veloman

Any of you guitarist types ever heard of 'Chris Larkin' guitars ? He is, or rather was, an Irish guitar maker, died a couple of years ago. A good mate (played in a band that toured the U.S. supporting Black Sabbath) had a deal with him and had a couple of his guitars. Ever heard of him ?

Brian Robinson, first Briton to win a stage in The Tour de France in 1955 passed away today - aged 91. Back then it was an amazing achievment; now it is fairly de rigeur. Think he won in 1955.

3 hours ago, Xann said:

Reckon it's more @veloman's era..?

 

Indeed it was ! Lots of great bands played there - perhaps mainly local. but IIRC Spencer Davis played there quite a bit. I'm trying to remember if that was the pub that morph

ed into "Henry's Blues House".  I would loved to have played there but we probably ween't good enough !!! Probably more late 60's I think.

Great win for Scotland in the T20. Beating West Indies, no mean feat.

There was a make of amp years ago called "HH" , I played with a number of musicians who used that kit. One of the amps had "VS" on it claiming that it sounded like a valve amp . Best bass amp I ever played with was a Peavy with Black Widow speaker - ever come acrosss that stuff ?  One bass player had a Fender Bassman rig and a pre CBS Fender Precision. Main problem was ....... he was crap. Dropped bum notes in 3/4 time numbers; and to make matters worse he was from London !!   

Would John Robertson (Forest ) count ? I remember when we played them (think it was a night match) and his (slight)gut was hanging over his shorts. Crowd gave him the bird as he ran down the wing. Unfortunately he then skinned John Gidman, crossed the ball and Tony Woodcock scored the only gaol. (IIRC)

Excellent  - Liam Norwell skittled 'em I believe. Could only have been bettered if it had been Lancashire going down ! Now let's Warks sort out the Management and coaching staff 'cos something appears to be not working. Ashley Giles to return perhaps ?

It seems Farbrace is quitting Warks at the end of the Season. Any suggestions who might replace him ? Wonder if they would give (Sir) Ian Bell a chance. Or maybe bring Ashley Giles back /

11 minutes ago, bickster said:

And when did they introduce self service checkouts?

Oh , some time ago but they have gradually reduced the number of manned (can you say that now ) checkouts and replaced them with self serve

21 hours ago, bickster said:

It's nonsense too, as far as I know, they haven't reduced staff numbers, just freed up more staff to stack shelves

The key to that assertion is "as far as I know". My mother in law works on check outs at store in Cannock(West Mids) and she has been offered change of role or redundancy; the store has last some 6 check out staff in the last 2 months. So perhaps not "nonsense'.

Don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere on here but .... does anyone else go out of their way to avoid using 'self service checkout in super markets ? This being on the premise that it is doing people out of a job.

55 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

One of those bands where I know a fair few of their songs but didn't know it was them 

You probably knew that the vocals were NOT sung by Harold Melvin !

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

, but that samey bum-clap, bum-clap drum beat got very boring very quickly. 

Oh agreed and the like of the fine upstanding Jonathon King put that beat to all sorts of junk. But it also gave rise to some great licks; as a drummer you just HAD to be able to play those semi quavers on the hi hat and I believe those octave bass runs started with disco, like wise those neat little one bar guitar riffs ,as per 'Chic'. Early rap (to my knowledge) was a very different beast; made popular (IMO) by the likes of Millie Jackson and even EWF used  it in their live act. There was none of the vile misogynistic and sometimes homophobic stuff put out today. 

42 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

and the start of the awful decline in black American music. 

No, that was rap ! Appreciate you might not like Disco but a a working musician (drummer) some of that disco stuff was a guaranteed floor filler. Also used some ace musos , eg Steve Gadd played drums on "The Hustle". - Van McCoy.

"Ship Ahoy" by the O'Jays was rather controversial  at the time IIRC and possibly damaged their career but one of Gamble and Huff insisted it be released

Great result for the New Zealand Ladies Team Pursuit; who have an English Coach and is from Birmingham ! Be tough to beat Australia but here's hoping !

Surely the failure to build a velodrome is the biggest disaster; one of (if not the) most successful sports and BCC ignore it. It would have been expensive; had the UK not voted OUT of the EU , we might have been able to have obtained ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) money for it. I could have helped 'em prepare the Bid. However, the UK voted out and Birmingham didn't seem to bother with a velodrome anyway.

15 hours ago, Ingram85 said:

Because the flag shagging help the heroes obsessed types will crucify and try to cancel anyone on social media who dares speak against our hard working totally squeaky clean by the numbers BRITISH army. Our lads. Our boys etc…

A somewhat stereo typical post, ever heard of Phil Shiner ?

I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere but ... a mate who works for AVFC was contacted by a former player who he is friends with. This player said that there is  a youth in his native Country who looks a real talent and wants to come to the UK; he is 16. My mate enquired from one of his colleagues who asked the youth's age. He is 16  - therefore cannot play in the (non EU) Britain until he is 18 . Another benefit of Brexit !!

Sterling hasn't proved a very good signing has he ! Utter shambles tonight , exemplified by the fact that they couldn't even get the scoreboard working !!!!

Has anyone seen the film "Soul Man" ? Relates (vaguely) to this topic. Quite funny yet quite thought provoking really.

16 hours ago, Xela said:

The openers are so shit, it actually makes me angry. Burns and Sibley were better and thats not saying much.

 

And now Warks are letting Sibley go to Surrey. Can't understand that   -unless he was determined to leave; anybody know ?

@mjmooney. I have listened again to your mate, the drummer and as ,i said before he is brilliant and well out of my league . But .....would he be able to back a cabaret act, some female singer, no dots , no run through. Probably with bleached blonde hair, hooped earrings (sufficient to have a budgie swinging in them), singing 'My Way', unsure of key and doesn't count the number in. Probably has all tattoos spelled correctly though.  I have !!!

3 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

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I mean, by best musician, are you suggesting he’s technically more proficient than people in bands like Sky that did all that 70’s rock / jazz / classical crossover stuff?

Sky - bassist was Herbie Flowers (as you doubtless knew). Played on Bowie's 'Space Oddity' amongst others. But ..... was also responsible for writing "Grandad'  - Clive Dunn !!

Anyone going to 'Bloodstock' ?  Looks like a good metal line-up but 'Night Flight Orchestra' seems an odd choice; bearing in mind the audience. I quite like 'em  - remind me a bit of TOTO.

Any body know this 'band' ? The keyboard player was in 'Marshall Hain' who had a big hit in the 70's (IIRC). There were some top American session players on this track; including Rick Derringer , Jeff Porcaro and Chuck Rainey.