuff in it I'd not caught before. Never been able to decide between that and 'Wish You Were Here' though. They're like mirror images, and I can't see one without the other. [/quote]

Rather liked the mods closing comment today to a now firmly locked thread:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1903275


Can't even add a 'can't argue with that' - because now you can't

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Well despite being a dedicated Latin American Music fan these days DSOTM would still be the album of my 8 that I rushed into the sea to save. It is fresh every time I hear it (even if I have it on repeat) and that darned alarm clock still makes me jump which can be a problem if I have it on in when driving. I like some of the earlier Genesis stuff and don't mind some Prog rock but I draw the line at musicians dressed as wizards or worse elves! I class Pink Floyd as classical and I think time will prove me right.

Bloody 'ell, this is like finding me first born child abandoned on the streets of chatterville!

'Allo there

Not gonna stalk you, just fab to see you posting x

Joni!!!!!!
How are you? i lurked in the BB lurkers thread and left a post about your arm pain a while back but don't know if you saw it!!

Everyone is welcome here

very sad to see Lou Reed has died i saw him a few years ago in concert playing the album Berlin, he was superb

valiant work!

Even vealiant!

how's the wind round your mountain?

oooo er everyone has been blown away.....

Bit of a bum day all round really.
Had a bit of work going on a late night, and all was steaming away until about 2am, when I saved the lot onto an SD card to drop round this morning for someone to check over, and remembered a bit I'd left out. Was it on the card? Was it 'eck!!! Only a 3gig empty folder with a name suspiciously like the Word file name, but with some strange cabalistic symbols liberally mixed in like a Led Zeppelin album title, or Prince.
No problem - I'll just go back to the laptop and hook out the backup. Blue screen - it had crashed, so the backup had been trashed too (I think it must have gone during the autosave).
, in fact
Lovely. bed at 7am after trying every trick I know to recover it, and only managing a partial recovery after digging into an old sector recovery utility I haven't had to use for years and cutting and pasting tiny bits of partial English for hours.
So today has been a complete heads down, after two hours sleep and holiday dog walking in a hailstorm and massive downpour) to give CPR to 3 long days work, and reconstruct charts and 48 pages of text. Thank god my short-term memory is still fairly ok .
Just finished, and then see that Lou Reed has died and John McVie's got cancer. Puts it all into perspective, I guess.
Still, Bah!
Next thing you know there'll be a bloody storm or something ....

bah!....wish i has some words of comfort for you Dave....perhaps if i just silently pass the cheese and scotch....

Howlin'



Know the feeling. Have more than once finished a long piece only for a hard drive to go into a spin and wave bye-bye. Friend of mind once had a book he had just finished on his laptop without backing it up. Said machine was nicked and 80,000 words went with it. Technology is fine, as long as it works.

Lovely thought, but it's a very large JD for me right now
Actually, if I'm honest, I rather like these nasty little challenges (and this one was a real pig). I've been known to spend a week on such stuff. Somehow it seemed more of a challenge in the old days before all these neat tricksy progs came along to make it a bit of a doddle really. Usually.

It's human against machine, and the plug is looped round my foot as the final threat
PS - didn't Dangermoose nick all the scotch, or did the Moose and I nick someone elses?

i have a secret stash of Laphroaig and Talisker if either of those will do....

i had written 30,000 words of a book when my computer just died lost it all....

Only once lost a hard drive, and that is sitting in a box waiting for me to win the lottery and have it recovered professionally as it has some live stuff I recorded on it (spent countless ages on remastering the sound quality on them, too ). Luckily I still have the cassettes though.

If that ever happens, I'll take the long walk on't'moors.
There's an over a million word project I've been working on for about four years that is backed up in 5 places including Cloud storage I'm so paranoid, and others.


Both of course Though Talisker just nicks it, the Laphroaig can be a bit strong tasting at times. It's a mood scotch.
Go well with a bit of Applewood and Peakdale Blue (decided the Beauvale was a bit disappointing in the end. Ate it anyway )
Cheers!