Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 5th November 2015, 10:54 AM GMTPosted this on the Jonathan Ross thread, but have deleted as it seemed to be lost:-
On the last prog. - Elvis Costello playing Elvis Presley's guitar while Pricilla Presley looks on - never thought I would see that happen.
Like a wock 'n' woll dweam come twue.
Can't remember if I mentioned this but on my recent holiday in Shropshire I visited a small town famous for being the birthplace of the modern Olympics. Anyway I went into this little bookshop and bought a signed copy of Mr Costello's which he's been promoting everywhere recently but at the time I had no knowledge of the book.
Big fan of him so really pleased to get it.
Quote: Chappers @ 5th November 2015, 10:08 PM GMTMr Costello's
Big fan of him so really pleased to get it.
He appeared in Friends and Two and a half men, so I'm guessing humour is important to him. Lets just say it's a good thing he can sing so well.
Bought the 2 disc version of the new Dylan Bootleg Series volume, The Cutting Edge. Very looking forward to listening to it. Also bought a CD/DVD version of One Step Beyond.
Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chq885RKXAI 
Bought the second Blood, Sweat & Tears album today. Now I have the first three. It went downhill from there, afaik.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 6th November 2015, 8:35 PM GMTBought the 2 disc version of the new Dylan Bootleg Series volume, The Cutting Edge.
I'll probably do the same shortly before "acquiring" the $600 18-disc set that I just saw in a dark corner of the Internet. 
Not your normal best of "voted for by viewers", so should be worth a look. 
"The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One"
Wednesday 11th November on ITV from 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Special programme celebrating the classic chart-topping songs of the most successful band in history, counting down the results of an exclusive poll. Which of the Fab Four's 27 chart-toppers from the UK and the US has been voted the nation's favourite Beatles number one? From She Loves You to Hey Jude, Day Tripper to The Ballad of John and Yoko, and I Want to Hold Your Hand to Let It Be, the programme tells the stories behind some of the band's most enduring hits, which were all written within an eight-year period in the 1960s. The programme hears stories from those who knew the band best, as well as praise from famous fans across the generations - including model Twiggy, ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus, singer Sandie Shaw, contemporary singer-songwriters Jake Bugg, George Ezra and Corinne Bailey Rae, musical mastermind Jools Holland, and Manfred Mann's Paul Jones.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 9th November 2015, 8:25 PM GMTNot your normal best of "voted for by viewers", so should be worth a look.
I'm sure it'll be interesting, but that's a pretty uninspiring list of "famous fans across the generations". I think they deserve a bit better.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 6th November 2015, 8:35 PM GMTBought the 2 disc version of the new Dylan Bootleg Series volume, The Cutting Edge. Very looking forward to listening to it. Also bought a CD/DVD version of One Step Beyond.
Quote: DaButt @ 9th November 2015, 6:51 PM GMTI'll probably do the same shortly before "acquiring" the $600 18-disc set that I just saw in a dark corner of the Internet.
I also bought the complete 6 disc boxset now (i.e. on saturday), just two days after buying the double disc set. The condensed 2 CD is so amazing, it contains some completely different versions of well known classics, ballads become rockers and vice versa, just listen to take 5 of Visions Of Johanna and you'll know what I mean. These excellent samples force you to buy the complete set.
I'm so thankful they've started the divine Bootleg Series...not a single stinker among the several volumes so far, imo. The new one and the one before (Basement Tapes Complete) are absolutely mandatory and raise the bar once again.
Gordon,
This is where I cross forum (hoping the serious folks on the other one don't notice). There have been a lot of shows on British radio recently about Dylan at Newport and the so-called birth of rock n roll. I said "I don't think he did start rock. H61R and Blonde on Blonde are, erm, folk-metallic". That is a phrase I'd just invented.
Anyhow, I raised a question about the Yarrow role that nobody has answered. The guy who stood up to Pete Seeger, Lomax and the old guard - him - was still doing this as late as 1972. I like him. I like Peter Paul and Mary but he hardly seems to be the most obvious bloke to have facilitated electric. He was and is folk through and through and a mystery. Why did he take Bob's side in 1965? Maybe he simply had different principles???
Pete Yarrow - Tall Pine Trees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZ851ZQSA4
Also....Peggy Seeger turned up in Gateshead and on the radio on Friday and I got very, very excited. She hasn't changed since she was 73 in 2008. R3 on iPlayer. I drew a comparison between "Everything Changes" and Randy Newman's "Dayton". Oh, and Joni Mitchell was 72 last week but The Guardian decided she was 73.
Peggy Seeger - Everything Changes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNS97TMcKs Randy Newman - Dayton Ohio 1903 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTdiNkhnOc
Quote: A Horseradish @ 9th November 2015, 9:23 PM GMTH61R and Blonde on Blonde are, erm, folk-metallic. That is a phrase I'd just invented.
Like it!
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 9th November 2015, 9:37 PM GMTLike it!
I went further and said Highway was a brittle silver and Blonde a softer gold!
Then I stopped before I got pretentious. 
That Seeger track is remarkable because if you watch it closely she is an older woman with clarity acting out the role of an older woman who is muddled.
Have got loads of stuff at the moment. Maybe I should do a bit more here in the coming days.
Did you know "Happy Jack" was based on a real bloke who sat on a British beach - I think he had a serious mental illness - and was bullied by kids yet remained permanently happy? I didn't realise he actually existed!
The Who - Happy Jack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52cQeFBU2Kw
Quote: A Horseradish @ 9th November 2015, 9:41 PM GMTDid you know "Happy Jack" was based on a real bloke who sat on a British beach - I think he had a serious mental illness - and was bullied by kids yet remained permanently happy? I didn't realise he actually existed!
The Who - Happy Jack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52cQeFBU2Kw
No, that's completely new to me. I wonder if Arnold Layne did actually exist.
Nice bit of "fan art" I've found on the FFS Facebook page:
Google says:
"According to Roger Waters, "Arnold Layne" was actually based on a real person: "Both my mother and Syd's mother had students as lodgers because there was a girls' college up the road so there were constantly great lines of bras and knickers on our washing lines and 'Arnold' or whoever he was, had bits off our washing lines.""
We did traffic cones. They were useful in keeping the essay papers from flying off tables during Yorkshire daytime weather and then you could turn them upside down and use the indent at their base to wind down from the extraordinary academic pressure.
When I think of it, it wasn't upside down. There was too small a hole at the tip. That would have been like the Skatalites Guns of Navarone. What I meant was inside the recycled thermoplastic rubber pvc bollard it was all hollow right the way up to its bell end.