On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Graham P Davis wrote
Will Hand wrote:

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs, I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

I still listen to the music my father liked - and I'm doing so now - Bach,
Handel, Wagner, etc.


Me too, plus other music he liked, Ella, Armstrong, Miles Davis. I was
a Beatles girl (same vintage as Will), but lost track of pop&rock
somewhere in the early seventies. My stepdaughter is only seven years
younger than me but we lived in different music worlds entirely.

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On Mar 5, 8:45 pm, wrote:
On Mar 5, 8:20 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:



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On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
Mods, Teds, Rockers it's like watching an old black and white telly on
here
ATM :-)

FWIW I was a long-haired Status Quo fan in my youth. Had a fondness for
the
hippy culture but never became one and never really entered into glam
rock.
I was a rebel though, still am :-)

Will (born 1952)
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"Ron Button" wrote in message

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I was the Original mod !

RonB
"JPG" wrote in message

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Ron Button wrote:

To us Mods queing outside the Tottenham Royal ballroom in a our
bumfreezer
suits,

You mean Teds (Teddy Boys), surely? Mods were about in the 60s, my
teenage years.

Martin

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Well Will I'm the same age as you and unless you mean early Status Quo
-Pictures of Matchstick men and Ice in the Sun -then that would be
right for mods and rockers. Status Quo started as a Mod band all
suited with Francis Rossi sporting a mod hairdo and a mustache and
made LP's at 29s and sixpence. A few years later as the 70's started
bands like Status Quo started taking themselves far more seriously and
recorded Albums -as opposed to LP's - and usually concept Albums and
instead of performing shows they did Gigs ........man

The mod ran from about 64-69 usually until the rocker's caught them.
As for cold weather related stories well the Beatle and Ready Steady
Go always provoke fond memories of those cold sixties. I can clearly
remember on a cold early December Saturday afternoon in 1963, just
getting to my local record shop in Lordship Lane Dulwich in time
before they closed, to spend my saved pocket money to purchase 'With
the Beatles' . I can also clearly remember how bitter the wind was as
I stood and waited at what was then a very lonely bus stop, eager to
get home and play the record. However I was very disappointed when
upon trying to play the LP, the opening tracks on side one and two 'It
Won't Be Long Yeah yeah' and 'Roll Over Beethoven ' had the needle
jumping all over the place despite the fact I had a three penny bit
piece as a tracking weight adjuster. Suffice to say I did try half-a-
crown, which was a big old meaty coin, but still it wouldn't play. I
found out later there had been a massive production fault in the
pressings.

Second Beatle cold weather story was playing 'Rubber Soul on Christmas
day 1965 in my parent's back room, and boy was it cold. When playing -
the seemingly so adult in those days at the tender age of 13-
'Norwegian Wood' I can still remember smelling the pine from the
Christmas tree on the cold chill air as John Lennon crawled out and
slept in the bath. Oh er

So where was I? Ah yes: Will I can't believe you can only remember
Status Quo. Surely you were a Beatles or Stones boy?

More a Beatles than Stones. Favourite track was "Get Back" IIRC it was
recorded outside somewhere? It all sounds so dated now and now I prefer the
Stones and more modern stuff like the Verve (the drugs don't work etc). At
Uni Pink Floyd were right up there (just behind Quo of course).

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs, I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

Will
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We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs,
I



My daughters have long since walked off with my Queen CDs and now they
are putting some of Rainbow, Whitesnake and even King Crimson on to
their iPods. Next they will want "Selling England by the Pound" and
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway".

I could never imagine borrowing my parent's Dean Martin or Mantovani
albums - they considered Cliff Richard a spawn of the devil!

Martin

"Mike Waller" wrote in message
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Kids Christmas present to me is tickets to see AussieFloyd at Plymouth
in April.
Anybody here seen them? Should I venture forth in resigned
trepidation or eager anticipation?
Interestingly, it's my 18 y.o. son who's keen on going with
me....philistine wife not interested!
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No but I saw Pink Floyd at The Railway Hotel, Tilbury in 1967 just before
they released Arnold Layne.! Does that trump all of the above ;-)
Dave

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On Mar 5, 8:45 pm, Graham Easterling
wrote:
By now I had progressed to a Hi-Fi system: A Garrard SP25 MK 11 deck
with a Shure M55 E Magnetic cartridge -the e stood for elliptical
which meant that it really gave good cross talk results on the old
stereo. I had a Teleton transistor amp and this time I set the system
up in my parent's kitchen where it was a damn site warmer than the
bloody backroom.

