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  1. The Byrds

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    Hmmm...The Byrds have always been a mixed bag for me. I never rated David Crosby as a singer or a songwriter. Roger/Jim McGuinn was a good frontman' date=' but his best work has always been adaptations of other people's songs. He smothered the real talents in the band to an extent. Gene Clark was the real star, an absolutely phenomenal songwriter who never got the breaks he deserved. Gram Parsons should have been their salvation, and the catalyst for the band's evolution towards true greatness, but music industry bullshit got in the way.

    Basically, they were a good singles band with a mean line in Dylan cover versions. The first album and "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" are the only real standouts for me album-wise.[/quote']

    I agree with that little summary. I tried to get into them but found the albums a tad samey but superb singles.

  2. Keith Chaos Live tickets up for grabs on Vic Galloway's Air Website

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    Pair of tickets and camping passes for the glorious 18th June...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/air/index.shtml

    Line Up

    THE BLUETONES

    The Grim Northern Social

    Mind Gone Blind

    Blue Gum Ears

    The Method

    Bigfoot

    Eskimo Blonde

    Jo McCafferty

    Baby Karma

    The John Young Band

    Bullit Theory

    Girl Said No

    Spindrift

    White Light

    Small Enclosed Area

    Maria Millar

    The Phoenix Band

    Kenspeckle

    http://www.keithchaos.com

    :band:

  4. Go North

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    This event has been happening for years and it never seems to make sense in either the selection of acts or promotion (or lack of it). Bands bypassing the selection process and then there's the general lack of any transprancy of said process. As far as promotion is concerned I always have people (journalists, bands and others) asking me if there's any news as they struggle to find out anything about it as there's no communication until the eve of the gigs.

    I just find it depressing that such a great idea seems to flounder so...

    Ho hum :gringo:

  13. Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums

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    One more thing about having OK Computer as No.1...it's a down album. Surely that's a tad depressing. There's so much postive music been produced. I like Radiohead but I can only listen to it now and again.

    I would rather have something upbeat or at least something that swings through various moods.

  17. Best cover version ever!

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    Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby. Black Water Side, When The Levee Breaks, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Babe I'm Gonna Leave, I can't Quit You Babe, You Shook Me etc etc

    Beatles - Money, Twist & Shout

    Joe Cocker - With A Little Help Form My Friends

    Black Crowes - Hard To Handle

    Elbow - Independent Woman

    Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

    David Bowie - It Ain't Easy

    This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren

    Jeff Buckey - Hallelujah, Liliac Wine

    Run DMC - Walk This Way

    Aretha Franklin - Respect

    Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower & Hey Joe

    Soft Cell - Tainted Love

    Ramones - Baby I Love You

    Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World

    Elvis Presley - That's Alright Mama

    Happy Mondays - Step On

    The Byrds- Mr Tambourine Man

    Johnny Cash - Hurt

  18. HUBL CD Release

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    Hopefuly gigs in late April and May. Hope we can get an Aberdeen one in as well as up North. Keep a check via the site but one of us well come on and post notice as well.

    Dead Anyway

    Hope you like a lot of the stuff and cheers for playing some stuff. Also contact us at the site if you want bands. :cheers:

  20. HUBL CD Release

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    HUBL http://www.hubl.co.uk/

    Highland Ultimate Bands List proudly presents the HUBL album, its first CD release featuring 20 tracks from the cream of Moray and the Highland and Islands unsigned talent. This wholly independent CD release is the culmination of a number of fund raising gigs by the artists and members of the HUBL website over the last year and a half. From Keith to Fort William, Dingwall and Inverness the HUBL online community pulled together to stage gigs, giving their time and services for free to provide the latest expansion to HUBL.

    Since its initial inception in 2003, HUBL has grown with the ideas and support of its user base. This CD started with a suggestion from a member on the HUBL site forum, it was then agreed to produce a professionally produced and packaged CD. Bands were asked to submit demos and the best tracks were selected and the fundraising began.

    With well known bands and solo artists like Carson, Blue Gum Ears, Robbie Dunsmore, Dionyssus and Small Enclosed Area and the new blood on the block of the likes of The Method, Spindrift and The Gen, this is a broad and varied mix of contemporary styles and experience. The HUBL CD is a fine compilation, which demonstrates the potential of this area both in musical talent and community spirit.

    Track Listing:

    1. Sign Red - Goodness Knows

    2. Blue Gum Ears - Paracetamol

    3. Fickle Public - Another Exit Ruined by Stairfalling

    4. Carsn - Review to the Chronicle

    5. The Method - Summersun

    6. Dionyssus - Somethings happening to me (Part 2)

    7. Small Enclosed Area - Taste of India

    8. Kobi - Could I Move In With you?

    9. Noise Pollution - You or Them

    10. Spindrift - Hollywood Hold On

    11. Chris Henderson - Kiss & Tell

    12. Echo20 - Room 4

    13. Mind Gone Blind - Fear

    14. Fluid B.C - Time Again

    15. Findo Gask - Berlin by Day

    16. Mute - Kurts Song

    17. Outsane - Past Tense

    18. Turning 13 - String She Pulled

    19. The Gen - Punching the Lamppost

    20. Robbie Dunsmore - Awaken

    To promote the release of the CD there are plans for showcase gigs. Details will be announced soon.

