Bit of a blast from the past......

Hit "random" on the media player and carried on with stuff.....

A few minutes later, I find my foot tapping to "Quiet Life" by Japan.....
By **** that brings some memories flooding back.
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Fr Jack emerged from their own little world to say

After the mention of Steve Hillage[1] in an earlier thread I've dug out
some stuff of a similar vintage. I'm currently watching the late Rory
Gallagher recorded at Montreux in 1985. It's a bit grainy but the
soundtrack is not too bad. **** he's good.


[1] I downloaded some of his stuff a while back and thought it was rubbish

 

To be honest Quiet Life was a bit tame compared to Adolescent Sex. IMO
a far superior album.

Ouch.

 

*snigger*

I can just imagine...

I was at school during the "New Romantic" fad a little while after all
the big hair shite. Two dozen spotty-faced teen lads hanging around the
school bus-stop all wearing virtually identical burgundy coloured
"hunter" leather jackets, "Sta Pressed" trews, grey loafers with white
socks and lots of moody looks.

I was not one of them.

 

eh? Sta Press weren't a part of the new romantic uniform. I wore DMs,
sta press, grandad shirts and a cardigan - not really the fey look of the
New Romantics.

TBH it's pretty much what I still wear.

 

Well, whatever the virtually identical, usually grey things were. Like
I said, I was not equipped with a sense of fashion at the time. In
fact, I still don't have one.

 

Where do you get your grandad shirts from? Apart from a brief boiler
suit phase (inspired by Fun Boy 3) I spent the eighties in DMs, tight
black jeans and grandad shirts. Current fashion sucks, all jeans seem
to be bootleg and I haven't seen grandad shirts for ages. My last one
succumbed to a huge grease stain from biting into a garlic doughball
and the contents squirting.

 

I knew you all had a closet-prog[1] side..

Phil.

[1] Don't forget that prog covers a wide range of styles from the Japan
'experimental' stuff to Henry Cow/RIO stuff to the 30 minute guitar
solo stuff that I like..

 

Champ wrote:

[of Japan's Adolescent Sex

IIRC, Japan supported Blue Oyster Cult in the mid/late 70s so were
probably aiming their music at the rock end of the scale.

 

A few weeks back, at the end of a gig at Brixton, a young girl came
up to us saying she had "lost" her boyfriend and would we look out
for him. He was about her age (late teens), blonde, 6' and was
wearing a Led Zeppelin t-shirt she said.

When he was eventually found, my mate said to him:
"So exactly how old were you when John Bonham died?"
to which his answer was:
"Who?"

Kids today, tch!.....

 

.... and how many times have you listened to "Tales from Topographic Oceans"?

I managed it once, just so I could say I had. It's never been out of its
sleeve since.

 

" "

 

Ah-hah!

Oh, and just in case you're tempted: don't bother.

Yeah, I like that. It's got proper songs on it.

In fact, I like all of the ones I've got (everything from 1969's "Yes"
to 1991's "Union", I think) apart from "Tales from Topographic Oceans",
which is basically self-indulgent wank.

 

Indeedy. I've got it on a tape with "Going for the One" on the other
side which I play in the car when Jude's not woth me (she think's it's
horrible whiney shit). Five years difference, but still my two
favourite Yes albums, perhaps because they're both way over towards
the 'pop' end of the spectrum.

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They should have walked away after 'Relayer' with their dignity intact.

 

Lots of times.

But then that's me eh? Just a wild and crazy guy.

Phil

 

Ah yes - the famous "union" album. Rick Wakeman calls it "Onion"
becuase it makes him cry every time he hears it.. and not in a good
way.

Phil.

 

OK, I'll admit, I don't think I've listed to it for, oh, probably ten
years at least, and I doubt that I'd recognise anything off it now.

But *apart* from that, and TfTO ...