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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 6:29:08 GMT
anyway, back on track. a classic piece of mod revival:
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 23, 2021 7:25:49 GMT
something's missing alright! fuck's sake
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 8:04:13 GMT
something's missing alright! fuck's sake it's voices from the street. a million miles away from the sleepy middle-class whitehaven that you grew up in. you were probably wanking off to the boomtown rats at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 8:29:38 GMT
South Londoners, whereas a lot of the other mod revival bands were from East End/Essex.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 8:32:52 GMT
the onlookers were an amazing band. a lot of the mod revival bands were barely out of school. i just love the youthful energy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 8:52:21 GMT
My mate's band is playing at a local festival with the reformed Secret Affair. Haven't decided whether I'm going, but I probably will, so I'll give you a report!
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 8:55:24 GMT
My mate's band is playing at a local festival with the reformed Secret Affair. Haven't decided whether I'm going, but I probably will, so I'll give you a report! looking forward to it, G! of course, it was at a secret affair gig at the bridgehouse where i first encountered my old mucker, billy, who i've since fallen out with.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 8:57:13 GMT
I keep meaning to get Billy over here so you can bury the hatchet!
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 9:00:36 GMT
I keep meaning to get Billy over here so you can bury the hatchet! good luck with that, G. he's even more stubborn than ray!
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 23, 2021 9:27:57 GMT
I'm feeling more confident about the cup now, at any rate.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 10:13:25 GMT
I'm feeling more confident about the cup now, at any rate. I take it you've gone with The Purple Hearts as your first choice?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 23, 2021 10:17:45 GMT
that must have been an exciting time for you to have been England, especially as a californian in his late 20s. what did you make of it all? It was great. My friends and I were all into music, but I had broken off a year or two earlier and widened my musical listening tastes to funk, early rock and punk and rediscovered my love for early '70s R&B. My friends were still mainly into Lynyrd Skynrd and that kinda stuff. A couple were showing interest in other music, but just dipping their toes in. I had started going up to the Mabuhay Gardens, San Franciso's equivalent to the Masque in LA, CBGB's in NYC, and seeing groups like Devo and the Ramones and San Francisco's DK's, the Avengers and Flipper. Like here, my friends and I all had an overwhelming love for the Beatles. I had a burgeoning interest in reggae so going to England was a revelation. The late '70s were a stellar time for reggae. I'd take the train from Effingham, where I was staying, to Guildford, and then from Claygate to Oxford Circus every week and buy albums. While I was there I saw Led Zeppelin at Knebworth. I'd seen them before in Oakland, '77, and my brother and I saw the Who at Wembley. I was a fan of AC/DC, who opened, and liked Nils Lofgren, who was second on the bill. The Stranglers, who were touring the Raven, were kinda lost on me. What amazed me was the variety of music in the charts and on TV. Public Image, Ian Dury, Janet Kay, the Ruts, Junior (I loved Mama Says), were all at the top of the charts and compared to stratified and ghettoized FM radio in America, it was unbelievably inclusive and broad. I ate it up. Of course, you had artists like Judy Tzuke at the top of the charts too, but it was all good. Blah blah blah....did you shag any English lasses you dirty New World dawg?
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jul 23, 2021 11:23:01 GMT
Blah blah blah....did you shag any English lasses you dirty New World dawg? i'm pretty sure that the closest he came was having a snog on a train.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 23, 2021 11:26:40 GMT
Was he charged for that?
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 23, 2021 12:51:02 GMT
It was great. My friends and I were all into music, but I had broken off a year or two earlier and widened my musical listening tastes to funk, early rock and punk and rediscovered my love for early '70s R&B. My friends were still mainly into Lynyrd Skynrd and that kinda stuff. A couple were showing interest in other music, but just dipping their toes in. I had started going up to the Mabuhay Gardens, San Franciso's equivalent to the Masque in LA, CBGB's in NYC, and seeing groups like Devo and the Ramones and San Francisco's DK's, the Avengers and Flipper. Like here, my friends and I all had an overwhelming love for the Beatles. I had a burgeoning interest in reggae so going to England was a revelation. The late '70s were a stellar time for reggae. I'd take the train from Effingham, where I was staying, to Guildford, and then from Claygate to Oxford Circus every week and buy albums. While I was there I saw Led Zeppelin at Knebworth. I'd seen them before in Oakland, '77, and my brother and I saw the Who at Wembley. I was a fan of AC/DC, who opened, and liked Nils Lofgren, who was second on the bill. The Stranglers, who were touring the Raven, were kinda lost on me. What amazed me was the variety of music in the charts and on TV. Public Image, Ian Dury, Janet Kay, the Ruts, Junior (I loved Mama Says), were all at the top of the charts and compared to stratified and ghettoized FM radio in America, it was unbelievably inclusive and broad. I ate it up. Of course, you had artists like Judy Tzuke at the top of the charts too, but it was all good. Blah blah blah....did you shag any English lasses you dirty New World dawg? I've written about this before. I met this girl who worked at her uncle's high street shop and we went out a few times. She lived in E. Grinstead and her name was, how's this for an English name? - Sally Rundle. We went to Guildford on the train for a date and to London one night and missed the train home. The dad of the friends I was staying at had to come pick us up at Waterloo. We took a week long vacation to Albufiera, Portugal at some villas. During the week, there were three sisters from Lisbon that we hung out with. There was also a really good looking Irish girl vacationing there too who hung out with all of us. Sex was had.
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