Hard News: Cheer Germ
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Paul Williams, in reply to
Speaking of 1981, Don't fight it...
Love the Blams.
At the risk of sounding well, like a gloating bastard, I can report the four hour Cure gig was farking brilliant. I reckon the clip below, The Forest, was shot by a bloke just in front of me.
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Aidan, in reply to
Gloating bastard.
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Aidan, in reply to
Seriously, how many people were recording that! There is a sea of little glowing screens in the audience. JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC YOU SAD BASTARDS!
(mind you, I am listening to it on youtube at the mo')
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Great magazine, Pilot. Lots of stuff about flying around in MIG-21s and Spitfires, that kinda thing.
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Friday earworm:
Better sound, but sans pix:
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craigm, in reply to
except for the times when he didn’t quite make it…..<wince>
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recordari, in reply to
At the risk of sounding well, like a gloating bastard, I can report the four hour Cure gig was farking brilliant. I reckon the clip below, The Forest, was shot by a bloke just in front of me.
I so nearly jumped on a plane for that, and am intensely jealous. Might never happen again. Gloat away.
Wow, have loved that song for years but had never seen the vid, awesome, thanks Jack!
Welcome. Speaking of gloating bastards, sifting through that vinyl mentioned earlier, I have the 7" of that very single.
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Lovely!!
...and clever!
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recordari, in reply to
...and clever!
If that didn't make you feel good, you should probably seek urgent medical attention. I have no idea what they were singing about, but I know it was something happy and good.
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Time to pay the bill, Wyman...
Music contracts at the crossroads -
This might cheer you up
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Paul Williams, in reply to
JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC YOU SAD BASTARDS!
It is an odd thing, but it's increasingly common. I think much the same as you - I got a shot, from this song in fact, as a screen saver but beyond that I was there to be there (and they recorded it, I'm guessing for commercial release).
I so nearly jumped on a plane for that, and am intensely jealous. Might never happen again. Gloat away.
Recordari, I missed the final Crowded House gig at the Opera House (when living in NZ) and resolved to not miss another gig that actually I could make with a modest effort.
Lovely
Marcus, that's quite an understatement. This is stunning, a remarkable performance.
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recordari, in reply to
modest effort
Hmm, define 'modest'. But yes, I regret umming and ahhing. Although, I did get to see them here in 2007 for 3 hours, and got my copy of A Forest signed by Porl Thompson and Simon Gallup. Apparently Robert Smith had the flu, to carry on the theme.
What was it you said about modest?
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Hmm, define 'modest'. But yes, I regret umming and ahhing. Although, I did get to see them here in 2007 for 3 hours, and got my copy of A Forest signed by Porl Thompson and Simon Gallup. Apparently Robert Smith had the flu, to carry on the theme.
Coooooool.
Gallup was amazing to see live, it was his 51st birthday the night of the gig I went to, you'd have thought he was 20 but. So much energy and attitude.
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So the 'Love Boat' went to Puerto Vallarta.
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recordari, in reply to
So much energy and attitude.
I think there are a number of bass players that challenge the stereotype expressed in the cartoon linked above, and Gallup is definitely one of them. Try humming a Cure song without the bass.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Music contracts at the crossroads
Gunfire erupted from a window high above them, but it was only a bass player getting shot for playing the wrong riff three times in a row, and bass players are two a penny in Han Dold City.
.........There was a copter above them now which seemed to be involved in a side skirmish with the band upstairs. Smoke was billowing from the building. The sound engineer was hanging out of the window by his fingertips, and a maddened guitarist was beating on his fingers with a burning guitar. The helicopter was firing at all of them.
Just a few sentences of background action from the beginning of So Long and Thanks for All The Fish . I really wish Adams had lingered longer in Han Dold City!
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Get as healthy as you can, this election will drain you. It's almost impossible to drop governments this early in New Zealand's election cycle. Get well, eat your fruit.
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Islander, in reply to
Thank you for those encouraging words.
Some of us think that Nats can be fought against on their record to date
and that there are a lot of disillusioned swing-voters out there that we are connecting to-it's rather better than slithering around in a pool of centrifuged banana-juice (or whatever.)
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Sacha, in reply to
there are a lot of disillusioned swing-voters out there that we are connecting to
I'd love to believe that but not seeing any evidence in polling
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Islander, in reply to
Sacha - there are some interesting (unfortunately still private) results coming out from Kai Tahu polls. Nobody would be surprised that the Te Tai Toka Maori Party representative is way down, but the amount of disillusion among young voters with the Nats is intriguing...the polls do not go further than Kai Tahu people, so they are obviously skewed, but there is a fairly clear indicator that many young people will be voting Green. And Labour.
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with a side order of the Global Commission on Drug Policy report that was published yesterday.
Sigh... that made depressing reading, in a good(-ish) kind of way. I'm not drug policy nerd, but it struck me as a clear, tightly argued statement of the bleeding obvious -- the so-called "war on drugs" isn't achieving anything worth the doing. I expect it to be completely ignored by the very people who should be paying attention.
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I think the Herald editor forgot to read yesterday's article about the Global Commission on Drug Policy report and has the gall to give us an opinion piece today urging the criminalisation of the "new synthetic drugs". Ignore the fact that the approach is not working why don't they? They also ignore the top experts in the world by spouting such trash. Grrr. Hope you're feeling better Russell. Winter has definitely arrived.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
They also ignore the top experts in the world by spouting such trash.
It's also fair to point out that folks like Fernando Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, George Shultz and Paul Volcker aren't exactly bongwater drinking stoners looking for an excuse to get high.
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