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Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

I see Status Quo are playing the Llangollen Eisteddfod this year.

Good decision, you won't see a better rock act this side of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Ha! Must remember that one! :-D

Welsh Megaman

HELL YEAH!!!!

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

HELL YEAH!!!!

Now we're talkin!

grey_so_what

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Really? I must admit I struggle with these lads!

Ah Donie, don't tell me you were never at a wedding and there was a stampede onto the floor when the DJ rolled this out?....:D

Skid X

Ah, I like the Quo.

Anyone who holds the TOTP appearance record has to be doing something right.

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Ha! Must remember that one! :-D

I was in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch once, on the way back from Liverpool. Nice spot, if I have enough drink taken I make a decent stab at pronouncing it

grey_so_what

I still remember the thumping in your ears after a Thin Lizzy concert.....

Marshall Speakers may have me on "hidden hearing" ads at some stage...:)

Worth every bit of it.

Welsh Megaman

''My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo/I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo''

- Big Bottom, Spinal Tap

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

I was in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch once, on the way back from Liverpool. Nice spot, if I have enough drink taken I make a decent stab at pronouncing it

You're doing it now, aren't you?

:-D

Welsh Megaman

Nazareth!!

Ol' Donie

Sorry dudes, I feel I need to stand firm on The Quo.

Rockin' All Over The World? Not in my book, fellas!

grey_so_what

I'd love to have brought him home to the Mammy....

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

Ah, I like the Quo.

Anyone who holds the TOTP appearance record has to be doing something right.

That's a league table I'd like to see!

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

You're doing it now, aren't you?

:-D

I can actually do the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery part quite well.

And any eejit can finish off the gogogoch part

It's the bastard chwyrndrobwllllantysilio which I need to practice.

Harry Angstrom

Skid X wrote: »

I was in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch once, on the way back from Liverpool. Nice spot, if I have enough drink taken I make a decent stab at pronouncing it

That's easy for you to say! :pac:

Welsh Megaman

About time!!

Skid X

The television man is crazy.
Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks.
Man, I need TV when I got T. Rex

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Sorry dudes, I feel I need to stand firm on The Quo.

Rockin' All Over The World? Not in my book, fellas!

Ol' Donie

And don't get me started on Keep Calm posters!

(Joking!!)

Torn now with the video game programme. Graham Linehan is on it.

Skid X

I generally take these things with a pinch of salt until I see them, but Wouldn't it be nice if there were some early BBC gems in this find?

A recently discovered stash of long-lost BBC TV shows found in Nigeria may include past Beatles appearances on the British music show “Top of the Pops,” Bill Harry, founder and editor of the '60s Mersey Beat newspaper in Liverpool that chronicled the Beatles' history as it happened, told Beatles Examiner Jan. 4.

Harry first mentioned the possibility on Facebook. “As you know, a vast amount of BBC TV material from the Sixties was found recently in a Nigerian TV station. Copies of the BBC programmes they received decades ago. Most of the publicity surrounded Dr Who episodes which had previously been lost. There is so much material that it's taking a time to go through everything, but I hear they have discovered Beatles TOTP ("Top of the Pops") appearances,” he wrote.

http://www.examiner.com/article/lost-and-found-bbc-films-could-include-rare-beatles-tv-appearances

grey_so_what

Nigeria?.......

Ol' Donie

Wow, Jan 4? So hot off the press? When will we see it I wonder.

But yeah...Nigeria??

Ol' Donie

Skid, did you see that thread about Phantom fm's top 500 musical icons?

Roy Orbison was about 100 places behind Bez from The Happy Mondays. What did you think of that?

Ol' Donie

They're talking about the music from Mario games on the other show now.

If you get a chance, youtube Martin Leung blindfolded. Saw him in the NCH a while ago. Absolutely amazing.

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Skid, did you see that thread about Phantom fm's top 500 musical icons?

Roy Orbison was about 100 places behind Bez from The Happy Mondays. What did you think of that?

That's close to Blasphemy by Phantom, to be honest Donie.

All credit to Bez, he had a good run but it's madness to be putting him in the same league as Roy (never mind above him)


Roy was my favourite singer of all time. Nobody ever came close. There's a reason you never see any Roy Orbison tribute acts. Because nobody could sing even half as good as him.

Johnny Cash was a good friend of his - Johnny Cash's autobiography is a great read.

Ol' Donie

It's a bit mad, isn't it? I think Liam Gallagher was one place above Paul McCartney (my favourite of them all).

Didn't know Orbison and Cash were friends. I'd say there were some interesting stories in that particular circle of friends.

grey_so_what

I loved the Johnny Cash album "Live in San Quentin", there was great documentary about the recording of it.

I wouldn't mind seeing that again.

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

It's a bit mad, isn't it? I think Liam Gallagher was one place above Paul McCartney (my favourite of them all).

Didn't know Orbison and Cash were friends. I'd say there were some interesting stories in that particular circle of friends.

Love Macca, no-one comes close to him/

yeah, Orbison and Cash were great mates Edit - there's a film to be made about their friendship

http://suite101.com/a/the-friendship-of-johnny-cash-and-roy-orbison-a346725

Orbison and Cash became good friends. In the early years of their friendship, they toured together and Orbison frequently stayed at Cash’s house in Memphis. Later Orbison purchased a house next to the Cash house and they were neighbors for over twenty years, until Orbison died in 1988.

Although the two spent most of their time on the road, touring separately, whenever Orbison was in Memphis he would drop by the Cash household for breakfast. Cash described his good friend as a kind, considerate man, with a sweet nature and good humor. Cash was there to support his friend through two enormous tragedies.

Harry Angstrom

Jaysus, this Moot the Hoople doc is boring. They were a fairly shyte band in a great era. They didn't really deserve an hour long programme. The fact that their most famous song was made a lot more famous by David Bowie and Bruce Dickinson says it all.

Skid X

grey_so_what wrote: »

I loved the Johnny Cash album "Live in San Quentin", there was great documentary about the recording of it.

I wouldn't mind seeing that again.

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