HonaloochieB

All The Way To Memphis - Mott The Hoople

I think it's more of 'mug' measurement, you know the Spiderman one at the back of the cupboard. Smallish and you'd have to rinse it out before loading it up with dry goods for any civilized orm of cooking. It'll be fine.

Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely Otta. No one wants a repeat of the > Diana scenario. And can you imagine the social > media grief overdrive when our monarch eventually > passes? We can all be respectful without being > disproportionately over familiar and disingenuous > in our 'grief'. > > Louisa. There's no reason there'd be that (Diana 'thing', what scenario? Not a clue about that) at all. Our monarch passes? It's David Bowie that's just gone, the place is a less good place without him. 'Cus he was a stone-cold solid groovey motherfu*cker. Ingenuous in my sadness for him. Anyway loves you, doubt you meant it, given the daftness. Later. HB

Jake Thackray, good call. I believe DB was a fan.

LadyNorwood Wrote: > > I was born mid-60s, youngest of three. Never > liked DB, was dragged to see him late 90s at Town > & Country in Leeds (the tour when he refused to > sign any old stuff); managed to stick it for about > 20 minutes, then walked out (very obvious as there > were only about 200 people) and sat in the car for > the next hour or so, freezing my bits off... Just > never got the hype, give me Steve Marriott any > day... I'll not get angry about you and feel sad with you, LadyN. In no order, and why should it be? Brixton boy, artist, dilettante, big feckin' ol' liar, Beckenham Arts Lab Proff, Tony Newley impersonator, Mott The Hoople saviour, Alien?, GLAM F@CKIN' GLAM 'N' GLAM AGAIN, Actor? Man Who Fell To Earth, Waffety-eyed long-haired div, Converter of me to Ziggy Stardust compulsive, Geezery sounding socialite, Discovering Life On Mars (FACT!), Best hairstyles, ever, just bloody ever, Berlin and all that, but not forgetting how to make a pop tune, Thin White Duke, William Burroughs, The Dame, being amused by being referred to as The Dame, Warhol, hole, hole, holes, The Elephant Man, Tin Machine, Marlboro Reds, Iggy saviour, still being a chum with George who hit him so hard he changed hs eye colour, the best mullet ever, The Laughing Gnome, Lodger Lazarus and I'll leave it there. I just know the world was better with him in it, and there'll be a permanent Bowie-shaped hole. See Ya.

When you think about it, it just doesn't seem right, does it? It's not fair either. And justice? Don't talk to me about justice. Specially not if you're one 'Of The Peace'. PEACE? You'll get a piece of my mind you poncey beggar. Bloody kids.

Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love) - Bad Company

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HonaloochieB Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > > WHAT? A distance before and a distance after? > > Surely you know that's garbage. It's about > > context, The Beatles were a time and place that > > made a huge difference to pop music. Doubt they > > knew they were doing it and they didn't set out > to > > do it, they did it. Nothing to do with > 'different > > generations'. > > You miss my point HonaloochieB. What im saying is > they didn't necessarily make the difference you > imply. They were on a par with other acts at the > time coming out of Liverpool and other working > class communities across this country, who ALL > were influenced by early 50's Rock N Roll pioneers > coming out of the states. They took the mantle on > along with numerous other bands, and collectively > influenced pop music later on. It wasn't some > exclusive Beatles influence as you suggest. It was exclusively a Beatles influence, I can't think of another group who were as influential, I really can't. > > > > > > Not know who The Beatles are? Utterly daft, in > > their pomp they were better known than the > Popes, > > the Prime Ministers, the Presidents, Mott The > > Hoople and Miss World. > > Yes they were, but ask a kid nowadays who the > Beatles are or their influence on popular culture > and most kids wouldn't know or care, let alone be > able to name a song. Whether they know the name or not, the influence is there, and also I think young'uns who are interested in the pop/rock milieu are well aware of peopl like the Beatles/Dylan. > > Louisa.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I think if you > ask people before the era and a distance after th3 > Beatles era, most people would beg to disagree > with you (if indeed they even know or care who the > Beatles are!) > > Louisa. Although there may be something in what you assert about the different generations not appreciating the Mop Tops. Tommy Trinder did once say " I didn't make no never mind about them, when ye're born 1909 up Streatham way, it don't make no nothin' to me. As fer me ol' mum, I remember 'er clear as day 30 year before them lovable moptops started sayin' "Thomas, if any ol' scousers ever start screamin', shoutin' and twistin' about, YOU BLOODY SEE THEM ORF SOON AS LOOK AT 'EM" Yes, my ol' mum I said, so I did." And then I had another look and guess what? Some time later I decided to interview someone a 'distance after'. A Wetherspoons pub (not identified for reasons of confidentiality, - present HB, 3 year-old Lynnsey and her mother). HB - So tell me Lynnsey, what do think about The Beatles? I reckon they're FAB but someone of my acquaintance (sort of) reckons they're not all that. L - ????? HB - It's The Beatles Lynnsey, #She Loves You, Yeah Yeah...# L - MUMMY!!!!! HB - Ah, anyway Lynnsey, The Beatles, they sang great songs and I bet your nanny liked them. L - Eeeeeew, your breath is all smell! Pooh. Stinky. HB - Thanks Lynnsey, you're great, but am I the Walrus? L - Why's your face so fat? Crumbs, maybe Louisa's right after all.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not 'another' (which one?) 'overated' pop > group, it's THE pop group. Unless you at the least > acknowlege that then it's just a born in the 50's > pub ranter. > Prefer the fackin' Stones, Me!! > > Who says they are "THE pop group"? I think if you > ask people before the era and a distance after th3 > Beatles era, most people would beg to disagree > with you (if indeed they even know or care who the > Beatles are!). I'm sure if my mother was asked > about them she would say it was a bloody noise > (different generations different opinions). WHAT? A distance before and a distance after? Surely you know that's garbage. It's about context, The Beatles were a time and place that made a huge difference to pop music. Doubt they knew they were doing it and they didn't set out to do it, they did it. Nothing to do with 'different generations'. Not know who The Beatles are? Utterly daft, in their pomp they were better known than the Popes, the Prime Ministers, the Presidents, Mott The Hoople and Miss World.

Donald Trump walks into a bar, with his entourage. The barman looks up, smiling and asks him what he would like. Trump stares at him and intones, archly "Make me a cocktail you think might suit me" The barman gets to work, puts a jigger of gin , some tequila, sugar syrup, a treble Machalan and a touch of bitters, ice, lemon and a wedge of orange. Trump takes a sip, grimaces slightly and tells the man he's impressed with the drink and asks what it's named. Cheerfully the barman informs him it's called a 'Don Quay'. Trump smiles, gestures to a minion, holds up three fingers and leaves the bar. The minion leaves three hundred dollars on the bar and follows Trump and the others out of the bar. The barman, looks cooly at the money lying on the bar, turns to his girlfriend looking out of the kitchen hatch, and says... WELL WHAT DOES HE SAY? WHO'S GOT THE PUNCHLINE, EH? COME ON I'VE DONE THE HEAVY LIFTING HERE, NOW GET IN AND FINISH IT. I'LL BE BACK TOMORROW AND I EXPECT RESULTS.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah Lush Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You don't half write some crap Louisa. > > HonaloochieB is spot on. I was there too. It > was > > ace. > > Nah I don't talk crap, I just have a valid opinion > about yet another overrated 60's pop group, who > were fortunate enough to hit the big time both > sides of the Atlantic (luck more than judgement > may I add). It's not 'another' (which one?) 'overated' pop group, it's THE pop group. Unless you at the least acknowlege that then it's just a born in the 50's pub ranter. Prefer the fackin' Stones, Me!! 'Fortunate enough to hit the big time both sides of the Atlantic'? Maybe, possibly? Who knows? So? 'luck more than judgement may I add' If luck came into it, it was huge luck, the luckiest of all, and what 'judgement' was involved? Music is subjective anyway. I think > Jah and HonaloochieB are classic examples of pop > brainwashing. I prefer to look at these things > from afar rather than be lead along with the > crowd. The Beatles were average artists who were > pretty good at writing catchy lyrics off the back > of the style of Elvis et al - who had already set > the bar pretty damn high across the pond. > > Louisa.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Beatles. Most overrated, drawn out for decades > rubbish I've ever heard. > > Louisa. Blimey, that was quick, the first Beatles-hating-posturing ninny in a thread of this sort. Disliking The Beatles in the context of pop music isn't an opinion, it's an attitude, a quasi maverick pose that just won't do. The Beatles and George Martin set the bar for pop and then raised it and then some more. While doing so they made pop songs of great beauty and something more. For what it's worth, I've got my theory of the three 'B's who created what we've got today, popwise, rockwise and all else The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Berry Gordy. Although if I never hear Yellow Submarine again...