Same cartridge (I think - it was certainly a Shure eliptical), Garrard
SP25 MKIV deck, Amstrad 20W channel amp (it was a lot of power then)
and Wharfedale Denton speakers. Got the lot for my 21st birthday. I'd
long left home, so there were no parents to moan at the volume. Still
got the Wharfedale speakers. Was a fan of The Kinks & The Who, but was
never a Mod, eventually became more of a hippy. Went to the early
Cambridge Folk Festivals, saw the Fairports etc.

Still love seeing live music.

Graham
Penzance

I'd moved on to the Wharedale Dovedales by 1971 and was happily
listening to Harvest that summer. My first trip to Perranporth was in
72 and wonderful it was. Turntable wise I eventually progessed to a
Linn Sondek but have to say I found that deck so overated.
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Yep A Garrard SP25 MK 11 deck with a Shure M55 E Magnetic cartridge here as
well ! I could only afford a Metrosound ST20 amp (transistor and rated at
the time though) and big Decca Deram speakers till I built my own .Now what
about those big Koss earphones?

Dave

On 6 Mar, 13:37, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Mike Waller" wrote in message

... Kids Christmas present to me is tickets to see AussieFloyd at Plymouth
in April.
Anybody here seen them? *Should I venture forth in resigned
trepidation or eager anticipation?
Interestingly, it's my 18 y.o. son who's keen on going with
me....philistine wife not interested!

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No but I saw Pink Floyd at The Railway Hotel, Tilbury in 1967 just before
they released Arnold Layne.! Does that trump all of the above ;-)
Dave


You must be a few years (3 or 4?) older than me. I did see The Eagles,
Elton John & The Beach Boys at the same gig, 1 after the other. (Soon
after Yellow Brick Road)

The 1st big Band I saw was Jethro Tull in '69 I think, just after
'Stand Up' was released. That was in Penzance, they were still
relatively unknown when the were booked, hence the small venue.

Graham
Penzance

whats this now -Hi Fi group?
best Good Old Days I ever experienced was the late great Bert Foord later,
when he moved on, Bill Giles was my idol. Today is rubbish well actually
more than rubbish, total catasrophe, compared with those stalwarts.

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
.uk...

"Mike Waller" wrote in message
...
Kids Christmas present to me is tickets to see AussieFloyd at Plymouth
in April.
Anybody here seen them? Should I venture forth in resigned
trepidation or eager anticipation?
Interestingly, it's my 18 y.o. son who's keen on going with
me....philistine wife not interested!
-----------------------
No but I saw Pink Floyd at The Railway Hotel, Tilbury in 1967 just before
they released Arnold Layne.! Does that trump all of the above ;-)
Dave


I didn't get to see my first live band until Bardney pop festival
(Lincolnshire in 1971). Highlight was the Beach Boys. Spent the weekend
sleeping rough in the pouring rain and mud with just a plastic sheet for
cover. Still I didn't care as most nights were spent getting high on wine
and the occasional drag of a joint. My best mate spent most of the weekend
on top of his girlfriend!

Peace man! :-)

Will
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On Mar 6, 1:08 pm, JPG wrote:
On Mar 5, 8:45 pm, wrote:





On Mar 5, 8:20 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

wrote in message

...

On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
Mods, Teds, Rockers it's like watching an old black and white telly on
here
ATM :-)

FWIW I was a long-haired Status Quo fan in my youth. Had a fondness for
the
hippy culture but never became one and never really entered into glam
rock.
I was a rebel though, still am :-)

Will (born 1952)
--

"Ron Button" wrote in message

...

I was the Original mod !

RonB
"JPG" wrote in message

...

Ron Button wrote:

To us Mods queing outside the Tottenham Royal ballroom in a our
bumfreezer
suits,

You mean Teds (Teddy Boys), surely? Mods were about in the 60s, my
teenage years.

Martin

........

