Diesel

Punk Rock Geldof is a total c**t and his band were pish. However, he has a point... The Clash's image, like most British punk rock, was fake. The whole image thing was engineered by Malcolm McLaren on ideas he ripped off from the likes of the New York Dolls, Dead Boys etc, to promote his boutique SEX. Basically, the London Punk movement (Bromley Contingent, London SS et al) were a bunch of yaw-yaw Sloane Ranger wannabee, university dropouts who were too ugly for the debutante circles. Just look at a few photo diaries for evidence - outside of Souxsie (who was kinda sexy), all the girls were repulsive wee trolls with speech impediments (Toyah, Polly Styrene etc) and the guys were utter mingers (Sid Vicious - an advert for "Blitz Those Zitz" if ever there was one). Punk in Britain was a complete myth, the sales were poor*** and there weren't even that many actual punks outside of London. A lot of the act that jumped on the punk bandwagon and "made it" weren't punk bands at all - Stranglers, Ian Dury & Blockheads etc. ***What "Punk" records actually made any impact on the charts outside of the Pistols???... (back in the day when you had to actually SELL records to make the charts) 1. Souxsie & The Banshees : Hong Kong Garden - about as punk as Liberty X 2. Clash : I Fought the Law - a cover of a 60's hit 3. Jilted John : Jilted John - Graham Fellowes, an actor taking the piss 4. Plastic Bertrand : Ca Plain Pour Moi - a Belgian stand-up comedian. 5. Skids : Into the Valley - a wannabee actor and art critic (Jobson) fronting a frustrated rock band The list of fakes goes on.... Music-wise the Clash and the Pistols were VITAL, especially the early stuff. A few decent bands rose from the pile of shite that was Punk Rock...The Ruts were fantastic andThe Danmed were good fun. Other that that? F*ck-all. The only band of genuine punks were...The Ramones and Punk is probably the only popular music genre where the Fat Americans were actually ahead of us in the game (excl. blues, jazz etc). Think about it - Punk made such a "lasting impression" in Britain that the very bands they claimed were "boring old farts" (quote: Rotten) and were finished, came back with vengance just 18 months later and brought a whole new generation of acolytes with them - Motorhead, Maiden, Saxon, Whitesnake etc... Yes, Geldof is a pus-ridden, festering, weeping japs-eye of an excuse for a human being...but he makes a valid point. Thank you folks, you've been a lovely audience - don't miss my show at the AECC it's call "Ripping the Pish Out of Everything". Tickets on sale now. DZL

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Name Killswitch Engage is also a big long arc of steaming yellow pish for a band name

Wee lassie Fae Banff The recurring theme here seems to be "good luck to her". I totally agree. Good on her... ...but the song is diabolical. I heard it yonks ago driving back to Aberdeen late at night. I wanted to crash the car - it was that bad. The sentiment is kinda sweet, about a young lass who's lamenting over historical events and eras that she's missed. but the delivery is rank. It's almost Kindergarten stuff, with the stomp-along rythym. Still, she's on the radio, I'm unlikey to be on it again...so nuts to me

Lemming Tree Tribute band a-go-go this quarter.

Pfm Hi, I recognised the song from the first bar - so their was no need to translate - the lyrics are from the studio version. I don't recognise the other song, so it'll take longer. DZL Ps - who's Pete?

Pfm It's the first song on the above link. DZL

World Became The World Suitbly translated... One of the most beautiful songs no-one knows..... The World Became the World Outside my window in the courtyard of the world The gentle rain was falling. No breath of wind, no cry of beast or bird Too quiet, too still, I turned ... To see the raindrops like a thousand poet's words splash their circles on the stones, And seem to wash over everything with love And for a moment the courtyard heard. Until the sun came bursting through the clouds Hung up his rainbows in the sky And with a laugh of flames said, "Now go chase the gold" And the world became the world ... Now we're all travellers some seekers and some sought Who leave the courtyard to be caught In nets of self, damned certainty and choice; But do you believe our voice? You ... you've got what must belong to me, I need! I'll bleed for more possessions. You ... you've got no right to disagree Bow! Kneel! Or fear my aggresions. Thank God if sometimes your oyster holds a pearl When the world remains the world ... Howazt I'll do the rest later... ....and if the site rules allow, I'll send you an MP3 of the studio version DZL

Italiano My mum's Italian and I can speak a little... ...I'll give it a go tonight (firewall at work wont let me access it) DZL

Just 65 as well. Shame.

Yes - turgid, cliched shite of the highest order...and that mullet

We're on a "roll" today fellas o_O

Ouch! 'doubting thomas' - jeez, that's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

Nomenclature It's a nightmare. The first band I was ever involved with back in 19?? argued the toss over names and the three our dictatorial "leader" came up with were...brace yourselves... Spearhead Arrowhead August Fer f*cks sake ! I left immediately taking most of the kit with me and that was the end of that. Mostly Autumn - eats shit as well. Decent proggie band, festering minge of a name. DZL

Pfm

The "First Gig In Aberdeen" thread got me thinking about my first major gig.....AC/DC at an open-air festival at the Howard Park in Kilmarnock, back in '75. I was a bit too young to really appreciate it though. Then I thought of my older sisters first gig and it was "The Sweet" at the Grand Hall in Killie back, early '73. This gig has minor historical significance, coz there was a HUGE riot, owing to Sweet's abysmal performance and Andy Stewart (I think) got hit with a bottle. The result of all this was the glam classic..."Ballroom Blitz". I remember sis pointing out an interview with the band in Melody Maker or something and one of them saying that the tour had gone well, but some "Toughs" (great word!) had given them a hard time in Kilmarnock and that the song was written about the gig. I was well pleased!!! Anyone else got any gig-related trivia !!!!!! DZL

Zoso I Wish !!!!!!!! I'd kill for 1% of that guys talent.

Tele Aye, seems to be the "guitar of choice" for many of the current acts/bands. I'm looking for one myself to complete "The Holy Trinity of Rock" - Les Paul, Strat & Tele DZL

I hear that bro' Yes, I started as a code monkey, then developed a balanced-tree multi-user database engine and API for those who didn't want to spend a fortune on Ingres & Oracle, got some sweet contracts on that back of it and now I'm a pen-pusher so far removed from the technology that I need to get Internal Services to boot up my laptop for me Shamefully, I was also one of the Glasgow Barras "distributors" of ST & Amiga software in the 80's - ah, the good old days. They founded FAST especially for us. I got out long before it got ugly, although I was the best-fed and best-heeled student at Uni for a while The po-faced head of department had 15-year-old Vauxhall Viva, I had a new XR3i - it really used to piss him off "How can you afford that on your grant??" Oh, I'm all misty-eyed with nostalgia and it's getting me nae nearer tae ma Epi. DZL

I'm in IT Management (software development) and have been for 15+ years (old fart) - I got in while it was red hot and I contracted for years. Spent some time abroad too. DZL

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