Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[TightEnd]

I don't think Wakeman was ever in Genesis.



for overblown 1970s supergroups= Pig over Battersea Power station Floyd. Unsurpassed!

Surely "Emerson Lake & Palmer" must be right up there?

yes, absolutely.

[RED-DOG]

Oy! Boldie, Andrew, Tighty! Less of that googling on this thread. If Rookie finds out, he'll tear us a new asshole. (Each)

[TightEnd]

Oy! Boldie, Andrew, Tighty! Less of that googling on this thread. If Rookie finds out, he'll tear us a new asshole. (Each)

sorry, learnt from the Masters.

[boldie]

Oy! Boldie, Andrew, Tighty! Less of that googling on this thread. If Rookie finds out, he'll tear us a new asshole. (Each)

sorry, learnt from the Masters.

Yes I apologise profusely.

[AndrewT]

I don't think Wakeman was ever in Genesis.



for overblown 1970s supergroups= Pig over Battersea Power station Floyd. Unsurpassed!

Surely "Emerson Lake & Palmer" must be right up there?

One of John Peel's most hated bands - some argue the excesses of ELP were directly responsible for punk. When touring, ELP had so much stage gear they used three juggernauts to transport it across America. Each truck had one of the names of the band on its roof, so from the air it looked like each member had one truck each.

And Red-Dog - this is all from memory. I have a dark prog rock fascination. Wait till we move on to German or Dutch prog...

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And Red-Dog - this is all from memory. I have a dark prog rock fascination. Wait till we move on to German or Dutch prog...

I kinda suspected that it was, but I didn't want to believe it.

[tikay]

BTW- Has anyone ever seen Rick Wakeman and tikay in the same room?

Yes - at Brentford FC, where he was at the time a Board Member, & I was a never-miss-a-match" supporter.

So many wasted Saturdays & Tuesday evenings.......Barrow, Plymouth, Darlington, Yeovil, & at one time, they never won away in 2 seasons, & I saw every single match. Happy Days? I'm not sure about that.

I didn't know you were such an avid football nutcase supporter. You're more of an onion than me.

No puns, that shallot.

Sadly I wasted much of my recreation time watching football until I left London.

My Grandad took me to watch Chelsea play Man Utd at Stamford Bridge when I was a little boy - 84,000 spectators were in Stamford Bridge for an evening match, & it cost 3 old pence for me to get in. Ted Drake was Chelsea Manager ("Drake's Ducklings) & Matt Busby ("Busby Babes") was the Man Utd Manager.

Jimmy Greaves played I think, & the score was something like 6-3, but I can't recall to whom. I wonder how many of those facts I've got wrong?!

Then I somehow found myself a Brentford supporter - well, I lived near the filth (QPR) so I had no choice really, & 20 years of devotion to a lost cause followed. 

Our favourite fixture was always home & away to Millwall, a shocking team we all loved to hate.

The mainstays of the Bees were Tommy Higginbottom & Peter Gelson, but we had a few decent players through the Team over the years - Stewart Houston, (later of Man Utd then Arsenal I think) Roger Cross (West Ham), Dean Holdsworth, Tommy O'Mara, George Dobson, etc. We never - ever - won anything.

After Football came my Greyhound Racing years, then Horse-Racing, Snooker, Golf, Spreads, then eventually poker. I'm about done now with "passions", I think.

[Karabiner]

I don't think Wakeman was ever in Genesis.



for overblown 1970s supergroups= Pig over Battersea Power station Floyd. Unsurpassed!

Surely "Emerson Lake & Palmer" must be right up there?

One of John Peel's most hated bands - some argue the excesses of ELP were directly responsible for punk. When touring, ELP had so much stage gear they used three juggernauts to transport it across America. Each truck had one of the names of the band on its roof, so from the air it looked like each member had one truck each.

And Red-Dog - this is all from memory. I have a dark prog rock fascination. Wait till we move on to German or Dutch prog...

