Jammer

The artwork sucks

That was a good read - I saw Ringo Starr on Loose Women the other week and he's beyond embarrassing! Still trying to be funny and doing that fucking peace sign, got tetchy cos all the loose slappers wanted to talk about was the beatles whilst he wanted to talk about his new album that few cunts went out and purchased. As they usually don't with any new Starr material.

Watching Loose Women eh...quality TV there Del At least Ringo was getting paid to be on it...watching it is another matter:laughing:

On the subject though, I don't think rock stars are any different to old people of any entertainment vocation footballers, film stars etc. There's some who retain dignity whilst others go OTT for attention and lose reality. The problem is that there are limited new stars to take away the reliance on the nostalgia of those icons which still dominate. Look at the heavy rock scene with Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Metallica still the headliners and crowd pullers but still using the now stale and cliched formula that got them there.

Excellent stuff, great quality apart fae Jamie and his nasty nasal habits

Of course it was called Badge because one of them (can't remember if it was Clapton or Harrison) wrote down "Bridge" on a piece of paper and the other mis-read it as Badge and said "Oh that's a goo title.

Harrison wrote it Clapton misread it...classic

I liked the second-last one too. I'm hoping with all the turmoil in his personal life over recent years he'll come up with his solo masterpiece soon.

I saw him at the Capitol with Wings (mid 70s), although the only bit I recall with any clarity was him doing 'Blackbird'.

I did a cover of 'What's the new Mary Jane' for a German Beatles tribute (suppose this makes me a 'Tribute' Band...erk!!!!), but the record only got as far as test-pressings (of which I have one).

I almost saw them at the Glasgow Apollo in 79 Back To The Egg but was a tad young and didn't get my arse in gear.

Mary Jane as a cover, you brave man. And no I don't think that makes you a Tribute Band that would mean The Beatles were an Isley Brothers tribute band for Twist and Shout ha ha. Plus it's not exactly predicable...

And I hope there is a masterpiece around the corner too. His best solo work is when in turmoil e.g. Band On The Run and post Mills. Contented Macca = going through the motions with the occasional classic dropped in.

Ringo piped up with the line "told you 'bout the swans how they live in the park" in Badge by clapton/harrison.

There's not often I come across something new to me about The Beatles..congratulations

Superb song, love the bassline, melody and guitar work. Short and sweet

McCartney's solo stuff always passed me by, but I actually liked the last one, which worries me quite a bit

I know his stuff has been patchy with the early 70s stuff prob the best (Ram and Band on The Run) but his last two albums have been really good (interesting and fresh). He suffers through his lack of quality control rather than ability coupled with his range of output (kids pap to Classical to ambient and all points inbetween). Live he is outstanding, really great show and it really shows his quality.

I think he gets a really raw deal IHMO.

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Ah, thought there was another song in which ringo was credited but wasn't sure which one. Interesting about "Flying". The only instrumental track - would ringo's input really have been any more than normal? Must have felt sorry for him that day.

Ringo did come up with titles and lines in songs which were cool (e.g. Hard Days Night, Tomorrow Never Knows and some lines from Eleanor Rigby). Quite why he got a credit for Flying is beyond me...unless it was generosity.

Forgot Cry For A Shadow from the Sheridan session in Hamburg which is Harrison/Lennon.

I think what Motleyal is meaning here is that the bulk of the songs he mentioned were written by John Lennon with either little or no input from Paul McCartney and he would be correct.

It would be ridiculous to think that every song released under the publishing name of "Lennon/McCartney" (every original Beatle's song other than the Harrison ones and Octopus's Garden) was completely co-written by the two.

To think of the two most obvious examples -

John Lennon: Strawberry Fields Forever

Paul McCartney: Penny Lane

A number of years back McCartney even tried to change the credits on some songs he had written to McCartney/Lennon.

And to muddy the waters even more, the credits were originally McCartney/Lennon on Please Please Me single and album (although the first single was Lennon/McCartney) and McCartney used the McCartney/Lennon credits for all the Beatles tracks on Wings Over America back in 1976 but nobody made a big deal about it.

Oh and Flying was the only group credited track with one other notable exception to the normal credits being What Goes On which was Starkey/Lennon/McCartney.

Ha Ha... I trolled back to my own post earlier in this thread, and found that I had done exactly the same thing anyway, by including "Twist & Shout" !!

guilty as charged M'lud !!

Ha ha there you go, whilst my first lot were all originals...I think

Sorry Jammer, but "Money (that's what I want)" is not a Beatles song !!..... it was written by Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records.

(maybe if you said Favourite Five Beatles Songs including Covers.... then that would work !)

am I just being a bit pedantic ? sorry !

Methinks you are as the thread did not specify "written by", it is open to interpretation...and as a Beatles fan of 35 years and counting.I am well aware of the who wrote what ta very much.

But as I'm off tae see Macca for the 4th time in my life love and peace fills my Fab Thumbs Aloft world...I'll let you off :up:

8-)

Right now its Bad Motor Scooter by Montrose, ace.