RonB- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Well Will I'm the same age as you and unless you mean early Status Quo
-Pictures of Matchstick men and Ice in the Sun -then that would be
right for mods and rockers. Status Quo started as a Mod band all
suited with Francis Rossi sporting a mod hairdo and a mustache and
made LP's at 29s and sixpence. A few years later as the 70's started
bands like Status Quo started taking themselves far more seriously and
recorded Albums -as opposed to LP's - and usually concept Albums and
instead of performing shows they did Gigs ........man

The mod ran from about 64-69 usually until the rocker's caught them.
As for cold weather related stories well the Beatle and Ready Steady
Go always provoke fond memories of those cold sixties. I can clearly
remember on a cold early December Saturday afternoon in 1963, just
getting to my local record shop in Lordship Lane Dulwich in time
before they closed, to spend my saved pocket money to purchase 'With
the Beatles' . I can also clearly remember how bitter the wind was as
I stood and waited at what was then a very lonely bus stop, eager to
get home and play the record. However I was very disappointed when
upon trying to play the LP, the opening tracks on side one and two 'It
Won't Be Long Yeah yeah' and 'Roll Over Beethoven ' had the needle
jumping all over the place despite the fact I had a three penny bit
piece as a tracking weight adjuster. Suffice to say I did try half-a-
crown, which was a big old meaty coin, but still it wouldn't play. I
found out later there had been a massive production fault in the
pressings.

Second Beatle cold weather story was playing 'Rubber Soul on Christmas
day 1965 in my parent's back room, and boy was it cold. When playing -
the seemingly so adult in those days at the tender age of 13-
'Norwegian Wood' I can still remember smelling the pine from the
Christmas tree on the cold chill air as John Lennon crawled out and
slept in the bath. Oh er

So where was I? Ah yes: Will I can't believe you can only remember
Status Quo. Surely you were a Beatles or Stones boy?

More a Beatles than Stones. Favourite track was "Get Back" IIRC it was
recorded outside somewhere? It all sounds so dated now and now I prefer the
Stones and more modern stuff like the Verve (the drugs don't work etc). At
Uni Pink Floyd were right up there (just behind Quo of course).

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs, I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

Will
--- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs,
I

My daughters have long since walked off with my Queen CDs and now they
are putting some of Rainbow, Whitesnake and even King Crimson on to
their iPods. Next they will want "Selling England by the Pound" and
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway".

I could never imagine borrowing my parent's Dean Martin or Mantovani
albums - they considered Cliff Richard a spawn of the devil!

Martin- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's was true for me too Martin but as I've grown older I've come to
love that stuff as well. Frank Sinatra singing 'I've got you under my
skin' live at the Sands with Count Basie leading a big band -
fantastic. Actually there's a line in that live version just as Basie
is going to let the band rip where Sinatra says as way of a warning

"Run for cover, run and hide". And boy it must have been something to
hear live such a big big band with impeccable timing let rip like
that.

You know I would puke at the sound of Tom Jones singing "Green green
grass of home and now I love it and get all sentimental especially
with Elvis's version. Now Elvis was lost on me as a kid but now I love
his output in his so called fat bloated stage when he could be giving
up to three live performances a day. Now I get a bit queasy instead
listening to Pink Floyd singing "Hey leave those kids alone" and think
what a load of pretentious bloated rubbish-mind you still a great
track though

I think the point that Will made was many of our generation wanted to
define ourselves and our youth with anything bar that the stuff our
parents would like, yet oddly enough there was only one hit chart and
limited radio so you had to listen to Ken Dodd singing' tears for
souvenirs' and the next track up would be say the Who and 'My
Generation'. Yet today all the charts are small and very defined
affairs with hardly any mixing of style but as Will pointed out
today's kids seem to happily listen to all sorts and don't feel
obliged to spurn the old stuff. I wonder if it's down to the age of
the computer and families not sharing occasions together as much as
they use to.




Ron Button: You have a lot to answer for :- )

On Mar 6, 2:28*pm, "Dave R.[west London]" non
wrote:
whats this now *-Hi Fi group?
best Good Old Days I ever experienced was the late great Bert Foord later,
when he moved on, Bill Giles was my idol. Today is rubbish well actually
more than rubbish, total catasrophe, compared with those stalwarts.


Absolutely, I hear you brother amen.

Robin Nicholson wrote:

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:10 -0000, "Will Hand"

Will (born 1952)

A vintage year!
Robin ( September 1952)

September 1952, eh? also ..

Sylvia Kristel! (any cinema nostalgia!?)


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