Bad news: gig on Thursday cancelled. Shame. Good news: gig going to be rescheduled. I'll let you know when. We're also going to be playing in the Three Elms in Hereford on October 21st, so anyone in the area come along. I think that this will be our first full length unsupported gig, so we've got to get our rehearsing shoes on. There should also be a gig in the Duke in Neath in October, which will be a laugh. So that is three gigs, shame I only know when one of them actually is...
And then there is the Swansea Fringe, which I am going to sort out right now. Busy busy me.
Drum introductions to songs: can be god-awful can be devilishly good. My man of the moment is Pete Thomas of the Attractions and his nifty intro to I don't want to go to Chelsea. What's your favorite today?
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'Night in Tunisia' by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - fuckin' classic!
Does 'Little Wonder' by David Bowie count?
Weeeeeeeeeell, I kind of thought of solo drum introductions. And there's all sorts of thunking and fuurrzink going on at the beginning of Little Wonder.
Yesh, that's kinda what I thought... I'll keep thinking then.
I've done my thinking and I've come up with a cast iron dead cert spiffing drum intro: Break on Through by The Doors.
'Nuff Said.
How about Stevie Wonder's Superstition?
Ooh, ooh, and Zeppelin's When The Levee Breaks.
Are these acceptable? Do you accept them? I do hope you accept them. Let me know if you accept them or I won't be able to relax tonight.
Accepted!
A really shit drum intro is 'Nightrain' by Guns and Roses. Four hits of a snare drum and their straight into the 'song'.
No surprise there, then... Shit band; shit intro to a shot song.
By the way, have you still got that Guns 'n' Roses t-shirt?
(now I'm in trouble!)
No, but glad that you have highlighted the point that I speak from a position of experience and knowledge.
Bear in mind that I was 16 and it was 15 and a half years ago. I was too young to know any better.
Why, that would make you (carry the 2, add the first number you thought of, calculate, brain, damn you, calculate) nearly 2 billion years old, man!
Talking of which, if you take the combined ages of the Rolling Stones, you could fit one member of McFly in a rucksack. No wait, that's wrong... The combined ages of McFly is equal to the sum of its parts.... The Rolling Stones gather no moss....
Honkytonk Woman. Classic drum intro.
You can lead Crazy Horse to Roger Waters but you can't teach an old Bonzo Dog Doo-Daa Band new tricks.
Did you know that if you got in a spaceship and travelled at the speed of light to Alpha Centauri and back, when you returned the Rolling Stones would only just be finishing the Asian leg of their world tour?
You can't have your Katie Melua and eat it. One in The Band is worth two in Kate Bush. Chris Rea and Dire Straits are forming a band and they will call it Chris Straits. Za Za Gabor is marrying Jean Michelle Jarre and, unhappy with her married name, is changing it by deed poll to Barbar, like the elephant.
I wonder who this monkey chops is. I like the cut of his gibb. That is to say I have found his comments to be very amusing, and have been pleased with his overall grasp of spelling and punctuation. Well done, 4 house points!
Why thankyou, Mr Burns! Your kind words brighten my day.
As to my identity; it will die with me. Um.. goes without saying, really, it being the natural course of things
I too would like to applaud a man who knows how to use a semicolon.
Better in so many ways than someone who only has a semicolon. Truncated bowels are so passe.
I only have one buttock.
And I would like it back now. If you are quite finished.
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