Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: The canyons of my mind https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address GuannyL https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=46950#post46950 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=46950#post46950 This discussion thread is waaay out of my depths. I'm so very confused.

So I'm just gonna reserve the right to quote this line in class sometime (out of context of course):

"I wasn't a very good hooker (the puniest kid in the team)"

Those CDs sound really cool, as…

]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:07:51 +1200 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45881#post45881 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45881#post45881

Stevenson was a classic definition of someone fronting up to have his ass kicked.

Didn't he later get to indulge in some ass-kickery of his own when confronting the Rooski delegate to the UN over missiles in Cuba?
Perhaps I'm just channeling Roger Donaldson's "Thirteen Days" movie but I think…

]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:19:03 +1300 JP Hansen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45861#post45861 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45861#post45861 I saw the roadies tuning the guitars side stage after the first encore, and nobody rushing on to dismantle the set, so had thought he was intending coming back.

Bah!

Couldn't the bloody lights have been turned back off again?

]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:23:18 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45853#post45853 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45853#post45853

I'm sure Davies is a bit tired of some of the same ol's, but shit, not playing Waterloo Sunset is a bit like the Queen saying 'Oh, sod trooping the colours this year'...

I have it on good authority that he was indeed intending to come back for a second…

]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:15:33 +1300 Ben Austin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45848#post45848 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45848#post45848 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:49 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45842#post45842 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45842#post45842

I'm sure Davies is a bit tired of some of the same ol's, but shit, not playing Waterloo Sunset is a bit like the Queen saying 'Oh, sod trooping the colours this year'...

Ha, when I was younger (much) I was persuaded to go and see Procul Harum at the…

]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:16:08 +1300 Angus Robertson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45798#post45798 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45798#post45798

These are recordings of US election campaigns and convention speeches, discussions on presidential power and the role of Congress, and the speeches by the actual people from Grover Cleveland in 1892 to John F Kennedy with pitstops for FDR, Harry Truman, Eisenhower and so on. I find it compelling.

Seems…

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:40:29 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45766#post45766 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45766#post45766 Re Focus: argh! Yodelling, scatting, one of those long-thumbnail-guitarist-douchey-guys, *and* the drummer who thinks he's Gene Krupa! I hurt.

(Weirdly, though, it kind of made me want to listen to the Doobie Brothers. What does this mean?)

I saw Ray Davies on his storytelling tour some years ago in Houston.…

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:43:13 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45756#post45756 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45756#post45756 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:07:47 +1300 JP Hansen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45706#post45706 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45706#post45706 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:21:02 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45662#post45662 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45662#post45662

I see that the Rutles has had a welcome remastered reissue. I want.

Ahh, yes.

They were bigger than Rod.

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:37:49 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45661#post45661 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45661#post45661

apropos of nothing here's why punk had to happen (stick around, after about the 4th minute it actually gets worse) . . .

My god. I thought you were overstating it at first. It was just like four guys went away and wrote separate pieces of music for their instruments…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:08:08 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45660#post45660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45660#post45660

Just in case anyone didn't get it, the "odd boy who doesn't like sport" line is from another Bonzo song.

I assumed it was something like that but the Neil Innes and co are almost as obscure as Barclay James Harvest in 2008, Rob....talking of which, I see that the…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:05:25 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45658#post45658 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45658#post45658 Just in case anyone didn't get it, the "odd boy who doesn't like sport" line is from another Bonzo song.

I gave up sport when I started high school, for a combination of reasons: (a) teenage rebellion (b) I was involved in Scouts and had discovered tramping and (c) I…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:39:16 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45657#post45657 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45657#post45657

its an odd boy who doesn't like sport

I guess I was happily odd then

Re the Youtube clip....it never fails to bemuse me when I talk to an older Dutch person here how often Focus is raised as a favourite band. Scary. Similarly older Germans seem to opt for…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:12:44 +1300 Graham Reid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45655#post45655 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45655#post45655 "its an odd boy who doesn't like sport"

it is a more odd one who plays two games every saturday for over 15 years before finally quitting. I felt the same about cricket too actually: played two games every saturday in summer for school and club (more than competent bowler…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:47:49 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45646#post45646 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45646#post45646

As for your rugby memories, its an odd boy who doesn't like sport.

Hey, I've always liked watching it, never wanted to play it. Exact opposite with soccer – can't stand watching it, but it's a lot of fun to play.

“You shall not press down upon the brow of…

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:56:05 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45634#post45634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45634#post45634

Finest guitar solo ever, until perhaps Dr Hooks' Cover of the Rolling Stone...

I was going to say "dems fighting words", but then the guy walked out with the mask on. And belched near the end. I pre-concede. Pure class.

]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:51:32 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45631#post45631 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45631#post45631 Kyle,

Yeah, and he fronted twice, and was prepared to have another go in 1960.

Apparently the US president depicted in Dr Strangelove was based on Stevenson.

Meanwhile....here's the Canyons of Your Mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EC6JjNSWZo


Finest guitar solo ever, until perhaps Dr Hooks' Cover of the Rolling Stone...

]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:54:06 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45612#post45612 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45612#post45612 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:09:57 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45606#post45606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45606#post45606 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:42:24 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45605#post45605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45605#post45605 ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
(fade out: "He's an odd fellow and he's OK...")

]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:14:08 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45604#post45604 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45604#post45604 Had to read this, if only for the title.

As for your rugby memories, its an odd boy who doesn't like sport.

]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:03:47 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45603#post45603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-canyons-of-my-mind/?p=45603#post45603 Discussion from blog post.

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