Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
Maybe I missed it, but no John either? We have to think of our Australian friends
Kylie over John Farham. By about a million.
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It seems appropriate to post this.
The Daily Mail website has headlined a story about the new Sgt Peppers cover with a headline about the "one surviving Beatle".
Poor Ringo.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
Ok, I'll start.
I know some people have special feelings about Tears for Fears' 'Shout'. But it is horrid.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
You may well be right. It's an hilarious, heavily disjointed piece of film, which I guess is deep in the Knox archives now.
Actually, we're probably both right. On reflection, I think 'Nothing' was the name of the contemporaneous road journal Chris kept.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
At some stage I found myself in possession of a reel of Super 8 which documented a road trip taken by Chris Knox, Doug Hood and couple of others north to see Elton John at Western Springs in 1974. It was called something like Nowhere Goes North (Nowhere being the name of the Combi they used).
I have heard of this work. But Chris told me it was called 'Nothing'.
And yes, some members of the touring party may have consumed large quantities of LSD in the course of the journey.
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Speaking of original movements, I think Bruce Russell makes a pretty convincing case with the selection and notes for Time to Go -- The Southern Psychedelic Movement: 1981-86, freshly out on Flying Nun.
It ranges from the well-known (the Chills) to the totally obscure (The Shallows). I love it to bits just for including the Playthings' 'Sit Down'.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Danielle,
I might have asked you this before, but have you seen the Once Upon A Time in New York doco? It's the story of how punk rock, rap and dance/disco music all emerged from the crumbling boroughs of the Big Apple in the mid-70s and pretty much reshaped popular culture. Is awesome.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Oh Hebe, no! I'm afraid the punky/rocky thing does not do it for me at all!
You should hear Feargal's country rap metal stuff.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Danielle,
Bloody disco bloody land.
How I wish that was a real place...
It is in all of our hearts.
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Matthew Poole,
but unless I’ve misunderstood horribly the ASIO decision relates to Huawei supplying kit for the “in the street” parts of the deployment.
And as I noted in the original post, no government, agency or company has ever actually suggested banning Huawei CPE -- and I'm pretty confident no one's going to.
