The TIPF Album

[ChrisLumix]

It's amazing Chris Rea is still with us considering all his health problems which icludes pancreatic cancer in 1994.

 

 

Wasn't Chris Rea going to join Dire Straits at one point? But it fell through : "Chris Straits" just didn't have a ring to it, and they weren't going to use the other option...  

[JohnP]

That wouldn't have worked, they would have given folks the runs for their money...

[Black Pearl]

Controversial inclusion I know but he wrote this about his daughter and when I heard it on Radio 2 going to work the other morning it filled the car.

 

 

T*t he may but this is a great tune.

[JohnP]

I'm not a Tom Jones fan... but I like this a lot.

 

[JohnP]

I saw the Notting Hillbillies at Birmingham Symphony Hall a few years ago, I wonder if Mark Knopfler still plays with them now and again.

 

[Black Pearl]

One of my all time favourite bands - Sparks

 

 

Might even post a few more.....

[Black Pearl]

[Black Pearl]

One more then I'm off to bed....

 

[Black Pearl]

Sorry....

 

[ChrisLumix]

Amazing to think Sparks are still around, still creating new albums, still touring... 

 

"This Town Ain't Big Enough.." was a whole year or more before Bohemian Rhapsody, but is never mentioned in the same breath. It should be!

 

Here's one from the archives :

 

[Denis]

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Edited December 14, 2013 by Denis

[Black Pearl]

Denis just copy/paste the URL

[Korky]

For those of you that remember the Saturday morning flicks...

 

Korky

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cohW2w7_6I

[FUJI]

Thank you for that Korky.......

Me and my mates ( or should it be .....my friends and ?) .......used to absolutely rave about this 1930s made, series of Flash Gordon, with Emperor Ming, and Planet Mongo......oh yes!.......and rocket ships that sounded exactly like electric razors, and which had exhaust sparks and smoke that fell straight down as they flew......on wires .....( obvious now) .......

Loved every minute of it.....on the way home from Saturday a Morning a Pictures, we kids used to re- enact whatever we had seen on the screen, from Flash Gordon, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rodgers, Tarzan, Our Gang, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy plus all the favourite cartons........not forgetting those rather boring American Travelogues.

Fairly recently my childhood mate and fellow cinema goer, found a DVD of all of the Flash Gordon serial episodes, we spent the next few Wednesday afternoons, complete with popcorn and cardboard cartons of fizzy pop watching them all over again.....GREAT STUFF,

Thanks again.

FUJI

[Korky]

Glad you liked it, Fooj.

 

A friend and I had a Flash Gordon DVD weekend a few years ago - we had a bottle of Glenlivet rather than fizzy pop, but it was along the same lines. We enjoyed it muchly, the series is so bad it's brilliant!

 

Korky

[Black Pearl]

Found a Christmas song I like:

[JohnP]

[Korky]

I've not been around much for a couple of weeks, but thought I'd just drop by to post this.

 

RIP Pete Seeger - a truly great man.

 

[Korky]

And another Pete Seeger song from Mr Springsteen and band.

 

[Black Pearl]

Make sure you have a drink.

Put your headphones on.

Switch off the lights.

 

Let this play and breath with the flow of the music.

 

[FUJI]

Very New-age BP.......

I can just imagine you sitting in your armchair wearing your flares, and Flower-Power pirate shirt.......headphones on, nodding in time to that repetitive rhythm ......

Do you read Runes? .........Ponder Pendulums?........or .......... create Crystal Readings?

I can smell the incense from here ;-)

Cool Maaaaan!

FUJI ( exits before he get a Bong bunged at him)

[Black Pearl]

Man you should hear the whole album - I grew up in the 70's so have a bit of hippy and a bit of a hankering for the old flares in me but this is more my era. 

I love ambient music, I love electronica and I love krautrock so stuff like Orb, Orbital, CBL and Kraftwerk just rock my world. 

[Black Pearl]

That said....

 

[Black Pearl]

Man I love this track:

 

[Black Pearl]

Hell Yeah!