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Happy new year HB > > Nicholas Parsons And a Happy New Year to you of course SteveO Correct!

When the drummer's a better singer than the vocalist, it's time for an urgent band meeting, possibly too late now.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a great idea Hona, although I see you more > as a grown up version of Le Petit Pissoir...a sort > of roundabout feature fountain. > We can't risk more Hepworth thievery, so foregoing > bronze, perhaps we can melt down all the coins > that everyone has been collecting in the 365 Day > Penny Challenge. > I have an artistic bent, when shall I come round > and measure you up?... It would have to be renamed/Anglicised as the Big Piss Artist but you may be on to something here RD, I'm of to the pub to cogitate.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He's alive, Huzzah and xxx Honnie I welcome your joy at my continued survival and am chuffed to NAAFI breaks you're still vigourously patrolling the EDF yourself. But while I appreciate the sentiment, lets stow the xxx's eh, old top. This is after all London, not ruddy Mayfair.

Or of course dbboy and HopOne you can both get stuffed. Taxidermy's the way to go I reckon, if it's OK with everyone I'd like to be posed on the Goose Green roundabout in a 'Rodinesque' attitude - I'll leave it up to the EDF to decide how I'm posed. Though solo, I'm thinking The Thinker. Not because of course I am any great one, I just like its looks. There's a few I'd like to be webbed up with as The Kiss, but I'll keep that to myself. Not a Thinker but discreet, I like to think.

London Girls - The Vibrators

Is it absolutely, really, completely and it would seem bloody (pardon my French) de riguer (that's the the bloody French for you) that youngsters of 25 or thereabouts just stroll about the place acting as though thay're adults and 'informing' real adults what indeed might be what? I recall that upstart Mick Jagger trying those shenanigans once and see where that got HIM! No sympathy for the rogue. It can't be just me, surely?

London Boys - The Heartbreakers

Thanks for the welcome back JL, appreciate it. I of course didn't wish to umbrage you, not of all people, but it's that combination of narrow front 'bar' and the uncomfortable one stuck on the side, never felt right to me, but a great back room. Any Ol' How Cheers Ol' Thing HB Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HonaloochieB Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > A great music venue (the back room) but an > utterly > > shite pub (the front 'thing'). > > > > Unpleasant, uncomfortable and any old time I > went > > there prior to going to see a 'pop' group up > the > > back I never had a good time. > > > Welcome back but I really have to take umbrage > with this statement. I agree many years ago it was > a bit of a dump but once Jill O'Neill started > managing the pub she completely turned it around > and her team made the Half Moon a far more > pleasant destination. And the pizzas were better > than The Gowlett's.

OK Stringvest, Let's pass on your pass. It should only take a short time to identify these undieless vicars.

And the first thirty Benders are on me.