Which takes us nicely back to banal lyrics.

Bahn bahn bahn on the autobahn etc. ad nauseum

[AndrewT]

I'm about done now with "passions", I think.

So, no more trains stories then?

[Snatiramas]

Our favourite fixture was always home & away to Millwall, a shocking team we all loved to hate.

Many was the good fight at the old den when I went to watch the Irons

[RED-DOG]

I'm about done now with "passions", I think.

Nah. You haven't finished with birds and Yorkshire yet.

[RED-DOG]

Our favourite fixture was always home & away to Millwall, a shocking team we all loved to hate.

Many was the good fight at the old den when I went to watch the Irons

Snatt. I hope I won't offend, but I found this little poem the othe day, and I immediately thought of you.


The Clown


The day the circus came to town,
my favorite was the circus clown
with his great big shoes
and funny clothes,
a painted face,
and a big red nose.


A giant smile was painted there,
with children laughing, everywhere.
I wondered as I
looked at him,
was he frowning 'neath
his painted grin?


Now when I am feeling down,
I think about that circus clown
with his great big shoes
and funny clothes,
a painted face,
and big red nose.


I put a smile on, anyway
and soon, my frown just fades away
like the day the circus
came to town
and I learned it watching
the circus clown.

[tikay]

I don't think Wakeman was ever in Genesis.



for overblown 1970s supergroups= Pig over Battersea Power station Floyd. Unsurpassed!

You are correct Rich - I'm having a bad day here, eh? However did I get that into my head?

And so now we have a mystery as to who nicked that "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" line. I wonder if it has some obscure reference in Ancient Literature & both Groups were merely quoting it??

well the Genesis side seems to assume no credit towards Yes
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway


but reviews of the era link Lambs and TFTO closely,

one writes

"Much like Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans, I have always felt more comfortable appraising Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as an overall great but flawed album, rather than an infallible work of complete genius. As it stands, I find about 70-80% of the material ranges from good to peak work, while the rest could have been discarded with no real loss"

Perhaps they were merely dipping into the same well of classical references.

Yes, that would make sense. My evidently flawed memory seems to think "Yes" used it first, but it's too odd a juxtaposition of words for two different Bands to pluck from the air "coincidentally".

[Rod Paradise]

Getting back to TOTO, my apologies, it was of course TFTO.

Sigh... Now wonder it whooshed me. If you had said TFTO I would have got it instantly.

Save that for those souls who fell for Sofa-Kings "Round-Cyprus" Swim Tom, I ain't buying!

TFTO had a rather spiffing Album Cover though. I would think the artwork was done after a spliff, too.

"Yes" were one of the first "Stadium" Bands to implode due to taking themselves way too seriously, & massively overloading on LSD. Rick Wakeman left in a bit of a huff, & turned up in "Genesis", where he claimed much credit for the weirdly-titled "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", an odd song title if ever there was one, but he nicked it from "Yes", it was a lyric from TFTO, & I think it was his way of saying "up yours" to Jon Anderson & Co.

Pretentious Musos, READDDDYYY!!!!!

[Snatiramas]

Our favourite fixture was always home & away to Millwall, a shocking team we all loved to hate.

Many was the good fight at the old den when I went to watch the Irons

Snatt. I hope I won't offend, but I found this little poem the othe day, and I immediately thought of you.


The Clown


The day the circus came to town,
my favorite was the circus clown
with his great big shoes
and funny clothes,
a painted face,
and a big red nose.


A giant smile was painted there,
with children laughing, everywhere.
I wondered as I
looked at him,
was he frowning 'neath
his painted grin?


Now when I am feeling down,
I think about that circus clown
with his great big shoes
and funny clothes,
a painted face,
and big red nose.


I put a smile on, anyway
and soon, my frown just fades away
like the day the circus
came to town
and I learned it watching
the circus clown.

Ah bless......no problem mate