Rather excellent choice sir

Just now it's

Money (That's What I Want)

Something

Nowhere Man

Here, There and Everywhere

Hey Bulldog

A few, mostly old but hey good songs....

Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys

Be Good To Yourself - Frankie Miller

Hey Ya - OutKast

Valerie - Amy Winehouse

Respect - Aretha Franklin

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

Rock Lobster - B-52s

Good Vibrations - Beach Boys

Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

A Minha Menina - The Bees

Fishermans Blues - Waterboys

1999 - Prince

Lady Marmalade - LaBelle

Dance To The Music - Sly & The Family Stone

Walk This Way - Run DMC/Aerosmith

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Ace of Spades - Motorhead

I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown

Electric Feel - MGMT

I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

Pencil Full Of Lead- Paolo Nutini

Ma & Pa - Fishbone

......OK I'll stop there

I think Johnny from the copycats has a butchers shop in Banff on the main street. I could be wrong though.

Portsoy is the main shop Iain Lyons still bides in Buckie

Does anyone have any info about bands that were going around in the 60s...beat, psych, mod stuff? I'd love to hear some recordings if such things exist as well.

I used to have a single by The Misfits recorded for Aberdeen Student Charity Campaign which featured a version of The Beatles You Won't See Me and was released mid 60s. Lost it somewhere along the line...

I've seen the aforementioned Johnny & The Copycats on one or two of their reunion gigs in Buckie plus bumped into Mecco, the guitarist, in Tesco last week. Some trivia...they supported The Beatles in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1964 plus Elton John played on some of their My Dear Watson stuff. Hendrix watched them at a club in London and Geno Washington used to jam with them.

I've got the EE's Fit Like, New York which is about the only book I've seen that covers the music scene up here.

The Jonas Brothers? Can they be classed as a band?

A "Bland" is the correct term

Cheers for posting this, last time I saw Cammy at the Marillion gig in Inverness last year he told me about this but I forgot the details, looking forward to hearing them

Glad to be of service, he just finished the album a couple of months ago and plans gigging as soon as.

Are there any local bands that could be described as playing progressive rock music...?

There's a band in the Keith area led by Cammy Jamieson called Roads to Damascus which have just recorded a prog opus:

http://www.roadstodamascus.co.uk/

I have heard tell of a young band in Banff that play Rush covers...so another potential prog band may be in the offing

As long as they put on a decent performance and gain plaudits they can't be treading water. In fact if they do, they are finished.

Just stumbled on this excellent review of The Xcerts at King Tuts:

Flood of Red/The Xcerts, King Tuts, Glasgow - Herald Scotland | Arts & Ents | Music Reviews

I always say a lot of bands have at least one half good song although everything I've heard by Razorlight is mightily pish. Though that rule certainly does not apply to tosh laden boy bands such as westlife, boyzone, JLS eyc.

Deacon Blue is another one I can't stand but thought 'Your Town' was pretty neat.

Spot on with your observations.

I'll also mention the usual suspects Coldplay, Oasis, Robbie Williams, Maria Carey and anything from shit TV contests and their associated svengalis and add Lily Allen, that scrakey 5 Million Bicycle chick....and Garry Glitter.

I stopped making my annual trip last year - felt much better that way. Due to the ridiculous queues would have ended up celebrating the turnover to Christmas day in the queue.

My knowledge of local geography is appalling - I saw the Ash tour dates about 2 months ago and didn't know that East Grange was up here! I'm going to be in Elgin at the weekend too...is there a bus going there and back at all?

About mid way to Forres from Elgin on the right (about 2 miles from Alves)...there is a sign post. Then there's a single track road and it's about half a mile up there over a bridge. No bus home to Aberdeen methinks.

But it is a decent venue, with a bar and can be an experience!

You're shitting me, Downtown still exists?o_O

Aye Hog...and worse still, it and Joanna's are still the destination of choice for the sheep on the piss...probably Lee still goes to Jo's too

Better off at The Loft... Downtown Sucks Satan's cock

I think it's a pretty cool idea.

They're playing Falkirk for F, obviously, and the pub they're playing is pretty nice.

It's better than just playing Edinburgh for E, Inverness for I etc etc.

I have no objection to anyone playing the Loft, indeed the more the merrier. It's a great wee venue as is The Warehouse in Lossiemouth and for acoustic sets The Red Shoes in Elgin.

They're doing an A-Z alphabetical tour and this one is E for East Grange, Forres, Quite a neat idea

That's clutching at straws (farm ha ha). The venue is called The Loft and is in East Grange and technically listed under Kinloss but ...would Edinburgh not have been a more obvious choice (in Scotland anyway) or even Elgin

To be a pedant...it's not really Forres, The Loft is on a farm midway between Forres and Elgin (which to be fair is probably weirder).

And there's been a few decent bands playing there including Drunken Public (Levellers), Hayseed Dixie, Delays...and comedian Jason Byrne to name but 4...but it shows that Ash are not exactly in the ascendancy of their career.

Good wee venue though