    HUBL is a creation of Chris Thornton from The Method. He saw the need for a more cohesive music scene in Moray and the Highlands and decided to make the HUBL website <http://www.hubl.co.uk/main.html>. The site has over 250 members and features over 150 band profiles at present with gig listings, message boards, MP3 downloads, reviews and much more.

    HUBL is a non-profit organisation. All proceeds from the CD will be reinvested to the HUBL community with the hope of further CD releases and events.

    The CD is available on line at www.HUBL.co.uk <http://www.HUBL.co.uk> and at selected retail outlets including:

    One Up, Belmont Street, Aberdeen Tel: 01224 642 662

    Sound and Vision, South Street, Elgin Tel: 01343 543 778

    Urbanology, Batchen Street, Elgin Tel: 01343 552 191

    HMV, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Inverness Tel: 01463 250961

    Soundtracks, 17 Francis Street, Stornoway Tel: 01851 706034

    Website: www.HUBL.co.uk <http://www.HUBL.co.uk> :band:

  22. Elgin - Rock City.

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    Can't remember the exact details but it was something along the lines of 'one of my mates who used to be the singer in Mind Gone Blind was playing at Tarlair in a band called 'The Shining' the same year that Fish played. After the gig he met Fish in one of the local pubs. He was a huge Fish fan and when he was introduced to him he couldn't even speak' date=' didn't know what to say to him so he punched him instead!!! Fish and one of his bouncers jumped on him and proceeded to beat him up!'

    As i said i don't know exactly how much of this is true and how much has been exaggerated over the years. I wasn't there myself so i'm just going on what i've been told!

    :D:D[/quote']

    You must be getting senile Snowdog dude. Bert was in Point Blank by the time he swung at Fish. We played Tarlair in 1988 when Tarlair was still a good crack.

    That Fish tale about a knife is a tad dubious as I've never seen anyone wielding knives (fists and boots aye...) in Keith and I'm sure someone would have boasted about it ever since.

    Bry ".......Hielan Jam Battle of the Bands (the one where Sirius won is the first gig I ever went to, when I was 12!)... and apart from that, complete boredom and apathy from people who go to gigs."

    That wasnae a Hielan Jam BotB as I've never done one outwith Keith, the HJ gigs are/were just gigs with a few bands on the bill. That competition was something to do with Eric McGillivary or something.

    Never been a fan of Sirius though....

    Anyway must go, see you about Mordred :rockon:

  24. Best Boy Band Ever?

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    I'm not saying I would classify them as a boy band' date=' I'm saying that if they began their career today, they would most likely be part of the music industry production line of clean-cut, good looking young men who play nice pop songs for girls and have their material written by someone else. They wouldn't have a chance to evolve in the same way they did in the 60's, and most likely they would be on the scrapheap by the time their third album came out.

    But such talk is meaningless hypothesising, as I said before.

    There is no bigger Beatles fan than me, but I do accept that they were image conscious and conformed to the wishes of Brian Epstein and Parlophone in terms of career decisions in their early years, in the same way The Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Manfred Mann, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Searchers etc. did so. Beat groups were the 60's equivalent of boy bands.[/quote']

    Being image conscious is not really valid argument as all bands were / are e.g. The Rolling Stones built their entire career on a creation by Loog Oldham of being the bad boys and rivals of The Beatles (which many people seem to forget). In fact image plays an important part of any successful group / artists from Elvis. Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Public Enemy and Marilyn Manson, nobody likes a bland and dull imageless artist so you must therefore throw all bands into that equation. RemeberThe Beatles, played the game but took the piss and broke down a lot of the establishment bullshit within the entertainment world.

    Another thing is the likes of McFly, even though they are a "band" are just running over the same, safe formulas. I saw McFly the other day on TV and they were very "nice" with "nice" harmonies and "nice" predicable cheesy 60's type songs. They are regressing music for a market that is stale and it is a completely different place to the exciting era where The Beatles, Byrds, Stones, Who etc existed in.

    If a group of individulas like The Beatles existed now they would exist in the cutting edge of whatever would be happening rather than on a boy bandwagon.

  25. Best Boy Band Ever?

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    If the Beatles started off today' date=' they'd be classified as a boyband. [/quote']

    I disagree, they formed by themsleves, gigged like fuck, sang, played their instruments, wrote their own songs, progressed musically and most importantly had brains and wit. Therefore they would not and never will be classed as a "Boy Band".

    In fact their appearence in this thread is that of sheer ignorance :gringo:

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