OFF-TOPIC NEW YEAR'S THREAD

In article <mvedncKSB-cauV7eRVn-hA@golden.net>, STUK
<BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote:

> "CobraJet" <coiled@basking.hiss> wrote in message
> news:090120061643027488%coiled@basking.hiss...
> > In article <-uydnXamme-nHVzeRVn-rw@golden.net>, STUK
> > <BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> Happy New Year All!
> >>
> >> Welcome back CJ.
> >
> > Hey, Stu.
> >>
> >> Haven't posted for a while but popped in a few times for a minute but no
> >> time to type anything worthwhile. I've been busier than a one legged man
> >> in
> >> man asskicking contest, unfortunately not on anything good just mundane
> >> everyday shit.
> >
> > I bagged a falcoon that I'm farting with. That's been my high point
> > over the last three months.
>
> So I see. What year is it again? I had a good Falcon site bookmarked with

It's a '66 Futura Sport Coupe.

> some tech in it but it seems to be dead. It had some brake swap info for
> early Falcons that use a power booster from dare I say, an import!

Aargh! I'm gonna try to get this manual drum thing sorted out, but I
have disc systems from other Fords I can swap over if I want.

>
> This is a decent site for resto stuff. A good heater box resto that has
> crossover value to early Mustang too.
>
> http://www.joesfalcon.com/
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for the Nigel link sheeee-it man I haven't heard a lot of those
> >> tunes for 15+ years. I almost forgot the JAM even existed, damn scary.
> >> Local
> >> radio here is abysmal, the classic rock stations are even getting
> >> dreary...I
> >> find myself putting on AM oldies just for a change g^O!!. StuK
> >
> > Nigel kicks, doesn't it? Of course I lived in L.A. in the 80's, and
> > I was a huge fan of New Wave and the leading station that featured it,
> > KROQ in Pasadena. I am so tripped being on cable with streaming music.
> > It's so much better than this new crap.
>
>
> Sure does! I heard some Peter Murphy today and last Friday they had triple
> plays. Looking forward to some TRB and Japan if they play it.Nice to hear
> the remix versions too. I'd kill to hear Echo and the Bunnymen extended
> "Silver"
> I lived in the UK from '77 to '79 so I lived the post punk new wave era and
> managed to escape some of the disco drek! There was great alt rock station
> here in Toronto called CFNY in the 80's. It still exists and is still new
> alt rock but not quite to my taste ( "some guy screaming, screaming,
> sreaming in a leather jacket"!)

I loved the disco scene, as an avid 70's clubber. I skipped the
whole punk shit. No rhythm, man. The whole "Disco Sucks" movement was
started by dorks with two left feet. The local oldies station has
started Saturday night Disco parties, and it's picking up steam. I hope
to see it return so people can remember what "upbeat" meant.

DiscoJet

>
> >
> > Also see http://javajanesworld.com/, run by an ex-SoCal girl now in
> > New Yawk. The feed isn't as high q as Nigel's, but the playlist rocks,
> > too.
> > CobraJet
>
>
> I will check it out. StuK
>
> ThunderSnake #11
>
>
>
>

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"STUK" <BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote in
news:JrmdnX7X0_6XrVnenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@golden.net:


> I was in the North East and though I know of that station, we listened
> to Radio 1 and a local station called Metro 261 even Radio Luxembourg
> was around too. Radio 1 was rather poppy but 261 had the more eclectic
> mix. 261 also first played the demo recording of a local Newcastle
> band, you may have heard of them Dire Straits? ;^)


Radio Caroline played the same recording. Radio Caroline was a pirate
station on a ship in the North Sea. A friend from Liverpool told me that
the ship finally burned under suspicious circumstances. He said it was
believed the government had something to do with it. Yeah, like that has
ever happened anywhere. ;0).


> Radio 1 used to announce the top 10 at lunchtime on Thursdays and I
> used to
> hear it and hightail it to school just in time. All my classmates
> would have to wait till the Top of the Pops that night to hear it
> unless I took pity on them and told them the new number 1.
>
> Top of the Pops was fairly lame but you got to see a few great acts
> but usually lip syncing. MTV gets most of the credit for "the video"
> but videos were the way
> the better bands wouldn't have to lower themselves to appear on the
> cheesey Top of the Pops program yet still realizing that TotP was very
> important to getting sales.

Yeah, I remember some of the first videos from there. George Harrison comes
to mind.
>
> I saw Garry Numan ( Tubeway Army) premiere with "Are Friends Electric"
> on TotP. He is apparently one of Marilyn Mansons biggest influences
> but I won't hold that against him!
>
> The best music show in England then was "The Old Gray Whistle Test".
> It showed actual live bands in serious studio setting. I was lucky to
> see the Police, Tom Robinson Band and the Boomtown Rats among the few
> I recall.

I remember this show also. I remember some cute blond was one of the hosts.

> It was great time musically and I was lucky to get away from the
> North American music scene those two years to experience the post punk
> "New Wave" Alternative genres at a critical age. Luckily when I moved
> back to Canada the new music started to become more widespread as the
> 80's hit.

Here's one for you...
Ian Drury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

--
Larry S.
TS 52

"HareBall" <HareBall@SPAMSUCKScomcast.net> wrote in message
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> "STUK" <BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote in
> news:JrmdnX7X0_6XrVnenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@golden.net:
>
>
>> I was in the North East and though I know of that station, we listened
>> to Radio 1 and a local station called Metro 261 even Radio Luxembourg
>> was around too. Radio 1 was rather poppy but 261 had the more eclectic
>> mix. 261 also first played the demo recording of a local Newcastle
>> band, you may have heard of them Dire Straits? ;^)
>
>
> Radio Caroline played the same recording. Radio Caroline was a pirate
> station on a ship in the North Sea.

I always liked that version better than the NorthaAmerican Album version as
the UK one was way rougher complete with all the string squeaks. I had the
45 but alas dropped it one day and cracked it ;^(



A friend from Liverpool told me that
> the ship finally burned under suspicious circumstances. He said it was
> believed the government had something to do with it. Yeah, like that has
> ever happened anywhere. ;0).

It was probably the French....yeah we'll blame them!
>
>
>> Top of the Pops was fairly lame but you got to see a few great acts
>> but usually lip syncing. MTV gets most of the credit for "the video"
>> but videos were the way
>> the better bands wouldn't have to lower themselves to appear on the
>> cheesey Top of the Pops program yet still realizing that TotP was very
>> important to getting sales.
>
> Yeah, I remember some of the first videos from there. George Harrison
> comes
> to mind.
>>
>> I saw Garry Numan ( Tubeway Army) premiere with "Are Friends Electric"
>> on TotP. He is apparently one of Marilyn Mansons biggest influences
>> but I won't hold that against him!
>>
>> The best music show in England then was "The Old Gray Whistle Test".
>> It showed actual live bands in serious studio setting. I was lucky to
>> see the Police, Tom Robinson Band and the Boomtown Rats among the few
>> I recall.
>
> I remember this show also. I remember some cute blond was one of the
> hosts.

Yep that's right!
>
>> It was great time musically and I was lucky to get away from the
>> North American music scene those two years to experience the post punk
>> "New Wave" Alternative genres at a critical age. Luckily when I moved
>> back to Canada the new music started to become more widespread as the
>> 80's hit.
>
> Here's one for you...
> Ian Drury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Remember it well. I heard it on Nigel a few days ago starngely enough. The
other song he had was " Wake up and Make Love to me" Which was pretty
suggestive at the time, especially when I was a hyper-hormoned teen. Almost
sounds like a hymn nowadays!

>
> --
> Larry S.
> TS 52